HIGHLIGHTS
- To effectively combat climate change, we must quantify impacts across multiple domestic sectors.
- Abt’s multi-disciplinary teams develop rigorous analytical methods to measure those impacts.
- Our findings provide context for decision-makers, and are featured in numerous peer reviewed publications.
PROJECT
Support for Climate Change Impacts Analyses
The Challenge
Abt Global’s staff has developed and implemented spatially specific modeling approaches for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to quantify, and often estimate the cost of, the impacts of climate change on a number of sectors and dynamics in the United States.
These include:
- Coral reef cover and visitation;
- Terrestrial ecosystem carbon storage;
- Wildfire frequency and severity;
- Fishing and winter recreation;
- Coastal and inland flooding damage;
- Bridge degradation and replacement;
- Water supply and demand;
- Vector-borne disease;
- Labor supply; and
- Human mortality associated with extreme temperatures (heat and cold).
The Approach
Our ongoing research includes efforts on inland flooding and tick-borne disease. Our work coordinates efforts across in-house interdisciplinary teams of experts as well as external consultants.
The Results
This work supports the U.S. EPA Climate Change Division’s widely publicized Climate Impacts and Risk Assessment (CIRA) project. It also has resulted in the recent publication of numerous peer-reviewed articles.
Read recent journal articles:
- By-degree Health and Economic Impacts of Lyme Disease, Eastern and Midwestern United States
- A Multi-Model Framework to Achieve Consistent Evaluation of Climate Change Impacts in the United States
- City-level vulnerability to temperature-related mortality in the USA and future projections: a geographically clustered meta-regression
- Informing Future Risks of Record-Level Rainfall in the United States
- Reframing Future Risks of Extreme Heat in the United States
- Projecting Changes in Expected Annual Damages From Riverine Flooding in the United States
- Climate change, riverine flood risk and adaptation for the conterminous United States
- Climate change impacts on flood risk and asset damages within mapped 100-year floodplains of the contiguous United States
- Modeling coastal flood risk and adaptation response under future climate conditions
- Projecting Age-Stratified Risk of Exposure to Inland Flooding and Wildfire Smoke in the United States under Two Climate Scenarios
- Impacts of Increasing Temperature on the Future Incidence of West Nile Neuroinvasive Disease in the United States
- Projected climate change impacts on skiing and snowmobiling: A case study of the United States