The climate adaptation and energy access sectors risks, transformative adaptation reconfigures power are struggling to secure higher volumes of funding dynamics and relationships in a community to ensure a and finance to scale up projects and interventions. [...] experiencing the outcome, to what degree and for what duration; whether and how the product or service is The next step is to establish and test a framework contributing to the outcomes; and the likelihood that the for practitioners to integrate energy systems in their impact will differ from what was expected. [...] They can But there is a lack of engagement between civil society, also support, finance and reorganise their institutions local and national governments and other stakeholders, to support CRD in a way that integrates understanding which is needed to ensure decision making is of risk across sectors and institutions and, importantly, locally led and adds value to local contexts, and to shares that r. [...] Ultimately, the ability to use energy access to climate energy for adaptation outcomes hinges in large part on the agency of the user and their ability to operate and adaptation innovate within environmental limits. [...] complement (or actualise) the potential of productive A pivotal 2015 report found a lack of high‑quality use technologies? literature linking energy and climate, and that the There is need to understand the climate risks that chain linking energy access to climate adaptation positionality exposes people to and how contexts prevent and resilience outcomes is often limited or moderate or enable them.
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Table of Contents
- Table 1. Climate risk illustrative examples 19
- Table 2. How compounding characteristics of identity can increase vulnerability 20
- Table 3. Maladaptive pathways for a desalination plant 22
- Table 4. Transitioning to disruptive resilience 24
- Table 5. The pros and cons of universal adaptation metrics 29
- Table 6. Adaptive capacity advantages of microhydro facilities in Nepal, by category 32
- Table 8. General outputs or outcomes related to electricity and cooking access 37
- Table 9. The LLA principles and the energy sector 41
- Table 10. Screening questions to measure impacts on households and communities 47
- Figure 1. Share of population without access to electricity, by region 11
- Figure 2. Access to electricity in sub-Saharan Africa 11
- Figure 3. Projected global access to electrification by 2030, by technology type 12
- Figure 4. The relationship between uncertainty and weather and climate information 21
- Figure 5. Pathways to pursue climate resilience development 26
- Figure 6. A simplified realist synthesis model for people and outcomes 30
- Figure 7. The impact of energy measures on people’s capacity to build climate resilience, Bally Island, Indian Sundarbans 39
- Figure 8. The stages of evaluation 45
- Box 1. Climate justice: who should foot the bill? 13
- Box 2. Overview of off-grid electricity technologies 15
- Box 3. Measuring electricity and cooking 15
- Box 4. Clean or cleaner cooking? 16
- Box 5. Towards just climate-resilient development 27
- Box 6. Grid connectivity in the Indian Sundarbans: the complexities of energy access in heterogenous contexts 39
- Box 7. Participatory tools for exploring resilience 40
- Box 8. A sample resilience narrative from Tanzania 43
- Summary 6
- 1 Introduction 8
- 2 Understanding energy and energy access 11
- 2.1 Electricity access for most, but not yet all 11
- 2.2 Innovations and new opportunities for electricity 12
- 2.3 Cleaner cooking 14
- 2.4 Opportunities to link energy access to climate adaptation 17
- 3 Energy links to climate risk, vulnerability, uncertainty and maladaptation 18
- 3.1 Climate risk and energy 18
- 3.2 Climate vulnerability and energy 19
- 3.3 Climate uncertainty and energy 21
- 3.4 Maladaptation and energy 22
- 3.5 Transformative adaptation 23
- 3.6 Learning from adaptation and resilience practice 24
- 3.7 Resilience and uncertainty 25
- 3.8 Claiming climate‑resilient development 26
- 4 Measuring climate resilience and investment impact 28
- 4.1 Fitting technologies into changing contexts 30
- 4.2 Measuring energy and climate resilience 31
- 4.3 Towards an energy access-specific framework 36
- 5 Recommendations towards recoupling energy and climate 38
- 5.1 Use local knowledge to build locally valuable resilience services 38
- 5.2 Take a whole-of-society approach 41
- 5.3 Develop a resilience narrative 42
- 5.4 Take a strategic, iterative approach to assessing resilience 44
- 5.5 Recognise the barriers to climate-resilient development 46
- 5.6 Screen for maladaptation risk 46
- 6 Towards a framework for recoupling energy and climate 48
- References 49
