A common language for climate adaptation. The framework describes what needs to change to reduce climate risk, separately from how that change is delivered. Each of its 39 elements is a Resilience Shift: a move from a less resilient state to a more resilient one, such as from flood-vulnerable to flood-resilient buildings. Projects, policies and practices contribute to these shifts, and can differ from place to place.
Rows are climate hazards, plus a cross-hazard row. Columns are shift types: the main kind of change each shift makes. Each element appears once. The capacity band beneath holds five cross-cutting capacities that many shifts depend on; they are not elements.