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World Bank Climate & Disaster Risk Screening Tool

The World Bank Climate & Disaster Risk Screening Tool is a structured screening tool guiding users through exposure–impact–adaptive capacity assessment to identify climate and disaster risks at early project stages.

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What you can do with it

Input

  • Work through a structured exposure-impact-adaptive capacity screening process
  • Cover heavy precipitation, flooding, coastal flooding/storm surge, sea-level rise, heat, drought, fire/wildfire, wind/storm, landslide, cold waves and snow/avalanche
  • Use historical, present and forward-looking observational, reanalysis, climate-model and socio-economic/exposure data

Output

  • Reports and decision-support outputs on climate and disaster risk

Use it to

  • Screen a project or location for climate and disaster risks at an early stage
  • Assess climate risks and vulnerabilities across almost any sector and hazard combination
  • Support project design decisions before detailed local risk analysis

Why is it relevant to climate adaptation

A globally applicable, multi-hazard screening framework usable across almost any sector and governance level, backed by case-study and expert/reputable-institution validation and full user support (guidance, helpdesk, tutorials, interactive assistance). It has no nature-based-solution, cost-benefit or just-resilience functionality, and its underlying data has no systematic update cycle.

Used in

  • Early-stage project screening for climate and disaster risk across agriculture, biodiversity, business and industry, energy, financial, forestry, health, ICT, transport, urban and water management
  • Applied globally at all governance levels, from European to subnational

Metadata

User Group
Commission services and/or AgenciesTransboundary networksNational authorities
Geographic coverage
Global
Spatial resolution

Local

Support of Adaptation Policy Cycle
Step 2: Assessing Climate Change Risks and Vulnerabilities
Adaptation sectors
AgricultureBiodiversityBusiness and industry
Climate hazards
Heavy precipitation / extreme rainfallFloodingCoastal flooding / storm surge
Type of outputs
Reports and decision support
Temporality of data
Historical/pastPresentForward-looking
Language
English
Accessibility and usability
Moderate
Data sources
Public datasets from external providersProject-generated or processed datasetsMixed sources
Tool validation use
Case-study validationExpert validation / reputable institutionUser testing / pilot testing

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