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The ADVANCE Approach is a partnership between the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Columbia University Center for Climate Systems Research (CCSR) designed to move away from short-term consultant-based climate science engagement. It employs a seven-step co-generation process—analyzing context, developing learning questions, gathering data, obtaining feedback, revising information, providing integration guidance, and evaluating outcomes—to ensure climate risk data is fit-for-purpose and usable for local decision-makers. The approach focuses on identifying specific climate thresholds and variables relevant to stakeholders, such as maximum temperature in tropical regions or upland precipitation for mangrove conservation, and builds local capacity to interpret and apply this information to build resilience.

The Migration and Conservation Toolkit, developed by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), offers a four-phase roadmap for practitioners to integrate migration dynamics into conservation planning. The process moves from defining scope and analyzing migration and conservation contexts to assessing ecosystem impacts and implementing targeted interventions. The toolkit emphasizes participatory research, including surveys, focus group discussions, and participatory mapping, to understand the links between migration, livelihood choices, and biodiversity loss. It highlights the need for conflict-sensitive and gender-aware approaches, particularly in critical ecosystems where population pressures can exacerbate existing environmental stresses.

The RMI Community Energy Resource Guide offers a structured process for local governments to transition to clean energy. It outlines a 6-to-12-month planning cycle involving stakeholder collaboration, data baselining, and the selection of sector-specific tactics. The guide details strategies across four primary domains: buildings, electricity supply, transportation, and industry, while emphasizing the role of 'broad enablers' like Green Banks and updated utility regulatory models to scale implementation.

The Climate Policy Initiative outlines a framework for mapping climate finance flows to establish investment baselines, reveal interactions between public and private finance, and identify opportunities for policy improvement. The guide emphasizes tracking project-level primary financing and total investments over additional costs, while cautioning against double-counting by excluding revenue supports like feed-in tariffs and private R&D. The author notes that data gaps, particularly in the land use sector, remain a challenge, leading to a collaboration with the European Forestry Institute and Climate Focus to develop specific mapping tools for that sector.

The document outlines a framework for mainstreaming climate change adaptation by combining stakeholder engagement with quantitative spatial modelling. Using the 'Farms to Regions' (F2R) project in Eastern Ontario as a case study, it describes a process of identifying regional drivers, developing qualitative and quantitative scenarios (including a Business-As-Usual baseline), and simulating these futures using the Envision modelling platform. The guide emphasizes the use of integrated decision units (IDUs) to map impacts on farm income and environmental services, providing a toolkit for planners to evaluate trade-offs and develop robust adaptation strategies.

The guide outlines a process for civil society organizations to monitor adaptation finance, from analyzing national contexts and compiling international data to mapping funding flows and designing local tracking tools. It emphasizes the use of evidence-based advocacy to ensure funds reach the most vulnerable populations.

The ADAPTool is an Excel spreadsheet developed by the International Institute for Sustainable Development to assess the adaptability of public policies against seven key characteristics: integrated analysis, multistakeholder deliberation, automatic adjustment, self-organization, decentralized decision-making, promoting variation, and formal review. The tool evaluates whether policies support adaptation measures for specific stressors and whether the policies themselves are likely to respond well to future changes, including climate change and market volatility. The assessment process involves four worksheets, with data collected via online forms, interviews, and analyst research.

The FIPAT manual describes a structured process for enhancing food system resilience against climate variability. It guides users through two main sections: Section A, which focuses on mapping food systems, identifying climate risks, and developing resilience indicators; and Section B, which assesses how specific public policies support resilience measures, actor capacity, and overall system stability. The tool emphasizes a participatory approach involving government officials and stakeholders to ensure that policy gaps are identified and addressed through a resilience-based lens.

The ADAPTool Guidebook describes a structured process for evaluating whether public policies are 'adaptive'—meaning they can respond effectively to both anticipated and unanticipated shocks. The tool assesses policies against seven core characteristics: integrated and forward-looking analysis, multistakeholder deliberation, automatic policy adjustment, self-organization and social networking, decentralization of decision-making, promoting variation, and formal policy review and continuous learning. The process involves a scoping phase to define geographic scope and stressors, data collection via interviews or research, and a synthesis phase that ranks policies based on 'planned adaptability' (response to known stressors) and 'autonomous adaptability' (response to unforeseen changes).

The document outlines the ROAM framework, which combines stakeholder engagement and data analysis to identify forest landscape restoration opportunities. It details a three-phase process: preparation and planning, data collection and analysis, and translating results into recommendations. The methodology employs tools for spatial mapping, economic valuation, carbon sequestration modelling, and institutional diagnostics to support national strategies and international commitments like the Bonn Challenge.

The Climate Risk Assessment Guide – Central Asia is a practical manual designed to assess the impacts of climate-related events on lives and livelihoods in Central Asia. It provides a structured methodology to downscale climate risk understanding to sub-national and community levels, bridging the gap between long-term climate change modeling and immediate disaster risk assessment. The guide emphasizes a combination of impact-based assessments (using monetary damage and livelihood capital scoring) and perception-based surveys to inform sustainable risk management and policy development.

The Climate Risk Assessment Guide – Central Asia establishes a framework to downscale climate impact understanding to support sub-national risk management. It integrates climate change assessment with disaster risk assessment, focusing on six types of capital: human, natural, social, financial, physical, and political. The methodology combines an impact-based assessment (using monetary damage and Delphi-based livelihood scoring) with a perception-based assessment to identify gaps between expert data and local views. The guide emphasizes the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for data management and provides a structured process for creating climate risk profiles to prioritize management actions.

The document outlines an eight-step process for integrating scientific climate data into adaptation planning, emphasizing that adaptation is a socio-institutional learning process rather than a purely technical exercise. It demonstrates this workflow through a case study in the Philippi suburb of Cape Town, where climate data is used to evaluate the trade-offs between maintaining vegetable production and rezoning land for low-cost housing. The guide highlights the importance of using both historical observations and future projections (RCP 4.5 and 8.5) to inform decisions on flood risk and heat stress.

The document outlines a practitioner's approach to creating NAMAs that align with low-carbon, climate-resilient development (LCCRD) planning. It details a two-track methodology: the NAMA Quick Screen, which uses a five-step qualitative process to identify promising mitigation options and develop NAMA concepts for the UNFCCC registry; and the NAMA Deep Screen, a seven-step technical process that calculates GHG emission baselines, marginal abatement costs (MACs), and sustainable development co-benefits to produce detailed NAMA proposals. The guide emphasizes the necessity of local validation with government and private sector stakeholders to ensure actions are feasible and aligned with national priorities. It also provides a framework for linking identified mitigation options to specific implementation barriers and appropriate climate finance instruments, such as grants, concessional loans, and carbon market financing.

The report argues that solving complex policy problems requires networked governance, which depends on the accumulation of social capital (trust, mutuality, and reciprocity) and collective cognition (shared mental models and relational skills). It introduces a four-stage 'lock-step' approach: network architecture, preparing the grounds, collaborative visioning, and reflexive governance. Each stage requires a higher threshold of social capital than the previous one. The authors detail methods to enhance this capital, including institutional brokering via bridging organizations, social learning techniques such as hexagon modelling and card sorting, and collaborative visioning to achieve strategic alignment. The framework emphasizes that organizational innovation (building social capital) is a prerequisite for institutional innovation (policy and governance outcomes).

The RACER method shifts Arctic conservation from focusing on current vulnerabilities to identifying 'key features'—areas of exceptional biological productivity and diversity—that act as sources of ecological strength. By analyzing these features and the drivers that fuel them, RACER predicts whether these sources of resilience will persist through the 21st century using General Circulation Models (GCMs). The guide provides a framework for mapping these features and includes pilot case studies for the Beaufort Continental Coast and Shelf (marine) and Eastern Chukotka (terrestrial) to illustrate how the tool can be used to safeguard ecosystem services and biodiversity in a rapidly warming region.

The AMAT Pilot Guide outlines a five-stage methodology for monitoring the implementation of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) and its National Programmes of Action (NPoAs). The process involves desk research, stakeholder interviews, analysis of the APRM process, identification of priority areas, and the development of recommendations to improve governance and policy dialogue. The guide is designed to empower civil society organisations (CSOs) to act as monitoring partners and advocacy agents, ensuring that state commitments are tracked and that public participation in policy-making is enhanced. It includes specific data collection instruments tailored for government officials, parliamentarians, CSOs, academics, and development partners.

The document describes the framework for 'Reinventing Fire', a roadmap to shift the U.S. energy system to efficiency and renewables by 2050. It emphasizes a business-led, profit-driven approach that integrates transportation, buildings, industry, and electricity. The methodology relies on a base case from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), utilizes stock-and-flow models for technology adoption, and applies sector-specific real hurdle rates for investment screening. The analysis is intentionally conservative, assuming only technologies already entering the market and ignoring positive externalities to ensure a rigorous, independent perspective.

The document outlines a framework for identifying and quantifying producer subsidies in the fossil-fuel sector, drawing on methodologies from the OECD's agricultural Producer Support Estimate (PSE) and the Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) manual. It categorizes producer subsidies into direct transfers, government revenue foregone, and government-provided goods or services. The guide highlights significant data gaps, noting that many governments lack full knowledge of their own subsidies and that information is often aggregated or confidential, particularly in countries like China and Indonesia. It suggests that the goal of estimation should be to determine the order of magnitude of subsidies to prioritize reform.

The REAP (Resources and Energy Analysis Programme) tool uses environmentally extended input-output analysis to calculate the carbon, greenhouse gas (GHG), and ecological footprints of residents across UK local authorities and regions. Unlike territorial accounting, which measures emissions where they occur, REAP allocates emissions to the consumers of products and services. The tool allows policy makers to model future scenarios by adjusting variables such as household energy demand, food consumption, and production efficiency. The 2006 data release includes a historical time series from 1992 to 2006 and introduces GHG footprints as a new indicator. The document also compares SEI's input-output methodology with the Global Footprint Network's (GFN) trade-volume and life-cycle coefficient approach, noting that while GFN estimates for the UK are typically 5% to 15% higher, the SEI approach provides more detailed supply chain analysis for manufactured goods and services.