NF EN ISO 14091
Adaptation to climate change - Guidelines on vulnerability, impacts and risk assessment
This document gives guidelines for assessing the risks related to the potential impacts of climate change. It describes how to understand vulnerability and how to develop and implement a sound risk assessment in the context of climate change. It can be used for assessing both present and future climate change risks.Risk assessment according to this document provides a basis for climate change adaptation planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation for any organization, regardless of size, type and nature.
This document gives guidelines for assessing the risks related to the potential impacts of climate change. It describes how to understand vulnerability and how to develop and implement a sound risk assessment in the context of climate change. It can be used for assessing both present and future climate change risks.
Risk assessment according to this document provides a basis for climate change adaptation planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation for any organization, regardless of size, type and nature.
- Avant-propos
-
1 Domaine d'application
-
2 Références normatives
-
3 Termes et définitions
-
4 Introduction à l'évaluation des risques liés au changement climatique
-
5 Préparation d'une évaluation des risques liés au changement climatique
-
6 Mise en oeuvre d'une évaluation des risques liés au changement climatique
-
7 Rapport et communication des résultats de l'évaluation des risques liés au changement climatique
- Annexe A (informative) Lien entre les concepts de vulnérabilité et de management des risques - Modification du cadre conceptuel entre le 4e Rapport (AR4) et le 5e Rapport (AR5) du GIEC
- Annexe B (informative) Évaluation des risques et incertitude - Scénarios climatiques et non climatiques
- Annexe C (informative) Exemples de chaînes d'impact et conseils et avertissements sur le développement de chaînes d'impact
- Annexe D (informative) Exemple de matrice d'évaluation préalable
- Annexe E (informative) Exemples d'indicateurs d'évaluation des risques et d'évaluation de la vulnérabilité
- Annexe F (informative) Agrégation des indicateurs et des composantes de risque
- Annexe G (informative) Composantes de la capacité d'adaptation
- Annexe H (informative) Évaluation de la capacité d'adaptation
- Bibliographie
The Requirements department helps you quickly locate within the normative text:
- mandatory clauses to satisfy,
- non-essential but useful clauses to know, such as permissions and recommendations.
The identification of these types of clauses is based on the document “ISO / IEC Directives, Part 2 - Principles and rules of structure and drafting of ISO documents ”as well as on a constantly enriched list of verbal forms.
With Requirements, quickly access the main part of the normative text!

- With a single click, add a new language, the Requirements or Redline+ service and add one or more additional users.
- Whether you are in the process of acquiring a standard or it is already available in your personal space, the UPSELL service is available at every stage to help you understand it and implement it within your organization.
COBAZ is the simple and effective solution to meet the normative needs related to your activity, in France and abroad.
Available by subscription, CObaz is THE modular solution to compose according to your needs today and tomorrow. Quickly discover CObaz!
Request your free, no-obligation live demo
I discover COBAZ