Climate Change and Sea Level Rise: Fiji
May 30, 2025
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Fiji faces significant challenges from sea-level rise (SLR), which could cause annual economic losses averaging 1.8% of GDP from 2020 to 2099. While widespread coastal protection measures limit damages, they are costly and may not yield significant net savings. Planned retreat can instead reduce net costs by over 80%. This analysis calls for efficient adaptation to SLR and broadly supports the Government of Fiji’s adaptation strategy to SLR through a mix of protection and planned relocation.
Subject: Climate change, Environment, Environmental policy, Natural disasters, Population and demographics
Keywords: adaptation, adaptation strategy, Climate change, cost of sea-level rise, Environmental policy, Global, I. climate trend, Natural disasters, Pacific Islands, public goods, relocation in Fiji, Sea level rise
Pages:
26
Volume:
2025
DOI:
Issue:
085
Series:
Selected Issues Paper No. 2025/085
Stock No:
SIPEA2025085
ISBN:
9798229014304
ISSN:
2958-7875
