GCRI · Climate and Hazards
Mandate and publisher
Climate and Hazards is a specialist platform of The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI), at its canonical address. Its mandate is hazard science: physical climate risks, weather extremes, geohazards and the ways hazards interact, grounded in observed and modelled evidence. This page sets out who publishes it, why it exists as a separate platform, what it never does and where it stands.
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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 across the network
- Report series
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- Reports series it contributes to
Mandate and publisher in four parts.
Hazard science, with uncertainty in plain view.
The platform’s thesis is physical climate risks, weather extremes and hazard interactions grounded in observed and modelled evidence.
What has happened
Trends and extremes in the observational record, and the reference periods used to measure them.
What could happen
Hazard models and climate scenarios, read with their assumptions and ensemble spread.
What it means
Regional risk explainers and statements of what scenarios cannot tell a user.
Who is responsible.
GCRI publishes Climate and Hazards and answers for what appears on it. GCRI Canada is the lead contracting organisation. GCRI is a research, development and policy institution; its findings carry their methods and uncertainty.
The platform exists separately because hazard science has its own community, methods and standards of evidence, and because it needs to stay distinct from disaster coordination. Climate and Hazards is an established platform. Its pages set out its scope and how it is designed to work, and its activities, records and outputs are published here as each one opens. Information and enquiries are open today.
What Climate and Hazards does not do.
- It does not issue forecasts, warnings or alerts, and it does not replace national meteorological, hydrological or geological services.
- It does not coordinate emergency response or direct evacuations.
- It does not regulate, certify, license or approve any model, product, site or design.
- Its scenarios are not predictions, and its outputs are not engineering design values unless a competent authority adopts them.
- Taking part confers no appointment or authority, and sponsorship confers no editorial control.
In an emergency, follow the instructions of your national or local authorities.
Where the platform sits.
Climate and Hazards belongs to the climate and hazards and disaster and crisis fields. Its governance counterparts are Climate and Nature Governance and Disaster and Crisis Governance at The Global Risks Forum (GRF), and its finance counterparts include Reinsurance and Catastrophe at The Global Risks Alliance (GRA). Read the field overview and dependencies and consequences.
Questions and answers.
Is Climate and Hazards a separate organisation?
Can I use the platform’s material for engineering design?
Who can I contact?
What is the current status?
Bring a method, a dataset or a question.
Information and enquiries are open today. 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.
Legal documents.
Maps, data and figures on this site are shown for context and general information. They are not advice, forecasts or warnings; the limits of the information are set out in the Disclaimers and Data Notices.