Introduction
Understanding your current vulnerability to extreme weather events is a useful starting point for assessing how your organisation may be affected in years to come, and to guide decisions about priority actions.
Step 2 will now bring you through development of a climate risk assessment for your organisation. This will provide you with a preliminary assessment of current climate related impacts which have been of significance locally and have had implications for the operations of your organisation. You will also begin to consider how these may change in the future and where new impacts might emerge.
Aims
Assess your risk to past and future climate impacts
Objectives
Define the scope of your risk assessment
Assess past and future climate risks and the consequences for your organisation
Define existing policies and systems which address the risks
Develop an organisational climate risk register and validate with colleagues
Align risk register with latest UK Climate Change Risk Assessment
The following documents will provide you with information on what ‘risk’ is in the context of climate change, how it can be applied to your organisation, as well as resources & guidance for establishing good governance at this stage in your climate action plan.
Guidance on creating a Climate Risk Assessment
Public Body Reporting
A centralised resource designed to support public bodies in fulfilling their climate change reporting obligations under the Climate Change Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 which are set by The Climate Change (Reporting Bodies) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 (‘the Public Body Reporting Regulations’)
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Governance and Stakeholder Engagement
This document provides a draft agenda for a workshop to gather the relevant evidence for both mitigation and adaptation. Note: The same meeting in Step 2 can be used to progress both cycles.
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1. Undertake a climate risk assessment for your organisation.
2. Develop a Climate Risk Register for your organisation.
3. Circulate for validation to relevant colleagues
n.b. If you have delivered a cross-organisational workshop, it is important to validate your findings with all the attendees of that workshop. If you have completed a desk-based review, then it is even more important to validate the findings with as wide a range of organisational departments as possible.
How to Develop a Climate Risk Assessment
How to create a Risk Register
Climate Risk Register Template
The following documents will provide you with additional information regarding this step which can assist the completion of this step and improve your understanding.
Local Climate Adaptation Tool
EU Missions Adaptation to Climate Change
The Adaptation Support Tool
The Use of Scenario Analysis in Disclosure of Climate-Related Risks and Opportunities
Climate Action Planning Guide – C40 Knowledge
Good Practice Guide on Audit and Risk Assurance Committees
Certification in Climate Adaptation
Step Two Complete
Read the contents of ‘What do you need to know?’
- Consider Governance and Stakeholder Engagement
- Understand Public Body Reporting requirements and support
Complete the tasks in ‘What do you need to do?’
- Undertake a climate risk assessment for your organisation
- Develop a Climate Risk Register for your organisation
- Circulate for validation
