Portfolio screening to support the mainstreaming of adaptation to climate change into development assistance
Portfolio screening to support the mainstreaming of adaptation to climate change into development assistance
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支持将适应气候变化纳入发展援助主流的项目组合筛选
DOI：
10.1007/s10584-007-9268-x
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发表时间：
2007
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4.8
通讯作者：
K. O’Brien
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作者：
Richard J. T. Klein;S. Eriksen;L. Næss;A. Hammill;T. Tanner;C. Robledo;K. O’Brien
越来越多的人认识到，有必要将适应气候变化纳入发展规划和正在进行的部门决策，一些双边和多边发展机构也开始对此感兴趣。在过去几年中，至少有六个发展机构筛选了它们的项目组合，通常有两个目标：(1)确定现有发展项目已经在多大程度上考虑了气候风险或解决了对气候变率和变化的脆弱性；(2)确定将气候变化明确纳入未来项目的机会。由于每次投资组合筛选都是独立进行的，因此尚未对筛选产生的更广泛的经验教训进行系统分析。在本文中，我们评估了迄今为止的筛选活动，重点是结果和应用的方法。根据这一评估，我们确定了发展机构扩大其目前对气候与发展之间联系的关注的机会。大多数机构已经将气候变化视为对未来发展的真实但不确定的威胁，但它们较少考虑不同的发展模式可能如何影响对气候变化的脆弱性。所进行的审查表明，有必要对适应采取综合办法，并将其纳入发展规划和部门决策，并已采取若干政策倡议来促进这种结合。我们就如何进行投资组合筛选提供了一些初步指导，以使各机构能够系统地评估气候变化与其正在进行和计划中的发展项目的相关性。
The need to mainstream adaptation to climate change into development planning and ongoing sectoral decision-making is increasingly recognised, and several bilateral and multilateral development agencies are starting to take an interest. Over the past years at least six development agencies have screened their project portfolios, generally with two goals in mind: (1) to ascertain the extent to which existing development projects already consider climate risks or address vulnerability to climate variability and change, and (2) to identify opportunities for incorporating climate change explicitly into future projects. As each portfolio screening was conducted independently, the broader lessons emerging from the screenings have not been systematically analysed. In this paper we assess the screening activities to date, focusing on both the results and the methods applied. Based on this assessment we identify opportunities for development agencies to expand their current focus on the links between climate and development. Most agencies already consider climate change as a real but uncertain threat to future development, but they have given less thought to how different development patterns might affect vulnerability to climate change. The screenings undertaken have shown the need to take a comprehensive approach to adaptation and its integration into development planning and sectoral decision-making, and a number of policy initiatives have been taken to promote such integration. We provide some initial guidance as to how portfolio screening can be carried out in a way that would allow agencies to assess systematically the relevance of climate change to their ongoing and planned development projects.