Cost-effectiveness analysis (Q457)

Subject, term, tag: Cost-effectiveness analysis

Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA)

Language	Label	Description	Also known as
English	Cost-effectiveness analysis	Subject, term, tag: Cost-effectiveness analysis	Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA)

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source version

IPCC Glossary v1.5

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Source

https://apps.ipcc.ch/glossary/

date accessed

27 May 2026

Part of

Working Group III: Climate Change 2022 – Mitigation of Climate Change

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Definition

A type of economic evaluation that compares the costs of different courses of action reaching the same outcome. In this report, CEA focuses on comparing the costs of mitigation strategies designed to meet a prespecified climate change mitigation goal (e.g., an emission-reduction target or a temperature stabilisation target). (English)