Designing Climate Vulnerability Assessments

This document can be used as a guide and provides examples on methods for CVAs that effectively address specific goals and development challenges. The first section provides an overview of typical CVA objectives and summarizes relevant vulnerability assessment methods to orient the reader to the elements of a CVA. The second section provides a decision tree to guide users through typical CVA questions and objectives, and then tailored information on approaches, inputs, user considerations and additional resources. It also examines two examples of previously conducted CVAs to highlight the methods, inputs and outputs of real-world vulnerability assessments.