Assessing the costs of adaptation to climate change: a review of the UNFCCC and other recent estimates

By Martin Parry, N. Arnell, P. Berry, D. Dodman, Sam Fankhauser, Chris K. Hope, S. Kovats, Robert J. Nicholls, D. Satterthwaite, R. Tiffin and 1 more. 2009

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• The Social Cost of Co2 from the Page09 Model (2011, unknown): “Parry et al, 2009, finds that “much damage will not be adapted to over the longer term… the amount may be significant and is likely to increase over time”, but the only quantitative estimate is for agriculture where residual impacts are estimated at about a fifth of all impacts in 2030, so that…”
• Adaptation investments: a resource allocation framework (2010, background): “…2007) are of a similar order of magnitude, while the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC 2008) expects adaptation costs of $27–67 billion a year in developing countries and $44–166 billion a year worldwide (an underestimate, according to Parry et al. 2009; see also Fankhauser 2010).”
• Tourism and water use: supply, demand, and security. An international review. (2012, background): “…northern China, Australia, the USA, Mexico, north eastern Brazil and the west coast of South America (Arnell, 2004; Vörösmarty et al., 2000), and up to 3.2 billion peoplewould facewater stress by 2100 under a 4 C global climate change scenario (Parry et al., 2009a; Parry, Lowe, & Hanson, 2009b).”
• Plan or React? Analysis of Adaptation Costs and Benefits Using Integrated Assessment Models (2011, unknown): “Although later versions of the PAGE model have been developed, the specification of adaptation is largely unchanged (Hope 2006, 2009).”
• Social and economic impacts of climate change on the urban environment (2011, background): “Reports from organizations such as the UNFCCC, World Bank, and others are criticized as significantly underestimating the costs of adaptation, resulting from several factors, such as first, non-inclusion of sectors, second, partial coverage of sectors included, and third, the use of ‘climate mark-up”
• Climate change and the transition to neoliberal environmental governance (2017, background): “And in terms of costs related to climate impacts that are beyond the possibility of adaptation (what is known as ‘ loss and damage ’ ), Hope (2009) estimated damages as high as $2.8 trillion in 2060.”