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  • 1
    ISSN: 1763-0061
    Language: French
    Titel der Quelle: Tracés
    Publ. der Quelle: Lyon, 2014
    Angaben zur Quelle: 2014, Issue 27, pp. 57-72
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  • 2
    Language: English
    Pages: 56 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: OECD Environment Working Papers no.39
    Keywords: Environment
    Abstract: There is growing international interest in the planning, financing and implementation of adaptation to climate change. However, the discussion to date has primarily focused on the public sector’s role, with the private sector viewed primarily as a source of funding or financing. Relatively little attention has been paid to how the private sector is responding to the risks and opportunities from climate change. In this context, this analysis aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of private sector’s role. This paper examines the private sector’s progress in adapting to climate change by considering information from sixteen case studies, drawn from a range of industries across the private sector. This is complemented by a high-level analysis of broader private sector adaptation based on responses to the 2009 Carbon Disclosure Project questionnaire. The case studies provide insight into companies’ awareness of potential climate risks and vulnerabilities, their progress in assessing specific impacts on their businesses and possible ways to respond to them, and their implementation of adaptation measures and strategies to manage these risks. The analysis also examines how companies are taking advantage of new business opportunities arising from climate change. The paper explores companies’ motivations for implementing adaptation measures, and establishes common factors which can affect companies’ capacities to adapt, their incentives for action, and their perspectives on the need to adapt. The analysis considers how these factors can both encourage and impede adaptation, and assesses potential public sector roles for eliminating barriers to action, encouraging engagement and incentivising private sector investment in adaptation.
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  • 3
    Language: English
    Pages: 38 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: OECD Environment Working Papers no.24
    Keywords: Environment
    Abstract: National governments and development agencies have invested considerable effort in recent years to develop methodologies and tools to screen their projects for the risks posed by climate change. However, these tools have largely been developed by the climate change community and their application within actual project settings remains quite limited. An alternate and complementary approach would be to examine the feasibility of incorporating consideration of climate change impacts and adaptation within existing modalities for project design, approval, and implementation. Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) are particularly relevant in this context.
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  • 4
    Language: French
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (58 p.) , 21 x 29.7cm.
    Parallel Title: Parallele Sprachausgabe Private Sector Engagement in Adaptation to Climate Change: Approaches to Managing Climate Risks
    Keywords: Environment
    Abstract: La planification, le financement et la mise en oeuvre des mesures d’adaptation au changement climatique suscitent de par le monde un intérêt croissant. Jusqu’à présent, c’est surtout le rôle du secteur public qui a focalisé l’attention, le secteur privé étant principalement envisagé en tant que source de financement et d’investissements. En revanche, il a été assez peu question de la réaction du secteur privé aux risques et aux débouchés du changement climatique. La présente analyse vise donc à mieux comprendre le rôle du secteur privé. Dans ce document, on analysera les progrès accomplis par le secteur privé sur le front de l’adaptation au changement climatique, à partir d’éléments issus de seize études de cas relevant de différentes branches d’activité. Ce travail sera complété par une analyse générale des mesures d’adaptation à l’échelle de l’ensemble du secteur privé, à partir des réponses au questionnaire du Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) de 2009. Les études de cas contiennent des éléments sur le niveau de sensibilisation des entreprises aux risques et aux points de vulnérabilité potentiels au changement climatique, sur les progrès qu’elles ont pu accomplir dans l’évaluation des incidences spécifiques à leur activité du changement climatique et des réponses possibles, et sur les mesures et les stratégies d’adaptation qu’elles ont mises en oeuvre pour maîtriser ces risques. On examinera également dans quelle mesure les entreprises tirent parti des nouveaux débouchés amenés par le changement climatique. Ce travail met en lumière les facteurs qui peuvent motiver les entreprises à prendre des mesures d’adaptation et définit les éléments communs susceptibles d’influer sur la capacité des entreprises à agir pour l’adaptation, sur leurs motivations à agir et leur perception de la nécessité de l’adaptation. On cherchera à comprendre comment ces facteurs peuvent favoriser ou freiner l’adaptation, et on évaluera les rôles que peuvent jouer les pouvoirs publics pour éliminer les obstacles à l’action, pour encourager l’engagement du secteur privé et l’inciter à investir pour l’adaptation.
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  • 5
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Energy Sector Management Assistance Program Papers
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Abstract: Over the past twenty years, natural disasters have become more frequent, and the costs of associated damages and losses are rising. In 2012 alone, the 357 natural disasters recorded worldwide resulted in 9,655 fatalities, 125 million victims, and 157 billion US dollars in associated damages and losses. Far-flung power infrastructure from upstream generation plants and transmission lines to downstream distribution networks and operational systems is particularly vulnerable to weather and geological events. Building a resilient power sector is likely to be particularly challenging in countries where the power supply system is weak or aging, which is the case in many developing countries. The World Bank Group's Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), in collaboration with Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction, undertook this study to: (i) raise awareness and enhance understanding about managing extreme weather and geological risks among power sector stakeholders and (ii) enhance their capacity to take adaptive actions to mitigate these risks and cope with the impacts when disasters happen. The study catalogs the risks faced by the power sector as a result of weather and geological hazards; identifies and documents a range of emerging resilience standards; covers the entire power-system value chain; and focuses on the present-day concerns of vulnerable power utilities
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