Sentences with phrase «adaptation costs further»

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

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

The tax is a mitigation, and the monies could be used for adaptation or further mitigation, depending on cost effectiveness.

I challenge the premise — although we may have adapted to life in Minnesota and places further north, with expensive heating oil, heavy clothing and a large transportation system for fresh foods, removing those adaptations (lowering our survival costs) would be of incredible benefit.

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.

Further delayed action will escalate the cost of adaptation well beyond our economic capacity.