Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/53300 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 79.2009
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
The usually assumed two categories of costs involved in climate change policy analysis, namely abatement and damage costs, hide the presence of a third category, namely adaptation costs. This dodges the determination of an appropriate level for them. Including adaptation costs explicitly in the total environmental cost function allows one to characterize the optimal (cost minimizing) balance between the three categories, in statics as well as in dynamics. Implications are derived for cost benefit analysis of adaptation expenditures.
Subjects: 
Climate Change
Mitigation
Adaptation
Suffering
JEL: 
Q5
H0
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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