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 …

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 …

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 …

Nowadays, as stressed by important strategic documents like for instance the 2009 EU White Paper on Adaptation or the … recent 2009 Copenhagen Accord, it is amply recognized that both mitigation and adaptation strategies are necessary to combat … uncertainty works in the direction to make mitigation a more attractive strategy than adaptation. When catastrophic uncertainty is …

2100 I conclude that, in the absence of adaptation, rainfed maize yields could decrease by 3.3-4.0% on average depending on …

population, impacts on water availability and energy use etc. This article aims to investigate how the issue of adaptation to … climate change has been incorporated into national urban planning. For this, the Urban Adaptation Index (IAU), proposed by …

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 …

problems. In an attempt to advance in the modelling of adaptation within IAM models, we apply this methodology to shed some … light on how the optimal balance between mitigation and adaptation changes under different stochastic scenarios. We find … that stochastic technology growth hardly affects the optimal bundle of mitigation and adaptation whereas uncertainty about …

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