Integrated mitigation and adaptation planning

The document highlights the risks of planning water and energy sectors in isolation, particularly as climate change increases water stress and impacts hydropower. It proposes the combined use of the Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP) and Water Evaluation and Adaptation Planning (WEAP) tools, alongside macroeconomic modelling, to identify trade-offs and synergies. Case studies in Rwanda and Central Asia illustrate how this integrated approach can prevent GDP losses and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The brief further suggests that such integration helps countries align their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) to optimize limited climate finance.

• Governments often plan water and energy sectors in isolation, which leads to the omission of critical risks and trade-offs and misses opportunities for more resilient economic growth.
• The Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP) and Water Evaluation and Adaptation Planning (WEAP) tools can be used together to provide data on how water availability affects energy systems and how resource allocation in one sector impacts the other.
• Integrated analysis using LEAP and WEAP enables countries to align their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), helping them maximize synergies and optimize the use of limited climate finance.
• In Rwanda, analysis showed that achieving Vision 2050 would increase water demand by 1140%, primarily for irrigation; however, water efficiency and reduced hydropower dependency can lower this growth, and tripling water storage could prevent annual GDP losses of up to 5%.
• In the Syr Darya River basin, integrated analysis indicated that cooperation on water planning would increase water storage, boost agricultural production through 2050 in three countries, and lower greenhouse gas emissions by replacing coal with hydropower.
• Climate-driven water stress has significant economic impacts, such as in Ecuador where droughts from 2022–2024 led to daily blackouts starting in September 2024, resulting in at least USD 2 billion in lost economic output by mid-October.

APA

Davis, M., Huber-Lee, A., Forni, L., Veysey, J., & Kemp-Benedict, E. (2025). Integrated mitigation and adaptation planning. Stockholm Environment Institute. https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/integrated-mitigation-adaptation-leap-weap-macroeconomic.pdf

Chicago

Davis, Marion, Annette Huber-Lee, Laura Forni, Jason Veysey, and Eric Kemp-Benedict. Integrated mitigation and adaptation planning. Stockholm Environment Institute, 2025. https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/integrated-mitigation-adaptation-leap-weap-macroeconomic.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{davis2025integrated, author = {Davis, Marion and Huber-Lee, Annette and Forni, Laura and Veysey, Jason and Kemp-Benedict, Eric}, title = {{Integrated mitigation and adaptation planning}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2025}, month = nov, url = {https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/integrated-mitigation-adaptation-leap-weap-macroeconomic.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }