-: My name is Chris Prane.
I'm currently the chief of party
for a US agency for international development
funded project that works on climate change adaptation.
And we work globally
basically to do climate risk analysis
in various economic growth and social development sectors.
So we'll look at like a particular geographic area
in say Mozambique,
and we'll try and determine whether for example
certain agricultural value chains,
particular crops are viable
in a changing climate going forward.
That sort of thing.
We also do similar work in the health sector
looking at the impacts of climate on biodiversity,
you name it.
Mostly we rely on secondary data.
These are data from national meteorological services
in various countries
which give you, usually daily rainfall and temperature data.
So that gives you a pretty good historical perspective
and in most countries,
even in developing countries,
which is mostly where I work.
So what we normally will do, we'll conduct an assessment
that typically is known
either as a climate vulnerability assessment,
or a climate risk assessment.
The terms tend to be used somewhat interchangeably,
although a vulnerability assessment tends to be
a bit more robust.
And then from those assessments
where we might come up with findings
of things like more intense rainfall
at more intense and more infrequent rainfall events.
More intense and more frequent droughts.
You know, various types of impacts that are projected.
We'll come up with what are called adaptation options
to address those impacts.
So we like to provide not an out of the box solution,
but a set of options that the stakeholders,
whether that's a foreign government
or even private sector companies and things
can look at those options and see what makes sense for them.