) 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 …

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 …

stimulate efficient adaptation and mitigation should not exclusively rely on the assumption of the homo oeconomicus, but take … outcomes. This paper systematically reviews what prospect theory can offer to analyse mitigation and adaptation. It is shown …-known puzzles in the climate debate, including (but not limited to) the different uptake of mitigation and adaptation amongst …

A strategy of inclusion of adaptation and mitigation expenses in a model of optimal growth under threat of climate … (even to extinction forever) and/or triggers a fundamental change of the economic structure. Mitigation expenses reduce the … long-run probability of a calamity or the speed of convergence to it; adaptation expenses help to improve the standard of …

occur (adaptation). The tension is that mitigation and adaptation investments are strategic substitutes. We begin with a … model that points to how non-binding pledges could be more effective in a world with both mitigation and adaptation … adaptation opportunities exist, pledges lead to higher investment in col- lective mitigation, lower investment in adaptation and …

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