Climate Proofing Investment in Agriculture

It is intended to guide project teams as they integrate climate change adaptation and risk management into each step of project processing, design, and implementation. The technical note encompasses lessons learned and good practices identified through several completed and ongoing ADB(Asian Development Bank) agriculture, rural development, and food security investment projects. We hope that it improves and simplifies the work of development professionals in their efforts to enhance the climate resilience of such investment projects. We welcome comments and feedback, which will improve subsequent versions of this note.

Few things to keep in mind is being suggested by ourbusinessconnect.com :

Climate.

Climate in a narrow sense is usually defined as the average weather, or more rigorously, as the statistical Description in terms of the mean and variability of relevant quantities over a period of time ranging from months to thousands or millions of years. The classical period for averaging these variables is 30 years, as defined by the World Meteorological Organization. The relevant quantities are most often surface variables such as temperature, precipitation, and wind. Climate in a wider sense is the state, including a statistical description, of the climate system.

Climate projection.

A climate projection is the simulated response of the climate system to a scenario of
emissions or concentration of greenhouse gases, generally based upon numerical simulations by climate models. Climate projections critically depend on the emissions scenarios used and therefore on highly uncertain assumptions of future socioeconomic and technological development.

Extreme weather event.

Event that is rare at a particular place and time of year. Definitions of “rare” vary, but
an extreme weather event would normally be as rare or rarer than the 10th or 90th percentile of the observed probability density function estimated from observations.