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 …

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

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

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

climate change. This is despite substantial adaptation having taken place in general equilibrium through R&D and agricultural …

the role of trust in fostering adaptation by facilitating collective action, and the need for targeted interventions to … support adaptation and increase resilience in low-trust societies in which collective action may be harder to achieve. …

adaptation. Here, we provide a framework for analyzing the multiple interlinkages between climate change and human capital and … adaptation, on human capital across the life cycle. The framework presents two channels through which human capital is affected … of the life cycle. For mitigation and adaptation, we find that while these are overall clearly beneficial, they are also …