Sentences with phrase «economic costs of climate change»

Now they're being used by the new IMPACT2C project, which is looking to provide new estimates for the impact and economic cost of climate change in Europe if global warming is limited to the international goal of no more than 2 degrees Celsius, relative to Western European pre-industrial levels.

Let's examine the implications of a low climate sensitivity for two policy - relevant quantities: temperatures increase in the 21st century and the expected economic costs of climate change (the social cost of carbon).

Prof Wadhams is co-author of the controversial Nature paper which calculated the potential economic costs of climate change based on a scenario of 50 Gigatonnes (Gt) of methane being released this century from melting permafrost at the East Siberia Arctic Shelf (ESAS), a vast region of shallow - water covered continental crust.

According to this meta - study (a fancy name for a literature review), there seems to be a systematic tendency to downplay the economic costs of climate change policies:

This may be part of a communications strategy based on the belief that an honest discussion of the economic costs of climate change policy is something to be avoided.

On Tuesday, a coalition — including former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Secretary of the Treasury and Goldman Sachs alum Henry Paulson — released a study on the economic costs of climate change.

The cost of environmental damage, which is based on Sir Nicholas Stern's review on the economic costs of climate change, will continue to rise every year until it reaches a mark of # 59.60 a tonne by 2050.

The economic costs of climate change to Southeast Asia could be 60 percent more than forecast six years ago, the Asian Development Bank announced yesterday, revising its 2009 figure.

They found that the economic costs of climate change always increase if the population grows, and increase faster if society's goal is to maximize the number of people who are happy or well - off compared to the average level of people's happiness / well - being.

When the urban heat island effect was taken into account, they found that the economic cost of climate change for these cities would be 2.6 times higher than previously thought.

A wide range of benefits will flow from a concerted effort to alter our energy economy now, including sustainable energy job growth, reductions in the health and economic costs of climate change, and the restoration of ecosystems and revitalisation of ecosystem services.

CDKN: Dr. Govinda Nepal, IDS - Nepal, reflects at the half way point of a project in Nepal which is calculating the economic cost of climate change in key sectors on what the team has learnt so far Which climate risk screening tool is the most appropriate for Nepal?

Skoll Global Threats Fund grant for» «Risky business» analysis: assessing the economic costs of climate change»

The economic costs of climate change are already being felt, and some of the world's poorest nations are bearing the heaviest burden.

There is no telling just how high the economic costs of climate change could be.

So estimates of the economic costs of climate change are part of an attempt to persuade nations that to do nothing would be far more expensive.

Working out the economic cost of climate change doesn't stop there, however.

Cantwell, Collins Release GAO Report Showing Climate Change Will Cost the Government Trillions of Dollars: This year alone, the economic cost of climate change to the U.S. will exceed $ 300 billion (Office of Sen. Maria Cantwell, Oct. 23, 2017)

And given the very real societal, environmental and economic costs of climate change and air pollution, it's an achievement that should easily pay for itself even if energy bills rise as a result.

Economists analyzed 1,692 cities and found that the economic cost of climate change this century could be 2.6 times larger when the heat island effect is accounted for.

We have enough experience already with the devastating human and economic costs of climate change to know that we have to start living within our carbon means.