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The PROVIA Guidance on Assessing Vulnerability,
Impacts and Adaptation to Climate Change
Richard J.T. Klein
Stockholm Environment Institute and
Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research, Linköping University
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PROVIA responds to the need for:
• A single research programme, focused on vulnerability,
impacts and adaptation to climate change (a counterpart
to WCRP)
• Research capacity to deliver high-quality information to
decision-makers with due urgency
• Prioritisation of research, to be communicated to
governments and international agencies (thus also
helping to fund the research)
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Objectives of PROVIA
• Help to provide international direction and improve the
coherence of research on climate vulnerability, impacts
and adaptation
• Communicate scientific information on VIA to
governments, international agencies and other decisionmakers
• Help to guide investment in research
• Build scientific research capacity, especially in developing
countries
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Guidance requirements and challenges
• The guidance should promote a more systematic and
rigorous approach to assessing VIA.
• It should be coherent and based on the latest academic
insights in VIA research.
• It should take into account the needs and constraints of
users (i.e. researchers, practitioners, policymakers).
• It should be informative rather than prescriptive.
• Different users have different adaptation objectives and
require different assessment guidance.
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Preparing the PROVIA Guidance
• 10 authors
• 41 reviewers and resource persons
• Two workshops with experts and potential users and
contributors
• Various presentations at academic and policy events to
solicit feedback
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LEG Technical Guidelines: Element A
• Lay the groundwork and address gaps:
• Step A.1. Initiating and launching the NAP process
• Step A.2. Stocktaking: Identifying available information
on climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation
and assessing gaps and needs of the enabling
environment for the NAP process
• Step A.3. Addressing capacity gaps and weaknesses in
undertaking the NAP process
• Stap A.4. Comprehensively and iteratively assessing
development needs and climate vulnerabilities
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LEG Technical Guidelines: Step A.1
• Indicative activities:
a.
Conduct briefings to policymakers about climate change
adaptation challenges and opportunities and the NAP process
in particular
b.
Designate the spearheading or coordinating mechanism
c.
Create or enhance a national vision and mandate for the NAP
process
d.
Operationalise the NAP process through access to support
e.
Define a NAP framework and strategy as well as a road map,
including sequencing of various NAPs and a monitoring and
evaluation plan for the NAP process
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LEG Technical Guidelines: Step A.1
• Indicative activities:
a.
Conduct briefings to policymakers about climate change
adaptation challenges and opportunities and the NAP process
in particular
b.
Designate the spearheading or coordinating mechanism
c.
Create or enhance a national vision and mandate for the NAP
process
d.
Operationalise the NAP process through access to support
e.
Define a NAP framework and strategy as well as a road map,
including sequencing of various NAPs and a monitoring and
evaluation plan for the NAP process
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LEG Technical Guidelines: Step A.1.c
Create or enhance a national vision and mandate for the
NAP process (Sections 2.4 and 3.1)
•Focuses both on the technical tasks of planning and
implementing adaptation measures, and on the work
needed to support those efforts: communications,
consensus building, integration with non-climate initiatives
(especially development), and capacity building for key
actors and institutions.
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LEG Technical Guidelines: Step A.1.e
Define a NAP framework and strategy as well as a road
map, including sequencing of various NAPs and a
monitoring and evaluation plan for the NAP process
(Sections 2.5 and 3.10)
•
Setting clear goals, objectives and metrics and laying out
a sequential set of steps, with clearly assigned
responsibilities, will help ensure efficiency, unity of
purpose, and accountability in the NAP process.
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LEG Technical Guidelines: Step A.2
• Indicative activities:
a. Conduct a stocktaking of ongoing and past adaptation
activities
b. Synthesise available analyses of the current and future
climate at the broad national and/or regional level
c. Conduct a gap analysis to assess strengths and weaknesses
regarding the capacity, data and information, and resources
required to effectively engage in the NAP process
d. Assess potential barriers to the planning, design and
implementation of adaptation activities
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LEG Technical Guidelines: Step A.2
• Indicative activities:
a. Conduct a stocktaking of ongoing and past adaptation
activities
b. Synthesise available analyses of the current and future
climate at the broad national and/or regional level
c. Conduct a gap analysis to assess strengths and weaknesses
regarding the capacity, data and information, and resources
required to effectively engage in the NAP process
d. Assess potential barriers to the planning, design and
implementation of adaptation activities
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LEG Technical Guidelines: Step A.2.c
Conduct a gap analysis to assess strengths and
weaknesses regarding the capacity, data and information,
and resources required to effectively engage in the NAP
process (Sections 2.1 and 3.1.2)
•Assessing capacity helps to identify potential constraints to
effective engagement in the NAP. Synthesising available
data and knowledge helps to identify any major gaps; if
those gaps cannot be filled with available resources, that
may limit the range of methods and tools that can be applied
in the NAP process.
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LEG Technical Guidelines: Step A.2.d
Assess potential barriers to the planning, design and
implementation of adaptation activities (Sections 2.4.1)
•
A growing evidence base shows that a major factor in
successful adaptation is the larger social and governance
context, which can determine who supports or obstructs
the process, what resources are available, and how
much action is perceived as possible.
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LEG Technical Guidelines: Step A.3
• Indicative activities:
a. Develop and enhance enabling institutional and
technical capacity for the formulation of the NAP
b. Identify and enhance awareness of potential
opportunities for integrating climate change
adaptation into development planning at different
levels
c. Design and implement programmes on climate
change communication, public awareness-raising and
education
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LEG Technical Guidelines: Step A.3
• Indicative activities:
a. Develop and enhance enabling institutional and
technical capacity for the formulation of the NAP
b. Identify and enhance awareness of potential
opportunities for integrating climate change
adaptation into development planning at different
levels
c. Design and implement programmes on climate
change communication, public awareness-raising and
education
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LEG Technical Guidelines: Step A.3.b
Identify and enhance awareness of potential opportunities
for integrating climate change adaptation into development
planning at different levels (Sections 3.6 and 3.6.2)
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Development plays a crucial role in reducing vulnerability
to climate change, but when climate risks are not
adequately considered, it can also exacerbate
vulnerability.
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LEG Technical Guidelines: Step A.4
• Indicative activities:
a. Compile information on main development objectives,
policies, plans and programmes
b. Identify synergies between development and
adaptation objectives, policies, plans and
programmes with a view to identifying risks to
investment and opportunities for collaboration and
realising co-benefits (start with climate-proofing),
including economic benefits
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LEG Technical Guidelines: Step A.4
• Indicative activities:
a. Compile information on main development objectives,
policies, plans and programmes
b. Identify synergies between development and
adaptation objectives, policies, plans and
programmes with a view to identifying risks to
investment and opportunities for collaboration and
realising co-benefits (start with climate-proofing),
including economic benefits
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PROVIA Guidance for NAP-TG Element A
• A.1.c: Create or enhance a national vision and mandate for the NAP
process — Sections 2.4 and 3.1
• A.1.e: Define a NAP framework and strategy as well as a road map,
including sequencing of various NAPs and a monitoring and evaluation
plan for the NAP process — Sections 2.5 and 3.10
• A.2.c: Conduct a gap analysis to assess strengths and weaknesses
regarding the capacity, data and information, and resources required to
effectively engage in the NAP process — Sections 2.1 and 3.1.2
• A.2.d: Assess potential barriers to the planning, design and
implementation of adaptation activities — Section 2.4.1
• A.3.b: Identify and enhance awareness of potential opportunities for
integrating climate change adaptation into development planning at
different levels — Sections 3.6 and 3.6.2
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Thank you very much for your attention.
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