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For Europe, this is for example done by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in the PESETA IV project. PESETA IV looks at different hazards like heat and cold waves (human impact), windstorms, water resources, droughts, river and coastal floods and wildfires, but also at different sectors and systems like forests, agriculture or energy. With climate measures in line with the Paris Agreement, 60 000 annual fatalities due to heatwaves can be avoided by the end of the century compared to a 3°C temperature increase scenario compared to the pre-industrial level and annual drought losses would be reduced by EUR 20 billion per year. For flooding, damage from river floods can be halved to around EUR 24 billion per year and economic losses from coastal flooding could be lowered by more than EUR 100 billion per year in 2100.

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  • minnen (Jelle Van Minnen) 21 Nov 2021 21:48:42

    "With climate measures in line with the Paris Agreement, 60 000 annual fatalities due to heatwaves can be avoided by the end of the century compared to a 3°C temperature increase scenario compared to the pre-industrial level and annual drought losses would be reduced by EUR 20 billion per year."

     

    Difficult to understand due to strange order: "With climate measures in line with the Paris Agreement, by the end of the century60 000 annual fatalities due to heatwaves and EUR 20 billion per year drought lossses could be avoided, compared to a 3°C temperature increase scenario."

  • sjostasa (Asa Sjöström) 09 Dec 2021 10:34:51

    Be clear about the source - is it PESETA that has found that 60,000 annual fatalities can be avoided? The financial figures seem really high - is it correct that a cost of EUR 100 billion for coastal flooding per year, every year, can be avoided? Compared to the figure in the key message that total economic losses from weather and climate events in the 40-year period between 1980 and 2020 were between EUR 450 and 520 billion? 

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