Pre-arranged finance (parametric insurance, risk pools, contingent credit and catastrophe bonds) can speed response and protect budgets, but it depends on trusted triggers, loss data and transparent terms. This section of the Finance, insurance and the economy subsite sets records for trigger definitions, basis risk, payouts and programme terms so that governments, pools and investors evaluate instruments on shared, verifiable evidence. Every artifact of the area carries a UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier), which identifies and never certifies.
Context entry PROPOSED for the Nexus Standards registry.
Nexus Standards (2026). Disaster and climate risk finance: area brief, Finance, Insurance and the Economy (PROPOSED). https://nexustandards.com/finance/disaster-and-climate-risk-finance/. Last reviewed 2026-10-17.
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The risk disciplines section of Finance, Insurance and the Economy. Scope as the area context entry states it (PROPOSED).
In scope 5
Out of scope 3
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The Nexus Standards the area context entry lists. Every one is proposed or specified; none is adopted by an authority.
Status proposed · 12 rules stated. Read NS-0
Status proposed · 0 rules stated. Read NS-3
Status proposed · 5 rules stated. Read NS-9
Status proposed · 7 rules stated. Read NS-10
Status proposed · 6 rules stated. Read NS-11
Status proposed · 5 rules stated. Read NS-14
Indicator names and codes as their stewards publish them; values appear only from a governed GRIx source, never typed into a page.
Relations are register entries (NS-14), never conformance or equivalence statements; hover or focus a relation for its meaning. Names of standards bodies and their standards belong to their stewards and are used only to identify the documents; no text of an external standard is reproduced here.
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Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030United Nations (UNDRR custodian)register · sendai-frameworkIATI Standard 2.03International Aid Transparency Initiativeregister · iati-standard-2-03Open Contracting Data StandardOpen Contracting Partnershipregister · open-contracting-data-standardHazards and threats 5
Sectors 4
Sources the area reads or proposes. Delivery follows GRIx first; a source is shown live only after an owner decision admits it for public pages.
No legal register row admits any of these sources for live display on public pages yet, so nothing is read from them here. A register row that exists records the source for the governed GRIx path; admission for public pages is a separate owner decision.
CHIRPS quasi-global gridded precipitationpending admission
UC Santa Barbara Climate Hazards Center · pentadal and monthly
Copyright waiver stated by the provider; Foundry register: LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
build-time snapshotregister row exists
ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Data Store)pending admission
Copernicus Climate Change Service (ECMWF) · daily, five-day latency
CC BY 4.0
GRIx governed readregister row exists
GDACS global disaster alerts (events API, RSS, CAP)pending admission
European Commission JRC and UN OCHA · near real time
European Commission reuse policy (CC BY 4.0 for EC content)
GRIx governed readregister row exists
USGS earthquake GeoJSON summary feedspending admission
U.S. Geological Survey · minutely
U.S. Government work, public domain (acknowledgement requested)
GRIx governed readregister row exists
Mix standards and clauses into a profile draft with citations; YAML or JSON; nothing is submitted.
Today · from the registryTest suites, conformance statements and attestations per standard; no attestation is recorded yet, and none would certify.
Today · in your browserPick a sector, hazard family, capability and artifact type; the registry routes the standards and says why.
A console computes from the registry and shows its reasons; it never decides, approves or certifies.
Closed or paywalled standards appear by name and link only; any compatibility profile of one is built on simulated data and kept on protected pages until an institutional arrangement with the issuing body is recorded. Nexus Standards is not affiliated with, endorsed by or certified by any standards body named here.
The working group may name closed standards later; they would be listed here by name and link only.
GCRI Canada may admit trigger and payout records with index source and basis-risk analysis as research evidence; GCRI Canada decides under its own evidence and research rules, and no approval is implied.
GRF may record programmes publishing terms on the shared records as a transparency dialogue; GRF decides under its own recognition rules, and no recognition or endorsement is implied.
GRA may read trigger, basis-risk and payout records when it considers risk-finance instruments; GRA decides under its own capital-readiness rules, and no approval, rating or investment view is implied.
Each institution decides under its own rules what it reads as evidence; no pathway is an approval, a readiness statement or investment advice.
Trigger, basis-risk, payout and programme-term records for pre-arranged finance.
No working group is chartered yet; a community may charter this one under NS-13 through a docket.
Peer-reviewed sources and published statistics on the publishers' own domains, as the context entry cites them. No Risk Academy faculty pathway is linked to this area yet; one is linked when a faculty publishes a pathway that fits.
Risk Academy disciplines that teach Disaster and climate risk finance, with their courses; the GCRI Canada, The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) subsites that carry those disciplines; and the Nexus Foundry systems the standards name. Mappings are proposed for review (Risk Academy standards map, 2026-10-17); a link says a page on the same subject exists, never an endorsement or a conformance statement; framework names in course titles are named and linked, never reproduced.
Propose a change, join the working group or name a source. Area entries are PROPOSED content for the Nexus Standards registry; a UNI identifies and never certifies, and nothing on this site is a certification, an approval or a readiness statement.
Nexus Standards documents CC BY 4.0 · tooling Apache-2.0 · counsel review pending (DEC-2026-10-16-NEXUS-STANDARDS-OPEN-LICENCE). External standards are named and linked under their own licences; a UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier) identifies, it never certifies. · Generated from the Nexus Standards corpus at commit 437ae044c5cb (2026-10-17); proposed and open.