, we show that larger coalitions, in the presence of adaptation, may lead to lower global emission levels and higher …

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 … different adaptation modes (reactive and anticipatory), mitigation, and capacity-building to analyse the optimal portfolio of …

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

This paper contributes to the normative literature on mitigation and adaptation by framing the question of their … absence of a coordinated global agreement on climate change and to realign the policy balance from adaptation toward more … mitigation. Our analysis also shows that adaptation transfers from and strategic unilateral commitments to adaptation in …

is used to analyze the impact of adaptation assistance from North to South. It is shown that North’s unilateral … assistance to South (thus enhancing South’s adaptation capacity) can facilitate pollution mitigation in both regions, especially …

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 …

) to replace the SRES scenarios. To be used to investigate adaptation and mitigation, SSPs need to be contrasted along two … axes: challenges to mitigation, and challenges to adaptation. This paper proposes a methodology to develop SSPs with a … adaptation challenges; (ii) a modelling exercise to transform these drivers into a large set of scenarios; (iii) an a posteriori …

Nowadays, as stressed by important strategic documents like for instance the 2009 EU White Paper on Adaptation or the … recent 2009 “Copenhagen Accord”, it is amply recognized that both mitigation and adaptation strategies are necessary to … both cases uncertainty works in the direction to make mitigation a more attractive strategy than adaptation. When …

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 …