Sentences with phrase «costs of adaptation»

In addition, more than 80 percent of the overall annual global costs of adaptation to climate change are estimated to be borne by urban areas.

He seems unaware of the analyses showing that reducing emissions now is highly cost effective compared to the astronomical costs of adaptation without emission reductions.

Delay in initiating effective mitigation actions increases significantly the long - term social and economic costs of both adaptation and mitigation.

You seem to have steered clear of the questions in which science intersects with policy (global warming is happening but it's not calamitous; the costs estimated for cutting emissions exceed the overinflated costs of adaptation, etc...).

«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».

«The cost of adaptation to climate change could reach 100 billion per year in the coming decades but this is small change when we consider the environmental and economic fallout from not using nature to help us cope with climate change,» said Dr. Watson.

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.

The first priority Mitigation should be the first priority because, without it, the costs of adaptation would spike dramatically.

The Copenhagen Consensus and the United Nations has estimated the cost of adaptation be around $ 140 billion to $ 170 billion.

It would be difficult to argue otherwise; however, since Monckton has not provided a single example of an economic analysis which concludes that the costs of adaptation will be less than the costs of carbon pricing, it is difficult to ascertain exactly what he considers a «serious economic analysis.»

Climate Change: Impact on Agriculture and Costs of Adaptation.

The potential impacts and sectors demanding prioritized adaptation have been identified in this study and the, associated, costs of adaptation have been estimated utilizing three diverse modeling methodologies — using GDP projections, per - capita figures and «flood» disaster modeling.

Assessing the costs of adaptation to Climate Change - A review of the UNFCCC and other recent estimates.

The cost of adaptation to sea - level rise could amount to at least 5 - 10 % of gross domestic product.

The report suggests that although international public funding for adaptation has increased in recent years, the previous assessments of the costs of adaptation have involved significant underestimates.

Those nations, sub-national governments, organizations, businesses, and individuals that are emitting greenhouse gases above their fair share of safe global emissions have obligations, duties, and responsibilities for the costs of adaptation or damages to those who are harmed are will be harmed by climate change.

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 more the climate changes, and the more rapidly it changes, the greater the cost of adaptation.

A new UNEP report shows reveals that the cost of this adaptation could reach $ 150 billion by 2030, underlining how vitally important this aspect is.

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.

Carbon pricing is a small addition to the cost to pay for its later damage and the costs of adaptation and mitigation too.

«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.

Options and costs of adaptation to climate change will vary greatly around the globe and among developed and developing nations, and science has much to contribute to understanding these factors.

Let us now consider the other side of the risk - management equation: We have so far focused only on the cost of climate change, including the cost of adaptation measures (e.g., to put your beach front home on stilts).

In the area of climate change, the report highlights the findings of its Emissions Gap Report 2013 — which details the gap between current global emissions and the reduction needed to remain on track to meet the 2 degree Celsius global warming target — and its Africa Adaptation Gap Report, which describes the costs of adaptation measures on the African continent under various global warming scenarios.

However, recent reviews (e.g., Watkiss et al., 2005) have shown that policy - makers are uncomfortable with the use of CBA in longer - term climate policy, because of the range of uncertainty over the relevant economic parameters of marginal mitigation costs and marginal social costs and damages avoided, but also because of the significant lack of data on the costs of adaptation.

The costs of mitigation have to be balanced against the costs of adaptation.

By most accounts, the cost of mitigation is less than the cost of adaptation.