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PIEVC High Level Screening Guide

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Effective March 30, 2020, ownership and control of the PIEVC Program has been transferred to a partnership consisting of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR), the Climate Risk Institute (CRI) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. Please direct all inquiries regarding the PIEVC Protocol and associated programs to pievc@iclr.org.

  • The Protocol
    • Overview
    • Assessments
    • How to access the PIEVC Protocol
  • About PIEVC
    • Overview
    • Partner Organizations
  • First National Engineering Assessment Report
  • PIEVC Report Analysis Utility
  • FAQ
    • Overview
    • Glossary
  • PIEVC High Level Screening Guide
  • Key Terms
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
    • Climate Risk Assessments of Infrastructure
    • Applications of the PIEVC HLSG Process
    • The PIEVC Program
    • The PIEVC Process
    • The PIEVC High Level Screening Guide
    • Assessment Team
    • Standard of Practice, Limitations and Professional Judgement
    • Limitations, Documentation and Reporting
    • Single Asset and Portfolio Assessments
    • Examples of Portfolios
  • PIEVC HLSG Application Map
    • PIEVC HLSG Pathways
  • Step 1 – Scope
    • Objectives
    • Scope
    • Portfolio Assessment Asset Selection
    • Example Work Plan
  • Step 2a – Data – Elements
    • Elements
    • Phases of Project and Life Cycle
    • Knowledge of the Elements Under Assessment
  • Step 2b – Data – Climate
    • Identify Climate Parameters, Hazards, Indicators and Likelihoods
    • Timescale of the Assessment
    • Developing Climate Parameters, Hazards and Indicators
    • Source Specific Climate Data and Projections
    • Establish Climate Parameters and Likelihood Scores
  • Step 3 – Assess
    • Risk Assessment using a Risk Assessment Worksheet
    • Exposure Analysis, Assess Consequence, and Develop Risk Score
    • Summarize the Risks
  • Step 4 – Report
    • Evaluate and Assess the Risk
    • Portfolio Considerations in Analyzing Risks
    • Develop Recommendations
    • Prepare Reports
    • Bibliography / References
  • Adapt
  • Appendix
    • Glossary
    • Example Projects
    • Supporting Documents

PIEVC High Level Screening Guide

The PIEVC HLSG process is an approach for undertaking vulnerability, risk, and resilience assessments. It is flexible enough to be applied to full assets or systems, to a single element of infrastructure, or to an entire portfolio of numerous assets. PIEVC HLSG assessments result in the characterization and ranking of climate risk scenarios and the identification of those scenarios of highest priority for adaptation planning or more comprehensive analysis.

The PIEVC HLSG is designed to help provide a high-level assessment of the potential risks posed by climate change to infrastructure and related elements. Generally, the distinction between the PIEVC HLSG and the full PIEVC Protocol is the level of detail pursued at each step. The PIEVC HLSG process is written such that information can be obtained from readily available sources and based on a high degree of professional and engineering judgement. If more detail, scrutiny, or engineering judgement is required, you may choose to instead use the PIEVC Protocol. See the subsection in the PIEVC HLSG entitled “The PIEVC High Level Screening Guide” for more detail.

For a PDF copy of the PIEVC HLSG, or to submit any comments on the PIEVC HLSG, please contact pievc@iclr.org.