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Assistant Professor Modelling impacts of climate change @UUCopernicus | @IMAGE_PBL | @COACCH_EU | contributing author @IPCC_CH WG III and Synthesis Report
Mar 23, 2023 8 tweets 6 min read
Our new @NatureClimate paper just out! State-of-the-art estimates of economic impacts of climate change show that benefits of #ClimateAction outweigh the mitigation costs by a factor of 1.5 to 3.9 ➡️strong economic validation of #ParisAgreement 🔗 rdcu.be/c8jSK 1/7 We combined climate impacts of
🔴agriculture,
🟠sea-level rise,
🟡river floods,
🟢labour productivity,
🔵energy supply/demand,
🟣fishery,
🟤forestry and
⚫️road transportation
and transform this in financial costs. But not: ❌biodiversity loss❌health❌tipping points 2/7