Adaptation to climate change — Guidelines on vulnerability, impacts and risk assessment

CSA Group
Standards Development Organisation:
Canadian Standards Association (operating as CSA Group)
Working Program:
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Designation Number:
CSA Z14091
Standard Type:
National Standard of Canada - Adoption of International Standard
Standard Development Activity:
New Standard
ICS code(s):
 13.020.30
13.020.40
Status:
Proceeding to development
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Scope:

This document gives guidelines for assessing the risks related to the potential impacts of climate change. It describes how to understand vulnerability and how to develop and implement a sound risk assessment in the context of climate change. It can be used for assessing both present and future climate change risks.

Risk assessment according to this document provides a basis for climate change adaptation planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation for any organization, regardless of size, type and nature.

Project need:

To enable Canadian organizations to assess climate change-related risks to improve planning for climate change and inform the implementation and monitoring of climate change adaptation activities.This proposed New Standard is being developed at the request of Standards Council of Canada. It will provide the industry with guidelines on approaches to assess climate change-related risks. This will meet the strategic needs of the following key interests: 1. any organization, regardless of size, type and nature, e.g. local, regional, international, financial, business units, conglomerates, industrial sectors, natural resource management units.

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