{"id":59797,"date":"2022-11-03T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T09:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.i4ce.org\/publication\/moyens-adaptation-consequences-changement-climatique-france\/"},"modified":"2022-11-03T16:45:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T15:45:43","slug":"ensuring-sufficient-adapt-climate-change-consequences-france-costs","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/staging.i4ce.org\/en\/publication\/ensuring-sufficient-adapt-climate-change-consequences-france-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ensuring sufficient means to adapt to climate change consequences in France: What are the costs?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This <\/span>study <\/span>is a contribution to the French public debate. It aims at supporting the accelera<\/span>tion and concretization of climate change adaptation initiatives in this country.<\/span> <\/span>The <\/span>study reviews 11 <\/span>adaptation <\/span>challenges<\/span> such as <\/span>the strengthening of civil <\/span>protection<\/span>, <\/span>the <\/span>reshaping<\/span> of coastal <\/span>areas<\/span> or the <\/span>protection of water resources<\/span>.<\/span> For e<\/span>ach <\/span>challenge<\/span>, <\/span>the study presents<\/span> national budgetary decisio<\/span>ns <\/span>ready to<\/span> make in the next Finance Bill that would complement existing <\/span>actions and<\/span> cost elements to feed <\/span>the required<\/span> arbitrations yet to be made.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Although France has had a National Adaptation Strategy since 2005 and a 2nd National Adaptation Plan (PNACC2) since 2017, concrete action in terms of anticipating the consequences of climate change remained limited up to now. However, since the publication of the volume II of the 6th IPCC report and especially in a context of increasing number of exceptional meteorological events (drought, succession of heat waves associated with major fires, episodes of intense precipitation, late frosts, etc.) formally attributed by scientists to climate change, the subject has started to take another dimension. National (ministries, member, or Parliament) and sub-national (local authorities) public decision-makers are now seeking to provide operational responses to address the issue. The current preparation of the future French Climate and Energy Strategy (SFEC), which for the first time should combine mitigation and adaptation to climate change in a common approach, should be one of the key moments of this evolution.<\/p>\n

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As a specialist in the economic and financial aspects of climate issues, the Institute for Climate Economics (I4<\/span>CE<\/strong>) has sought to support this dynamic by focusing on the question of the resources to be mobilized for adaptation. Indeed, beyond the existing work on the costs of inaction, it is by raising the question of the costs of action in a very concrete way and by monitoring the resources actually allocated to different subjects that it is possible to move from words to action.<\/p>\n

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This study builds on the results of previous work<\/a> which highlighted the need for public action to catalyze adaptation in France. It is indeed necessary today to sensitize and mobilize all the actors concerned, to create an environment enabling adaptation and to make sure that socially beneficial actions that do not have an immediate economic model are well funded.<\/p>\n

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We have therefore intended to show where these needs lie, to qualify their nature (investment needs, but also engineering and human resource needs) and to give an initial quantitative estimate of the amounts involved. The emphasis of the analysis is very clearly placed on the needs relating to the consideration of adaptation by and in public policies (the complementary part of the adaptation initiative coming from private actors is not addressed here).\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u202fTherefore, this study presents two complementary elements: \u202f<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n