widely unknown. Governments try to cope with these risks by investing in mitigation and adaptation measures. Mitigation aims … to the existing literature, we explicitly model the decision of risk-averse governments on mitigation and adaptation … at a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions whereas adaptation reduces the follow-up costs of climate change. In contrast …

of the life cycle. For mitigation and adaptation, we find that while these are overall clearly beneficial, they are also … worse outcomes, as it can lead to diminishing public support for the required mitigation and adaptation (as has arguably … been the case with globalization). Since there is also evidence that high human capital improves adaptation and mitigation …

mitigation and adaptation, carbon and solar geoengineering span the universe of possible climate policies. Their wildly different …

In this paper, we acknowledge that the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change have differential fiscal impacts …. Whereas mitigation typically raises fiscal revenues, adaptation is costly to the taxpayer and to a greater extent the more … distortionary the tax system is. In an OLG model with majority voting, we analyze how the choices of mitigation and adaptation are …

aims at raising mitigation while also reducing the damages from climate change: conditional adaptation support. Especially … alternative conditional transfer schemes: one plainly subsidizes mitigation efforts, while the other provides adaptation support … the global public good 'climate change mitigation'. This paper focuses on a specific type of international transfer that …

each model. The framework is used to analyze the adaptation vs. mitigation dilemma and provides a simple criterion to … determine whether adaptation activities should be undertaken promptly, delayed to some future date, or avoided altogether. …

We study adaptation to climate change in a federalist setting. To protect themselves against an increase in flood risk …, regional governments choose among adaptation measures that vary with respect to their costs, the level of protection they offer … response to specific proposals. If it has to deduce the vulnerability of regions by their actions, the resulting adaptation …

adaptation in Europe, and in particular Germany, Finland and Italy. Furthermore, a systematic overview on fiscal aspects of …Adaptation to climate change is gaining increasing relevance in the public debate of climate policy. However, detailed … adaptation is provided, with focus on budgetary effects of adaptation in the different impact sectors. Combining cost estimates …

This paper assesses the role of the public sector in adaptation to climate change. We first offer a definition and … categorisation of climate change adaptation. We then consider the primary economic principles that can guide the assignment of … adaptation tasks to either the private or the public sector, as well as those guiding assignment within the public sector itself …