International Cooperation on Climate Change Adaptation from an Economic Perspective

39 Pages Posted: 16 Jun 2010

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Kelly C. de Bruin

Wageningen University

Rob Dellink

Wageningen University and Research (WUR) - Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Group; Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)

Richard S. J. Tol

VU University Amsterdam - Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM); Carnegie Mellon University - Center for Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change; University of Hamburg - Centre for Marine and Climate Research (ZMK); Princeton University

Date Written: June 16, 2010

Abstract

This paper investigates the economic incentives of countries to cooperate on international adaptation financing. Adaptation is generally implicitly incorporated in the climate change damage functions as used in Integrated Assessment Models. We replace the implicit decision on adaptation with explicit adaptation in a multi-regional setting by using an adjusted RICE model. We show that making adaptation explicit will not affect the optimal mitigation path when adaptation is set at its optimal level. Sub-optimal adaptation will, however, change the optimal mitigation path. Furthermore this paper studies for different forms of cooperation what effects international adaptation transfers will have on (i) domestic adaptation and (ii) the optimal mitigation path. Adaptation transfers will fully crowd out domestic adaptation in a first best setting. Transfers will decrease overall mitigation in our numerical simulations. An analytical framework is used to analyse the most important mechanisms and a numerical model is used to assess the magnitude of effects.

Keywords: Climate Change, Adaptation Funding, Integrated Assessment Modeling

JEL Classification: H41, Q4, Q54

Suggested Citation

de Bruin, Kelly C. and Dellink, Rob and Dellink, Rob and Tol, Richard S. J., International Cooperation on Climate Change Adaptation from an Economic Perspective (June 16, 2010). FEEM Working Paper No. 63.2010, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1625746 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1625746

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