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UKCIP’s Adaptation Wizard

Chris West, Director, UK Climate Impacts Programme

Climate Adaptation Screening Tools

Improved decision-making for development

Geneva, 11-12 April 2007

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UKCIP Tools – original four

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Two approaches to Adaptation

Scenario Approach

• Climate CHANGE

• Science led

• Predict and decide

• Temptation to wait

• Climate separate

issue

Vulnerability Approach

• Climate RISK

• Decision-maker led

• Manage current risks

• Benefits to day job

• Climate mainstreamed

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• A guide to the UKCIP “tool box”?

• The UKCIP “meta-tool”?

• How to do a UKCIP impact study?

• A guide to the process of Adaptation?

• Simplified Risk Framework?

• A tour of the UKCIP website?

• Teaching or decision-support?

How to describe what we don’t

have

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• Purpose (2004):• Vade mecum for Adaptation

• Simplified Risk Framework

• Decision making tool

• Get sued by Bill Gates for copyright theft

• Stages:• Scoping the impacts

• Quantifying the risks

• Decision-making and action plans

• Adaptation strategy review

UKCIP Adaptation Wizard

“…designed to help you move through a process from simple understanding of climate change to integration of climate risks into decision-making”

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The UKCIP tools package

Adaptation Actions

BACLIAT

Adaptation Wizard

Costingsmethodology

Socio-economic scenarios

UKCIPclimate scenarios

Guidance on good adaptation

Impact examples

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Red Hill Primary School, Worcs.

• Customer and Architect

• One afternoon!

• In use for other Worcester developments

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Nottingham Declaration Action Pack

ImplementationPrepare an Action Plan

Develop Strategic Approach

Assess Current and Likely Future

Situation

Getting

Started

Mitigation

Adaptation

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ManageOwn

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Communityleader

Service provider

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A revised Wizard

Wide consultation to inform revision/development:

Users’ questionnaire

Toronto workshop

User meeting

We now know: Structure too restrictive

High expectations unfulfilled

Very limited uptake of the Wizard

Those who used it found it valuable

Wizard and NDAP are complementary

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A revised Wizard

Refined vision for the Wizard: Generic & accessible

Awareness-raising & decision-support

Entry point for newcomers

Showcases UKCIP

Identified needs: Make more prominent on website

Add “Getting Started” stage

Tailor entry points for different users

Revise order, presentation of stages

Develop and add case studies

Improve navigability

Promotion and Training!

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