Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/322337 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
ADB Economics Working Paper Series No. 771
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila
Abstract: 
This paper uses results from leading biophysical models in an established macro-economic modeling framework to offer insights on potential economic consequences of climate change in Asia and the Pacific. The analysis covers shocks in agriculture, fisheries, forestry, energy demand, capital (from sea level rise and riverine floods), and labor (from heat stress and extreme events). The shocks are considered in a global recursive dynamic computable general equilibrium model that breaks out major economies of the region. The modeling finds that potential total gross domestic product loss as a result of climate change reaches 16.9% in Asia and the Pacific by 2070 under a high-end emissions scenario, with all economies negatively affected. Sea level rise is the largest source of loss, followed by loss of labor productivity due to heat stress. Damage function extrapolation of the losses suggests that they could reach 41.0% of gross domestic product by 2100.
Subjects: 
climate change
climate damage
computable general equilibrium
economic impact
JEL: 
Q54
Q51
C68
C63
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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