This manual explicitly addresses non-climate science experts and is intended to be helpful for practical work on adaptation. It describes the concrete steps of (i) how to obtain climate change information, (ii) how to interpret it adequately, and (iii) how to communicate the resulting knowledge in a careful and responsible way.

The main objective of this guide is to enhance the capacity of those practitioners and decision makers in developing countries by translating relevant aspects of climate change research into their every-day working contexts.

The manual is the result of a strategic partnership between the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH that aims at bridging the gap between climate science and development practice.