Managing risks from extreme events will be a crucial component of climate change adaptation. In this study, we … demonstrate an approach to assess future risks and quantify the benefits of adaptation options at a city-scale, with application … limited share of total losses but a large shock for poor households. The analysis also demonstrates that adaptation could …

The present report seeks to inform critical questions with regard to policy mixes of investments in adaptation and … mitigation, and how they might vary over time. This is facilitated here by examining adaptation within global Integrated … Assessment Modelling frameworks. None of the existing Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) captures adaptation satisfactorily …

la difficulté de distinguer les coûts de l'adaptation au changement climatique des dégâts dus à ce changement. Le …

There is growing international interest in the planning, financing and implementation of adaptation to climate change … complemented by a high-level analysis of broader private sector adaptation based on responses to the 2009 Carbon Disclosure Project … adaptation measures and strategies to manage these risks. The analysis also examines how companies are taking advantage of new …

Since the first OECD country published its national adaptation strategy in 2005, there has been a marked increase in … national planning for climate change adaptation. This paper provides an overview of national adaptation planning activity … Policy Forum on Adaptation hosted by the OECD in 2012. It finds that twenty-six OECD countries have developed or are …

Innovation in technologies that promote mitigation and adaptation will be critical for tackling climate change. It can … innovation have focused on mitigation, while little attention has been paid to innovation for adaptation. This paper uses … adaptation options for agriculture. This paper neither advocates nor discourages the use of biotechnology, but focuses on …

by 2020 for climate change mitigation and adaptation in developing countries. Yet consistent and comprehensive data to … et de l’adaptation à ses effets dans les pays en développement. Cependant, des données cohérentes et détaillées …

Financing for adaptation is a core element in the ongoing international negotiations on climate change. This has … motivated a number of recent global estimates of adaptation costs. While important from an agenda setting perspective, many of …), do not differentiate between investments in various types of adaptation or quantify the resulting benefits, and are …