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Trust, rights and status

Antitrust, independence and financial perimeter

Who publishes Reinsurance and Catastrophe, what is known and how it is labelled, how data rights are protected, and the platform's current status.

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  1. 01FieldsInsurance and catastrophe, Climate and hazards, Disaster and crisis
  2. 02STEM methods8 canonical methods applied
  3. 03Topics8 subject pages
  4. 04Counterparts11 platforms in shared fields
  5. 05PublisherThe Global Risks Alliance
  6. 06SectionCorrections, concerns and escalation

GRA · In development · service level R0

01In brief

The short answer.

Trust, rights and status at Reinsurance and Catastrophe is the public record of who publishes the platform, how its results are labelled, how data rights are protected and what the platform is today. The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) publishes it and controls the personal data it holds. Being named, listed or published on the platform is not an endorsement, certification or approval.

02Canvas

Report to outcome.

Canvas · report to outcomeDesign, not a record
How a correction moves on Reinsurance and CatastropheA report is acknowledged and triaged; a reviewer not involved in the original work assesses it; the outcome is a new version with its history or a reasoned decline, and the reporter is told either way. Design of the workflow, not a record.

Fig.How a reported error is reviewed and corrected. Design, not a record.

03Geography

Activity and exposure in the Gulf of Mexico coast.

For antitrust, independence and financial perimeter, in GRA's spatial-finance reading, the map opens on night lights, population density and flood water 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 3

Activity 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 antitrust, independence and financial perimeter, in GRA's spatial-finance reading, the map opens on night lights, population density and flood water 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 · 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
  • 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: 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

  • 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
  • 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
  • Precipitation rate, daily mean: GPM IMERG, NASA GES DISC · 12 Oct 2026

04Status

What the platform is, today.

  • Reinsurance and Catastrophe 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. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.
  • GRA is a nonprofit business league for the financial services industry. It does not lend, underwrite, rate, invest, advise on or arrange transactions, and readiness work is not approval.
05Safeguards

The safeguards specific to Reinsurance and Catastrophe.

  • No discussion or publication of rates-on-line or prices.
  • No discussion or publication of capacity views.
  • No discussion or publication of placement or broking.
  • No discussion or publication of ratings of cat bonds.
  • Competitors in Reinsurance and Catastrophe never exchange contract terms or cedant exposure files.

See the GRA competition and antitrust safeguards that apply to Reinsurance and Catastrophe.

These Reinsurance and Catastrophe safeguards sit within GRA's written competition policy, which counsel reviews before membership opens.

06Safeguards

How trust is protected.

Evidence

Labelled results

Every result is labelled by kind of evidence, with its uncertainty.

Rights

Data rights

Data is used on the terms its owners set, and restricted data stays restricted.

Corrections

Open to challenge

Corrections and concerns

07Privacy and accessibility

Your data and your access.

Enquiries are used to answer them and to keep a record. The Global Risks Alliance is the controller under its own privacy notice; write to privacy@globalriskalliance.com.

We aim to make these pages usable by everyone. If something is hard to use, write to contact@globalriskalliance.com and tell us the page and the barrier.

08Key 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
Evidence labelA tag naming the kind of evidence, such as observed or modelled, that should survive every summary.
Personal dataAny information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, directly or indirectly, such as a name, an identification number, location data or an online identifier, as the EU General Data Protection Regulation defines it.
Claim ceilingThe strongest statement a page may make about a capability, set by the evidence on record; without operating evidence a page describes a design or an integration, never readiness.
Conflict of interestA situation in which financial, professional or personal interests could compromise, or appear to compromise, judgement in research or review.
09Sources

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.

10Pages

Pages in Antitrust, independence and financial perimeter.

Page

Corrections, concerns and escalation

11Questions

Questions and answers.

Does listing on the platform imply endorsement?
No. Being named, listed or published on the platform is not an endorsement, certification or approval.
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