There is growing international interest in the planning, financing and implementation of adaptation to climate change … complemented by a high-level analysis of broader private sector adaptation based on responses to the 2009 Carbon Disclosure Project … adaptation measures and strategies to manage these risks. The analysis also examines how companies are taking advantage of new …

of adaptation. We divide the literature into two broad areas of research. First, we examine the studies that analyse … adaptation from a bottom-up perspective. Second, we introduce the studies that examine adaptation using a top-down approach. The … first group of studies investigates cost and benefits of adaptation at the sectoral, regional and global level. The second …

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 …

Since the first OECD country published its national adaptation strategy in 2005, there has been a marked increase in … national planning for climate change adaptation. This paper provides an overview of national adaptation planning activity … Policy Forum on Adaptation hosted by the OECD in 2012. It finds that twenty-six OECD countries have developed or are …

Innovation in technologies that promote mitigation and adaptation will be critical for tackling climate change. It can … innovation have focused on mitigation, while little attention has been paid to innovation for adaptation. This paper uses … adaptation options for agriculture. This paper neither advocates nor discourages the use of biotechnology, but focuses on …

strategies, whereas much less can be found on adaptation. Even less can be found on the interactions between adaptation and … mitigation. The increasing emphasis on adaptation raises a set of still unanswered questions concerning the design of an optimal … mix of mitigation and adaptation measures. This paper presents an Integrated Assessment Model (IAM) that explicitly models …

Financing for adaptation is a core element in the ongoing international negotiations on climate change. This has … motivated a number of recent global estimates of adaptation costs. While important from an agenda setting perspective, many of …), do not differentiate between investments in various types of adaptation or quantify the resulting benefits, and are …

impacts and adaptation within existing modalities for project design, approval, and implementation. Environmental Impact … climatique et de l’adaptation à ce changement dans les modalités existantes de conception, d’approbation et de mise en oeuvre des …

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 present report seeks to inform critical questions with regard to policy mixes of investments in adaptation and … mitigation, and how they might vary over time. This is facilitated here by examining adaptation within global Integrated … Assessment Modelling frameworks. None of the existing Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) captures adaptation satisfactorily …