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 …

Urban areas have particular sensitivities to climate change, and therefore adaptation to a warming planet represents a … challenging new issue for urban policy makers in both the developed and developing world. Further to climate mitigation strategies … paper identifies the various levels of administrative adaptation planning, the tools and information used in making policy …

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 …

costs, hide the presence of a third category, namely adaptation costs. This dodges the determination of an appropriate level … for them. Including adaptation costs explicitly in the total environmental cost function allows one to characterize the … for cost benefit analysis of adaptation expenditures. …

The dominant assumption in economic models of climate policy remains that adaptation will be implemented in an optimal … manner. There are, however, several reasons why optimal levels of adaptation may not be attainable. This paper investigates … the effects of suboptimal levels of adaptation, i.e. adaptation restrictions, on the composition and level of climate …

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

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 …

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 …