Amir Jina
The United States faces a range of economic risks from global climate change — from increased flooding and storm damage, to climate-driven changes in crop yields and labor productivity, to heat-related strains on energy and public health systems. Economic Risks of Climate Change: An American Prospectus provides a groundbreaking new analysis of these and other climate risks by region of the country and sector of the economy. By linking state-of-the-art climate models with econometric research of human responses to climate variability and cutting edge private sector risk assessment tools, the American Climate Prospectus (ACP) offers decision-makers a data driven assessment of the specific risks they face.