Sentences with phrase «adaptation costs»

The local governments want the industries to pay for damage and adaptation costs resulting from climate change, including sea - level rise and more extreme storms.

The optimal structural adaptation strategies are identified considering expected lifecycle loss / benefit and total structural adaptation cost during the investigated time interval.

According to the document, annual adaptation costs due to past emissions are estimated at US$ 7 - 15 billion by 2020.

Under a scenario where warming is kept below 2 °C by 2050, annual adaptation costs are estimated at US$ 35 billion per year.

Some low - lying developing countries and small island states are expected to face damage and adaptation costs of several percentage points of GDP.

«But if you're talking about cases being filed across 10 or 15 different states, and talking about forcing the industry to pay for adaptation costs across the country, it becomes a much different ball game.

The dialogue involving women in dry lands emphasized that Adaptation cost estimates vary widely.

Damages, adaptation costs from sea level rise, storm surge roughly double those from sea level rise alone

The resulting adaptation cost figures range from between U$ 6 billion to U$ 14 billion / year that Pakistan would have to spend at an average in the 2010 - 2050 time frame to cope with the effects of climate change while it will be also left to, unavoidably, bear significant «residual damage» costs induced due to climate change.

The second problem with their argument is that while carbon tax revenues could, in theory, be used to pay for present and future adaptation costs, few on the right are at all interested in so using that revenue, including Neeley and Murray.

This will only ramp up adaptation costs further in the future.»

There is at least some chance, if not a good chance, that climate will get colder not warmer and then mitigation costs have only gone to make adaptation cost even higher becaue mitigation went the wrong way i.e. worse than useless.

And globally, climate adaptation costs are staggering.

«Some low - lying developing countries and small island states are expected to face very high impacts that, in some cases, could have associated damage and adaptation costs of several percentage points of GDP,» the report said.

Yet questions of distributive justice about which nations should bear the major responsibility for most GHG reductions at the international level have and continue to block agreement in international climate negotiations, as well as questions about which countries should be financially responsible for adaptation costs and damages in poor countries that are most vulnerable to climate change's harshest climate impacts and who have done little to cause the problem.

The paper is titled «Coastal flood damage and adaptation costs under 21st century sea - level rise ``.

Their concerns were underlined by the publication of a UN Environment Programme report suggesting that adaptation costs for developing countries «could climb as high as $ 150 billion [$ 122 billion] by 2025 - 2030 and $ 250 - 500 billion per year by 2050» — which is double or treble previous estimates.

«Companies knowingly violated the most basic moral principle of «do no harm,» and now they must remedy the harm they caused by paying damages and their proportion of adaptation costs,» argues Henry Shue, professor of politics and international relations at the University of Oxford and author of a commentary on the ethical implications of the Ekwurzel et al. paper.

The top - down adaptation costing analysis applied in this report is aimed at providing a reasonable first approximation that can be refined over time as relevant and reliable local data becomes available especially from research focusing on sector specific adaptation costing.

If the argument is that these entities (companies, states, etc.) are in effect blameless as it's the consumers who are to blame, then the follow - up is that the consumers should pay for the adaptation costs.

Under the scenario where present emissions policies remain unchanged and the world experiences warming to 3.5 - 4 °C by 2100, the adaptation cost could reach US$ 50 billion per year by 2050.

NOAA's Digital Coast has recently released What Will Adaptation Cost?

South Africa likely will use the analysis in Paris to make a case for a global adaptation goal based on quantification of adaptation costs.

For example, South Africa estimates that over 2020 - 2050, adaptation costs under a low mitigation scenario would range from $ 200 million to $ 53.1 billion; in a high mitigation scenario, costs would range from $ 200 million to $ 50 billion.

Decades of delay in addressing climate change is costly: • Adaptation costs are already higher today because of delay, and will be worse tomorrow.

Mitigation and adaptation costs will continue to grow beyond our capabilities if we do not reduce the amount of emissions being pumped into the atmosphere, that is the best resources should be thrown at the reducing the source of a problem not its consequences.

Adaptation costs - Costs of planning, preparing for, facilitating, and implementing adaptation measures, including transition costs.

«Some low - lying developing countries and small island states are expected to face very high impacts and associated annual damage and adaptation costs of several percentage points of GDP,» the report said.