ICF Climate Impacts, Vulnerability, and Adaptation

Impacts, Vulnerability, + Adaptation

ICF International helps decision-makers understand the interrelated causes and effects related to climate change and develop adaptation solutions.

 

 

ICF guides organizations, such as federal agencies, state transportation departments, and metropolitan planning organizations, to the innovative adaptation strategies, technical tools, and partnerships they need to decrease costs, increase benefits, and move projects forward.

Our adaptation services include:

  • Modeling incremental effects on infrastructure and operations
  • Assessing vulnerabilities
  • Evaluating climate risk mitigation options
  • Engaging stakeholders through pilots and workshops

ICF applies deep programmatic and broad geographic experience to today's complex adaptation challenges. Our years of experience with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) includes helping EPA launch its first adaptation program and analyze estuary vulnerability for a Coastal Toolkit of data, strategies, and communication tools.

In the United States, we’re working with a Gulf Coast metropolitan planning organization to identify options for mitigating the impact of climate change on transportation assets. Worldwide, our climate change experts are in the field in locations such as Brazil and China, discovering and implementing best adaptation practices.

ICF’s adaptation solutions are further strengthened by our multidisciplinary teams, who bring extensive knowledge of the environment, energy, transportation, human health, and other disciplines to this inherently cross-cutting issue.

 

Featured Resources

  • Assessment of physical, ecological, and social risks—ICF’s impacts and adaptation expertise spans all sectors influenced by climate change, including the built environment, agriculture, forestry, human health, coastal resources, recreation, sensitive ecosystems, and water resources. 
  • Economic, technical, and policy analyses—ICF has decades of experience in conducting analyses for a broad range of public and private clients at international to local scales.
  • Decision support—ICF provides the climate and socioeconomic data, capacity building and training, software and decision tools, and website development that planners need to respond and adapt to climate change.
  • Development of risk management strategies—ICF uses science and economics to help clients identify and prioritize cost-effective risk management strategies in anticipation of climate change.
  • GIS mapping and modeling—ICF has an experienced Geographic Information Systems (GIS) lab to support technical analyses, including developing maps and models that help represent climate change scenarios and identify potential vulnerabilities.
  • Communications and workshop support—ICF supports the communication of climate change impacts and opportunities for adaptation to stakeholders and decision-makers at international, national, state, and local levels.
  • African Development Bank (AfDB)
  • Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation
  • Asian Development Bank
  • California Energy Commission
  • European Commission
  • Marian Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences
  • UK Department for International Development (UK DFID)
  • UK Environment Agency
  • U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
  • U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)
    • Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
    • National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)
  • U.S. National Park Service (NPS)
  • Project

    Climate Screening Tool

    ICF is developing guidance and a screening tool for the National Park Service (NPS) to help characterize park vulnerability to climate change.

  • Project

    Climate Adaptation Guidance and Training

    ICF is providing support to the U.S. Agency for International Development in revising and developing guidance and training documents to support climate change adaptation activities.

  • Climate Ready Estuaries Program

    Climate Ready Estuaries Program

    ICF supported the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) first adaptation program, the Climate Ready Estuaries (CRE) program, which has worked with the National Estuary Program since 2007 to assess the vulnerability of estuaries to climate change impacts, to develop and implement adaptation programs in coastal areas, and to educate stakeholders about climate change impacts.

  • Integrated Climate and Land Use Scenarios

    Integrated Climate and Land Use Scenarios

    ICF and Colorado State University are assisting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in an analysis of projected land use implications of a series of demographic scenarios through 2100. The demographic scenarios are aligned with the assumptions inherent in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Emission Scenarios.

  • Project

    Integrated Climate and Disaster Vulnerability Assessment and Risk Mapping - Asian Development Bank

    ICF is supporting the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in mapping climate vulnerability and risk for 10 Asian countries.

  • Preliminary Review of Adapation Options for Climate Sensitive Ecosystems and Resources

    Preliminary Review of Adaptation Options for Climate-Sensitive Ecosystems and Resources - Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.4

    ICF supported the development of this Synthesis and Assessment Product (SAP) for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP). This report provides an authoritative, national-scale assessment of the current state of knowledge regarding climate change impacts and adaptation options for climate-sensitive ecosystems.

  • Project

    Developing an Adaptation Framework

    For the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), ICF created a model framework for incorporating climate change impacts on highway infrastructure into all aspects of the transportation decision lifecycle.

  • Project

    Support for Impacts of Climate Change and Variability on Transportation Systems and Infrastructure - Gulf Coast Study, Phase 2

    For the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), ICF is performing an in-depth assessment of the vulnerability of critical transportation assets and identifying potential adaptation options for a Gulf Coast metropolitan planning organization.

  • Project

    Valuation of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation

    For the U.S. Global Change Research Program and the National Climate Assessment (NCA), ICF assisted in developing a workshop entitled, “Valuation Techniques and Metrics for Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation Options: Methodological Perspectives for the National Climate Assessment.”

  • Project

    Support for Climate Change Exhibit

    ICF is developing the content for a new climate change exhibit for the Marian Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences.

  • Project

    Climate Ready Estuaries Vulnerability Assessments

    ICF is working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Research and Development and Climate Ready Estuaries (CRE) Partners to assess vulnerabilities for the Massachusetts Bays Program (MBP) and the San Francisco Estuary Partnership (SFEP).

  • Project

    Assessing the Vulnerability of Older Americans to Climate Change

    ICF is currently working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Center for Environmental Assessment to analyze climate change impacts that will pose particular challenges for elderly populations in the United States and outline an agenda for action that includes research, adaptation, and communication.

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