Talk:Economic impacts of climate change/Archive 1

Fisheries
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 * "Data from the FAO since 1950 revealed an increased in the world’s total marine fish production. The graph began to level off around the 1990s. In 1995, a fishing fleet operational cost was $124 billion but revenues were only $70 billion. To make up for the shortfall, many governments had subsidized fishermen with an estimated $30–$34 billion a year to make up their shortfalls. The subsidy sent the wrong message to producers, boasting an unsustainable industry and leading to a misallocation of resources. The number of decked fishing vessels went up from around 600,000 in 1970 to 1,260,000 in 1995. If subsidies were removed, fishers would have to cut down on the number of fishing fleet to cut cost, thus avoiding overfishing and the possible collapse of the fishery."

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Enescot (talk) 12:27, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Use of academic titles
I've removed Professor Bostrom's academic title of professor. I do not see why his professorial status needs to be mentioned. In this article, numerous other sources – e.g., Yohe et al 2007, Stern 2006 – were written by authors who are professors and/or have a PhD. Enescot (talk) 12:27, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Dr. Bell's comment on this article
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"The article is well written but a little dated as most of the references are 2007 or earlier. A lot of climate change research has occurred over the last 10 years.

The article would benefit from a paragraph discussing the difference between uncertainty and risk.

The article would also benefit with a paragraph discussing the economics impacts of climate change justifying mitigation and linking this paragraph to the Wikipedia article on mitigation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_mitigation

The abbreviation HFC in the following paragraphs requires writing in full. The social cost of carbon (SCC) is an aggregate measure of the impacts of climate change. It is defined as the incremental (or marginal) social cost of emitting one more tonne of carbon (as carbon dioxide) into the atmosphere at any point in time (Yohe et al., 2007:821).[13] Different GHGs have different social costs. For example, due to their greater physical capacity to trap infrared radiation, HFCs have a considerably higher social cost per tonne of emission than carbon dioxide. Another physical property that affects the social cost is the atmospheric lifetime of the GHG."

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 * Reference : Foster, John & Bell, William Paul & Wild, Phillip & Sharma, Deepak & Sandu, Suwin & Froome, Craig & Wagner, Liam & Misra, Suchi & Bagia, Ravindra, 2013. "Analysis of institutional adaptability to redress electricity infrastructure vulnerability due to climate change," MPRA Paper 47787, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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"Thank you. As to Africa, the highest impact is on dryland or rain-fed farming. As African agriculture, which is the main contributor to the economy is sensitive to climatic conditions. Marginal changes in temperature has a significant impact on the livelihood of African farmers. Thus, you may need to stress agriculture than coastal areas.

Source : 1) http://wber.oxfordjournals.org/content/20/3/367.abstract 2)http://jae.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2009/04/16/jae.ejp002"

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 * Reference : Deressa, Temesgen T. & Hassan, Rashid M. & Ringler, Claudia, 2009. "Assessing household vulnerability to climate change: The case of farmers in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia," IFPRI discussion papers 935, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).

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"General comment: It is essential to make reference and cite findings from the latest IPCC Assessment Report (2014). In the current version, Smith (2001), Desanker (2001), Anisimov (2001) are cited often, but these works date back to 15 years ago! Other important sources of information are Tol (2015) and the recent work by Roson and Sartori (2016). References: IPCC (2014), Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Part A: Global and Sectoral Aspects. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press. Tol, R.S.J. (2015), “Who Benefits and Who Loses from Climate Change?”, Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation, Springer Science Business Media, New York. Roson, R. and Sartori, M. (2016) Estimation of climate change damage functions for 140 regions in the GTAP9 database, World Bank Policy Research Working Papers, WPS7728, Washington D.C..

Pasted: “Monetary measures of non-market impacts, e.g., impacts on human health and ecosystems, are more difficult to calculate.” Replace by: “Monetary measures of non-market impacts, e.g., impacts on human health (with the exception of the effects on labor productivity) and ecosystems, are more difficult to calculate.”

In the Relative Impacts section, either in the main text or in the comments, add: “Roson and Sartori (2016) provide results from a series of meta-analyses aimed at estimating parameters for six damage functions, referring to: sea level rise, agricultural productivity, heat effects on labor productivity, human health, tourism flows, and households’ energy demand, each one for 140 countries and regions of the world. They found that only a few countries (Mongolia, Canada, and central-northern European countries, including Russia) are expected to get moderate gains from a +3°C increase in temperature, and these gains are typically due to a net increase in tourists' arrivals. Many countries are expected to suffer from dramatic reductions in GDP (e.g.,Togo, -18.29% and Cambodia, -18.25%). In addition to tourism income, variations in agricultural and labor productivity are also very relevant in many regions. Their findings confirm that the negative effects of climate change will be mainly borne by developing countries, located in tropical regions.”"

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 * Reference : Ruslana Rachel Palatnik & Roberto Roson, 2009. "Climate Change Assessment and Agriculture in General Equilibrium Models: Alternative Modeling Strategies," Working Papers 2009.67, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.

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"The General part is ok, but the rest is outdated and strongly based on one publication from 2001. I would rather refer to the IPCC Report: http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg2/"

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 * Reference : Nadine Heitmann & Sonja Peterson, 2012. "The Potential Contribution of the Shipping Sector to an Efficient Reduction of Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions," Kiel Working Papers 1813, Kiel Institute for the World Economy.

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Dr. Bosetti's comment on this article
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"1) There should not be two different entries (economic impacts of global warming and economic impact of climate change). Misleading. 2) The literature revie is very old and does not include all the recent work (see Melissa Dell for a review and the recent work by Burke, Hsiang and Miquel on Nature). 3) The Stern review is certainly relevan but it is very old. 4) Market impacts should come first and the list is very uncomplete.

References:

Dell M, Jones B, Olken B. What Do We Learn from the Weather? The New Climate-Economy Literature. Journal of Economic Literature. 2014.

Hsiang, Solomon M., Marshall Burke, and Edward Miguel. "Quantifying the influence of climate on human conflict." Science 341.6151 (2013): 1235367."

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 * Reference : Valentina Bosetti & Enrica De Cian, 2011. "A Good Opening: The Key to Make the Most of Unilateral Climate Action," Working Papers 2011.81, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.