The COVID-19 crisis demonstrates the need to invest much more in pre-disaster risk reduction and preparedness for a range of risks, including climate change and its accompanying hazards such as flooding. But what, asks Swenja Surminski, does this kind of investment need to consider in practice – and why is ‘resilience’ not already widely taken into account when making policy and investment decisions? Read more
This article reviews the economic and analytical challenges of adaptation to climate change. Read more
Abstract Discussions about adaptation finance have largely concentrated on process: how money should be raised and how adaptation spending should... Read more
Working Paper 37 Abstract The discussions about adaptation finance have mostly been about process: how money should be raised and... Read more
Abstract Additional finance for adaptation is an important element of the emerging international climate change framework. This paper discusses how... Read more
Abstract (1287) Cameron Hepburn and Benito Müller Greenhouse gas emissions from international aviation services have been increasing rapidly and are... Read more
The costs of adaptation Read more
Abstract A levy on the Clean Development Mechanism and other carbon trading schemes is a potential source of finance for... Read more
Working Paper 7 Abstract Policy interest in the cost of adaptation is growing, but compared to the mitigation cost literature,... Read more