) to replace the SRES scenarios. To be used to investigate adaptation and mitigation, SSPs need to be contrasted along two … axes: challenges to mitigation, and challenges to adaptation. This paper proposes a methodology to develop SSPs with a … 'backward' approach. The methodology is based on (i) an a priori identification of potential drivers of mitigation and …

effective. Adaptation to climate change can be expected to have higher synergies with poverty alleviation than mitigation … emissions mitigation. However, the contribution of emissions mitigation projects to the central development objective of poverty …

global mitigation within a noncooperative framework where countries either decide on mitigation before or after adaptation … lower national contributions to the global public good of mitigation. We find that the sequencing of adaptation before … when adaptation is decided before mitigation. Besides this theoretical contribution, the paper proposes some strategies to …

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

damages, mitigation, or adaptation costs, may cause fundamental changes in the countries' strategic behaviour concerning … mitigation and adaptation efforts. Moreover, some of the instruments fall short of a minimum requirement for the donors to …-country framework in which donor and recipient decide on mitigation in the first, and on adaptation in the second stage of the game. …

have been taken, there remains a very long way to go addressing the interlinked development, adaptation, and mitigation … climate change argues for recipient country leadership in the implementation of co-ordinated development, adaptation, and … mitigation strategies based on predictable and long-term financial flows. Transparent and effective information systems in …

public climate adaptation. Specifically, we distinguish three dimensions of public adaptation: extent, structure (form and … voters, pressure groups, bureaucrats and politicians may bias adaptation decisions. Thus, we indicate specific barriers to … efficient public adaptation. Based on this framework, we illustrate how Germany's response to major flood disasters reflects the …

Since numerous countries have already initiated a process of adaptation to climate change by drafting strategies or … catalogues of measures, it is of particular importance to identify and overcome potential barriers to efficient public adap-tation … adaptation policy process. This is for the reason that several features of the adaptation option and the surrounding policy …

This paper contributes to the normative literature on mitigation and adaptation by analyzing their optimal policy … substantive emission reductions, do not succeed. The policy balance is realigned from adaptation toward more mitigation, and the … responsiveness of mitigation to changes in adaptation decreases. Compared to a world without climate catastrophes, risk reduces the …