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Our current actions determine both our own well-being and that of future generations. Beyond climate change, there are very few areas where the lag between action and potential impact is that long and where the risk of delaying an appropriate response may entail impacts of such enormous magnitude. There is thus a clear need for adequate information for society on climate change and its impacts. Climate change impacts are multifaceted, interdependent and characterised by a high degree of uncertainty. Their analysis thus necessitates collaboration across a broad set of disciplines and expertise, and entails devising appropriate scenarios. In this volume, we show how, at the national scale, relevant societal information on climate change impacts can be generated. Here, particular emphasis is placed on the generation of information related to economic evaluation and economic implications of climate change. A …