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Confidential mining client. Climate change risk management workshop sessions (2008)
Acclimatise developed and delivered a series of interactive workshop sessions at the client’s first annual Environmental Summit in Canada. These sessions provided participants with an understanding of how changing climate risks could affect the company’s ability to deliver on its environmental, social, operational and financial objectives. The workshops presented:
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Broad context-setting to look at the business consequences of climate change for issues such as brand, reputation, litigation, credit risk, regulatory non-compliance and financial performance;
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A look at associated industries and how they are assessing and managing climate risks;
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A brief overview of projected climate changes where the company operates;
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Case studies looking at individual facilities and locations in detail. Through these case studies, participants assessed the implications of climate change across a business, looking at raw materials, supply chains and logistics, asset design and performance, manufacturing processes, operations and maintenance regimes, markets, customers, workforce, local communities and local environments.
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Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre and CARICOM. Development of an Implementation Plan for the Regional Framework for Achieving Development Resilient to Climate Change (2010 – ongoing)
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member states are working towards the successful deployment of the ‘Regional Framework for Achieving Development Resilient to Climate Change’, that was approved by the Heads of Government in 2009. The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) has been asked by CARICOM to develop the Implementation Plan for the framework. With the help of funding from the Climate Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) and DFID Caribbean, the CCCCC has enlisted the services of Acclimatise to help construct an effective Implementation Plan. The Plan will detail how the regional framework is to be implemented across different sectors. It is focussed on delivering transformational change to build resilience to the adverse affects of climate change on the most at risk sectors: energy, agriculture, fisheries and food security, water resources, tourism, coastal and marine resources and human health; and to create low carbon economies. The plan emphasises the need for partnership building between governments, regional organisations, the private sector, civil society, international donors and IFIs to ensure that transformational change can be achieved. The Implementation Plan is due to be finalised and presented to the Heads of Government of each of the 15 CARICOM member states in July 2011.
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International Finance Corporation (IFC). Climate change risk assessment and management for Muelles El Bosque, Colombia (2009 – 2010)
Acclimatise, in conjunction with IFC, WorleyParsons, Synergy and the Oxford University Environmental Change Institute, conducted a climate risk and adaptation assessment for an IFC investment in a port facility, Muelles El Bosque (MEB) in Cartagena, Colombia. The study also analysed climate risks and existing adaptation options for ports in general, providing a guide to climate-resilient investments for the port industry. Particular climate hazards assessed for MEB included those relating to sea level rise and other oceanographic changes, higher temperatures, changes in rainfall, changes in wind speed and wind patterns, and extreme climatic conditions (such as tropical cyclones). The study modelled the direct impacts of climate change on the port facility itself (covering flood risk, drainage, equipment efficiency), as well as assessing impacts on the wider transport network (roads and inland waterways), along with demand patterns for goods entering and leaving the port, and climate change impacts on the port’s environmental and social performance. The final report provided the port operator with a robust analysis of climate-related risks, as well as an assessment of the most financially and economically viable adaptation measures to reduce climate vulnerability and exploit business opportunities together with trigger dates for their implementation. At the launch of this study in April 2011, Gabriel Echavarría, President of MEB, announced a USD10m investment in the facilities at MEB to protect the port against future flood risk.
The IFC ‘Climate Risk and Business: Ports’ report is available to download here
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Defra. UK Climate Change Risk Assessment (UK CCRA) (2010 – ongoing)
As part of the Climate Change Act, the UK Government is committed to carry out an assessment of the risks to the UK of climate change every five years. In recognition of our expertise in assessing the risks of climate change across a range of business and industrial sectors, Acclimatise was asked to become ‘Sector Champions’, leading the assessment of the current and projected climate change risks and opportunities for the UK’s Business, Industry and Services Sector for the CCRA. The project involves Acclimatise drawing on existing literature and, in consultation with a number of key stakeholders, rating the risks and opportunities presented by the effects of climate change. Our assessment addressed the following sub-sectors, as illustrative examples to highlight the range of climate-related issues and challenges the sector as a whole faces: financial services; tourism; food and beverage manufacturing; primary extractives (oil, gas and mining); and chemical manufacturing. The findings of this work have informed the national risk assessment, which will be published in January 2012, and will help to inform Government policy on climate change adaptation for the business, industry and services sector. This is the largest and most detailed risk assessment of its type in the world, and is being monitored carefully by other countries in the EU and further afield.
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World Bank. Adapting vulnerable energy infrastructure to climate change, Albania and Uzbekistan (2009 – 2010)
Acclimatise, working with the engineering company WorleyParsons, and experts in Albania and Uzbekistan, has worked with the World Bank to deliver climate vulnerability and adaptation assessments for the energy sector in Albania and Uzbekistan. It is intended that the assessments will help the governments of Albania and Uzbekistan to integrate climate risks and adaptation into energy sector policy-making and planning. The work in Uzbekistan is still underway, as the final report has not yet been agreed by the Government of Uzbekistan. Along with desk-based research, analysis and modelling, the project involved working in partnership with energy sector stakeholders from Government ministries and agencies, utilities and corporations, private companies, expert consultants, university academics and NGOs, as well as energy sector experts from the World Bank and other international organisations. This was achieved through facilitated workshops and meetings in-country. Based on this experience, Acclimatise developed an operational toolkit, ‘HEAT’ (Hands-on Energy Adaptation Toolkit) demonstrating how the assessment process can be applied in other countries. The approach used and results are being disseminated by the World Bank in the Europe and Central Asia (ESA) region and worldwide.
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BG Group. Climate risk screening and development of a climate risk management process (2008 – 2009)
BG Group commissioned Acclimatise to identify some of the potential changes in climate for the global locations of BG Group current and future assets and provide support in designing and implementing its Climate Risk Management Framework. BG Group introduced the Climate Risk Management Framework in 2009.
The first stage of the project involved a study of how climatic conditions might change for the locations of BG Group current and future assets. This portfolio analysis was complemented by a case study of the climate change risk exposures of one of BG Group’s assets, its Karachaganak joint-venture in Kazakhstan.
The second stage of our work centred on the development of a Climate Risk Management Framework aimed to support BG Group staff in managing climate change risks to existing assets and new projects and delivering on the requirements of BG Group ‘Environmental Expectations Standard’. It was developed as a step-by-step process, compatible with BG Group internal risk management processes, to guide the nominated lead of an asset or project in identifying:
- Key climate change risks,
- Control and management actions following a cost-benefit analysis, and
- Implementation plans.
The approach followed was collaborative and engaged the different future categories of users of the framework in achieving a ‘hands-on’ process, which was aligned with the company’s internal existing standards and processes.
BG Group has adopted internal mandatory requirements governing climate change adaptation, which set out how risks to operations from foreseeable changes in the climate should be assessed to deliver against the company’s operational and environmental standards. These new requirements are being implemented through the Climate Risk Management Framework.
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