It 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
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resultsThis paper focuses on the fiscal effects of adaptation to climate change. Beside adaptation induced effects, climate change has other fiscal implications, like public spending fo mitigation efforts, the implementation and use of fiscal instruments in climate policy, or reduced tax revenue due to productivity losses in the economy.
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 meet these two objectives, the broad World Bank effort will proceed on two tracks, a case study and an aggregate track. This study is part of the aggregate track, which has two objectives. The first is to ensure the availability of developing country/regional adaptation cost estimates to contribute to the discussion on climate change leading up to the Copenhagen conference in late 2009.
To help meet these two objectives, this study is global in its scope. First, we will provide country/regional adaptation costs to contribute to the discussion on climate change leading up to the Copenhagen conference in late 2009. Second, this work will begin to develop the procedures that will be needed to generate aggregate adaptation cost numbers once country case studies are completed.
The challenge of modeling climate change impacts in agriculture arises in the wide ranging nature of processes that underlie the working of markets, ecosystems, and human behavior. Our analytical framework integrates modeling components that range from the macro to the micro and from processes that are driven by economics to those that are essentially biological in nature.
Analysis of the cost of climate change adaptation in the coastal zone
Analysis of adaptation costs using IAMs
Literature Review, Case Studies and Fiscal Adaptation Costs
Adaptation in Energy sector
The Climate Change Act (2008) gives the Secretary of State the power to direct reporting authorities to produce reports detailing: climate impacts, adaptation, progress assessment. This is known as the Adaptation Reporting Power (ARP). Every five years, the government is required to la y before Parliament a report setting out the government’s approach to exercising the power.
Summarizes and critically assesses different methodologies and results of literature on the economics of adaptation.
Aim is to develop an adaptation cost curve for the residential buildings sector for a geographical area within the UK and Identify a series of no- and low-regrets options that apply broadly across the UK.
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.
Suggests a three-phase methodology to analyze national agriculture investment plans with respect to climate change mitigation, through a combination of biological and economic modeling.
Determines the extent to which economic impacts of climate change in Brazil are taken into account for development agenda. Economic assessment of expected climate change impacts in Brazil within varying scenarios, identify economic and social vulnerabilities, and determine cost-effective strategies to deal with risks.
Evaluation of benefit-cost ratios of 16 municipal adaptation clusters aimed at targeting a climate-related risk under 4 different climate change scenarios.
Looks at the potential economic impact of climate change in eight Caribbean countries and assesses different adaptation measures to see which ones have overall net economic benefit.
Policy brief which provides an overview of the European-wide assessment of the impacts and economic costs of floods, and an analysis of the costs and benefits of adaptation.
Policy brief which provides an overview of the European-wide assessment of the impacts and economic costs of sea-level rise, and an analysis of the costs and benefits of adaptation.
An agent-partner, index-based microinsurance product design was explored as a risk management tool for drought in Ethiopia.
Describes in detail the main models, assumptions, and analysis methods used in the large report: Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change: Ethiopia.
Main goal is to aid Ethiopia's government to understand the potential economic impacts of climate change and to develop sound policies and investments in response to such impacts. Adaptation options and their costs are estimated and compared with the costs of inaction.
Dissertation focuses on the need for flexibility in urban drainage systems due to uncertain future conditions.
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.
Study covers the impacts and economics costs of climate change, the costs of adaptation, and the potential for low carbon growth in Tanzania.
Study assesses the feasibility of developing climate change related vulnerability indicators for urban areas to support future EU spatial development policy by reviewing available literature and research activities.
Paper discusses a more strategic, economic approach to public adaptation and compares it with adaptation practice in Europe.