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Global subject programme

Global subject programme

Priorities of Climate and Hazards shared across countries, and the methods used to compare them. A global programme is a shared agenda, not a claim of global offices.

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The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation
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Climate and hazards, Disaster and crisis
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In development
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R0: information and enquiries

Workstream tracker

Global subject programme · Programme year 2

Two milestones at riskGCRI · Climate and Hazards

Workstreams

owner · stage · status

Seismic hazard map reviewNational meteorological serviceReviewM6 · week 2Blocked
Wildfire risk zoningNational meteorological serviceScopingM4 · week 35At risk
Compound hazard catalogueCivil protectionReviewM3 · week 33On track
Downscaled projections setHydrological serviceTestM7 · week 17Blocked
Climate baseline updateCivil protectionBuildM2 · week 31On track

Effort against plan

person-weeks

Seismic hazard map…17 pw · req 32Wildfire risk zoning41 pw · req 30Compound hazard…51 pw · req 31Downscaled…24 pw · req 21

Milestones

  1. W6M1Seismic hazard map review: scoping note signed
  2. W12M2Inputs qualified at the gate
  3. W21M3Wildfire risk zoning: build review
  4. W30M4Controlled test with observers
  5. W40M5Publication and decision record

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

01In brief

The short answer.

The Climate and Hazards global programme is the shared agenda of priorities in the climate and hazards field that cut across countries, such as climate baselines and climate services and warnings, with the methods used to compare them. It is an agenda, not a claim of global offices, and each element shows its status from the programme record.

02Canvas

Scoping to review.

Canvas · scoping to reviewDesign, not a record
Global subject programme: the policy cycleA problem reaches the agenda, options are formulated and appraised, consultation tests them, the mandate holder decides, implementation and monitoring follow, and evaluation feeds the next agenda. 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

Climate signals in World.

For global subject programme, in GCRI's spatial-intelligence reading, the map opens on daytime surface heat, rain, flood water and true-colour imagery, framed on World; 2 further NASA layers wait in the list.

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Layers 4

Climate signals, 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 global subject programme, in GCRI's spatial-intelligence reading, the map opens on daytime surface heat, rain, flood water and true-colour imagery, framed on World; 2 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 · Copernicus Sentinel-2 L2ASources 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 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
  • 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
  • GHRSST Level 4 MUR analyses, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; distributed by the NASA Physical Oceanography DAAC (PO.DAAC); 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.
  • Observed (EO): Copernicus Sentinel-2 L2A (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026), Microsoft Planetary Computer
  • Optional layers (24 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

  • 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
  • Flood water, 3-day composite: VIIRS Global Flood Product, NASA LANCE · 14 Oct 2026
  • True colour: VIIRS NOAA-20 corrected reflectance, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026
  • Sea surface temperature anomaly: GHRSST MUR25, NASA JPL PO.DAAC · 12 Oct 2026
  • Active fires and thermal anomalies, last day: VIIRS NOAA-20 375 m (FIRMS), NASA LANCE FIRMS · 13 Oct 2026

04Scope

Global subject programme in Climate and Hazards.

  1. 01

    Climate baselines

    Historical trends and reference periods.

  2. 02

    Heat and drought

    Compound heat and hydrologic stress.

  3. 03

    Flood and storm

    Extreme precipitation, coastal storm and flooding.

  4. 04

    Wildfire and land

    Fire weather, fuels and landscapes.

  5. 05

    Earthquakes and geohazards

    Earthquakes, volcanoes and related hazards.

  6. 06

    Compound hazards

    Multiple and cascading events.

05Global frame

The agreements and bodies a global hazard programme reads against.

Process or bodyWhat it sets
IPCCAssessed physical science; the seventh cycle is in preparation
WMO and the Global Framework for Climate ServicesObservation standards and climate services
Early Warnings for AllHazard monitoring and forecasting as a warning pillar
UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information ProfilesCommon definitions of hazards
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 Climate and Hazards

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
ProgrammeA group of related projects and activities managed together to obtain benefits that managing them separately would not, in the sense the Project Management Institute's programme standard uses.
Results-based managementA management approach in which everyone contributing to a set of results makes sure their processes, products and services serve those results, and measures progress against them, as the UN Development Group handbook sets out.
Theory of changeA stated chain of causes from a programme's activities to its intended outcomes, used to plan evaluation.
Climate extremeA value of a weather or climate variable above or below a threshold near the ends of its observed range.
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.

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