effective. Adaptation to climate change can be expected to have higher synergies with poverty alleviation than mitigation …

It is well established that adaptation and technological investment in each case may serve as a commitment device in … 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 …

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 …

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 …

. Mitigation policies have a strict compliance regime using both positive and negative reinforcement. On the other side, adaptation … policies and adaptation policies. It concludes that in the absence of matching binding commitments from other large emitters of … societal and economic adaptation to the new climate conditions and, on short-term, more focus on adaptation policies in …

greenhouse gas emissions, mitigation, and adaptation.  …

dealing with mitigation and adaptation are mentioned.  …

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 …