Sentences with phrase «annual adaptation costs»

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

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

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«Our study illustrates that the complexity of climate change, adaptation, and flood damage can be disentangled by surprisingly simple mathematical functions to provide estimates of the average annual costs of sea - level rise over a longer time period.»

The marginal tax rate, average tax rate, and total annual bill are shown, under three different assumptions about the total costs of the emergency climate mitigation and adaptation costs (0.5 %, 1.0 %, and 2.0 % of Gross World Product).

«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.

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