The potential environmental gains are seen in the context of current and future environmental regulations for methanol in maritime use, and in context of
the costs of adaption and technical readiness.
In the studies discussed above, the benefits are effectively equivalent to
the costs of adaption if we fail to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
If uncertainty is large, and clearly if you have nothing with which to predict the future, it is, then you have to assess degree of impact, cost of mitigation,
cost of adaption, cost of doing nothing.
Do libertarians truly think that one group of people are free to create a problem while others should pay
the cost of adaption?
Not exact matches
Our mission is to support the growth
of public banking in Massachusetts, initially focusing on an infrastructure bank to help cities and towns with the
costs of upgrading buildings, roads, and water systems, with environmental remediation and
adaption to a changing climate, and with improving city services.
But impactful consequences and how, say, Pacific islanders are responding to them are worthy
of note — you know;
adaption, mitigation,
costs and all that good stuff...
Most countries party to the UNFCC have included at least some estimates
of the
costs of agricultural
adaption in their individual climate change action plans, known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions.
In light
of such risks and
costs to our economy and our way
of life, the position
of climate sceptics is utterly untenable and looking to
adaption as an easy answer just doesn't hold water.
I'm currently
of the opinion
adaption will be much lower
cost and much less damaging to people across the planet than the policies currently being promoted to try to prevent climate change.
Krugman's four reasons why it's dubious to compare
costs of climate mitigation to
adaption didn't include the unfairness, that the people paying the
costs of climate change would not be the same ones as reap the benefit
of CO2 emission.
Lead implementation designer
of ethernet over SONET and ethernet
adaption family
of cost reduced solutions in FlashWave series
of optical products implemented in Xilinx Virtex 4/5 families.