Tools

Adapting to climate change can seem daunting: UKCIP provide a range of tools, methods and guidance to help organisations identify how they might be affected by climate change and what they can do to minimise their risks or exploit the opportunities.

Below is a summary of UKCIP tools, methods and guidance – if you are new to climate change and unsure where to start, we suggest you begin by using the Adaptation Wizard.

Adaptation Wizard takes you through a process to determine your vulnerability to climate change, identify your key climate risks, and develop a climate change adaptation strategy. It is also a guide to all of UKCIP’s information, tools and resources.

AdaptME toolkit provides tools to help you evaluate your current adaptation activities.

AdOpt is guidance that explores the nature of adaptation in the context of climate risk.

BACLIAT (Business Areas Climate Impacts Assessment Tool) helps users explore the implications of climate change for their business or sector.

CLARA (Climate Adaptation Resource for Advisors) is aimed at helping business advisors to support small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in understanding and preparing for the impacts of climate change.

Costing the impacts of climate change is a methodology for calculating the costs of climate impacts and how to compare these to the costs of adaptation measures.

LCLIP (Local Climate Impacts Profile) is a resource that local authorities can compile so that they better understand their exposure to weather and climate.

Risk framework is a step-by-step decision-making framework to help you judge the significance of your climate change risk compared to the other risks you face, so you can work out what adaptation measures are most appropriate.

SES (Socio-economic scenarios) help explore what future worlds might look like and to consider how our vulnerability to climate change and adaptation responses might vary with different future worlds.

UKCP09 offers background and key findings for the latest future climate change information, UK Climate Projections. Headline messages from the previous climate change scenarios are also available.