This Recommendation describes a framework for assessing climate change risks to telecommunication and electrical facilities. This Recommendation includes an overview of climate change-related risks@ requirements for climate change risk assessment methodology@ risk assessment methodology and considerations for using the defined methodology. Development of climate change risk factors or of a weighting scheme for an individual risk factor is outside the scope of this Recommendation@ as is the development of interpretation criteria for assessment results. It should be noted that the methodology defined in this Recommendation is not intended for comparison among different organizations@ but is mainly targeted at self-assessment purposes.