Abstract
Quantitatively projecting the impact of future climate change on the socio-economy and exploring its internal mechanism are of great practical significance to adapt to climate change and prevent climate risks. Based on the economy-climate (C-D-C) model, this paper introduces a yield impact of climate change (YICC) model that can quantitatively project the climate change impact. The model is based on the YICC as its core concept and uses the impact ratio of climate change (IRCC) indicator to assess the response of the economic system to climate change over a long period of time. The YICC is defined as the difference between the economic output under changing climate condition and that under assumed invariant climate condition. The IRCC not only reflects the sensitivity of economic output to climate change but also reveals the mechanism of the nonlinear interaction between climate change and non-climatic factors on the socio-economic system. Using the main grain-producing areas in China as a case study, we use the data of the ensemble average of 5 GCMs in CMIP6 to project the possible impact of climate change on grain production in the next 15–30 years under three future scenarios (SSP1-2.6, SSP2-4.5, SSP5-8.5). The results indicate that the long-term climate change in the future will have a restraining effect on production in North region and enhance production in South region. From 2021 to 2035, climate change will reduce production by 0.60–2.09% in North region, and increase production by 1.80–9.01% in South region under three future scenarios. From 2021 to 2050, compared with the climate change impact in 2021–2035, the negative impact of climate change on production in North region will weaken, and the positive impact on production in South region will enhance with the increase in emission concentration. Among them, climate change will reduce grain output in North region by 0.52–1.99%, and increase output in South region by 1.35–9.56% under the three future scenarios. The combination of economic results and climate change research is expected to provide scientific support for further revealing the economic mechanism of climate change impacts.
Highlights
The impact of climate change on the social economy is an important field and a main link in research on climate change impacts
1) Based on the traditional C-D-C model and the method for projecting the climate change impact, this paper introduces a comprehensive climate factor to improve the accuracy of the model and simplify the parameters
Combined with the new prediction achievements of the climate model of Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6), we further introduce the concept of the yield impact of climate change (YICC)
Summary
The impact of climate change on the social economy is an important field and a main link in research on climate change impacts. With this study, we introduce into the model the comprehensive climate factor (CCF), a new factor constructed in previous studies, and analyze the economic impact of changes in the comprehensive climate factor on the yields of different crops in China’s main grain-producing areas over the past 35 years (1981–2015) [5]; [26]. This study constructed the main climatic factors (i.e., air temperature, precipitation, radiation flux and CO2 concentration) into a Comprehensive Climate Factor (CCF) and quantitatively analyzed the impacts of integrated climate change in China’s main grain-producing areas This is a creative research method that combines complex factors in order to study main trends. SSP2-4.5 and SSP5-8.5 scenarios, and weakened under the SSP12.6 scenario
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