Climate Risk SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, Threat) Analysis and Presentation
Climate change as reshaping and compounding everything from finance to agriculture to health to transportation industry, leaving few if any “non-climate” issues that can be understood without reference to this nuanced socio-political landscape.
Students will use SWOT analysis, identify and write the strengths (S), weaknesses (W), opportunities (O), and threats (T) of specific climate change adaptation and sustainable mitigation in a country of the student choosing. This 3–5-page written analysis will not only include a written exploration in paragraph format but include a SWOT chart (see example on the below).
Developing a fuller awareness of the situation helps with both strategic planning and decision-making. Hence, the purpose is to (1) Conduct situational and capacity analysis for main institutions and policies concerning adaptation to climate change in a specific country (2) To assess effectiveness of existing policy and institutional framework context at national and regional level in implementing sustainable climate mitigation.
Consider the following links as foundational staring points:
https://climateknowledgeportal.worldbank.org/#country-map
https://www.sdg.org/pages/data
Links to an external site. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.DST.FRST.20
Links to an external site. https://www.wfpusa.org/
Links to an external site. https://www.unep.org/topics/fresh-water/disasters-and-climate-change
Links to an external site. https://kidb.adb.org/
Links to an external site.https://reliefweb.int/disasters
Links to an external site.https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/reports
Simply, the purpose of performing a SWOT is to reveal positive forces that work together and potential problems that need to be recognized and possibly addressed.
SWOT categories can further be defined as either internal or external factors. Strengths and weaknesses are often internal to an entity. Opportunities and threats tend to be external factors, often beyond the control of the entity/organization, but that impact and/or influence operations.
SWOT analysis must cover the following six elements which are commonly understood in the following terms:
Introduction: Brief overview of the country chosen and the specific climate change/environmental issue chosen (one paragraph)
Strengths:
- In regard to climate change adaptation and mitigation, what do the country do well?
- What areas are vibrant and healthy, or distinctively positive?
Weaknesses:
- What do we do less well?
- What areas of “weakness” do they encounter?
- What are the relative competitive disadvantages (e.g., a risk-averse or change-resistant regional culture)
Opportunities:
- What are the needs of the stakeholders, and what trends can we take advantage of?
- What is changing in the community or in society?
Threats:
- Are there new rules and regulations that place demands and limits on the stakeholders?
- What is changing in the community or country that will impact change?
- Where are there chances or occasions for negative impacts on the country or region decline (e.g., several companies in the region considering moving to lower-cost areas of the state)
Discussion and Conclusion- offer a recommendations to improve the specific environmental issue you analyzed to lessen the effects of climate change on your chosen country
Please note if you want to cover additional you may do so; however you must cover the six areas listed above in your SWOT.
Sections must be separated by headers for each area listed above- sections can not meld together