Climate Risk Assessment Handbook

January 13, 2026 · View on GitHub

Visit the Handbook at https://handbook.climaax.eu/

See also

Development

Setting up

# Clone the Handbook repository
git clone https://github.com/CLIMAAX/crabook.git
cd crabook

# Clone all workflow repositories
git submodule update --init --recursive

# Set up the Python environment (here with conda and pip)
conda create -n crabook python=3.13 pip
conda activate crabook
pip install -r requirements.txt

Building the book

To build the HTML version of the Handbook (in crabook/_build/html/):

jb build crabook

To remove existing builds:

jb clean crabook

Release process

  1. Tag all submodule repositories that have changed since the last release.
  2. Tag the Handbook and create a release from the tag. Provide release notes for changes from all repositories.
  3. The zenodo-upload action creates a new Zenodo version draft. Go to Zenodo, enter the new version dialogue, check the file contents, update the list of contributors if necessary, fill in the publication date, and the version number and publish.
  4. Announce the new release on the Handbook discussion forum.

License

Apache-2.0 OR CC-BY-4.0 (SPDX license identifier).

Acknowledgements

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2021-2027) under grant agreement No. 101093864.