Economic Aspects of Adaptation to Climate Change [electronic resource]: Costs, Benefits and Policy Instruments /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Agrawala, Shardul.
Fankhauser, Samuel.
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2008.
Climate change poses a serious challenge to social and economic development. This report provides a critical assessment of adaptation costs and benefits in key climate sensitive sectors, as well as at national and global levels. It also moves the discussion beyond cost estimation to the potential and limits of economic and policy instruments - including insurance and risk sharing, environmental markets and pricing, and public private partnerships - that can be used to motivate adaptation actions.
Also available in French under the title: Aspects économiques de l'adaptation au changement climatique.
Includes bibliographical references.
Executive Summary -- Empirical Estimates of Adaptation Costs and Benefits: A Critical Assessment -- Putting Climate Change Adaptation in an Economic Context -- Economic and Policy Instruments to Promote Adaptation.
Climate change poses a serious challenge to social and economic development. This report provides a critical assessment of adaptation costs and benefits in key climate sensitive sectors, as well as at national and global levels. It also moves the discussion beyond cost estimation to the potential and limits of economic and policy instruments - including insurance and risk sharing, environmental markets and pricing, and public private partnerships - that can be used to motivate adaptation actions.
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