UNDP Workshop on Socio-economic Assessment of Climate Change Impacts

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Bratislava, Slovak Republic, 8-10 November 2010

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UNDP Bratislava Regional Centre is hosting a workshop on socio-economic assessment of climate change impacts as a way to inform UNDP staff as well as clients on the value of economic assessments for decision-making related to adapting to climate change.

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Funding Source:
ADB

Climate change adaptation in developing countries: issues and perspectives for economic analysis

Author(s):
Muyeye Chambwera and Jesper Stage
Year:
May 2010
Editor:
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
City:
London
Publisher:
IIED
Pages:
39
Summary:

This paper provides guidance to policy-oriented researchers' work on valuing climate change adaptation in developing countries.

Climate change adaptation in developing countries: issues and perspectives for economic analysis

Author(s):
Muyeye Chambwera and Jesper Stage
Year:
May 2010
Editor:
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
City:
London
Publisher:
IIED
Pages:
39
Summary:

This paper provides guidance to policy-oriented researchers' work on valuing climate change adaptation in developing countries.

Adaptation in integrated assessment modeling: where do we stand?

Author(s):
Anthony G. Patt, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Frans Berkhout, Asbjørn Aaheim, Andries F. Hof, Morna Isaac and Reinhard Mechler
Year:
2010
Publisher:
Springer Netherlands
Volume:
Volume 99, Numbers 3-4 / April, 2010
Pages:
383-402
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Abstract

Adaptation is an important element on the climate change policy agenda. Integrated assessment models, which are key tools to assess climate change policies, have begun to address adaptation, either by including it implicitly in damage cost estimates, or by making it an explicit control variable. We analyze how modelers have chosen to describe adaptation within an integrated framework, and suggest many ways they could improve the treatment of adaptation by considering more of its bottom-up characteristics.

Synthesis report on efforts undertaken to assess the costs and benefits of adaptation options, and views on lessons learned, good practices, gaps and needs

Author(s):
UNFCCC - Note by the secretariat
Year:
2010
City:
Bonn
Volume:
FCCC/SBSTA/2010/3
Pages:
3
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Building upon the technical paper containing a review of the existing literature on the potential costs and benefits of adaptation options (FCCC/TP/2009/2), this report synthesizes information contained in submissions from Parties and relevant organizations, and other relevant sources, on efforts undertaken to assess the costs and benefits of adaptation options. A summary of lessons learned and good practices is provided.

The Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change

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The World Bank is working with seven pilot countries—Bangladesh, the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, Samoa and Vietnam on a new study—the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change. The study is funded by the Governments of the United Kingdom, Netherlands, and Switzerland and will help inform the international community’s efforts to provide new and additional resources to developing countries through a better understanding of the global costs of adapting to climate change. It will also help decision makers at the national level to better cost, prioritize, sequence and integrate robust adaptation strategies into their development plans and budgets in a context of high uncertainty, competing needs and limited financial resources.

While national governments have to protect their most vulnerable people and identify financing mechanisms to make their countries resilient to climate change, these costs of adapting to climate change are not known.

Opportunities and Risks of Climate Change and Disasters (ORCHID)

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Background

This process-based tool is designed to be a light touch screening process for donor programmes. The process utilises quantitative inputs climate science which are applied to the risk assessment of programmes usually at wide scales, and using directional trends rather than discrete figures. The tool utilises project documents and interviews with project staff as well as past trend in vulnerability and disaster risk.