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Author : Mahfuz Ahmed,Suphachol Suphachalasai
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9292545108
Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789292545116
This report synthesizes the results of country and sector studies on the economic costs and benefits of unilateral and regional actions on climate change in the Asian Development Bank's six South Asia developing members, namely Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The study takes into account the different scenarios and impacts projected across vulnerable sectors and estimates the total economic loss throughout the 21st century and amount of funding required for adaptation measures to avert such potential losses. It is envisioned to strengthen decision-making capacities and improve understanding of the economics of climate change for the countries in South Asia.
Author : Ruchir Agarwal,Vybhavi Balasundharam,Patrick Blagrave,Mr. Eugenio M Cerutti,Ragnar Gudmundsson,Racha Mousa
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781513590677
The South Asia region is both a large contributor to climate change and also one of the regions most vulnerable to climate change. This paper provides an overview of the region’s vulnerabilities, national committments to mitigate emissions, and national policies to adapt to a changing climate. The paper also discusses policy measures that may be needed to make further progress on both mitigation and adapatation. Our analysis suggests that while substantial progress is being made, there remains scope to adopt a more cohesive strategy to achieve the region’s goals—including by improving the monitoring and tracking of adaptation spending, and by laying the groundwork to equitably increase the effective price of carbon while protecting low-income and vulnerable households in the region.
Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : UCSD:31822038161295
This report provides a review of the economics of climate change in the Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Viet Nam. It confirms that the region is highly vulnerable to climate change and demonstrates that a wide range of adaptation measures are already being applied. The report also shows that the region has a great potential to contribute to greenhouse gas emission reduction, and that the costs to the region and globally of taking no early action against climate change could be very high. The basic policy message is that efforts must be made to apply all feasible and economically viable adaptation and mitigation measures as key elements of a sustainable development strategy for Southeast Asia. It also argues that the current global economic crisis offers Southeast Asia an opportunity to start a transition towards a climate-resilient and low-carbon economy by introducing green stimulus programs that can simultaneously shore up economies, create jobs, reduce poverty, lower carbon emissions, and prepare for the worst effects of climate change.
Author : Anamika Barua,Vishal Narain,Sumit Vij
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351680783
Climate change adaptation in South Asia is redefining the roles of different actors in the governance processes. The existing governance lack capacity, knowledge, and leadership skills to manage the uncertainties and challenges posed by climate change. This book aims to explain how the governance of climate change adaptation and mitigation is being shaped in the region and how climate change is impacting upon the governance of natural resources. Although the focus is on South Asia, the editors draw a wide range of contributions from northern and southern communities and across various agro-ecological contexts. Climate Change Governance and Adaptation: Case Studies from South Asia sees the changing climate not only as an environmental problem but as a societal challenge and discusses the governance challenges from an interdisciplinary social science perspective across different levels: local, state, and national. Discusses also the challenges and opportunities for increasing the resilience of the society through effective governance around climate change. A top down approach to govern climate change adaptation may not yield desired outcomes; instead the book emphasizes the need to integrate issues of equity, into climate governance and polices. The lessons learned from different cases across South Asia help readers have a better and deeper understanding of the relationships between governance and climate change. Given the diversity of themes covered, this book will appeal not only to researchers and practitioners in the climate change community, but also to those with a broader interest in governance processes.
Author : Sulser, Timothy,Wiebe, Keith D.,Dunston, Shahnila,Cenacchi, Nicola,Nin-Pratt, Alejandro,Mason-D’Croz, Daniel,Robertson, Richard D.,Willenbockel, Dirk,Rosegrant, Mark W.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
This report assesses the cost of adaptation to climate change across a range of future climate scenarios and investment options. We focus on offsetting climate change impacts on hunger through investment in agricultural research, water management, and rural infrastructure in developing countries. We link climate, crop, water, and economic models to (1) analyze scenarios of future change in the agriculture sector to 2050 and (2) assess trade-offs for these investments across key Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for poverty, hunger, and water. Our reference projections show that climate change slows progress toward eliminating hunger, with an additional 78 million people facing chronic hunger in 2050 relative to a no-climate-change future, over half of them in Africa south of the Sahara. Increased investments can offset these impacts. Achieving this would require that annual investment in international agricultural research increase from US$1.62 billion to US$2.77 billion per year between 2015 and 2050. Additional water and infrastructure investments are estimated to be more expensive than agricultural R&D at about US$12.7 billion and US$10.8 billion per year, respectively, but these address key gaps to support transformation toward food system resiliency. Findings on ranges of costs and trade-offs and complementarities across SDGs will help policymakers make better-informed choices between alternative investment strategies.
Author : Joy Jacqueline Pereira,Mohd Khairul Zain,Rajib Shaw
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811660887
This book highlights the current issues, challenges, and priorities for climate change adaptation in the ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The status of each country was prepared by a consortium of researchers in consultation with National Focal Points of the ASEAN Working Group on Climate Change (AWGCC). National documents on adaptation actions, including local scenario and priorities, were reviewed where available and supplemented with an assessment of scientific publications to identify vulnerable ecosystems and regions. Adaptation needs and priorities were determined through stakeholder consultation in the respective countries. This allows for local-level perspectives to be captured and brought to the attention of policy and decision-makers at the national and regional levels. An important lesson from this exercise is that universities and research institutions at the national level have a critical role to play in bridging the gap between science and policy in climate change adaptation. These institutions also have the capacity to continuously facilitate transfer of the best available science for advancing climate change adaptation at the local level.
Author : Martin L. Parry
Publisher : IIED
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 9781843697459
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264046214
This report provides a critical assessment of adaptation costs and benefits in key climate sensitive sectors, as well as at national and global levels.
Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789292578527
Asia and the Pacific continues to be exposed to climate change impacts. Home to the majority of the world's poor, the population of the region is particularly vulnerable to those impacts. Unabated warming could largely diminish previous achievements of economic development and improvements, putting the future of the region at risk. Read the most recent projections pertaining to climate change and climate change impacts in Asia and the Pacific, and the consequences of these changes to human systems, particularly for developing countries. This report also highlights gaps in the existing knowledge and identifies avenues for continued research.
Author : Hirji, R.,Nicol, Alan,Davis, R.
Publisher : Washington, DC, USA: World Bank; Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Asha Hans,Nitya Rao,Anjal Prakash,Amrita Patel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000335316
This book focuses on the gendered experiences of environmental change across different geographies and social contexts in South Asia and on diverse strategies of adapting to climate variability. The book analyzes how changes in rainfall patterns, floods, droughts, heatwaves and landslides affect those who are directly dependent on the agrarian economy. It examines the socio-economic pressures, including the increase in women’s work burdens both in production and reproduction on gender relations. It also examines coping mechanisms such as male migration and the formation of women’s collectives which create space for agency and change in rigid social relations. The volume looks at perspectives from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal to present the nuances of gender relations across borders along with similarities and differences across geographical,socio-cultural and policy contexts. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of sociology, development, gender, economics, environmental studies and South Asian studies. It will also be useful for policymakers, NGOs and think tanks working in the areas of gender, climate change and development.
Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789292570781
Climate change represents an increasing threat to the continued development of the people, preservation of ecosystems, and economic growth of Asia and the Pacific. Mainstreaming climate risk management in all aspects of development is thus key to an effective transition to climate-resilient development pathways. ADB's climate risk management framework aims to reduce risks resulting from climate change to investment projects in Asia and the Pacific. A key step in this framework is the technical and economic valuation of climate-proofing measures. This report describes the conduct of the cost-benefit analysis of climate proofing investment projects. An important message is that the presence of uncertainty about climate change does not invalidate the conduct of the economic analysis of investment projects, nor does it require a new type of economic analysis. However, the presence of uncertainty does require a different type of decision-making process in which technical and economic expertise combine to present decision makers with the best possible information on the economic efficiency of alternative designs of investment projects.
Author : Nelson, Gerald C.,Rosegrant, Mark W.,Koo, Jawoo,Robertson, Richard,Sulser, Timothy,Zhu, Tingju,Ringler, Claudia,Msangi, Siwa,Palazzo, Amanda,Batka, Miroslav,Magalhaes, Marilia,Valmonte-Santos, Rowena,Ewing, Mandy,Lee, David
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780896295353
This Food Policy Report presents research results that quantify the climate-change impacts mentioned above, assesses the consequences for food security, and estimates the investments that would offset the negative consequences for human well-being.
Author : David A. Raitzer,Francesco Bosello,Massimo Tavoni,Carlo Orecchia,Giacomo Marangoni,Jindra Nuella G. Samson
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789292573058
Climate change is a global concern of special relevance to Southeast Asia, a region that is both vulnerable to the effects of climate change and a rapidly increasing emitter of greenhouse gases (GHGs). This study focuses on five countries of Southeast Asia that collectively account for 90% of regional GHG emissions in recent years---Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam. It applies two global dynamic economy–energy–environment models under an array of scenarios that reflect potential regimes for regulating global GHG emissions through 2050. The modeling identifies the potential economic costs of climate inaction for the region, how the countries can most efficiently achieve GHG emission mitigation, and the consequences of mitigation, both in terms of benefits and costs. Drawing on the modeling results, the study analyzes climate-related policies and identifies how further action can be taken to ensure low-carbon growth.