Author: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), EURAC
Year of publication: 2017
Available languages: English, French, Spanish, Arabic
Type of assessment: Comprehensive impact and risk assessment
Format of assessment: Guideline
Estimated costs for conducting: No information
Estimated duration of assessment: 3 - 18 months
To be carried out by whom: Multiple actors
Details: Government representatives and development practitioners
Institutional scale of use: Multiple (see details)
Details: National, regional, community/local level (depending on scope of assessment)
Assesment to be used by which target audience: Multiple actors
Details: Decision makers at different levels in context of adaptation and development planning
Output: Others (see details)
Details: Report, risk map, eventually excel sheets
Region of origin: Europe
Developed by which sector: Development cooperation
Applied in practice: Yes
Geographic coverage in analysis: Worldwide
Potential geographic coverage: Worldwide
Sectors covered: Not sector specific
Method used: Mixed method approach
Description of methodology: Impact chains, index development
Risk framework used: AR5
Risk components incorporated: All
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: Changing precipitation patterns, Changing temperature patterns, Loss of biodiversity, Extreme temperatures, Extreme rainfall, Drought, Flood, Wildfire
Source of required data: Primary and secondary
Details: Acccording to precise methods chosen data requirements can be high (quantitative modeling approach) or low (focus on participative methods)
Temporal scale: Current, Forward looking
Participatory elements: Yes
Details: Stakeholder involvement in steering team and workshops; surveys with target groups as a possibility to complete data gaps and to evaluate indicators
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: No information
Adressing uncertainty: Yes
Details: Use of critical thresholds and frequencies or the intensity in the hazard assessment wherever possible is suggested. Use of different climate scnearios to assess potential future climate impacts is recommended
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks, assessment of impacts
Details: Identification of adaptation options is a possible add-on
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: Both
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): Yes
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: Partly
Details: Identification of adaptation options is a possible add-on
Usefulness for political purposes: NAP (Thailand)
Applied by whom: GIZ projects
Open access: Yes