choices, and the roles of governance and finance in urban adaptation to climate change. Lessons learned from these seven cases …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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …