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The launch of the Green Book at CSIR, Pretoria

​The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) launched a state-of-the-art online climate change risk profiling and adaptation tool to assist municipalities across South Africa to assess climate risks and growth pressures, and implement adaptation actions towards the development of climate resilient human settlements. Co-funded by the Canadian International Development Research Centre and the CSIR, the Green Book is the result of a three-year initiative with the National Disaster Management Centre (NDMC) and a number of stakeholders and reviewers.

The Green Book is structured into three main components:

• The first component is a series of interactive national story maps. The user is able to browse through these story maps to learn more about the research methodology, findings and recommendations, as well as to access the technical reports and interactive datasets.
• The second component is the municipal Risk Profile Tool; an interactive tool that grounds the adaptation process in scientific evidence of the risks each local municipality in South Africa is likely to face under a changing climate by 2050. The Risk Profile Tool provides temporally dynamic risk profiles for each municipality and its settlements in South Africa. These profiles provide information on vulnerabilities; population projections; exposure to climate hazards; and the impacts of climate change on some of South Africa's municipality's key resources.

• The third component is the municipal Adaptation Actions Tool; an interactive platform to support adaptation planning in local municipalities. The Adaptation Actions Tool provides a range of planning and design actions for municipalities to consider, to adapt their settlements and environments to the likely impacts of climate change, to climate proof their settlements, and to reduce their exposure and vulnerability to hazards, and thus the risk for disaster.
  

      GREEN BOOK​