The missing economic risks in assessments of climate change impacts
DeFries, Ruth
The missing economic risks in assessments of climate change impacts - London Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science 2019
Argues that economic assessments of climate change are missing key risks as they are difficult to quantify and are potentially unknown to human experience. Identifies unprecedent and underplayed risks. Highlights limitations in current assessments of climate system thresholds and human adaptive capacity, outlines greatest potential risks from climate change including destabilisation of ice sheets and glaciers and consequent sea level rise leading to flooding, contamination of fresh water and displacement, stronger tropical cyclones, extreme heat impacts and distruction of biodiversity and collapse of ecosystems leading to population displacement and migration.
Climate change
Risk
Valuetheplanet
Flooding
United Kingdom 1973
The missing economic risks in assessments of climate change impacts - London Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science 2019
Argues that economic assessments of climate change are missing key risks as they are difficult to quantify and are potentially unknown to human experience. Identifies unprecedent and underplayed risks. Highlights limitations in current assessments of climate system thresholds and human adaptive capacity, outlines greatest potential risks from climate change including destabilisation of ice sheets and glaciers and consequent sea level rise leading to flooding, contamination of fresh water and displacement, stronger tropical cyclones, extreme heat impacts and distruction of biodiversity and collapse of ecosystems leading to population displacement and migration.
Climate change
Risk
Valuetheplanet
Flooding
United Kingdom 1973