www.fao.org/climatechange The presentation was made by Selvaraju Ramasamy, Climate Change Adaptation and DRR Esxpert for FAO, on Day 2 of the Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans Workshop, 5-7 April 2016, Rome, Italy. © FAO: http://www.fao.org

1. Climate Risk and Vulnerability
Assessment (and Identifying
Adaptation Options)
Selvaraju Ramasamy, FAO
& Glenn Hodes, UNDP

2. Assessing climate risk and
vulnerabilities
• One of the key preparatory elements of NAPs
• Key questions:
– Which systems, regions, or groups work or depend on
agricultural sectors and work to achieve food security etc.,?
– What are the main climate vulnerabilities of those
systems/regions that are key to achieve the main
development goals?
– What are the expected impacts of climate change?
– What are viable cost-effective adaptation options to reduce
the impacts of climate change or to exploit opportunities?

3. Key Steps in NAPs processes
• Stocktaking: Identify available information on climate change
impacts, vulnerability and adaptation and assess gaps and needs of
the enabling environment for the risk and vulnerability assessment
• Technical capacity: Address capacity gaps and weaknesses in
undertaking the risk and vulnerability assessment
• Compile the results: Comprehensively and iteratively assess climate
risks and vulnerabilities
• Apply information for decision making: Make use of the analysis to
design adaptation strategies and practices

4. Approaches of Assessment
• Climate Change impact assessments: Top–down and
quantitative data driven assessments largely covers bio-
physical aspects.
• Integrated risk and vulnerability assessments: Combination
of top-down and bottom-up approaches with a combination
of quantitative and qualitative data sets, covers both bio-
physical and socioeconomic aspects.
• Community centered assessments: Bottom-up approaches,
largely depend on qualitative data, objectivity is introduced
to some extent, location specific, largely covers social
contexts.

5. Key questions for the group
• Do we have enough data and information
on risks and vulnerabilities?
• What are the key gaps related to risk and
vulnerability assessments that needs to be
addressed for NAPs and in a broader
context?
• How to translate the risk and vulnerability
data and information into adaptation
actions?

6. Thank You