Compendium on methods and tools to evaluate impacts of, and vulnerability and adaptation to, climate change

Abstract

Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are obligated by the Convention and various decisions of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to assess their national-level impacts of climate change and their efforts to adapt to these impacts as inputs for their national communications. Parties need to select from a daunting array of potentially applicable methods and tools for making these assessments, and from various sources of information concerning their use. New methods and tools are constantly being developed and the application of those that are already in use is steadily being refined. There is therefore a need for a centralized source of information that can be maintained and regularly updated.