Overall, adaptation entails financial  costs not just in implementing adaptation actions, but also in designing, facilitating and preparing for actions-costs to create and maintain an enabling environment . Financial and economic investments target the whole range of other types of asset . AR5 reports that aggregate economic losses accelerate with increasing temperatures . Costs may be borne when gaining information , while adjustment costs are incurred as adaptations take place. Nevertheless, to enable adaptation, investment is needed in various natural, human, physical and social assets, as considered below. The importance of investment in each of these different types of asset varies according to the scale and livelihood system in need of adaptation and the ways in which livelihood resilience is framed and power is distributed, within each specific setting .
IPCC
Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
IPCC Report