Author: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), National Institute Of Disaster Management India (NIDM)
Year of publication: 2019
Available languages: English
Type of assessment: Comprehensive impact and risk assessment
Format of assessment: Guideline
Estimated costs for conducting: Small to substantial amount
Estimated duration of assessment: Weeks to years
To be carried out by whom: Consultants (climate experts)
Institutional scale of use: Multiple (see details)
Details: National, regional, local levels
Assesment to be used by which target audience: State level decision makers
Output: Report
Details: Diverse options as it depends on the expected output to be generated in the specific context
Region of origin: Europe
Developed by which sector: State-run, Development cooperation
Applied in practice: Yes
Geographic coverage in analysis: Asia
Potential geographic coverage: Worldwide
Sectors covered: Not sector specific
Method used: Mixed method approach
Description of methodology: The six step climate risk management (CRM) process operationalises climate risk management at scale: Assess and match information needs with risk management objectives; Define System of Interest; Develop context-specific methodology; Risk identification to identify low and high-levels of climate-related risk; Risk evaluation to identify acceptable, tolerable and intolerable risks; Assessment of risk management options
Risk framework used: AR5
Risk components incorporated: All
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: All hazards
Source of required data: Primary and secondary
Details: Varying depending on the context and extent the risk assessment is to be carried out with
Temporal scale: All
Participatory elements: Yes
Details: It suggests aligning top-down insight from expert-based methods and tools with bottom-up information on households’ and communities’ risks gathered through participatory processes
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: Yes
Details: Impact chains for understanding drivers of direct and indirect impacts and risks are applied
Adressing uncertainty: Yes
Details: It aims to tackle fundamental scientific questions involving uncertainty, as well as applying learning theories for reducing these uncertainties.
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks, assessment of impacts, identification of adaptation options, priorization of adaptation options, identification of limits to adaptation
Details: Step 5 of the framework includes conducting an evaluation of respective risk tolerance and limits to adaptation measures.
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: Both
Details: Application of impact chains that gather together economic and non-economic L&D and describe the linkages between them
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): Yes
Details: Extreme event risk such as cyclonic storms, riverine and coastal flooding or landslides and slow onset changes from sea level rise or saltwater intrusion are considered
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: Yes
Details: The key aspect is to provide guidelines and recommendations on climate risk assessment and effective climate risk management
Usefulness for political purposes: It seeks to support evidence-based assessments of L&D in order to facilitate decision making
Applied by whom: GIZ
Open access: Yes