The report seeks to inform critical questions with regard to policy mixes of investments in adaptation and mitigation, and how they might vary over time. This is facilitated here by examining adaptation within global Integrated Assessment Modelling frameworks.
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resultsIt is analyzed how modelers have chosen to describe adaptation within an integrated framework, and suggest many ways they could improve the treatment of adaptation by considering more of its bottom-up characteristic
This handbook is designed to provide newcomers to the field of climate impact and adaptation assessment with a guide to available research methods, particularly for answering the first question. The handbook will also serve as a ready reference for many others currently engaged in impacts and adaptation research.
In this paper the authors Peter Kuch and Simone Gigli have been applying their economist’s thinking to the challenge of how to prioritise and appraise adaptation options in developing countries.
This report provides a summary of the technical workshop on costs and benefits of adaptation options, organized under the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change. Discussions at the workshop addressed methodologies for assessing costs and benefits of adaptation options and how these methodologies are applied in and across different sectors.
This report examines adaptation and mitigation within an integrated framework. Global and regional costs of adaptation are assessed dynamically and the resulting benefits are also quantified. This is accomplished by developing a framework to incorporate adaptation as a policy choice variable within three Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs).
To shed light on adaptation costs—and with the global climate change negotiations resuming in December 2009 in Copenhagen—the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change (EACC) study was initiated by the World Bank in early 2008, funded by the governments of the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
To shed light on adaptation costs—and with the global climate change negotiations resuming in December 2009 in Copenhagen—the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change (EACC) study was initiated by the World Bank in early 2008, funded by the governments of the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
Intergrated Assessment by using the AD-WITCH model, looking at doubling of CO2 concentration
Economics of climate change, including estimates of the costs of adaptation (globally) for developed countries.
Critique of UNFCCC (2007) and comment on global adaptation financing needs for 2030 in developing countries. Concludes the costs of adapting to climate change have been significantly under-estimated. Discussion of previous health costs Content: 1. The range of global estimates 2. Costs of adaptation in agriculture, forestry and fisheries 3. Costs of adaptation in the water sector 4.
Critique of UNFCCC (2007) and comment on global adaptation financing needs for 2030 in developing countries. Concludes the costs of adapting to climate change have been significantly under-estimated.
Assessment of damage costs and costs for adaptation for climate change in different sectors in Germany, The results are based on the the Integrated Assessment Model of Economy-Energy-Climate – The model WIAGEM.
Costs of adaptation for many sectors, costs and benefits for road transport sector
Considers adaptation for higher temperature and scarcity of water supply for Paris, as an example. The costs vary between the situation of known future climate and uncertain futures.
Describes a general method for finding robust strategies using the information contained in computer simulations and data.
Report argues for the Australian Government to play a proportionate role in global climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts by transitioning to a low-emissions economy. The costs, though high, are managable.
Highlights the best practices and experiences of LDCs with respect to their national adaptation programmes of action.
Summarizes experiences, best practices and lessons from the implementation aspects of NAPAs, the LDC work programme and other adaptation initiatives.
Evaluation of benefit-cost ratios of 16 municipal adaptation clusters aimed at targeting a climate-related risk under 4 different climate change scenarios.
Report commissioned by the Dutch government for recommendations on how to protect the Dutch coast and the low-lying hinterland against the consequences of climate change.
The report reviews methods and tools available in the literature on the assessment of climate change uncertainties and reviews existing frameworks for decision making under uncertainty for adaptation to climate change in the Netherlands.
Guiding climate compatible development: User-orientated analysis of planning tools and methodologies
Report provides an overview of the tools and methodologies available to plan adaptation, mitigation and development, and to guide decision makers towards climate compatible development pathways.
Paper discusses a more strategic, economic approach to public adaptation and compares it with adaptation practice in Europe.
Opinion paper which reviews the existing literature on adaptation costs.
The Stern Review set out to assess, from a global perspective, the effects on the welfare of current and future generations of very large and, for all practical purposes, irreversible changes to the environment resulting from climate change.
The FP7 MEDIATION project has undertaken a detailed review of decision support tools, and has tested them in a series of case studies. It has assessed their applicability for adaptation and analysed how they consider uncertainty.
Technical guidelines to support the NAP (National Adaptation Plan) process. These technical guidelines will assist the LDCs in comprehensively addressing adaptation in a coherent and strategic manner.
Paper outlines a set of simple, practical principles to give some guidance on how decision-makers in developing countries can incorporate uncertainty into existing policymaking and planning processes today.
Article outlines aggregate economic measures of damage from climate change and assesses the key assumptions and inputs in the estimates, and how these influence the aggregated results.