This book describes a framework designed to provide project planners and programme 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 the process, called the Decision Tree Framework, the project planner is intended to be able to confidently communicate the method by which the vulnerabilities of the project have been assessed, and how any adjustments that were made 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 non-climate 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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