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National climate risk assessments

National climate risk assessments. National climate risk assessments - a key first step! Over 60 Red Cross Red Crescent assessments have been compiled over the past 10 years. Evidence of local impacts. Use available country data Involve communities

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National climate risk assessments

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  1. National climate risk assessments

  2. National climate risk assessments - a key first step! Over 60 Red Cross Red Crescent assessments have been compiled over the past 10 years

  3. Evidence of local impacts Use available country data Involve communities Involve other stakeholders, including your meteorological office.

  4. Main focus of national climate risk assessments Describe current climate risks and situation Describe climate trends and projections Impacts and vulnerability Reflect how these impacts affect your work Action Plan (optional)

  5. National climate risk assessment Step 1: Describe the current situation in your country Geography Climate Vulnerabilities Photo: IFRC

  6. National climate risk assessment Step 2: Climate trend and projections information can be found at sources such as: • - Your meteorological office • National adaptation plans • UNFCCC • IPCC • World Bank Climate Change Knowledge Portal • IFRC/IRI MapRoom • UNDP country profiles (2010)

  7. National climate risk assessment Step 3: Impacts and vulnerability How can climate change affect existing problems of vulnerable people?

  8. National climate risk assessment Step 4: Reflect how the climate related impacts affect your work Photos: ICRC & IFRC Photo: IFRC

  9. The assessment can have multiple purposes Policy dialogue Awareness raising Ensuring the needs of the most vulnerable people are addressed in climate change policies Highlighting humanitarian consequences of climate change Main messages can be captured in campaigns or awareness raising Photo: Ollivier Girard / IFRC Photo: Climate Centre Kenya National Adaptation Plan Pakistan heat wave actions pamphlet

  10. Create an action plan How do we consider the climate risk assessment in our work (of different departments)? Disaster management and DRR Brainstorming of ideas Prioritizing Assessing funding opportunities Assess opportunities for integrating into existing projects (do not define stand-alone climate change projects) Health & Care Climate (change) risks Water & Sanitation Food Security etc.

  11. Limits and complexity of the assessments Level of uncertainty: how to communicate probability? How to explain that climate projections cannot be downscaled ('zoomed in') to a province or community level?

  12. National climate risk assessment – some tips: Keep it real and relevant • Don’t include things that you can’t explain • Use diagrams to clarify • Use quotes and pictures that tell the story better • Don’t confuse readers with too much complex data Keep it simple and understandable List your sources • To recheck information and make your report more credible

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