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Market pricing
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Market pricing

Options can be ranked based on market prices.

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Options can be ranked based on market prices.

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This section is based on the UNEP PROVIA guidance document

Criteria checklist

1. You want to appraise adaptation options.
2. The focus is either on collective actions and there are no conflicting interests of private actors, or the focus is on individual collective actions.
3. Decisions can be formalised.
4. Either the set of options includes only short term ones or residual impacts can not be projected.
5. There are risks are due to current climate variability and the relative costs of outcomes are high.
6. Either (i) the focus is on public decisions, outcome attributes either do have prices or contingent value has been addressed, and indirect outcomes are not important, or (ii) the focus is on private decisions and outcome attributes do have prices.