Stage 8.3 Monitor new scientific information on climate change & its impacts on the energy sector
Who's Involved
- Assignment Management Team
Timing and time required
- Following publication of major new international and national reports on climate change and its impacts
- Typically 1-2 days per major report
Key questions
- Has new information about climate change and its impacts emerged, requiring the assessment of climate risks and adaptation measures to be revisited?
Tools
- Risk Register
- Adaptation Strategy and Workplan for implementing adaptation measures
Guidance
- Reviews of climate-related risks and adaptation should be undertaken periodically, as knowledge about climate change, its impacts and adaptation is evolving rapidly.
- Where there was significant uncertainty, it may have been decided that no adaptation measures could be justified. However, new research may provide the stimulus for revisiting the decision.
- Typically, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) publishes its assessment reports every five years or so. National assessments of climate change (e.g. National Communications to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change or National Adaptation Programmes of Action) (NAPAs) are also published every few years.
Outputs
- Updated Risk Register, Adaptation Strategy and Workplan