scholarly journals Physical and economic consequences of climate change in Europe

2011 ◽  
Vol 108 (7) ◽  
pp. 2678-2683 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.-C. Ciscar ◽  
A. Iglesias ◽  
L. Feyen ◽  
L. Szabo ◽  
D. Van Regemorter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Economic Consequences

scholarly journals COSTS AND BENEFITS OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN SWITZERLAND

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (02) ◽  
pp. 1950005 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANK VÖHRINGER ◽  
MARC VIELLE ◽  
PHILIPPE THALMANN ◽  
ANITA FREHNER ◽  
WOLFGANG KNOKE ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
General Equilibrium ◽  
Computable General Equilibrium ◽  
Heat Waves ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Climate Scenarios ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Impact Studies ◽  
Summer Temperatures ◽  
Data Constraints

Understanding the economic magnitude of climate change (CC) impacts is a prerequisite for developing adequate adaptation strategies. In Switzerland, despite new climate scenarios and impact studies, only few impacts have been monetized. Our objective is to assess costs and opportunities of CC for Switzerland by 2060, while enhancing the assessment methods. Using inputs from bottom-up impact studies, we simulate the economic consequences of climate scenarios in a computable general equilibrium (CGE) framework. We cover health, buildings/infrastructure, energy, water, agriculture, tourism, the spill-overs to other sectors, and international effects. Due to data constraints, significant impacts have not been quantified, e.g., for heat waves and droughts more extreme than the 2060 average climate. For the considered impacts, welfare decreases by 0.37% to 1.37% in 2060 relative to a reference without CC. Higher summer temperatures increase mortality and decrease productivity. Contrariwise, tourism benefits from extended summer seasons. Regarding energy, increased demand for cooling is overcompensated by savings in heating.

scholarly journals The economic consequences of future climate change in the forest sector of Russia

2019 ◽  
Vol 226 ◽  
pp. 012032
Author(s):  
I O Torzhkov ◽  
E A Kushnir ◽  
A V Konstantinov ◽  
T S Koroleva ◽  
S V Efimov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Future Climate ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Forest Sector

Vulnerable Regions in a Changing Climate

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Leichenko
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Planetary Systems ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Climate Impacts ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Changing Climate

Economic geographers have made important contributions to the understanding of many facets of climate change, yet the field has had relatively limited engagement with the study of climate impacts, vulnerabilities, and adaptation. Instead, most work on the economic consequences of climate disruption is being done by researchers in other disciplines or in other subfields of geography. This chapter argues that broad recognition of humanity’s role in shaping Earth’s planetary systems, combined with new hope and opportunity engendered by the 2015 Paris Agreement on reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, present a pivotal moment for economic geographers to take a more central role in the study of climate change and in broader, interdisciplinary conversations about the meaning and implications of the Anthropocene.

scholarly journals Ocean ventilation and deoxygenation in a warming world: introduction and overview

2017 ◽  
Vol 375 (2102) ◽  
pp. 20170240 ◽  
Author(s):  
John G. Shepherd ◽  
Peter G. Brewer ◽  
Andreas Oschlies ◽  
Andrew J. Watson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Ocean Circulation ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Oxygen Solubility ◽  
Ocean Ventilation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Indirect Impacts ◽  
Warming World ◽  
Ventilation Rates ◽  
Oral Presentations

Changes of ocean ventilation rates and deoxygenation are two of the less obvious but important indirect impacts expected as a result of climate change on the oceans. They are expected to occur because of (i) the effects of increased stratification on ocean circulation and hence its ventilation, due to reduced upwelling, deep-water formation and turbulent mixing, (ii) reduced oxygenation through decreased oxygen solubility at higher surface temperature, and (iii) the effects of warming on biological production, respiration and remineralization. The potential socio-economic consequences of reduced oxygen levels on fisheries and ecosystems may be far-reaching and significant. At a Royal Society Discussion Meeting convened to discuss these matters, 12 oral presentations and 23 posters were presented, covering a wide range of the physical, chemical and biological aspects of the issue. Overall, it appears that there are still considerable discrepancies between the observations and model simulations of the relevant processes. Our current understanding of both the causes and consequences of reduced oxygen in the ocean, and our ability to represent them in models are therefore inadequate, and the reasons for this remain unclear. It is too early to say whether or not the socio-economic consequences are likely to be serious. However, the consequences are ecologically, biogeochemically and climatically potentially very significant, and further research on these indirect impacts of climate change via reduced ventilation and oxygenation of the oceans should be accorded a high priority. This article is part of the themed issue ‘Ocean ventilation and deoxygenation in a warming world’.

Costing the Earth: A Numbers Game or a Moral Imperative?

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 378-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerard Roe
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Regional Climate ◽  
Relative Weight ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Climate Impacts ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Economic Costs ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Moral Arguments

Abstract It is a simple truism that public policy must be guided by an objective analysis of the physical and economic consequences of climate change. It is equally true that policy making is an inherently value-laden endeavor. While these two threads are interconnected, the relative weight given to each depends on the certainty that the technical analyses can deliver. For climate change, the envelope of uncertainty is best understood at the global scale, and there are some well known and formidable challenges to reducing it. This uncertainty must in turn be compounded with much more poorly constrained uncertainties in regional climate, climate impacts, and future economic costs. The case can be made that technical analyses have reached the point of diminishing returns. Should meaningful action on climate change await greater analytical certainty? This paper argues that policy makers should give greater weight to moral arguments, in no small part because that is where the heart of the debate really lies.

Full Scale VAPEX Process-Climate Change Advantage and Economic Consequences A

2003 ◽  
Vol 42 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
R.W. Luhning ◽  
S.K. Das ◽  
L.J. Fisher ◽  
J. Bakker ◽  
J. Grabowski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Economic Consequences

scholarly journals (New) Ecological Problems: Post-pandemic Climate Change Remains an Oceania Existential Threat

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Change Strategies ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Mining Areas ◽  
The North ◽  
Ecological Problems

Environmental damage, climate change, and increasingly intense natural disasters are serious problems faced by humanity in this millennium. More ecological damage occurs due to expensive and destructive human activities. Illegal logging, expansion of mining areas, pollution of water sources, overfishing, trade-in protected wildlife continue to happen, and the scale is even greater. Meanwhile, climate change is increasingly visible and impacting communities in urban to rural areas. Coastal cities in the United States to coastal villages in the north of Java and the microstates of the South Pacific facing the real impact of sea-level rise. Disasters that occur bring not only material losses but also socio-economic consequences for people affected. The emergence of new ecological problems is being faced by humanity. The complexity of ecological problems is nonlinear, turbulent, and dynamic. This was the theme of the panel (New) Ecological Problems: Defining the Relationship between Humans and the Environment at the Symposium on Social Science 2020. This paper, part of the SOSS 2020 panel on ecological problems, argues for countries to overhaul and “reset” their public health and economic systems to ones based on strengthening multilateral institutions and collaboration, and to abandon or seriously curtail neoliberalism models that have failed. It also argues that the profession of journalism also needs to approach climate change strategies with as much urgency as for addressing the global COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. The current crisis is a precursor to further crises unless the globe changes its ways to heal both people and the planet.

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