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Climate change: adapting is expensive but doing nothing… even more so

2024-03-12T11:24:50.438Z

Highlights: The Court of Auditors estimates that the cost of adaptation to climate change will be colossal due to the investments to be made. The wise people of rue Cambon immediately point out the scale of the work to be carried out if we do not want to suffer the full brunt of the effects of heatwaves, droughts and other climatic hazards. “The report on the economic impacts of climate action produced in May 2023 (by Jean Pisani-Ferry and Selma Mahfouz), estimated the additional investments that will need to be. made at 67 billion euros per year by 2030. carried out as part of the climate transition, including 25 to 34 billion euros borne by public administrations,” underlines the Court ofAuditors.


The Court of Auditors estimates that the cost of adaptation to climate change will be colossal due to the investments to be made for mo


It is a bill that France will have to pay but which it prefers not to face for the moment.

So the Court of Auditors puts its foot down this Tuesday March 12 in its annual report devoted to public action by encouraging public authorities and businesses to… open their eyes.

And not to delay in taking action.

The wise people of rue Cambon immediately point out the scale of the work to be carried out if we do not want to suffer the full brunt of the effects of heatwaves, droughts and other climatic hazards.

“The report on the economic impacts of climate action produced in May 2023 (by Jean Pisani-Ferry and Selma Mahfouz), estimated the additional investments that will need to be made at 67 billion euros per year by 2030. carried out as part of the climate transition, including 25 to 34 billion euros borne by public administrations,” underlines the Court of Auditors.

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Source: leparis

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