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Global Resilience Index (GRI) Risk Viewer

The 'analytics' platform visualising hazards, exposure, vulnerability, risk, and adaptation opportunities. Supports high-level climate adaptation screening and infrastructure resilience planning using global open datasets and modelling workflows.

Open tool

What you can do with it

Input

  • Select an area of interest and explore climate hazards, exposure, vulnerability and risk.
  • Explore current and future climate conditions using global datasets and modelling workflows.
  • Examine infrastructure and population exposure using gridded and asset-level information.
  • Explore adaptation opportunities, including selected nature-based solutions.
  • Compare indicative costs, risks, carbon benefits and biodiversity benefits for selected adaptation options.

Output

  • Interactive maps of hazards, exposure, vulnerability and risk.
  • Climate-risk indicators and downloadable datasets.
  • Infrastructure information for assets including roads, railways, power networks and health centres.
  • High-level adaptation-opportunity information.
  • Indicative costs and wider benefits for selected nature-based solutions.

Use it to

  • Screen climate risks to infrastructure and populations.
  • Identify spatial concentrations of hazard, exposure and vulnerability.
  • Explore potential adaptation opportunities before undertaking detailed studies.
  • Compare selected nature-based solutions using financial, carbon and biodiversity metrics.
  • Support the early conceptualisation and prioritisation of resilience investments.
  • Build a shared evidence base for discussions between governments, communities and investors.

Why is it relevant to climate adaptation

Brings hazards, exposed assets and populations, vulnerability, risk and potential adaptation opportunities together in one global viewer. This helps users move from locating possible infrastructure and societal risks to exploring where resilience investment may be most valuable. Its asset-level infrastructure information and indicative analysis of nature-based solutions are particularly useful for early project screening and investment discussions. Because it relies mainly on global datasets, it is best used as a starting point for project conceptualisation rather than for site-specific design, where national or local studies may offer better information.

Used in

  • Climate-resilient infrastructure planning and investment screening.
  • Identification and prioritisation of nature-based solutions for resilience and adaptation.
  • Global screening of hazards, exposure, vulnerability and risk to infrastructure and populations.
  • Adaptation project conceptualisation supported through work with the Global Centre on Adaptation.
  • Infrastructure resilience initiatives developed through the University of Oxford's Oxford Programme for Sustainable Infrastructure Systems.
  • Climate risk analysis supporting governments, investors and resilience practitioners.

Metadata

User Group
Transboundary networksNational authoritiesNGOs
Geographic coverage
Global
Spatial resolution

Local

Support of Adaptation Policy Cycle
Step 1: Preparing the Ground for Adaptation
Step 2: Assessing Climate Change Risks and Vulnerabilities
Step 3: Identifying Adaptation Options
Step 4: Assessing and Prioritising Adaptation Options
Adaptation sectors
AgricultureBiodiversity protectionBuildings
Climate hazards
DroughtsExtreme heatFlooding
Type of outputs
Maps and graphsDatasets and indicators
Temporality of data
Historical/pastPresent
Language
English
Accessibility and usability
Moderate

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