Cluster group on Water and DRR: Nexus of climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction

The case of Sudan and South Sudan and the potential to apply Climatools

Climatools are tools to aid Swedish municipalities in their climate adaptation efforts. It is a joint collaboration between Umeå University, KTH, Konjunkturinstitutet, and FOI. Most of the tools are of general character and used to identify climate change impacts on society and to evaluate advantages and disadvantages of different adaptions measures. But there are also tools for assessing the impacts of extreme rainfall on the drinking water quality and for assessing the impacts of heat waves on human health. All tools have been tested in municipalities in Sweden. FOI is thinking that these tools may be useful also for implementation in low and middle income countries. For this purpose they have applied for funds from Sida Vietnam to test their application.

The tools are built on the process where:

• Facts and uncertainties about predicted climate changes are collected
• Facts about society are collected, where are the vulnerabilities?
• Predicted changes for society is forecasted, how will it change?
• What can we do to reduce vulnerability?