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    Climate Policies

    Modern Risk-Based Assessment of Investments in Mitigation, Adaptation, and Recovery from Residual Harm

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    Yohe, Gary (editor)
    Smith, Joel (editor)
    Collection
    Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
    Number
    77e72dff-2ebb-4674-8c3f-98ec2be5554a
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    This collection of chapters is organized in sections that reflect humanity’s three broad categories of climate policy options: abate (mitigate to reduce the likelihood of climate impacts), adapt (ameliorate some of the consequences of those impacts), and suffer (the residual costs that cannot be avoided). All apply a risk-based perspective to discussions and assessments of what we do and do not know and, thus, what we can or perhaps cannot really do. Each chapter includes, in their concluding remarks at least, some attempt to identify critical gaps in our current understanding of the specific circumstances of the coupling of the climate and human systems on earth and, by continuation, elaborate on constraints on our confidence in relative efficacies that we project in our policy deliberations as we confront particular illustrative risks. Specifically, efficacy judgements take account of at least one of the IPCC metrics for judging response efficacy: net climate change damages, co-benefits and costs of policies, measures of sustainability (of systems and policies), equity calibrated in various metrics of human welfare security, and the degree to which people, communities, sub-national governance bodies, nations, and international institutions are averse to risk.
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    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101421
    Keywords
    Technology & Engineering; Agriculture; Sustainable Agriculture
    ISBN
    9780850148855
    Publisher
    InTechOpen
    Publisher website
    https://www.intechopen.com/
    Publication date and place
    2025
    Grantor
    • Knowledge Unlatched
    Imprint
    IntechOpen
    Classification
    Sustainable agriculture
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    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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