Climate risks are increasingly being felt but remain insufficiently reflected in investment decisions. As a result, necessary investments remain absent, and the costs of inaction are shifted to the future. This study addresses how the costs of doing nothing and the costs and benefits of climate adaptation to pluvial flooding can be made transparent and comparable at the building level for social housing associations. The project provides housing associations and value chain partners with concrete guidance to anticipate climate impacts in a timely and targeted way, preventing risks and costs from being passed on to future generations and vulnerable residents.
Economic transition: the costs and benefits of (in)action
What does an economy look like that focuses not on GDP growth, but on well-being, ecology and justice?
What is needed to achieve this sustainable economy and how is our current economic system holding back these changes?
We are exploring these questions from a practical perspective as part of the program: ‘Economic transition: the costs and benefits of (in)action’. Together with partners from academia, the professional sector, government and social movements, we are working to shape this transition, set it in motion and anchor it. In doing so, we actively apply knowledge in practice to bring about a transformation of our current economic system.