other-developed-countries-adaptation-plan-workspace-2015
Overview
Question:
How should the other developed countries adapt to changes caused by climate change?Submit proposals: https://www.climatecolab.org/web/guest/plans/-/plans/contestId/1302204
Rules: All entrants must agree to the 2015 Contest Rules. and Terms of Use.
Deadline: This contest has no deadline.
Judging Criteria & Prizes: See below.
Background
In this workspace, you develop plans for how other developed countries as a whole – including their governments, businesses, other organizations, and citizens – can take effective action to prepare for and adapt to the current and predicted impacts resulting from climate change.
Working as an individual or in a team, you can select and combine proposals from Climate CoLab contests, as well as from outside the Climate CoLab, to develop a cohesive plan for this sector. With help from the Impact Assessment Fellows, you will be able to see your plan’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emission scenario from 2020 to 2050, and compare that with a business-as-usual emission scenario.
In addition to being completed pieces on their own, proposals submitted here will serve as building blocks for the development of plans on a regional and global level. They will only be evaluated if they are included in a regional plan.
This contest is part of new pilot initiative to create crowdsourced regional and global plans on how to most effectively address climate change. Learn more. If you have feedback on the approach, please let us know by sending email to admin@climatecolab.org.
Judging Criteria
Different from a contest, a workspace has no evaluation period. Rather, it is an open phase where proposals can be created and edited on an ongoing basis. Proposals submitted here will only be evaluated if they are included in a regional plan.
Prizes
Proposals submitted here are eligible to receive prizes if they are included in a winning global plan. All subproposals of the winning global plan will receive Climate CoLab Points, and the top point-getters will receive share of a cash prize of $10,000.
Submission Format
Building the plan.
When creating your plan, you will be asked to select multiple proposals from across the Climate CoLab platform using the proposal picker.
If you don’t see a proposal that outlines what you think needs to be done – or, if you would like to include ideas created outside of the Climate CoLab (such as policies currently under consideration; actions proposed by cities and governments; potential technological developments) – create a new proposal in a sector contest that summarizes (and links to further descriptions of) the actions you want to include, and link it in your plan here.
You will also be asked to justify how the selected actions fit together; describe the key benefits, costs, challenges and timeline of the plan; and estimate (working the Impact Assessment Fellows) the emissions that would result from the actions proposed (see below).
Evaluating impact.
The platform currently has a feature that allows you to estimate the impact a proposal has on greenhouse gas emissions. As proposals about climate change adaptation do not focus on reducing emissions, you do not need to enter values in the Impact tab. In the future, we hope to incorporate other ways for adaptation proposals to assess their potential impact in preparing for climate change.
Building blocks for global plans.
In addition to being completed pieces on their own, sector plans also serve as building blocks for the development of plans on a national, regional and global level. The Climate CoLab regional and global contests invite individuals and teams to build plans for how countries and the world as a whole can address climate change. Authors may select sector plans submitted in this workspace to include as a part of their regional plan, and sector and regional plan authors are strongly encouraged to work together. In many cases, the same teams may create both sector and regional plans that are designed to be compatible.
