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
  1. What are the objectives for the country’s energy sector?
  2. 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
  1. 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
  2. Confirm roles, deliverables and timetable within the assignment team.
  3. 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