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Industry scope and publisher

Disaster Risk Finance 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 and the legal limits on what it does. The platform is in development, and the current service level is R0: information and enquiries.

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Disaster Risk FinanceRegister
  1. PublisherThe Global Risks Alliance
  2. FieldDisaster and crisis, Sovereign and public finance, Development finance, Insurance and catastrophe
  3. StatusIn development
  4. Service levelR0: information and enquiries

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.

Disaster Risk Finance is a specialist platform of The Global Risks Alliance for disaster and crisis, sovereign and public finance, development finance, and insurance and catastrophe. Its mandate covers public and private preparedness for the fiscal and financial consequences of disaster events. 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 Disaster Risk Finance 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

Hazards now in Pacific Island states.

For industry scope and publisher, in GRA's spatial-finance reading, the map opens on population density, night lights and flood water with built-up and settlement extent from NASA GIBS, framed on Pacific Island states; 3 further NASA layers wait in the list.

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Layers 3

Hazards now, 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 population density, night lights and flood water with built-up and settlement extent from NASA GIBS, framed on Pacific Island states; 3 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 · NASA EONET · 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • NASA Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS), VIIRS 375 m active fire product, NASA LANCE; vector tiles via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • GPM IMERG precipitation, NASA Precipitation Processing System; distributed by the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC); 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: NASA EONET Events are indicative, not official warnings.
  • 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 (22 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

  • Population density, 2020: Population: CIESIN, Columbia University, Gridded Population of the World v4.11 (2018), NASA SEDAC, CC BY 4.0 · static
  • Night-time lights, daily: VIIRS Black Marble (VNP46A2), NASA LAADS DAAC · 12 Oct 2026
  • Flood water, 3-day composite: VIIRS Global Flood Product, NASA LANCE · 14 Oct 2026
  • Active fires and thermal anomalies, last day: VIIRS NOAA-20 375 m (FIRMS), NASA LANCE FIRMS · 13 Oct 2026
  • Land surface temperature, day, 8-day composite: VIIRS NOAA-20 Level 3, 8-day, NASA LANCE · 14 Sep 2026
  • Precipitation rate, daily mean: GPM IMERG, NASA GES DISC · 12 Oct 2026

04Industry scope

What the platform covers.

The scope is public and private preparedness for the fiscal and financial consequences of disaster events. It exists as a dedicated platform because disaster finance instruments and fiscal readiness form a distinct professional community, separate from disaster response.

Community

Who it serves

Disaster finance researchers, fiscal risk analysts and public sector risk teams, with insurers, development institutions and academics.

Methods

How it works

Risk layering, contingent liability analysis and risk financing scenarios.

Outputs

What it is designed to publish

Disaster finance dossiers and sovereign protection gap methods.

The platform's research is organized around eight topics, from risk financing layers to disaster finance governance. It draws hazard and resilience science from The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) and governance dialogue from The Global Risks Forum (GRF), keeping each institution's mandate distinct.

05Field and frame

Disaster Risk Finance: the field and the rules it is read against.

Disaster Risk Finance is a GRA platform in development. Its thesis concerns public and private preparedness for the fiscal and financial consequences of disaster events. It serves ministry of finance risk units, disaster management agencies, development partners' DRF teams and humanitarian anticipatory-action specialists.

Standard setterInstrument that frames the work of Disaster Risk Finance
World BankDRF programme and crisis toolkit
UNDRRSendai Framework
Regional poolsCCRIF SPC, ARC, PCRIC, SEADRIF
06Boundary

What Disaster Risk Finance never discusses or produces.

  • Choice of instrument or provider, in any Disaster Risk Finance setting.
  • Financing commitments, in any Disaster Risk Finance setting.
  • Policy terms, in any Disaster Risk Finance setting.
  • Promises of disbursement, in any Disaster Risk Finance setting.
07Publisher

A business league, not an arranger or an insurer.

GRA publishes Disaster Risk Finance and answers for its content. As a business league, GRA works to improve conditions across the industry as a whole, not to perform services for individual firms or governments.

  • Editorial responsibility: a platform editor and named reviewers, with conflicts of interest declared.
  • Business league status: explained on US business league.
  • Boundaries: set out on regulatory boundaries.
  • Corrections: reported and logged on corrections.
09Status

In development.

The platform is in development at its canonical address, as a candidate for the second wave after evidence. Working groups and dossiers open when editors, reviewers and terms are in place. Enquiries go to contact@globalriskalliance.com; the acknowledgement gives a reference and names the next step.

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.
Disaster risk financeArranging in advance the funds governments, firms and households need after a disaster, combining reserves, contingent credit, insurance and other instruments.
Pre-arranged financeFunding agreed before a disaster, with rules for when and how it is released, so that money reaches responders and affected people quickly.
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 Disaster Risk Finance a separate organization?
No. It is a specialist platform of GRA, which publishes it.
Can an insurer or broker use the platform to market products?
No. The platform does not promote products or firms, and participation implies no endorsement.
Who handles compliance questions?
Write to compliance@globalriskalliance.com.
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