Author: World Bank
Year of publication: 2015
Available languages: English
Type of assessment: Comprehensive impact and risk assessment
Format of assessment: Web tool
Estimated costs for conducting: No information
Estimated duration of assessment: Only a few hours
To be carried out by whom: Consultants (climate experts)
Institutional scale of use: Multiple (see details)
Details: National, project level
Assesment to be used by which target audience: Multiple actors
Details: State level and local decision makers
Output: Report
Region of origin: North America
Developed by which sector: Development cooperation
Applied in practice: Yes
Geographic coverage in analysis: Worldwide
Potential geographic coverage: Worldwide
Sectors covered: Agriculture, Energy sector, Finance sector, Health sector, Water sector, Commercial sector, Infrastructure
Details: ICT, Industry
Method used: Quantitative model
Description of methodology: The tool applies an Exposure–Impact–Adaptive capacity framework to characterize risks. Potential risks are identified by connecting information on climate and geophysical hazards with users’ subject matter expertise of project components (both physical and non-physical) and understanding of the broader sector and development context
Risk framework used: AR5
Details: Plus framework for vulnerability assessment used by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), with some modifications
Risk components incorporated: Exposure, sensitivity, adaptive capacity and risk
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: Extreme temperatures, Extreme rainfall, Flood, Sea level rise, Storm surge, Storm, Drought
Source of required data: Secondary (available data is used)
Details: Information on subject matter and country context
Temporal scale: Forward looking
Participatory elements: No
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: Partly
Details: Multiple hazards considered and combined
Adressing uncertainty: No
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: None
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): Partly
Details: Including both, SOE (sea level rise) and multiple EWE
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: No
Applied by whom: The World Bank
Open access: Yes