Author: The Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), World Bank
Year of publication: 2010
Available languages: English
Type of assessment: Climate change adaptation assessment
Format of assessment: Web tool
Estimated costs for conducting: About 200,000 USD
Estimated duration of assessment: 5-8 months (for 5 out of 8 stages, the duration of the remaining stages is context dependent)
To be carried out by whom: Multiple actors
Details: The assignment management team should include experts with knowledge of the country’s energy sector, energy asset performance, the effects of climatic and hydrological conditions on energy services, expertise in cost-benefit analysis, and skills in delivering participatory assessments
Institutional scale of use: National
Assesment to be used by which target audience: State level decision makers
Output: Report
Region of origin: North America
Developed by which sector: Development cooperation
Applied in practice: Yes
Geographic coverage in analysis: Europe, Asia
Potential geographic coverage: National
Sectors covered: Energy sector
Method used: Other (see details)
Description of methodology: A stakeholder-based, semi quantified risk assessment of climate vulnerabilities and adaptation options involving a CBA
Risk framework used: No explicit use of risk framework
Risk components incorporated: Vulnerability, risk
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: All hazards
Source of required data: Secondary (available data is used)
Details: Data on latest climate change trends and future projections, information on risks and adaptation options (critical thresholds, sensitivities, legislation, costs etc.)
Temporal scale: Current, Forward looking
Participatory elements: Yes
Details: The assessment is delivered through 2 key workshops with stakeholders and a series of related meetings: Workshop 1: Climate risks & vulnerabilities Workshop 2: Climate risk management & cost-benefit analysis
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: No information
Adressing uncertainty: No information
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks, assessment of impacts, identification of adaptation options, priorization of adaptation options
Details: It identifies options and assesses them via a CBA
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: Economic
Details: Focus lays purely on losses for the energy sector
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): Yes
Details: It is not risk specific
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: Yes
Usefulness for political purposes: It can be very useful for political decision making with regards to energy policy, very clear guidelines and roadmaps
Applied by whom: ESMAP/ World Bank
Open access: Yes