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Country readiness contexts

Country programmes of Reinsurance and Catastrophe, each listed with its status. A country appears only when a programme record exists for it.

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Publisher
The Global Risks Alliance
Field
Insurance and catastrophe, Climate and hazards, Disaster and crisis
Status
In development
Service level
R0: information and enquiries

Workstream tracker

Country readiness contexts · Programme year 2

Two milestones at riskGRA · Reinsurance and Catastrophe

Workstreams

owner · stage · status

Treaty structure optimisationBrokerTestM8 · week 35On track
Post-event loss reviewBrokerScopingM5 · week 28On track
Model change impact studyBrokerTestM6 · week 2Blocked
Non-modelled peril loadReinsurance buyerTestM6 · week 20On track
Cat bond trigger analysisUnderwriterBuildM8 · week 33On track

Effort against plan

person-weeks

Treaty structure…23 pw · req 23Post-event loss review20 pw · req 26Model change impact…28 pw · req 33Non-modelled peril…40 pw · req 26

Milestones

  1. W8M1Treaty structure optimisation: scoping note signed
  2. W16M2Inputs qualified at the gate
  3. W25M3Post-event loss review: build review
  4. W31M4Controlled test with observers
  5. W43M5Publication and decision record

Reinsurance and Catastrophe · Workstream trackerWorkstream tracker, in outline: domain structure with placeholder names and illustrative values, not a record.

01In brief

The short answer.

Reinsurance and Catastrophe country programmes are listed one by one, each country with a programme record showing its work on insurance and catastrophe and its status. A country appears only when such a record exists; national institutions lead under country ownership, and the platform supplies evidence and methods.

02Canvas

Scoping to review.

Canvas · scoping to reviewDesign, not a record
Country readiness contexts: a programme through its gatesA request with a named owner becomes a scoping note; inputs are qualified at a gate; delivery runs in workstreams; a controlled test and an independent review precede publication; the owner decides. Design of the process, not a record of a run.

Fig.A programme from scoping to the owner's decision. Design, not a record.

03Geography

Hazards and exposure in the Gulf of Mexico coast.

For country readiness contexts, in GRA's spatial-finance reading, the map opens on population density and night lights with built-up and settlement extent from NASA GIBS, framed on the Gulf of Mexico coast; every other NASA layer, live feed and forecast waits in the layer list.

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Layers 2

Hazards and exposure, 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 country readiness contexts, in GRA's spatial-finance reading, the map opens on population density and night lights with built-up and settlement extent from NASA GIBS, framed on the Gulf of Mexico coast; every other NASA layer, live feed and forecast waits in the layer 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
  • 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 (35 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
  • Land surface temperature, day, 8-day composite: VIIRS NOAA-20 Level 3, 8-day, NASA LANCE · 14 Sep 2026
  • Active fires and thermal anomalies, last day: VIIRS NOAA-20 375 m (FIRMS), NASA LANCE FIRMS · 13 Oct 2026
  • True colour: VIIRS NOAA-20 corrected reflectance, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026

04Scope

Countries in Reinsurance and Catastrophe.

  1. 01

    Reinsurance structures

    Treaty and facultative risk-sharing concepts.

  2. 02

    Catastrophe models

    Event sets, vulnerability and limits.

  3. 03

    Aggregate accumulation

    Concentrations across regions and perils.

  4. 04

    Protection gaps

    Coverage, affordability and systemic consequences.

  5. 05

    Climate and natcat

    Changing physical hazards and nonstationarity.

  6. 06

    Retrocession and capital

    Layered risk-transfer market dependencies.

05Country pages

What a Reinsurance and Catastrophe country page would contain.

A Reinsurance and Catastrophe country page would cover national exposure data, drawing on public records only, and would appear once a programme record exists. It would never contain placement or broking.

Country evidence for Reinsurance and Catastrophe would come from event sets, exposure and loss records, labelled by source, and would be written for reinsurance underwriters and brokers' analysts and ILS fund risk teams.

06Status

Work is shown as its record stands.

Programmes are listed as exploring, forming, constituted, active, paused or archived. Country and regional entries appear when a programme record supports them.

All programmes in Reinsurance and Catastrophe

07Key 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
Country ownershipThe principle that a country leads its own development policies and strategies and coordinates the actions that support them, set out in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness.
National Nexus ConsortiumIn the Consortium's national model, the body through which a country's institutions take part in Nexus work, formed under a national record with its own leadership and working groups.
Programme statusThe recorded state of a programme on Nexus pages: exploring, forming, constituted, active, paused or archived. A plan is never presented as an activity.
08Sources

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.

09Questions

Questions and answers.

How do I propose work at this level?
Write to contact@therisk.global or a regional desk. A proposal receives a reference.
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