Focusing on differences across scenarios could lead to bad adaptation policy advice

Bramka Arga Jafino (), Stephane Hallegatte and Julie Rozenberg
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Bramka Arga Jafino: Delft University of Technology
Julie Rozenberg: The World Bank

Nature Climate Change, 2021, vol. 11, issue 5, 394-396

Abstract: Abstract As development and adaptation are closely intertwined, assessing the benefits of adaptation by focusing only on how it reduces climate impacts could lead to misleading policy advice. In some cases, trying to minimize climate impacts could lead to inferior outcomes. It is preferable to explore how policies influence the absolute level of metrics of interest in scenarios with climate change rather than to focus on how they influence incremental climate impacts.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1038/s41558-021-01030-9

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