Author: African Development Bank Group (AfDB)
Year of publication: 2012
Available languages: English
Type of assessment: Vulnerability assessment
Details: Enables to screen projects in vulnerable sectors for climate change risks and identify appropriate adaptation measures
Format of assessment: Guideline
Details: Includes a help desk to enable bank staff using CSS
Estimated costs for conducting: No information
Estimated duration of assessment: To be conducted during preparation of projects
To be carried out by whom: Private individuals and firms
Details: Bank staff
Institutional scale of use: Multiple (see details)
Details: Tool applies to investment projects of banks and can cover different institutional levels
Assesment to be used by which target audience: Others (please specify)
Details: Development cooperation
Output: Report
Details: Scorecards
Region of origin: Africa
Developed by which sector: Development cooperation
Applied in practice: Yes
Geographic coverage in analysis: Africa
Potential geographic coverage: Worldwide, web-tool just applicable in Africa
Sectors covered: Agriculture, Energy sector, Infrastructure, Water sector
Method used: Other (see details)
Description of methodology: The Method has two components Step 1: Climate screening: scorecards are being provided depending on the sector the project should cover and are rated through predefined answering options to certain questions. Step 2: Adaptation review and evaluation procedures
Risk framework used: No explicit use of risk framework
Risk components incorporated: All
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: All hazards
Source of required data: Secondary (available data is used)
Details: Climate screening: no data needed; only knowledge of the project, country the project is located in and sector it should cover, knowledge of geography of the country; no climate change knowledge is required
Temporal scale: Forward looking
Participatory elements: No
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: No
Adressing uncertainty: No
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks, assessment of impacts, identification of adaptation options, priorization of adaptation options
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: No information
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): No information
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: Yes
Applied by whom: African Development Bank Group
Open access: Only methodology of the digital tool is open access