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Rights and licences
This statement sets out the licences that apply to material on therisk.global, the website of The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI), and the notices for the third-party software, fonts and data the sites use. Unless an item is marked otherwise, GCRI’s institutional text and figures are licensed under CC BY 4.0. The licence stated on an item is the one that applies to it. Requests and rights concerns go to the contact form, and names and logos are covered by the intellectual property and trademark policy.
01Contents
Rights and licences in five parts.
02By kind of material
What licence applies.
| Material | Licence |
|---|---|
| GCRI’s institutional text and figures | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), unless the item is marked otherwise |
| Publications | The licence in the catalogue record, listed in publications |
| Datasets | The licence and source terms in each dataset record, listed under public data and datasets |
| Open-source code | The licence stated in each repository |
| Foundry | Its own terms of service; not licensed by this page |
| Not under CC BY 4.0 | Names, logos and other marks; third-party material, including data, quotations, icons, fonts and libraries; photographs and other images; the interface and visual designs of the sites. These are used only as their owners allow or the law permits |
Fair dealing and other exceptions under the Copyright Act (Canada), and equivalent rights where you live, are not limited by anything on this page.
03Attribution
How to credit GCRI material.
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Recommended credit
“Source: The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI Canada), [title], [date], therisk.global, licensed under CC BY 4.0.” Link the title to its canonical address and the licence to the CC BY 4.0 deed.
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Say what you changed
If you adapt, translate or shorten an item, say so, and do not suggest that GCRI approves your version.
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Keep the labels
Keep a finding’s evidence label, uncertainty and limits, and never present a modelled or scenario figure as an observation.
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Keep third-party credits
Credits and licences of material inside a GCRI item stay with it, and their terms may be stricter than CC BY 4.0.
04Software and fonts
Third-party notices for code and type.
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Lucide icons (ISC)
Icons in the pages are from Lucide. ISC License. Copyright (c) for portions of Lucide are held by Cole Bemis 2013-2022 as part of Feather (MIT). All other copyright (c) for Lucide are held by Lucide Contributors 2022. Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
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three.js (MIT)
Globes and three-dimensional stages use three.js version 0.185.1. Copyright © 2010-2026 three.js authors. Licensed under the MIT License; the full text is in the three.js licence.
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MapLibre GL JS (BSD-3-Clause)
Interactive maps use MapLibre GL JS version 6.9.1. Copyright (c) 2023, MapLibre contributors; contains code from mapbox-gl-js v1.13 and earlier, Copyright (c) 2020, Mapbox; glfx.js, Copyright (C) 2011 by Evan Wallace; and d3-color, Copyright 2010-2016 Mike Bostock. Licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License and the notices in the MapLibre licence.
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Fonts (SIL Open Font License 1.1)
Pages use Inter, Inter Tight, IBM Plex Sans, IBM Plex Mono, Manrope, JetBrains Mono, Plus Jakarta Sans, Geist and Geist Mono, served by Google Fonts and licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The fonts are not modified or redistributed by GCRI.
05Open data
Data sources and their attributions.
| Source | Licence or terms | Attribution shown |
|---|---|---|
| Natural Earth | Public domain | Made with Natural Earth |
| NASA Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS) | NASA open data policy | 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) |
| NASA EONET and NASA POWER | NASA open data policy | NASA Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker; for POWER: These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program |
| NASA SEDAC and CIESIN (GPWv4, urban layers) | CC BY 4.0 and the attribution terms of each product | Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University, via NASA SEDAC |
| US Geological Survey | Public domain | U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program |
| Open-Meteo | CC BY 4.0 | Weather data by Open-Meteo.com, with the upstream model credit |
| Copernicus | Copernicus licence terms per service | Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data; Copernicus Emergency Management Service information for GloFAS river discharge |
| Microsoft Planetary Computer | The terms of each collection | Microsoft Planetary Computer, with the collection credit |
| World Resources Institute | CC BY 4.0 | WRI Aqueduct 4.0; WRI Global Power Plant Database 1.3.0 |
| Terrain Tiles (AWS Open Data) | The licences of its elevation sources | Terrain Tiles, with the full source list in the Terrain Tiles attribution |
| OpenStreetMap | Open Database Licence 1.0 | © OpenStreetMap contributors |
No credit means that a data provider endorses GCRI or its work. Each figure and map names its sources and dates next to it.
06Requests
Permission and rights concerns.
Ask for permission for uses the licences do not cover, or tell us if you believe material infringes your rights, at the contact form. Copyright notices and takedown requests follow the intellectual property and trademark policy, and contributions follow the contributor terms. Media assets carry their own usage rights, described under press and media.
07Questions
Questions and answers.
Can I reuse a GCRI figure in a presentation or a report?
Yes. Unless the figure is marked otherwise it is licensed under CC BY 4.0, so you may reuse and adapt it with attribution to GCRI Canada, the title, the date and the link. Keep the credits of any third-party data inside it.
Are GCRI datasets open data?
Each dataset carries its own licence in its record. Some include source data with restrictions that GCRI must respect, and those restrictions travel with the data.
Can I use the GCRI name or logo?
Only as the intellectual property and trademark policy allows. The CC BY 4.0 licence does not cover names and logos, and participation in a programme does not grant a right to use them.
Is the website code open source?
Code that GCRI releases as open source carries the licence stated in its repository. The visual and interface designs of the sites are not licensed for reuse.
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