Climate Risk and Resilience Assessments (CRRA)

A CRRA should be completed together with the project team, design team, climate risk experts, and key interested parties like infrastructure users, managers, or operators. Typically, the CRRA process can take three to five months to complete. Some key parts of the process include:

• A qualified and experienced consultant provides engineering and climate expertise. 
• Workshops look into past and future climate hazards for the site or project, the effects of these hazards, and ways to reduce current and future risks. This will require input from operations and maintenance staff who know the site, project type, and/or can speak to historical events. 
• A final report summarizes the results. It details the priority of adaptation recommendations and the cost-benefit of implementing these measures.
• An implementation plan for addressing the adaptation measures in the planning, design, and/or operations of the infrastructure or facility.

Climate Risk Screening Assessments (CRSA)

A CRSA is less time-intensive than a CRRA. It can take one to four weeks to complete. 

A CRSA is used in late stage planning or early design when there is more understanding of the project form, function, and occupancy. It requires less involvement from the project team, and is a streamlined process to assess and manage climate risk to City assets. The CRSA provides a short summary report of climate hazard risks and recommended resilience and adaptation measures.

The assessment is utilized by the project team to: 

• assess risk
• identify resilience and adaptation measures
• prioritize actions for implementation