Still following the book in the link above check below a recent paper by researchers at the University of Oxford based on 37,341 patents:
"Despite the urgency of climate change and the substantial long-term
economic benefits of adaptation (Tall et al., 2021), the
study of innovation in adaptation has attracted relatively little scholarly
attention (Popp, 2019, Dechezlepretre
et al., 2020) and markets for adaptation technologies seem underdeveloped given
their benefits (Dechezlepretre et al., 2020). However, this is likely
to change: the requirement of countries to disclose their adaptation plans
under the Paris Agreement (Lesnikowski et al., 2017, Berrang-Ford et al., 2019), increasing awareness of firms’
climate risks and efforts by regulators to make risk disclosures mandatory will
incentivize the public and private sector to take action towards
adaptation (Goldstein et al., 2019, Smith,
2021). This study offers the
first systematic analysis of adaptation technologies and their knowledge base
addressing three questions…”
1 - To what extent have these technologies been developed, and
which were the drivers of innovation ?
2 - How can governments support the development and adoption of
these technologies?
3 - How do technologies for adaptation interact with climate
change mitigation?
