Integrating climate change information and adaptation in project development: Emerging experience from practicioners

This note brings together emerging experience in support of tasks relevant to a wide range of project development activities related to tackling climate change. Its aim is to promote the climate resilience of projects and reinforce climate resilience of goods, peoples, economy and territories of the beneficiaries.

The publication is intended to help practitioners and beneficiaries to ensure that climate change risks and vulnerabilities are properly assessed and that appropriate and robust adaptation measures, which may include physical measures, actions, or financial measures, are integrated into project planning, design and implementation. The suggested recommendations include:

• Assessment scoping: Project boundaries may be established that take into account the assets and systems being financed.
• Climate information and impacts: A clear context of vulnerability to climate variability and change should be set using a robust evidence base.
• Project planning and design: A clear and direct link between the context of climate vulnerability and the planning and design of the project, should be articulated.
• Analysis and explaining risks, costs and benefits: A range of adaptation measures to address the
  identified climate risks should be explained and analysed.
• Communicating findings: The findings and recommendations should address both the climate resilience of the project and the system or network within which it operates.
• Implementation, operations and monitoring: The final adaptation recommendations should be presented in a form that can be integrated into financing agreements and detailed project design documents.

This note is an output emerging from the EUFIWACC Climate Risk Information Day for Consultants held on 2nd June 2015 in Brussels.