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Formulate a climate change policy, strategy, and action plan, and then mainstream that policy into development plans, projects and programs. It can be di cult to get beyond policy statements to real action for adaptation to climate change and mitigation of its e ects.
Using nancing from ADB’s Technical Assistance Special Fund, the team behind this innovation developed a climate and disaster risk resilience decision support system, an interactive web-based tool to automate preparing climate change assessment reports for projects. The tool uses project- and location-speci c information, and generated hazards, exposure, vulnerabilities, risk, and impact maps to produce an initial climate change assessment report. So far, the system has been populated with data from Bangladesh, Maldives, and
Sri Lanka.
Find out more: Regional: Sustaining Climate and Disaster Risk Resilient and Low Carbon Development in South Asia
“The system is based on a remote sensing geographical information system and has sector-speci c indicators to identify a project’s exposures and sensitivities to the changing climate. To address signi cant risks, the system then suggests management actions, which project o cers may incorporate into project design, as appropriate.”
Liping Zheng
Advisor, South Asia Regional Department
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