What is a climate change risk assessment?
Climate risk assessments identify the likelihood of future climate hazards and their potential impacts for cities and their communities. This is fundamental for informing the prioritisation of climate action and investment in adaptation.
How do you conduct a climate change risk assessment?
What are the steps to get started with climate risk assessment?
- Get an overview of your existing data & resources.
- Define the scope of your climate risk assessment.
- Identify the best method of climate risk assessment for your organization.
- Identify tools and resources that can help you complete the assessment.
What are risks involved in climate change?
severe impacts on the world’s poorest and most vulnerable populations. environmental and economic damage. large-scale singular events (such as further sea level rise as major ice sheets melt over Greenland and Antarctica)
What is the biggest risk from climate change?
More frequent and intense drought, storms, heat waves, rising sea levels, melting glaciers and warming oceans can directly harm animals, destroy the places they live, and wreak havoc on people’s livelihoods and communities. As climate change worsens, dangerous weather events are becoming more frequent or severe.
What is climate change risk management?
Climate change risk management approaches generally fall into four broad categories: 1) mitigation—efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; 2) adaptation—increasing society’s capacity to cope with changes in climate; 3) geoengineering or climate engineering—additional, deliberate manipulation of the earth system …
What are some pros of climate change?
Main benefits:
- new jobs and ‘green’ jobs.
- improved competitiveness.
- economic growth.
- cleaner air and more efficient public transport systems in cities.
- new technologies such as electric or plug-in hybrid cars, energy-efficient homes or offices with intelligent heating and cooling systems.
What are physical risks of climate change?
The physical risks of climate change are varied and global; they include chronic risks like extreme heat, drought, and water access as well as acute risks like wildfires, hurricanes, and flooding.
What are the 6 categories of risks into which the effects of climate change can be grouped into?
The effects of climate change on companies can be grouped into six categories of risks: regulatory, supply chain, product and technology, litigation, reputational, and physical.