## Planning and Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change in Fiscal Policy

_Staff Climate Notes, March 23, 2022_

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## Bibliographic details
- Authors: Emanuele Massetti, Matthieu Bellon
- Published: March 23, 2022
- Series: Staff Climate Notes
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400201950.066

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### Overview
- Part of a series of three Staff Climate Notes: IMF Staff Climate Note 2022/001, 2022/002, and 2022/003.
- This third Note (Staff Climate Note No 2022/003) focuses on translating adaptation principles and estimates of climate impacts into effective fiscal policies.
- Authors: Emanuele Massetti, Matthieu Bellon.
- Publication date: March 23, 2022.

### Key analytical points and findings
- Note 1 (Bellon and Massetti 2022) examines economic principles to integrate climate change adaptation into fiscal policy:
  - Argues adaptation should be part of a holistic, sustainable, and equitable development strategy.
  - Recommends prioritizing among all development programs, including but not limited to adaptation, to maximize the impact of scarce resources.
  - Suggests using cost-benefit analysis while ensuring decision-making reflects society’s preferences about equity and uncertainty.
- Note 2 (Aligishiev, Bellon, and Massetti 2022) examines macro-fiscal implications:
  - Reviews evidence on effectiveness of adaptation at reducing climate change damages and on residual risks.
  - Reviews adaptation investment needs.
  - Suggests ways to integrate climate risks and adaptation costs into national macro-fiscal frameworks to guide fiscal policy.
  - Emphasizes that lower-income vulnerable countries, which have typically not contributed much to climate change, face exacerbated challenges that warrant increased international support.
- This third Note builds on the above to consider operational translation of principles and impact estimates into policy measures and planning.

### Policy implications and recommendations
- Mainstream adaptation into broader development planning and fiscal decision-making rather than treating it as a siloed agenda.
- Use economic appraisal tools (e.g., cost-benefit analysis) to prioritize adaptation investments across competing development programs, while embedding considerations of equity and uncertainty in the appraisal process.
- Integrate adaptation needs, costs, and climate risks into macro-fiscal frameworks to inform budgeting, debt management, and fiscal risk oversight.
- Recognize differentiated needs and capacities: lower-income vulnerable countries require increased international support to meet adaptation challenges and investment needs.
- Emphasize evidence-based design: assess effectiveness of adaptation interventions in reducing damages and identify residual risks to guide policy mixes (public investment, insurance, contingency financing, etc.).

### Publication and metadata
- Pages: 27
- Volume: 2022
- Issue: 003
- Series: Staff Climate Note No 2022/003
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400201950.066
- Stock No: CLNEA2022003
- ISBN: 9798400201950
- ISSN: 2789-0600
- Citation provided on the page: Emanuele Massetti, and Matthieu Bellon. "Planning and Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change in Fiscal Policy", Staff Climate Notes 2022, 003 (2022), accessed 9/20/2026, https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400201950.066

*Source: Planning and Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change in Fiscal Policy, Staff Climate Note No 2022/003 (March 23, 2022).*

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