Module 3: Planning
Welcome to Module 3, Planning. In this Module you’ll have an opportunity to integrate climate change implications with standard project management planning considerations. You’ll also start applying them in a case study situation.
This Module will help you:
- Develop awareness of how climate change affects project management in all stages
- Focus on what you can do in the planning stage to address climate change
- Find tools, frameworks or approaches to help you add a climate change lens to your planning
Readings & Resources
Required for Module 3.1 activities – also included in course content
The Four Phases of Project Management, Harvard Business Review staff (2016).
Guidelines for Project Managers: Making vulnerable investments climate resilient, Report for the European Commission (2012), Acclimatise and COWI, https://web.law.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/microsites/climate-change/ec_guidelines_for_project_managers.pdf
Climate Compass – A climate risk management framework for Commonwealth agencies (2018), CSIRO, Australia, https://www.environment.gov.au/climate-change/adaptation/publications/climate-compass-climate-risk-management-framework
Summary of ISO 14090 Principles – Summary assembled by course developer from ISO 14090:2019 Adaptation to climate change — Principles, requirements and guidelines https://www.iso.org/standard/68507.html (link removed to comply with copyright).
Required for Module 3.2 Activities
ReTooling for climate change site to familiarize yourself with some available tools https://www.retooling.ca/retooling_essentials.html
European Climate Adaptation Platform Climate-ADAPT https://climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu/knowledge/tools/uncertainty-guidance/topic3
Required for all modules
Other readings and resources that may be helpful for Module 3.3 tools swap meet
Climate Lens – General Guidance, Infrastructure Canada, https://www.infrastructure.gc.ca/pub/other-autre/cl-occ-eng.html#1.1
Strategic Assessment of Climate Change, Environment and Climate Change Canada, July 2020 https://www.strategicassessmentclimatechange.ca/
Climate Data Canada portal, https://climatedata.ca/
Data portal, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC), University of Victoria https://pacificclimate.org/data
Plan2Adapt, a PCIC tool https://pacificclimate.org/analysis-tools/plan2adapt
PIEVC Engineering Protocol, Public Infrastructure Engineering Vulnerability Committee https://pievc.ca/
Study of the Impacts of Climate Change on Precipitation and Stormwater Management, Metro Vancouver http://www.metrovancouver.org/services/liquid-waste/LiquidWastePublications/Climatechangeimpactsprecipitationstormwater2050-2100%E2%80%93Technical-brief-2018.pdf
Adapting to Climate Change Canada’s First National Engineering Vulnerability Assessment of Public Infrastructure (2008), Canadian Council of Professional Engineers, https://pievc.ca/sites/default/files/adapting_to_climate_change_report_final.pdf
ISO 14090:2019 Adaptation to climate change — Princip