CLIMATE CHANGE FUTURES Health, Ecological <strong>and</strong> Economic Dimensions A Project of: The Center for Health <strong>and</strong> the Global Environment Harvard Medical School Sponsored by: Swiss Re United Nations Development Programme
Published by: The Center for Health <strong>and</strong> the Global Environment Harvard Medical School With support from: Swiss Re United Nations Development Programme Edited by: Paul R. Epstein <strong>and</strong> Evan Mills Contributing editors: Kathleen Frith, Eugene Linden, Brian Thomas <strong>and</strong> Robert Weireter Graphics: Emily Huhn <strong>and</strong> Rebecca Lincoln Art Directors/Design: Evelyn P<strong>and</strong>ozi <strong>and</strong> Juan Pertuz Contributing authors: Pamela Anderson, John Brownstein, Ulisses Confalonieri, Douglas Causey, Nathan Chan, Kristie L. Ebi, Jonathan H. Epstein, J. Scott Greene, Ray Hayes, Eileen Hofmann, Laurence S. Kalkstein, Tord Kjellstrom, Rebecca Lincoln, Anthony J. McMichael, Charles McNeill, David Mills, Avaleigh Milne, Alan D. Perrin, Geetha Ranmuthugala, Christine Rogers, Cynthia Rosenzweig, Colin L. Soskolne, Gary Tabor, Marta Vicarelli, X.B. Yang Reviewers: Frank Ackerman, Adrienne Atwell, Tim Barnett, Virginia Burkett, Colin Butler, Eric Chivian, Richard Clapp, Stephen K. Dishart, Tee L. Guidotti, Elisabet Lindgren, James J. McCarthy, Ivo Menzinger, Richard Murray, David Pimentel, Jan von Overbeck, R.K. Pachauri, Claire L. Parkinson, Kilaparti Ramakrishna, Walter V. Reid, David Rind, Earl Saxon, Ellen-Mosley Thompson, Robert Unsworth, Christopher Walker Additional contributors to the CCF project: Juan Almendares, Peter Bridgewater, Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Manuel Cesario, Michael B. Clark, Annie Coleman, James Congram, Paul Clements-Hunt, Peter Daszak, Amy Davidsen, Henry Diaz, Peter Duerig, David Easterling, Find Findsen, David Foster, Geoffrey Heal, Chris Hunter, Pascal Girot, H.N.B. Gopalan, Nicholas Graham, James Hansen, Pamela Heck, Daniel Hillel, Steve Howard, Ilyse Hogue, Anna Iglesias, Sonila Jacob, Maaike Jansen, Kurt Karl, William Karesh, Sivan Kartha, Thomas Kelly, Thomas Krafft, Gerry Lemcke, Mindy Lubber, Jeffrey A. McNeely, Sue Mainka, Leslie Malone, Pim Martens, Rachel Massey, Bettina Menne, Irving Mintzer, Teofilo Monteiro, Norman Myers, Peter Neoftis, Frank Nutter, Buruhani Nyenzi, Jennifer Orme-Zavaleta, Konrad Otto-Zimmermann, Martin Parry, Nikkita Patel, Jonathan Patz, Olga Pilifosova, Hugh Pitcher, Roberto Quiroz, Paul Raskin, William Rees, Phil Rossingol, Chris Roythorne, Jeffrey Sachs, Osman Sankoh, Henk van Schaik, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Rol<strong>and</strong> Schulze, Joel Schwartz, Jeffrey Shaman, Richard Shanks, Gelila Terrefe, Rick Thomas, Margaret Thomsen, Ricardo Thompson, Michael Totten, Mathis Wackernagel, David Waltner-Toews, Cameron Wake, Richard Walsh, Martin Whittaker, Mary Wilson, George M. Woodwell, Ginny Worrest, Robert Worrest, Durwood Zaelke Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue: The Centre for Global Dialogue is Swiss Re’s forum to deal with global risk issues <strong>and</strong> facilitates new insight into future risk markets. It supports stakeholder <strong>and</strong> networking activities for Swiss Re <strong>and</strong> their clients. <strong>Climate</strong> Change Futures was supported <strong>and</strong> realized with the help of the Business Development unit of Swiss Re’s Centre for Global Dialogue. The full list of the Centre for Global Dialogue Executive Roundtable participants is appended. Additional financial support for the <strong>Climate</strong> Change Futures project was provided by: The John Merck Fund Disclaimer: This report was produced by the Center for Health <strong>and</strong> the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School <strong>and</strong> does not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors. November 2005 Second Printing: September 2006
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PART III: Financial Implications, S
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