More World Bank Knowledge Products on Adaptation

Beyond the guidance notes, the Climate Change team of the ENV Department developed the following products on adaptation in agriculture/NRM/rural development:

Climate Change Data Portal - The WB Climate Change Data Portal is intended to provide quick and readily accessible climate and climate-related data to policy makers and development practitioners. The portal consists of a Google map interface, in which a user can query any location on the globe and receive climate change projections. The tool includes: WB and external data, projections from the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report ensemble of Global Circulation Models (GCMs), historical climatology (CRU dataset from the University of East Anglia and links to TNC-University of Washington (Climatewiz.org tool), data on changes in crop yields under climate change for 14 major crops worldwide (IIASA) and the World Bank disaster hotspots data, all on both a pixel and country-aggregated basis, plus basic socioeconomic data at the country level. This portal also serves as a launching point for other adaptation tools,  including the WB Screening Tool ADAPT (see below),  but also those developed by other institutions such as the Adaptation Learning Mechanisms (ALM) by UNDP, Climate Change Explorer (SEI), and SERVIR (USAID-CATHALAC) among others. The Portal is intended to serve as a common platform to collect, integrate, and display different levels of climate change relevant information at the global scale.

Screening Tool ADAPT – The Screening Tool ADAPT (Assessment & Design for Adaptation to Climate Change: A Prototype Tool) is a software based tool for assessing development projects for potential sensitivities to climate change. The tool brings together climate databases and expert assessments of the threats and opportunities arising from climate variability and change. It provides a summary of the climate trends from global climate model projections at a project site; identifies components of the project that might be subject to climate risk; explains the nature of the risk; and provides guidance to appropriate resources (knowledge documents and expert lists for further exploration of any identified risks). The tool is intended for project team members, both within the Bank and within client countries, who do not have specialized knowledge of climate change issues. Currently, the knowledge areas that the tool covers are: agriculture and irrigation in India and sub-Saharan Africa and, for all regions, various aspects of biodiversity and natural resources, including rural roads and coastal planning to follow.

Contacts:
Ian Noble (inoble@worldbank.org)
Ana Bucher (abucher@worldbank.org)

Click here to access the Climate Change Data Portal.
Click here to access the World Bank Climate Change website.