The Technical Guidance on Comprehensive Risk Assessment and Planning in the Context of Climate
Change provides orientation on how risks in the context of climate change can be comprehensively
and systemically addressed through risk assessment. Decision-making, planning, and integrating
disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) perspectives and approaches while
simultaneously linking to other goals and targets (e.g. the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)) are
also discussed. The guidance deepens understanding and supports implementation of comprehensive
risk management laid out by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
with a 2019 conceptual brochure, Comprehensive Climate Risk Management, and in line with the
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Global Assessment Report on Disaster
Risk Reduction 2019.
The guidance targets experts, decision makers, stakeholders and practitioners operating in the
fields of DRR and CCA. It provides a framework and inspiration on how to apply comprehensive risk
assessment and planning. The use and application of this guidance can be made context specific and
customized, based on country reali
