Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change : Vietnam

This report provides a synthesis of key
findings of sector studies undertaken in Vietnam in the
context of the EACC study. The sector studies were on
agriculture (Zhu & Guo 2010), a separate computable
general equilibrium [CGE] analysisbased on
agriculture findings (Adams et al. 2010), aquaculture (Kam
et al. 2010), forestry (Phuong). At the global level, the
EACC study estimates that it will costbetween $70
and $100 billion each year to adapt to climate change over
the period 2010 to 2050. The study was funded by the
governments of the UnitedKingdom, Netherlands, and
Switzerland. Further details may be found at:
www.worldbank.org/eacc. In addition, the synthesis report
from Vietnam and the six underlying national sector reports
can be downloaded from the Environment site of the World
Bank s web site for Vietnam:
www.worldbank.org/vn/environment.et al. 2010,
Almeida et al. 2010), social (McElwee et al. 2010), and
coastal ports (VIMARU 2010). Further details can be found in
the individual sector reports prepared by teams of national
and international experts.