Sentences with phrase «adaptation costs from»

Not exact matches

«Higher temperatures and changes in precipitation result in pressure on yields from important crops in much of the world,» says IFPRI agricultural economist Gerald Nelson, an author of the report, «Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security: Impacts and Costs of Adaptation to 2050».

In addition, although the adaptation of a larger brain may separate humans from their primate relatives, it also came at a cost of increased fuel requirements.

So the group argues for across - the - board adaptation, arguing that damage along the coast and in low - lying areas could cost California anywhere from $ 7 billion to $ 46 billion to adjust.

However, after thoroughly assessing the costs of adaptation, European ministers and climate and economy experts from Oxford and Cambridge universities have reported that the true cost of adaptation is about $ 500 billion dollars each year.

Sony might cut Daniel Craig from «The Girl Who Played with Fire», in order to lower costs on the sequel to David Fincher's «Girl with the Dragon Tattoo» adaptation.

Ford has undertaken «One Manufacturing» strategy, which aims at producing multiple models from plants across the world in order to save production costs and fast adaptation to changes in consumer tastes.

So we need to invest more now, in both mitigation and adaptation, to prevent costs from becoming unbearable further into the future.

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.

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

Following that, paragraph 15 of decision 17 / CP.7 noted that a 2 percent share of the proceeds from Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project activities would be used to finance the cost of adaptation.

The situation is indeed clear; we can logically conclude from geology, physics, climate science, ecology, and economics that a few hundred more ppm of CO2 would most likely be net beneficial globally and even for those areas or circumstances in which global warming would not be beneficial it would be considerably more feasible and cost effective to implement local adaptations than attempt global mitigation which comes with no money - back guarantees should the entire (100 %) world not play ball.

How much of the cost of upgrading a coastal road that is already subject to frequent damage from bad weather should be attributed to normal development and how much to adaptation to climate change.

«Without successful adaptation, and given the persistent rise in demand for maize and wheat, the sizable yield setback from climate change is likely incurring large economic and health costs,» the report states.

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.

On the historical evidence, positives from warming will vastly outweigh the costs of adaptation, especially since, except in asteroid - strike - level likelihood, there will be time and more than time for thorough and more than adequate adaptation.

A research initiative that mapped decisions by town managers in Maine to sources of climate information, engineering design, mandated requirements, and calendars identified the complex, multi-jurisdictional challenges of widespread adaptation for even such seemingly simple actions as using larger culverts to carry water from major storms.116 To help towns adapt culverts to expected climate change over their lifetimes, the Sustainability Solutions Initiative is creating decision tools to map culvert locations, schedule maintenance, estimate needed culvert size, and analyze replacement needs and costs.

«We certainly wouldn't anyone to come away from this report doing a simple comparative analysis comparing mitigation with the costs of adaptation,» Field said.

With the late - summer ice edge located farther north than it used to be, storms produce larger waves and more coastal erosion.5 An additional contributing factor is that coastal bluffs that were «cemented» by ice - rich permafrost are beginning to thaw in response to warmer air and ocean waters, and are therefore more vulnerable to erosion.22 Standard defensive adaptation strategies to protect coastal communities from erosion, such as use of rock walls, sandbags, and riprap, have been largely unsuccessful.23 Several coastal communities are seeking to relocate to escape erosion that threatens infrastructure and services but, because of high costs and policy constraints on use of federal funds for community relocation, only one Alaskan village has begun to relocate (see also Ch.

The document also boldly states «That adaptation as needed is massively more cost - effective than any attempted mitigation and that a focus on such mitigation will divert the attention and resources of governments away from addressing the real problems of their peoples.»

Adaptation has the ultimate goal of avoiding harm and costs that can arise from doing business as usual without taking climate change into consideration.

It is the people with the least emissions, least contribution to climate change and the least financial resources to meet the cost for adaptation that suffer most from the impacts of climate change.

The proposed ERF uses a figure of $ 75 - 100 billion as the cost for adaptation, which comes from a World Bank study and is a severe underestimation of the real full cost of adaptation.

We all know that adapting to climate change is going to cost us — but that doing nothing will ultimately cost us even more — however, a new report from the International Institute for Environment and Development says that the real costs of adaptation are likely to be 2 - 3 times greater than those estimated by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change: This new estimate places the adaptation costs in the range of $ 80 - 510 billion annually, rather than the $ 40 - 170 billion projection from the UNFCC.

The majority of the studies I've seen on relative cost / benefits indicate that adaptation will cost between 5 - 10X more than mitigation (including transitioning away from fossil fuels).

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in a state district court by Boulder, Boulder County and San Miguel County, is seeking compensation for damage and adaptation costs resulting from extreme weather events.

Given a situation where confidence in developing regional climate forecasts that are useful is low and the puropse of such work is to enable cost effective proactive adaptation, I think it would be of more use to look at the problem from the opposite direction.