Publications
they may wish to proceed.
The guide features an array of approaches and tools that
UNCTs can discuss with Member States to adapt the
Agenda to national, sub-national and local conditions
and realities, incorporating regional perspectives where
appropriate.
These approaches and tools should be treated by UNCTs
as a menu of options, with the case studies providing
examples of how some countries have begun to develop
and use relevant tools. It covers eight implementation
guidance areas:
• Raising public awareness
• Applying multi-stakeholder approaches
• Tailoring SDGs to national, sub-national and local
contexts
• Creating horizontal policy coherence
(breaking the silos)
• Creating vertical policy coherence
(globalizing the agenda)
• Budgeting for the future
• Monitoring, reporting and accountability
• Assessing risks and fostering adaptability
• Though this reference guide was primarily prepared
for UNCTs, the steps it describes, the case studies it
highlights, and the publicly available tools that it refers
to, might also be of direct use to a broader audience of
government officials and development practitioners.
Enhancing the Climate Resilience of
Africa’s Infrastructure: The Power and
Water Sectors.
Publishers: World Bank
Published: 2015-09-01
Author(s) Cervigni, Raffaello,
Liden, Rikard, Neumann, James
E., Strzepek, Kenneth M.
This book evaluates -using for
the first time a single consistent
methodology and the stateof-the-arte climate scenarios-,
the impacts of climate change
on hydro-power and irrigation
expansion plans in Africa’s main rivers basins (Niger,
Senegal, Volta, Congo, Nile, Zambezi, Orange); and
outlines an approach to reduce climate risks through
suitable adjustments to the planning and design process.
The book finds that failure to integrate climate change in
the planning and design of power and water infrastructure
could entail, in scenarios of drying climate conditions,
losses of hydropower revenues between 5% and 60%
(depending on the basin); and increases in consumer
expenditure for energy up to 3 times the corresponding
baseline values. In in wet climate scenarios, business-asusual infrastructure development could lead to foregone
revenues in the range of 15% to 130% of the baseline, to
the extent that the larger volume of precipitation is not
used to expand the production of hydropower.
Despite the large uncertainty on whether drier or wetter
conditions will prevail in the future in Africa, the book
finds that by modifying existing investment plans to
explicitly handle the risk of large climate swings, can cut
in half or more the cost that would accrue by building
infrastructure on the basis of the climate of the past.
Confronting Climate Uncertainty in Water
Resources Planning and Project Design:
The Decision Tree Framework
Publishers: World Bank
Published: 2015-08-25
Author(s) Ray, Patrick A.,
Brown, Casey M.
The Decision Tree Framework
described in this book provides
resource-limited project
planners and program managers
with a cost-effective and
effort-efficient, scientifically
defensible, repeatable, and clear
method for demonstrating the robustness of a project
to climate change. At the conclusion of this process,
the project planner will be empowered to confidently
communicate the method by which the vulnerabilities of
the project have been assessed, and how the adjustments
that were made (if any were necessary) improved the
project’s feasibility and profitability.
The framework adopts a “bottom-up” approach to risk
assessment that aims at a thorough understanding of a
project’s vulnerabilities to climate change in the context
of other nonclimate uncertainties (for example, economic,
environmental, demographic, or political).
It helps to identify projects that perform well across a wide
range of potential future climate conditions, as opposed to
seeking solutions that are optimal in expected conditions
but fragile to conditions deviating from the expected.
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