Climate protection 'to cost more'

[steven johnson]

Now that global climate change looks more certain, the worst case scenarios are being priced out. It really looks grim.

One meter sea level rise is predicted within 100 years. Some parts of lower Manhattan only about 5 feet above the mean
sea level, a rise of 8.3 inches in addition to the global mean rise would pose a threat to this region because of the
amplification of sea level rise by storm surges.

Protecting societies against the impacts of climate change will be much more expensive than previously believed, according to a new analysis.

In 2007, the UN climate convention came up with a sum of $49-171bn per year.

The new report says the UN sums omitted important factors and the true cost will be two to three times higher.

He said UNFCCC calculations had taken into account only half of the extra disease burden due to emerge from climate change, assumed low levels of future development in Africa (so giving less infrastructure to protect), used low estimates for sea level rise and had not included the economic costs of nature loss.
Climate protection 'to cost more'