Stage 1.1: Define scope of the assignment
Who's Involved
- Assignment Management Team
Timing and time required
- Before ‘Climate risks & vulnerabilities’ workshop
- 5 – 10 days
Key questions
- What are the objectives for the country’s energy sector?
- How does this assignment contribute to making these objectives climate change-resilient?
Tools
- Information on climate change and its energy sector impacts available globally and for the region:
- reports on global and regional climate change Projections
- data from global and regional climate change projections
- data and reports on climate change and its impacts for the region
Guidance
- Agree on the boundaries for the assignment, by considering:
- Overall objectives for the country’s energy sector
- Objectives and scope of this assignment
- Energy activities covered by the assignment, e.g. fuel production; energy generation; transmission; distribution; energy demand; public and/or privately owned assets
- Geographical area concerned, e.g. country or sub-national scale
- Time horizons, e.g. 2020s, 2050s
- Confirm roles, deliverables and timetable within the assignment team.
- Undertake a literature review covering:
- International and national reports describing observed climate and hydrological data, and projected climatic changes;
- Country’s National Communications on Climate Change to the UNFCCC
- National energy strategy documents.
Outputs
- Briefing paper describing:
- overview of information on observed and projected climatic changes
- potential impacts of climate change on the country's energy sector
- glossary of key climate change terms
Albania
Uzbekistan