1. Climate Change Planning Process
Mitigation
GHG Emissions Assessment
Setting targets
Assessment and selection of measures
Implementation of measures
Monitoring and Evaluation of Measures
Adaptation
Vulnerability Assessment
Setting objectives

2. Mitigation Adaptation Key Questions GHG Emissions Assessment
Vulnerability Assessment
Key Questions
Which sectors are the largest emitters of GHGs?
How is your city exposed to climate change today and in the future?
How sensitive are your city’s people, places and institutions to this exposure?
Who is most vulnerable and least able to adapt?
What sectors / assets / groups are most important?
Source: UN Habitat

3. Mitigation Adaptation Key Questions
GHG Emissions Assessment
Setting targets
Adaptation
Vulnerability Assessment
Setting objectives
Key Questions
How much GHG emissions reduction would you target?
Is this target for the city or municipality level or for a specific sector?
Would the objective be to increase adaptive capacity – or reduce sensitivity or exposure?
What other broader development objectives (e.g. poverty, education) can you address along with climate change adaptation?

4. Key Questions Mitigation Adaptation
GHG Emissions Assessment
Setting targets
Assessment and Selection of Measures
Adaptation
Vulnerability Assessment
Setting objectives
Key Questions
Which measures (actions, policies, initiatives) can you identify to achieve the set targets or objectives?
After identifying the actions, how do you select which ones to implement first, which is a process called prioritization?

5. Decision making in planning for climate change
Using CLIMACT PRIO: A decision support tool for climate change adaptation and mitigation prioritization

6. policy makers’ and planners’ decisions in planning for climate change
CLIMACT Prio tool
how to prioritize climate change adaptation and mitigation actions
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A system to guide
policy makers’ and planners’ decisions
in planning for climate change

7. Relevance & Application of
CLIMACT PRIO TOOL
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Planning for Climate Change
(UN Habitat, 2014)
City Development Strategy Toolkit
(Cities Alliance, 2016)
Toolbox of Methodologies Climate and Energy
Participatory integrated assessment of flood protection measures for climate adaptation in Dhaka
(Haque et al., 2012)

8. Relevance: Participatory planning
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Participatory integrated assessment of flood protection measures for climate adaptation in Dhaka
(Haque et al., 2012)
Urban Planning and Design Labs: tools for integrated and participatory urban planning
(UN Habitat, 2016)

9. CLIMACT Prio tool
CLIMACT PRIO is a climate awareness, decision support, and capacity building tool for screening and prioritizing climate change actions. By prioritizing, this refers to bringing down the climate change actions “from wish list…to a feasible and relevant short list”. Watch the CLIMACT PRIO TOOL video.
This method does not necessarily identify an “optimal” option, but rather requires the user to draw conclusions by looking at different components of the whole assessment and prioritization process, while seeking a consensus decision between stakeholders with different needs, concerns and priorities.

10. What is the workshop about?
At the end of this week, each group, whose members will simulate the role of multiple stakeholders, can identify, assess, prioritize, and present 6 local climate change adaptation and mitigation actions to reduce vulnerability and emissions based on the selected case study

11. CLIMACT PRIO TOOL: STEPS
Step 0: Identifying the most vulnerable sectors (and local problems)
Step 1: Listing, screening, and ranking of adaptation actions
Step 2: Selection of adaptation actions
Step 3: Marginal Abatement Cost (SKIP)
Step 4: Identification of evaluation criteria
Step 5: Scoring and standardization of actions
Step 6: Weighting of criteria
Step 7: Results of weighted scores and final ranking
Step 8: Prioritization of actions
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12. Step 0 – Read the city’s vulnerability profile

13. Identify sectors/assets with highest priority for action
Disaster Management
Agriculture
Infrastructure
Water Management
Flood Management
Health
Ecology
Transport
Social
Identify sectors/assets with highest priority for action
Look at other possible issues or problems that the city is facing

14. CLIMACT PRIO TOOL: STEPS
Step 0: Identifying the most vulnerable sectors (and local problems)
Step 1: Listing, screening, and ranking of adaptation actions
Step 2: Selection of adaptation actions
Step 3: Marginal Abatement Cost (SKIP)
Step 4: Identification of evaluation criteria
Step 5: Scoring and standardization of actions
Step 6: Weighting of criteria
Step 7: Results of weighted scores and final ranking
Step 8: Prioritization of actions
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15. Identify sectors/assets with highest priority for action
Disaster Management
Agriculture
Infrastructure
Water Management
Flood Management
Health
Ecology
Transport
Social
Identify sectors/assets with highest priority for action
Look at other possible issues or problems that the city is facing

16. Step 1a – Listing of 10 possible adaptation actions

18. Step 1b – Screening and ranking of alternative adaptation actions

19. Study the feasibility and impact criteria – and their corresponding descriptions and scoring scale.

20. Evaluate each alternative adaptation action against each of the seven feasibility and impact criteria.

21. Step 1b – Feasibility ranking of adaptation actions
Observe how all the scores for each adaptation action add up as well as the over all ranking and the results of the feasibility index.
Total: sum of feasibility and impact criteria scores
Ranking: ranking of final scores
Feasibility Index: average sum of all feasibility scores

22. Observe the feasibility graph
Observe the feasibility graph. Also, examine the ranking of all adaptation actions as well check all adaptation and individual actions based on the Feasibility Index and the Total Score.

23. Step 2 – Selection of 6 adaptation actions

24. Step 3 – Identification of 5 evaluation criteria from different categories
Environmental
Economic
Social
Climate
Feasibility
Governance
The criteria selected can be of a diverse nature and should relate to broader local governments’ priorities and objectives

25. Evaluation Criteria need to be SMART:
Specific, sensitive, solid
Measurable
Achievable, applicable, acceptable
Relevant, reliable, realistic
Time bound

26. The criteria selected can be of a diverse nature and should relate to broader local governments’ priorities and objectives.
Define a unit of measurement for each criterion (“1-5”) and specify the direction of preference (Min/Max).

27. Step 4 – Scoring of actions (Impact Assessment Matrix)
Assign scores for each adaptation action against the selected evaluation criteria.
Learn more about their advantages, disadvantages, costs and benefits, and financing options.
Use the template for climate actions provided.

28. Scoring – Standardized scores
One must standardize the values in order to be able to compare the scores.
This is done automatically for CLIMACT PRIO.
The higher the numbers represent a positive outcome and lower numbers represent less positive or negative outcomes.

29. Standardization Graphs

30. Standardization Graphs

32. Step 5 – Weighting of criteria by stakeholders

33. Impact range: the maximum score minus the minimum score assigned to each action in the impact matric

34. Weights: the average of all scores for all stakeholders
Degree of Convergence: indicates the degree of consensus on different criteria
Observe the final criteria weighting.
Observe if there is low degree of convergence.

35. Which criteria are most valued?

36. Results of Weighted Scores
Final weighted scores: weighted summation between the standardized scores of the impact matrix and the weights assigned to each criterion

37. Results – Ranking

38. Step 6 – Prioritization of Actions
How can the final ranking be explained?
Which criteria contribute mostly to the highest ranked alternatives?
Which criteria (objectives) will be met by the actions?

39. Prioritization of Actions
Water storage and conservation
Rainwater harvesting
Design standards
Construction of evacuation centers
Emergency medical services
Early warning systems
What does the prioritization of actions imply for the city’s climate adaptation policy?

40. Developing a Climate Change Action Plan
Address both mitigation and adaptation in an integrative manner
Designate the spatial location of actions/inteventions
Determine the timeframe for the implementation of actions
Identify financial resources for the implementation of actions
Indicate relevant stakeholders and possible partnerships

41. What does an Action Plan include?
Why
Who
What
Where
When
How ?
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42. What does an Action Plan include?
Main issues (vulnerabilities and emissions based on assessment)
Objectives (priorities, targets based on plans)
Why
Who
What
Where
When
How
Resources (e.g. budget), mainstreaming into existing plans and policies
Stakeholders
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Timeline,, overlap, synergies between Actions
Prioritized Climate Change
Actions (with Adaptation & Mitigation co-benefits & trade-offs)
Spatial distribution of Actions on the city’s map

43. What does an Action Plan include?
Main issues (vulnerabilities based on assessment)
Objectives (priorities, targets based on plans)
Source:
Vulnerability Assessment,
GHG Inventories
Why
Who
What
Where
When
How
Resources (e.g. budget), mainstreaming into existing plans and policies
Stakeholders
Tool:
Stakeholder mapping
Method:
…Desk study!
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Timeline,, overlap, synergies between Actions
Prioritized Climate Change
Actions (with Adaptation & Mitigation co-benefits & trade-offs)
Tool:
Gantt chart
Tool:
Climact Prio
Spatial distribution of Actions on the city’s map
Tool:
Visualization, mapping software

44. Stakeholders map z Civil society Issue(s) or Objectives Private sector
Secondary
stakeholders z
Primary
stakeholders
Key
stakeholders
Civil society
Issue(s) or
Objectives
Private sector
Public sector

45. Spatial distribution of actions
Source: UMD10 students

46. Timeline: gantt chart Source: IHS Action Planning Workbook
Note: this is a rough Gantt Chart example, it should not be taken as being ideal or realistic!

47. Timeline, Stakeholders & Resources
Apart from the timeplan, the gantt chart can be used to present additional information for the Actions planned:
Actions
Time division:
Days / Weeks / Months / Years
Stakeholders
Notes on resources
& mainstreaming
Action 1
Action 2
Action 3
Etc ….

48. Workshop schedule

49. Useful tips for the CLIMACT Prio week
First think, then (Clim)act!
Brainstorm as a group using the flipcharts and metaplan cards, at each step of the prioritization process. Fill in the spreadsheet when you have taken your decisions.
One “official” file
Each member may want to have their own files to experiment with the tool. However, on Day 1 you should decide as a group who will have the official file that presents your work. This is the file that you will submit at the end of the workshop to be graded.
Appoint roles to the team members
Each time should have 1 time manager and 1 “official spreadsheet” user who inserts the data. You may want to add more roles (e.g. visualiser) to organise the team and share the workload.
Alexandra

50. Useful tips for the CLIMACT Prio tool
Adaptation Actions
Brainstorm on both structural and non-structural actions.
Measurement units
Use one of these measurement scales: 1-5 or 1-10.
Minimizing / maximizing Criteria
When identifying your criteria, be careful. If the criterion has a negative connotation, like “cost”, you want to minimize it. If it is something positive, e.g. “employment generation”, you want to maximize it!
Scoring Actions according to Criteria!
If you have chosen “maximize”, the highest number (e.g. 5 or 10) represents the most desired score. If you have chosen “minimize”, the lowest number (1) represents the most desired score.
Alexandra