ACCC II and risk based adaptation planning - Rebecca Nadin

ACCC II and Risk-based Adaptation Planning

Dr Rebecca Nadin, Director ACCC IIACCC II April 2016

Dr Rebecca Nadin. INTASAVE-CARIBSAVE Group. 2016

Developing the Skills and Methodologies to Carry out Risked based Climate Adaptation Planning

Overall schedule: Workshops x 3Overall Objective- to develop the skills and methodologies to : • deliver ‘risk based adaptation planning’. • integrate climate risk into provincial and sector level socio

economic planning.• Produce a ‘set of risk based approach guidelines’ that can be

applied to a other sectors


What do we mean by climate risk?Dr Rebecca Nadin. INTASAVE-CARIBSAVE Group. 2016


Future WorkshopsDr Rebecca Nadin. INTASAVE-CARIBSAVE Group. 2016

Risk-based adaptation planning

• Risk Based Adaptation Planning – enables national and local government to better incorporate climate resilience into sustainable development goals

Why is a risk based approach to important?


Risk-based adaptation planning: importance to China’s

developmentChina is facing a number of climate and non-climate risks that could undermine the socioeconomic gains it has made.

Core Messages: Mitigation alone cannot address

these risks.

Adaptation complements mitigation

Risk-based adaptation addresses the potential impacts or opportunities to sectors and development


Risk-based adaptation planning

The ACCC Adaptation Framework. Source: Opitz-Stapleton, 2010). In Nadin R, Opitz-Stapleton S, Yinlong X (eds). 2016. Climate Risk and Resilience in China. Routledge: Abingdon.


ACCC II risk-based Adaptation Planning Road map


Policy focus – intersection with other policies

For example ‘Water Sector’ Adaptation Plan could cover: Flooding risk (from any source). Water environment. Water supply.

Plan is not produced in isolation. It links into other adaptation Sector Action Plans, particularly those for:Emergency and Rescue Services;Spatial Planning and Land Use;The Built Environment; andAgriculture

Sustainable development

Climate change adaptationMitigation co-benefitsOther sectors

Disaster risk reduction


http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Environment/climatechange/scotlands-action/adaptation/AdaptationFramework/SAP/EmergencyandRescue

http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Environment/climatechange/scotlands-action/adaptation/AdaptationFramework/SAP/SpatialPlanning-1

http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Environment/climatechange/scotlands-action/adaptation/AdaptationFramework/SAP/BuiltEnvironment

http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Environment/climatechange/scotlands-action/adaptation/AdaptationFramework/SAP/Agriculture

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