Closed odscjen closed 7 months ago
Theme E1: Climate Criterion E1.1. Climate Change Mitigation Mentions the following measures a project may take to reduce project related GHG emissions:
Criterion E1.2 Climate Change Adaptation Doesn't mention measures that can be taken, instead is very high level "The project shall conduct an assessment based on the best practicable available information and ensure that the project is designed and build to withstand the future climate conditions as identified by the IPCC."
ENVISION framework from the Institute for Sustainable Infrastsructure Section CR: Climate and Resilience lists credits implementers of the framework can get. From this I've extracted the following measures:
Section RA: Resource allocation
Suggestion for codes following codelist research
Codelist | Code | Title | Description |
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climateMeasures | embodiedEnergyReduction | Reduction of embodied energy | Measures that reduce the sum of energy required to produce, transport and repair or replace the materials used by the project. |
climateMeasures | embodiedEmissionReduction | Reduction of embodied emissions | Measures that reduce the sum of emissions generated by the production, transportation and replacements or repair of materials used by the project. |
climateMeasures | fugitiveEmissionReduction | Reduction of fugitive emissions | Measures that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollutants from intentional or unintentional releases, such as methane during transport of natural gas or HFC emission from refrigeration equipment. |
climateMeasures | renewableEnergySources | Use of renewable energy sources | The project adopts renewable energy sources and minimizes the use of fossil fuels as an energy source. |
climateMeasures | carbonCapture | Use of carbon capture technology | The project incorporates carbon capture and storage technologies. |
climateMeasures | recycledMaterials | Use of recycled and/or reused materials | Measures that “reduce the use of virgin natural resources and avoid sending useful materials to landfills by specifying reused materials, including structures, and material with recycled content." |
climateMeasures | regenerativeDesign | Regenerative design | The project has used a regenerative design approach. “Regenerative design is a system of technologies and strategies, based on an understanding of the inner working of ecosystems that generates designs to regenerate rather than deplete underlying life support systems and resources within socio-ecological wholes” |
climateMeasures | locationAnalysis | Location analysis | An assessment of the project location has been undertaken to avoid or mitigate against site specific future climate related risks. |
climateMeasures | climateRiskAnalysis | Climate risk analysis | Assessments have been carried out based on the best practicable available information to ensure the project is designed and built to withstand future climate conditions, taking into account elements including rising sea levels, rising temperatures, extreme weather events and changing precipitation patterns. |
documentType | climateMeasures | Climate measures | Documentation detailing measures to be taken by the project to adapt to or mitigate against climate change. |
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Looks good to me!
@EvelynDinora @mgraca-prado and comments, clarifications or objections to the codelist codes and descriptions suggested in https://github.com/open-contracting/infrastructure/issues/402#issuecomment-1786940326
@odscjen happy with the proposal.
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Just to make this consistent with the conservation measures, should we replace the word 'siting' for location in the below?
climateMeasures | sitingAnalysis | Site analysis | An assessment of the project siting has been undertaken to avoid or mitigate against site specific future climate related risks.
good point @mgraca-prado I've updated that in the table above
Having made that change suggested by Maria I'm moving this to Agreed
Background
This issue relates to the following CoST IDS elements proposed in the CoST IDS/OC4IDS review:
Climate measures
## Climate measures **Module:** Environmental and climate **Indicator:** climate risk ### Disclosure format > Clarify whether the project design considered climate change mitigation and/or adaptation measures,. disclosing the design demonstrating how the measures were incorporated. This can comprise, without limitation the following: - use of lower-emission sources of energy - use of lower-emission materials - use of recycled and reused materials - regenerative design - retrofitting design - use of carbon capture technology - assessment of extreme weather events - assessment of precipitation patterns - assessment of rising temperatures - assessment of rising sea levels - others (explain) And [Document]). ### OC4IDS mapping > Project level: For each measure add a `ClimateMeasure` object to the `environment.climateMeasures` array, setting it’s `.type` according to the matching code in the open climateMeasuresType codelist and mapping the further explanation to its `.description`. If there is an accompanying document publish in `documents`, with `.documentType` set to 'climateMeasures’ and include a short description and/or a link to a document providing details. If the details are part of a more general document indicate the relevant section of the document using `.pageStart` and `.pageEnd`.Proposal
Create a
climateMeasure
object comprising atype
anddescription
. An array of these measures will be created asclimateMeasures
within the newenvironment
object (see https://github.com/open-contracting/infrastructure/issues/393).climateMeasure.type
will take from an open codelist, climateMeasures.“climateMeasures” will be added to the documentType codelist to identify accompanying documentation the publisher may have.
Research is still required to fully define the climateMeasures codelist.
Add the following fields and objects:
Add the following codes:
Example
Sources
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