Seven years after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement, methods and approaches for evaluating sustainable development interventions have remained largely unchanged and are failing to provide a basis for understanding how future sustainable development interventions can withstand the impacts of climate change.

This guide by the International Institute for Environment and Development (iied) aims to support evaluation commissioners and evaluators across sectors to integrate different and uncertain climate futures into their evaluations to achieve better planning. It provides the context for the imperative to shift towards evaluations that assess 'what will work' in the face of an uncertain climate future and outlines six practical steps for designing evaluations that integrate climate risks and provides two practical working tools to support that process.