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Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation
The Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation addresses the scientific, social, political and cultural aspects of climate change in an integrated and coherent way. The multi-volume reference focuses on one of the key aspects of climate change: adaptation and how to handle its impacts on physical, biotic and human systems, analyzing the social and normative scientific concerns and presenting the tools,...
The costs to developing countries of adapting to climate change : new methods and estimates - the global report of the economics of adaptation to climate change study
This initial study report, which focuses on the first objective, finds that the cost between 2010 and 2050 of adapting to an approximately 2oC warmer world by 2050 is in the range of $75 billion to $100 billion a year. This range is of the same order of magnitude as the foreign aid that developed countries now give developing countries each year, but it is still a very low percentage of the wealth...
Climate change adaptation costs in developing countries: insights from existing estimates
Given limited scientific agreement on approaches and methodologies, estimates of climate-change adaptation costs vary widely. Here, we present a meta-analysis of aggregate adaptation costs in developing countries, across three roughly homogeneous groups of estimates, i.e. national plan-based, bottom-up science-based, and global top-down estimates. We show that the level of global warming, a countr...
Climate Change Adaptation and International Development： Making Development Cooperation More Effective
In this book, the culmination of a JICA-RI research project, the authors examine climate change adaptation from the perspective of development cooperation. It is intended to provide useful lessons for those engaged in research, policy and practice in this vital area.
Poor and Vulnerable Countries Need Support to Adapt to Climate Change
All countries, rich and poor, must adapt to climate change. A recent report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change spelled out the dramatic consequences of failing to curb the rise in global temperature and adapting to a hotter planet. Adaptation should address risks from climate change and extreme weather, for example by safeguarding agriculture, managing the impact of ri...
Climate change adaptation in developing countries: issues and perspectives for economic analysis
This paper is intended to provide some guidance to the policy-oriented researchers’ work on valuing climate change adaptation in developing countries. The paper is not intended to be exhaustive, merely to indicate some issues that it may be useful to consider when designing studies to value the impacts of climate change in practice in developing countries. Practitioners are well advised to conside...
CLIMATE CHANGE: IMPACTS, VULNERABILITIES AND ADAPTATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) secretariat has produced this book to highlight the concerns and needs of developing countries in adapting to the effects of climate change. This book outlines the impact of climate change in four developing country regions: Africa, Asia, Latin America and small island developing States; the vulnerability of these regions to future...
Integrating Climate Change Adaptation into Development Co-operation
This policy guidance is intended to provide policy makers and practitioners in development co-operation agencies with information and advice on how to mainstream climate change into development. It is a joint endeavour by the OECD’s Environment Policy Committee (EPOC) and Development Assistance Committee (DAC) in response to the 2006 OECD Declaration on Integrating Climate Adaptation into Developm...
Bangladesh I: Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation in Developing Countries
An initial overview of the climate change impacts on key sectors, mitigation and adaptation strategies in Bangladesh
Climate change, adaptation and economic growth
This paper explores the links between economic growth and the impacts of climate change. Inclusive, pro-poor growth is central to the development of low-income countries. There is also a broad consensus that growth and development are important to reduce vulnerability to climate change. Growth does not automatically reduce vulnerability, only the right kind of growth does. The paper aims to develo...