Author: Acclimatise
Year of publication: 2011
Available languages: English
Type of assessment: Comprehensive impact and risk assessment
Details: Analyses components of risk (hazard, exposure) for a given context
Format of assessment: Web tool
Details: Cloud-based software
Estimated costs for conducting: Subscription license to pay
Estimated duration of assessment: Up to 5 minutes
To be carried out by whom: Private individuals and firms
Details: Anyone who has information about the planned project
Institutional scale of use: Multiple (see details)
Details: From local, private sector entities to government sector
Assesment to be used by which target audience: Multiple actors
Details: Wide range of government and private sectors, including financial services, extractive industries, local governments, retailers managing their supply chains
Output: Report
Region of origin: Europe
Developed by which sector: Private sector
Applied in practice: Yes
Geographic coverage in analysis: Worldwide
Potential geographic coverage: Worldwide
Sectors covered: Not sector specific
Details: Comprehensive, no sectoral specification
Method used: Other (see details)
Description of methodology: Combines output of climate modelling (CMIP5) with data about the sensitivity of the project to generate a risk rating for each hazard
Risk framework used: No explicit use of risk framework
Risk components incorporated: Hazard, exposure
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: All hazards
Source of required data: Secondary (available data is used)
Details: Tool connects automatically to available model outputs (CMIP5) and datasets, few observation data
Temporal scale: Forward looking
Participatory elements: No
Details: Tool guides through a set of questions, no implication of stakeholders necessary
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: Partly
Details: Converts climate change, environmental and disaster risks into easy-to-digest outputs
Adressing uncertainty: Yes
Details: Temperature: number of models agreeing on projected change; Precipitation: how many models agree upon the direction of change
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks
Details: Aware for Projects will generate a detailed report to guide further discussions and assessments of climate risk
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: No information
Details: No clear mention of consideration of non-economic losses, work with thresholds which might be met by changes in climatic parameters
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): Yes
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: No
Usefulness for political purposes: No indication, but rather for awareness raising and won't replace a real risk assessment
Applied by whom: Mainly development banks
Open access: Only brochure of the digital tool is open access