Assessing Climate Change Impacts: Agriculture

Assessing Climate Change Impacts: Agriculture

The economy-wide implications of climate change on agricultural sectors in 2050 are estimated using a static computable general equilibrium model. Peculiar to this exercise is the coupling of the economic model with a climatic model forecasting temperature increase in the relevant year and with a crop-growth model estimating climate change impact on cereal productivity. The main results of the ...

Climate Change and Agriculture: Economic Impacts

Agriculture is arguably the most important sector of the economy that is highly dependent on climate. A large body of scientific data and models have been developed to predict the impacts of the contemporary and future climate. Since the first IPCC Assessment Report was published in 1990, substantial efforts have been directed toward understanding climate change impacts on agricultural systems....

Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Global Hydropower

Currently, hydropower accounts for close to 16% of the world’s total power supply and is the world’s most dominant (86%) source of renewable electrical energy. The key resource for hydropower generation is runoff, which is dependent on precipitation. The future global climate is uncertain and thus poses some risk for the hydropower generation sector. The crucial question and challenge then is w...

Assessing climate change impacts on daily streamflow

Assessing climate change impacts on daily streamflow in California: the utility of daily large-scale climate data E. P. Maurer, H. G. Hidalgo, T. Das, M. D. Dettinger, and D. R. Cayan Civil Engineering Dept., Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA Escuela de Fı́sica, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, USA US Geological Survey,...

Climate Change Impacts on European Agriculture: a Multi Model Perspective