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GRAClimate and Nature Financial RiskIn development
Industry scope and publisher

Industry scope and publisher

Climate and Nature Financial Risk is a specialist platform of The Global Risks Alliance (GRA), a nonprofit corporation registered in Nevada, United States, operating as a business league for the financial services industry. This page identifies the publisher, the subject community the platform serves, why a dedicated forum is needed and the legal limitations that apply to everything it does, including the competition safeguards designed for any discussion among firms.

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In this dossier7 parts
  1. 01In briefThe short answer
  2. 02Industry scopeClimate and nature exposures in finance
  3. 03Field and frameClimate and Nature Financial Risk: the field and the rules it is read against
  4. 04BoundaryWhat Climate and Nature Financial Risk never discusses or produces
  5. 05PublisherThe US business league
  6. 06Legal limitationsWhat the platform does not do
  7. 07StatusIn development, at service level R0

GRA · In development · service level R0

STEM methods
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Canonical methods this field applies
Topics
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Subject pages in the field
Counterparts
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Platforms in shared fields at GCRI, GRF and GRA
Report series
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Nexus Reports series it contributes to
01In brief

The short answer.

Climate and Nature Financial Risk is a specialist platform of The Global Risks Alliance for climate and hazards, biodiversity and nature, and capital markets and investment. Its mandate covers climate and nature exposures, scenario methods and transmission into financial institutions and markets. GRA publishes it, answers for its content and takes no decision on anyone's behalf. It is in development at service level R0, and activities open as each is ready.

02Canvas

Mandate to authority.

Canvas · mandate to authorityDesign, not a record
How Climate and Nature Financial Risk is governedA mandate sets the platform's scope; an editor and reviewers govern what it publishes; programmes and the community supply the work; the integrity route handles corrections; authority over decisions stays outside. Design of the governance, not a record.

Fig.How the platform is governed, from its mandate to the authorities who decide. Design, not a record.

03Geography

Climate signals in Southeast Asia.

For industry scope and publisher, in GRA's spatial-finance reading, the map opens on night lights and population density with built-up and settlement extent from NASA GIBS, framed on Southeast Asia; 4 further NASA layers wait in the list.

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Climate signals, for this page

Latest available

NASA GIBS / EOSDIS · ASTER GDEM (METI, NASA) · Blue Marble (NASA) · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Natural Earth

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For industry scope and publisher, in GRA's spatial-finance reading, the map opens on night lights and population density with built-up and settlement extent from NASA GIBS, framed on Southeast Asia; 4 further NASA layers wait in the list.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date; indicators, not assessments of any place; claim ceiling INTEGRATED.

Data: NASA GIBS · ASTER GDEM · Blue Marble · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Natural Earth · GDACS · CIESIN/Columbia, NASA SEDAC HBASESources and licences

  • We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • VIIRS Black Marble night-time lights, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; distributed by the NASA Level-1 and Atmosphere Archive and Distribution System (LAADS DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University. 2018. Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density, Revision 11. NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). CC BY 4.0
  • VIIRS near-real-time products (flood, land surface temperature, snow cover, corrected reflectance), NASA LANCE; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • MODIS land products (vegetation indices, gross primary production, land cover), NASA LP DAAC and LANCE; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • ASTER GDEM is a product of METI and NASA (ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model V003, NASA LP DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com. Public domain
  • © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), via NASA GIBS (coastlines, boundaries, roads and place names). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). ODbL
  • Blue Marble, NASA Earth Observatory; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • Context on the globe and flat map: coastlines, boundaries, roads and place names from NASA GIBS reference layers (OpenStreetMap data, ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors); Blue Marble imagery as an optional base; 3D terrain and the elevation read-out from the ASTER GDEM elevation colour index (5 m to 200 m classes, exaggerated for legibility). Boundaries are drawn as published and imply no position on any territory.
  • Globe: MapLibre GL JS 6.9.1, BSD-3-Clause, © MapLibre contributors.
  • Live: GDACS (EC JRC / UN OCHA) Events are indicative, not official warnings.
  • Context: CIESIN/Columbia, NASA SEDAC HBASE. Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University, and NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC): Global Human Built-up And Settlement Extent (HBASE) 2010; Seto, Guneralp and Hutyra 2012, Global Grid of Probabilities of Urban Expansion to 2030; Global Urban Heat Island (UHI) Data Set, 2013.
  • Optional layers (24 sources in the layer list: live, forecast, observed and context) print their provider credit on the map and here when switched on; forecasts are model output and derived indices are estimates.

Layers and dates

  • Night-time lights, daily: VIIRS Black Marble (VNP46A2), NASA LAADS DAAC · 12 Oct 2026
  • Population density, 2020: Population: CIESIN, Columbia University, Gridded Population of the World v4.11 (2018), NASA SEDAC, CC BY 4.0 · static
  • Land surface temperature, day, 8-day composite: VIIRS NOAA-20 Level 3, 8-day, NASA LANCE · 14 Sep 2026
  • Land cover type (IGBP), yearly: MODIS Terra and Aqua land cover (MCD12Q1), NASA LP DAAC · 2024
  • Flood water, 3-day composite: VIIRS Global Flood Product, NASA LANCE · 14 Oct 2026
  • Enhanced vegetation index, rolling 8 days: MODIS Terra EVI, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026

04Industry scope

Climate and nature exposures in finance.

The platform's subject is how climate and nature exposures, and the scenario methods used to explore them, transmit into financial institutions and markets.

Field

Scope

Climate and hazards, biodiversity and nature, and capital markets and investment.

Community

Who takes part

Climate risk professionals, risk modellers and finance disclosure specialists.

Outputs

What it is designed to publish

Financial climate and nature method guidance and sector examples.

05Field and frame

Climate and Nature Financial Risk: the field and the rules it is read against.

Climate and Nature Financial Risk is a GRA platform in development. Its thesis concerns climate and nature exposures, scenario methods and transmission into financial institutions and markets. It serves climate risk managers in banks and insurers, disclosure and sustainability reporting teams, climate and nature scientists working with finance and supervisory climate teams.

Standard setterInstrument that frames the work of Climate and Nature Financial Risk
NGFSscenarios
ISSB and TNFDclimate and nature disclosure
BCBS and IAISsector climate principles
06Boundary

What Climate and Nature Financial Risk never discusses or produces.

  • Alignment certifications, in any Climate and Nature Financial Risk setting.
  • Ratings, in any Climate and Nature Financial Risk setting.
  • Advice on transition plans of named firms, in any Climate and Nature Financial Risk setting.
  • Collective commitments, in any Climate and Nature Financial Risk setting.
07Publisher

The US business league.

The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) publishes the platform and answers for its content. GRA is a nonprofit corporation registered in Nevada, United States, operating as a business league for the financial services industry; see GRA as a US business league.

  • Subject editors review topic pages and outputs before release, and record dissenting expert views.
  • Specialists across insurance, banking and investment need a shared forum distinct from sustainability marketing, which is why the platform exists.
  • Rights, status and corrections are set out on trust, rights and status; compliance questions go to compliance@globalriskalliance.com.
09Status

In development, at service level R0.

Climate and Nature Financial Risk is in development. Its pages set out its scope and how it works, and its activities, records and services are published here as each one opens. The current service level is R0: information and enquiries.

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  2. 02

    When opened

    Membership and working groups under written terms; see GRA membership.

10Key terms

Terms used on this page.

Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.

TermDefinition
Service level R0The current service level of Nexus pages: information and enquiries only. An enquiry receives a reference and a named next step; it creates no membership, contract, assignment or commitment.
Conflict of interestA situation in which financial, professional or personal interests could compromise, or appear to compromise, judgement in research or review.
Physical riskFinancial risk from climate hazards, both acute events and chronic shifts, that damage assets and disrupt activity.
Transition riskFinancial risk from the shift to a lower-carbon economy, through policy, technology, market and reputational change.
11Sources

Where this page's references lead.

The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.

12Questions

Questions and answers.

Is the platform a separate organization?
No. It is a specialist platform of The Global Risks Alliance (GRA), which publishes it.
Does GRA take positions on climate policy?
No. GRA builds shared industry understanding of financial risk. Governance dialogue on climate and nature is convened at The Global Risks Forum (GRF), in Climate and Nature Governance.
Can members share underwriting or lending data?
Only under written terms and only for aggregated, sector-level use. Prices, terms and strategies are never exchanged among participants; see competition safeguards.
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