Adapting to climate variability and change a guidance manual for development planning

 · Adapting to Climate Variability and Change: A Guidance Manual for Development Planning () This guidance manual takes a broad perspective on adaptation planning, but it does outline an approach for project-level vulnerability risk assessment and the selection of adaptation options. See page 11 for a useful diagram of the approach. Climate change may pose risks and/or create opportunities for development efforts in many countries. The USAID Global Climate Change Team developed this Adaptation Guidance Manual to assist Missions and other partners to understand how climate change may affect their project outcomes and identify adaptation options to. This guide, Adapting to Climate Change: A Planning Guide for State Coastal Managers, offers a framework for state coastal managers to follow as they develop and implement climate change adaptation plans in their own states. State coastal managers, and their counterparts in local governments, are at the forefront of adapting to climate change.

Adapting to Climate Variability and Change – A Guidance Manual for Development Planning (USAID, ), is structured around a six-step vulnerability and adaptation (VA) process 1. This process helps planners and stakeholders to assess vulnerability to climate variability and change, and to identify, assess, select, implement, and evaluate. This coastal adaptation Guidebook is a companion document to theAdapting to Climate Variability and Change – A Guidance Manual for Development Planning, developed by the USAID in The six-step vulnerability and adaptation helps planners and stakeholders to assess vulnerability to climate variability and change, and to identify, assess, select, implement, and evaluate adaptation options that reduce climate impacts. Climate change may pose risks and/or create opportunities for development efforts in many countries. The USAID Global Climate Change Team developed this Adaptation Guidance Manual to assist Missions and other partners to understand how climate change may affect their project outcomes and identify adaptation options to.

to climate change that are easy to integrate into sustainable development plans. tical guidance on adaptation to climate change has not kept pace. The development and publication of this guidance document was made possible through funding change adaptation into development policies and plans at. of adaptation to climate change into development planning can also be a form USAID: Adapting to Climate Variability and Change: A Guidance Manual for.