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Tools & Processes for Adaptation

Explore various tools and processes for climate adaptation to improve decision-making and reduce risks associated with climate variability and change. Share screening tools, databases, methodologies, and information sources for effective adaptation strategies.

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Tools & Processes for Adaptation

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  1. Tools & Processes for Adaptation Anne Hammill ahammill@iisd.org

  2. Geneva Meeting April 11-12, 2007“Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along”Napoleon Hill

  3. Sharing Climate Adaptation Tools:Improving decision-making for development Aim of the meeting: • To improve decision-making at all scales to reduce risks and avail opportunities associated with climate variability and change Objectives: • Share different screening tools • Discuss databases and other shared sources of climate information for screening tools • Identify options for extending, improving and linking

  4. Examples • Tools • ADAPT (sensitivity analysis for Bank projects, flagging, advice) • CRiSTAL (framework for community engagement; assess project impact on adaptive capacity; prompt thinking on adjustments) • Adaptation Wizard (basic understanding of CC; economic analysis of adaptation options and scenarios) • Country Database (collate info from NAPAs, NC, studies, UNDP country information to develop adaptation proposals) • Methodologies / Processes • DGIS – Climate Quick Scans • Red Cross – Preparedness for Climate Change • USAID – Climate Change Adaptation Guidance Manual • IDS / DFID – Opportunities and Risks of Climate Change and Disasters (ORCHID) • Information sources • PRECIS - Providing Regional Climates for Impact Studies (UK Met OFfice) • Vulnerability mapping and impact assessment • SERVIR Climate Change Mapping Tool (USAID et al) • CAIT - Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (WRI)

  5. Some conclusions • Cross-referencing and collaboration is occuring • Inefficient replication limited – targeting particular niche • Different users; purposes (project design, portfolio evaluation); aims (evaluate risk; evaluate adaptive capacity); scales • Willingness to share tools and approaches – but early days • Broadly common approach – see climate-related impacts as an additional stressor • Gap between grassroots and national / international (traditional leaders, local government, private sector?) • Awareness-raising value • Opportunities associated with climate change?? • Relevant to international processes: • G8 Gleneagles Plan of Action • OECD • UNFCCC Nairobi Work Programme on Impacts, Vulnerability, and Adaptation to Climate Change

  6. CRiSTAL Community-based Risk Screening – Adaptation & Livelihoods

  7. CRiSTAL: Why? Rationale • Community-level projects may improve adaptive capacity or constrain it Purpose • Help users to systematically understand the links between livelihoods and climate • Enable users to assess a project’s impact on community-level adaptive capacity • Assist users in making project adjustments to improve its impact on adaptive capacity

  8. CRiSTAL: Who? How? User • Community-level project designers and managers Approach • Draw on Environmental Impact Assessment model • Use SL Framework to focus on elements of coping / adaptive capacity at local level • Logical, user-friendly process • Offer in multiple formats and as part of a suite of tools

  9. CRiSTAL’s Structure4 Framing Questions in 2 Modules M1: Synthesizing info on climate and livelihoods Q1: What is the climate context • Impacts of climate change? • Current hazards • Impacts of hazards • Coping strategies Q2: What is livelihood context? • Resources? • How affected by hazards? • How important to coping? M2: Planning and managing projects for adaptation Q3: What are impacts of project activities on livelihood resources that are… • Vulnerable to climate risks? • Important to coping? Q4: How can project activities be adjusted to reduce vulnerability and enhance adaptive capacity? • Synergies and barriers

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