Chapter 4
Assessing Climate Exposures and Measures to Reduce Vulnerabilities
This chapter provides a method to assess the potential benefits of different climate risk reduction measures at the project level. The climate exposures, sensitivities, and adaptive capacities of a project or asset all influence their vulnerabilities to current and expected impacts of climate change. This chapter presents a step-by-step process to identify and score these variables. These can be used to establish an initial climate vulnerability score, which will allow users to identify priority vulnerabilities, as well as measures to reduce these vulnerabilities. This chapter also provides descriptions of 99 climate vulnerability reduction measures and guidance for assessing adaptive benefits of selected measures. All measures include the following descriptors:
- Climate Hazard
- Climate Risk Reduction Benefit
- Potential Co-Benefits
- Action Type
Refer to Table 4-7 for a summary of climate risk reduction measures and descriptors and Table 4-8 for a description of each measure.