This document gives guidelines for assessing the risks related to the potential impacts of climate change. It describes how to understand vulnerability and how to develop and implement a sound risk assessment in the context of climate change. It can be used for assessing both present and future climate change risks. Risk assessment according to this document provides a basis for climate change adaptation planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation for any organization, regardless of size, type and nature.
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Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Introduction to climate change risk assessment
4.1 Concept of climate change risk
4.2 Assessing climate change risk
5 Preparing a climate change risk assessment
5.1 Establishing the context
5.2 Identifying objectives and expected outcomes
5.3 Establishing a project team
5.4 Determining the scope and methodology
5.5 Setting the time horizon
5.6 Gathering relevant information
5.7 Preparing an implementation plan
5.8 Transparency
5.9 Participatory approach
6 Implementing a climate change risk assessment
6.1 Screening impacts and developing impact chains
6.2 Identifying indicators
6.3 Acquiring and managing data
6.4 Aggregating indicators and risk components
6.5 Assessing adaptive capacity
6.6 Interpreting and evaluating the findings
6.7 Analysing cross-sectoral interdependencies
6.8 Independent review
7 Reporting and communicating climate change risk assessment results