Presentation for breakout groups - Fifth meeting of the Task Force on Climate Change Adaptation - Catherine Gamper

1. PWB 2023-24 CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION
& RESILIENCE
PROPOSED DETAILED ORIENTATIONS FOR BREAK OUT GROUP DISCUSSIONS
Catherine Gamper
Team Lead, Climate Change Adaptation & Resilience
5th Meeting of the OECD Task Force on Climate Change Adaptation
29 November 2022

2. OECD work on climate change adaptation & resilience

3. 2023-24 PWB: Country guidance for future work on adaptation
Source: Delegations that were present
(to be completed)
Adaptation & Development
4% Urban Resilience
4%
Adaptation & Agriculture
4%
Food Security
8%
Human Health
8%
NbS
8%
Adaptation
Finance
12%
Transboundary Climate Risk
Mgt
12%
Extreme Events
20%
Measurement
20%
Suggested Adaptation Focus Areas of
work in PWB 2023-2024
(WPCID Feb 2022)
Notes: Responses based on 13 countries

4. Draft PWB Adaptation Items

5. Understanding impacts: Droughts & water scarcity
Understand Impacts of Climate
Change
Brings together evidence on social, economic
and environmental impacts of climate-related
hazards as a basis for policy action
2023-2024
Drought, water scarcity
Source: Rhine River, Germany (Summer 2022)

6. Adapting to a changing climate in the management of droughts
Droughts affect all parts of the world!
 Climate change will make droughts more frequent
and more intense (IPCC 6th assessment report)
 Droughts will…
 … accelerate land degradation, aquatic
ecosystem degradation;
 … increase water insecurity, inequalities,
displacements;
 … produce significant economic impacts
(agriculture, energy, tourism, freight
transportation, housing..);
Droughts are challenging to manage because…
 Difficult to predict;
 Affect all sectors;
 Different drought types require different policy
responses;

7. Adapting to a changing climate in the management of droughts
Objective of suggested OECD work 2023-2024: Support countries’ future drought resilience through:
 Stock-take exercise
 Establish state of play of drought risk under changing climatic conditions
 Overview of expected environmental, social and economic consequences of different types of
droughts
 Review existing policy responses
 Desk-based review and country-focused case studies
 Review drought risk awareness and capacities
 Evaluate whether existing policy responses are fit for future expected drought risks
 Develop practical policy guidelines and a policy toolkit for countries to strengthen future drought
resilience
 Work builds on existing work on water scarcity, NbS, agricultural resilience
 OECD will work closely with UNCCD

8. Setting adaptation objectives: alignment in a multi-level
governance context
Set Adaptation objectives
Supports the formulation of adaptation policy
objectives, setting appropriate targets and
standards
2023-2024
Enhancing alignment and effectiveness of adaptation in a
multi-level governance context

9. Adaptation policy alignment across levels of government
Key role of subnational governments for effective adaptation
 Climate risks are local context specific
 Local governments’ mandates influence the effectiveness
of adaptation (e.g. land use; enforcement of regulations,…)
 Cross sectoral policy agendas: ensure alignment of local
sectoral investments
National governments have an important role to play to
 Create an enabling environment for subnational
governments’ adaptation actions
 Ensure alignment of local adaptation actions with national
adaptation plan and objectives
Foster participatory approaches to incorporate local
knowledge and build local capacity thanks to
national guidance
Multi level governance along the adaptation cycle
Mainstream climate adaptation through policy
integration
Delineate roles and responsibilities to foster
accountability and address competing interests
Set a national measurement framework
Climate-risk assessment
Implementation
Monitoring and evaluation
Planning
Source: Enabling effective local adaptation (OECD, forthcoming)

10. Adaptation policy alignment across levels of government
Ongoing OECD work on multi-level governance:
 A Territorial Approach to Climate Action and Resilience (TACAR):
 Support cities, regions and countries in their efforts to drive the zero-carbon transition and build systemic
resilience across levels of governments;
 “Adaptation Dialogue”: How can the national adaptation planning process serve to align strategic priorities across
levels of government and sectors?
Objective of suggested OECD work 2023-2024: Multi-level governance for adaptation:
 Strengthening existing multi-level governance arrangements
 Review countries’ enabling environments for effective local adaptation (including adaptation funding
arrangements)
 Conduct country-focused case studies/dialogues (e.g. Japan)
 Organise peer learning events

11. Identifying priority adaptation measures: climate resilient
infrastructure and Nature-based Solutions
Priority measures:
Develops policy guidelines and provides
country support in the implementation
of adaptation measures
2023-204
“Adaptation Measures: climate-resilient
infrastructure and Nature-based Solutions
(continued)”

12. Climate-resilient infrastructure and Nature-based Solutions
Infrastructures are
increasingly
exposed to climate
risks
Impacts on assets and
operations are
projected to increase
Infrastructure damage
and disruption has
trickle-down effects
Resilient
infrastructure
contributes to
climate resilience
Ensure critical services
in times of emergency
Protective
infrastructure (e.g.
dykes, seawalls…)
Nature-based Solutions
- Can help build infrastructure
resilience (e.g. fuel breaks,
permeable surfaces,..)
- Can build broader resilience of
communities, ecosystems and
economies (e.g. mangrove forest
restoration; e.g. urban parks and
green roofs)

13. Climate-resilient infrastructure and Nature-based Solutions
Ongoing OECD work on climate-resilient infrastructure and NbS:
 Policy Dialogues Hungary (2021-22) and Italy (2022-23)
 Mainstreaming Climate Resilient Infrastructure as part of the Sustainable Infrastructure Programme (2021-2025)
(Philippines, Indonesia, Mongolia)
Further work in 2023-2024 subject to additional funding (and hence country interest):
• Understand effectiveness of different types of infrastructure resilience measures, including NbS
• Address the gap in promoting and mainstreaming resilience measures across different (sectoral) stakeholder groups
• Enhance understanding of progress and outcomes

14. Policy design and funding architecture: Adaptation finance
Priority measures:
Shifting broader financial flows and
investment towards climate-resilience
2023-2024:
“Adaptation Finance”
- Measure adaptation-aligned
finance
- Development of guidance on
adaptation-aligned finance

15. Track impacts and evaluate results: adaptation measurement
Priority measures:
Develops policy guidelines and provides
country support in the implementation
of adaptation measures
2023-2024:
“Adaptation Measurement”
- Measurable targets;
- Adaptation indicators;

16. Guiding questions for break-out group discussions
• What specific emphasis (or questions) would you like
to see covered in each area proposed of future work?
• How would you like to see members be involved in the
areas of work?
• What would be the ideal outcome of each area work at
the end of two years?

17. oecd.adaptation@oecd.org