in all the simulations after 2025. In a second part of the paper a cost effectiveness analysis of adaptation in Nigeria … agriculture is conducted. Adaptation practices considered are a mix of cheaper “soft measures” and more costly “hard” irrigation … adaptation exploiting low cost opportunities. In this case all climate change damages can be offset with a benefit cost ration …

of market driven adaptation, which CGE models explicitly capture through their endogenous price setting mechanism, in …, differently said, in market-driven adaptation, are introduced. This is done restricting the elasticity of input substitution in …

The latest round of international negotiations in Copenhagen led to a set of commitments on emission reductions which … policy measures, adaptation will be needed to address climate-related damages. What is the role of adaptation in this setting … adaptation and mitigation expenditures in a cost-effective setting in which countries cooperate to achieve a long …

Urban areas have particular sensitivities to climate change, and therefore adaptation to a warming planet represents a … paper identifies the various levels of administrative adaptation planning, the tools and information used in making policy … choices, and the roles of governance and finance in urban adaptation to climate change. Lessons learned from these seven cases …

The climate change impacts on sea level rise and coastal disasters, and the possible adaptation responses have been …

Much of the current policy debate on adaptation to climate change has focussed on estimation of adaptation costs, ways … to raise and to scale-up funding for adaptation, and the design of the international institutional architecture for … adaptation financing. There is however little or no emphasis so far on actual delivery mechanisms to channel these resources at …

The Development Marketplace 2009 focused on adaptation to climate change. This paper identifies lessons from the … Marketplace and assesses their implications for adaptation support. Our findings are based on: statistical tabulation of all …-based adaptation should: exploit its strong local grounding and synergies with development; help connect local initiatives to higher …

induced by climate change in the next decades. Autonomous adaptation induced by changes in relative prices and in stocks of …

This work develops a framework for the analysis at the macro-level of the relationship between adaptation and … enriched with a planned-adaptation module where a defensive capital stock is built through adaptation investment. Within this … framework the optimal path of planned adaptation, the optimal inter and intra temporal mix between adaptation, mitigation and …

It has become commonly accepted that a successful climate strategy should compound mitigation and adaptation. The … accurate combination between adaptation and mitigation that can best address climate change is still an open question. This … paper proposes a framework that integrates mitigation, adaptation, and climate change residual damages into an optimisation …