Table 5 Damages after adaptation.

From: Economic motivation for raising coastal flood defenses in Europe

 

EAD2100 adapt

EAPF2100 adapt

 

Sustainability

Fossil fuel based development

Sustainability

Fossil fuel based development

Belgium (BE)

0.03

0.03

13.10

29.21

Bulgaria (BG)

0.01

0.06

0.60

0.73

Cyprus (CY)

0.05

0.21

8.06

8.63

Germany (DE)

0.69

2.05

16.76

55.13

Denmark (DK)

1.14

2.82

26.42

54.45

Estonia (EE)

0.02

0.07

0.14

0.30

Spain (ES)

0.35

0.96

73.78

100.99

Finland (FI)

0.08

0.65

1.85

10.30

France (FR)

0.89

2.40

55.88

140.92

Greece (GR)

0.42

1.33

30.06

55.04

Croatia (HR)

0.13

0.39

10.72

14.59

Ireland (IE)

0.61

1.24

41.56

83.02

Italy (IT)

0.68

1.95

44.69

69.31

Lithuania (LT)

0.02

0.05

1.49

2.46

Latvia (LV)

0.01

0.02

0.15

0.31

Malta (MT)

0.00

0.01

0.09

0.12

The Netherlands (NL)

0.23

0.87

4.94

7.90

Norway (NO)

1.24

2.74

42.03

126.48

Poland (PL)

0.07

0.32

12.43

18.20

Portugal (PT)

0.12

0.34

5.81

9.25

Romania (RO)

0.02

0.65

0.85

1.24

Sweden (SE)

0.31

1.21

9.42

18.35

Slovenia (SI)

0.01

0.02

0.25

0.38

United Kingdom (UK)

1.77

3.60

252.30

535.73

Total

8.88

23.98

653.39

1343.05

  1. Expected annual damage (EAD) and expected annual number of people flooded) from coastal flooding after implementing additional protection (billion €), under sustainability with RCP4.5 and fossil fuel based development with RCP8.5.