Comprehensive Climate Impact Quantification (C-CIQ): An approach to co-developing policy and programmatic responses for climate risk management

Document from the International Institute for Environment and Development, highlights how across the world, climate impacts such as extreme heat and floods are destroying lives, livestock and property. Loss and damage (L&D) occurs when the capacities of affected communities and countries are compromised to the extent that they can no longer absorb the effects of climate impacts or adapt to climate risks. Climate-related L&D has consequences beyond the economic; these impacts are often referred to as non-economic loss and damage, such as the loss of cultural heritage.

The document states that we need to urgently develop new ways to manage L&D risks, and to do this we need to understand and measure the full range of L&D. But current methodologies for understanding and measuring climate-related L&D have significant gaps. This toolkit offers a comprehensive step-by-step guide to quantifying and valuing economic and non-economic L&D, and co-developing policy and programmatic responses to manage climate risks. The institute points out that they have sought to demystify complex analytical methods and make them straightforward, easy to understand and versatile enough to be applied in diverse geographic and social contexts.