Assessing costs of climate change

A commercial research centre in the UK released a report in 1998 suggesting that changing climate patterns are causing more frequent and fierce natural disasters. One "reinsurance" firm compared the scale and cost of natural disasters in the 1960s with those of the late 1990s. The results show that natural catastrophes have tripled in number and are costing the industry fifteen times more than they did thirty years ago.

1. There has been far too much talk of the burdens associated with meeting climate change targets and far too little about the opportunities. Warmer homes, better transport and more efficient companies are some of the benefits of adjusting to climate change. There are also be new jobs and new opportunites for companies in the emerging environmental technology market.

1. Countering global warming

1. Revising climate change estimates
2. Assessing likely effects of climate change on the coastal environment
3. Assessing impact of environmental degradation on women
4. Assessing impact of climate change on water resources
5. Assessing health costs of climate change

1. Using economic instruments to mitigate climate change
2. Preparing contingency plans to mitigate effects of climate change
3. Developing regional health policy for climate change
4. Developing policy on climate change
5. Countering adverse impact of climate change on water resources
6. Adapting to climate change

1. Studying global warming

1. Vulnerability of crops to weather
2. Global warming

1. Changeableness
2. Change