Sentences with phrase «change adaptation supports»

This activity report provides an overview of country - led efforts on climate change adaptation supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) partnership with financing from the GEF - managed Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF), Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) and Strategic Priority on Adaptation (SPA) funds.

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I don't claim that there was «adaptation» or change; I'm merely showing that there does, in fact, exist, evidence to support that claim.

Mass Audubon supports the passage of An Act establishing a comprehensive adaptation management plan in response to climate change, which prepares Massachusetts for the impacts of climate change by identifying where we are most vulnerable and taking measures to protect public health, public safety and the economy.

The committees suggested setting up a national climate change adaptation program to empower communities by using local, indigenous knowledge to help decrease disaster risk and support recovery efforts.

What is more worrying is that government is engaging in this environmentally unfriendly action at a time Ghana's development partners and the international community are sympathizing with the Ghanaian people on the increasing impacts of climate change on livelihoods and supporting the country with huge resources to implement a number of climate adaptation projects to help the people especially rural communities to improve livelihoods under severe climate change impacts through effective adaptation interventions.

The evidence supports the need for considerable investment in adaptation and mitigation actions toward a «climate - smart food system» that is more resilient to climate change influences on food security.

Emerging evidence for variability in the coral calcification response to acidification, geographical variation in bleaching susceptibility and recovery, responses to past climate change, and potential rates of adaptation to rapid warming supports an alternative scenario in which reef degradation occurs with greater temporal and spatial heterogeneity than current projections suggest.

Long - term monitoring efforts that supported this discovery are vital as we continue to monitor changes in the Arctic and develop tools to support adaptation planning for both wildlife and people.»

In recent years, S&T Fellows have helped to set up a digital library for Iraqi scientists, provided key data to support the Endangered Species Act, contributed to a federal task force on global climate change adaptation, and worked on recovery and reconstruction projects in Haiti just weeks after the country's devastating January 2010 earthquake.

The Initiative for the Adaptation of African Agriculture to Climate Change (AAA) and the Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) Fund Project have joined forces to support land rehabilitation in Africa.

-- 7) Forest models for Montana that account for changes in both climate and resulting vegetation distribution and patterns; 8) Models that account for interactions and feedbacks in climate - related impacts to forests (e.g., changes in mortality from both direct increases in warming and increased fire risk as a result of warming); 9) Systems thinking and modeling regarding climate effects on understory vegetation and interactions with forest trees; 10) Discussion of climate effects on urban forests and impacts to cityscapes and livability; 11) Monitoring and time - series data to inform adaptive management efforts (i.e., to determine outcome of a management action and, based on that outcome, chart future course of action); 12) Detailed decision support systems to provide guidance for managing for adaptation.

In addition to supporting adaptation efforts through its pipeline of infrastructure projects (which will average $ 1.1 billion per annum over the next three years), the Bank is providing (in countries such as Morocco, Tunisia, Djibouti, and Yemen) knowledge and technical expertise for better analyzing likely impacts of climate change, and for designing least - cost adaptation interventions to minimize such impacts.

Partnerships are built around various drivers: for example supporting the Polar regions in a period of rapid change; educating the public about polar sciences and climate; contributing to climate change awareness; mitigation and adaptation; defining and implementing CSR action plan; implementing technology solutions for low carbon emissions.

I'm working to build the organization's Climate Change Adaptation Program across the Americas and helping manage The Climate Adaptation Fund, which supports on - the - ground adaptatioAdaptation Program across the Americas and helping manage The Climate Adaptation Fund, which supports on - the - ground adaptatioAdaptation Fund, which supports on - the - ground adaptationadaptation efforts.

To counter the slow - changing nature of policy and service delivery, we need to embrace risk - taking, catalyze creative thinking, promote short - cycle sharing, learn quickly from failure, support continuous adaptation, and reject uncritical loyalty to existing programs or strategies.

Mitigation — reducing emissions fast enough to achieve the temperature goal A transparency system and global stock - take — accounting for climate action Adaptation — strengthening ability of countries to deal with climate impacts Loss and damage — strengthening ability to recover from climate impacts Support — including finance, for nations to build clean, resilient futures As well as setting a long - term direction, countries will peak their emissions as soon as possible and continue to submit national climate action plans that detail their future objectives to address climate change.

By selecting adaptations that are concrete and easy to implement, providing opportunities for ongoing dialogue about the implementation, and supporting teachers in their efforts to learn selected techniques, you can begin to change the practices of your general education colleagues (Gersten & Woodward, 1990).

The Green Belt Movement and The New Course through the support of MacArthur Foundation have partnered to develop a program that will unlock women's potential in natural resource management and in climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies across three East African priority watersheds.

As part of the Programme, with support from PRBB Foundation, the Green Belt Movement developed a specialised Training of Community Trainers project which sees local women taught about climate change adaptation strategies that can be used to provide practical solutions to effects of climate change at a local level.

However, if our adaptation is informed by science cherry - picked to support a particular standpoint on «dangerous climate change» then this risks leading to wrong decisions on adaptation.

Resources to support both mitigation and adaptation will need to be substantially scaled up to address climate change.

* Support implementation of the Nairobi Work Programme on impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation to climate change;

There is an urgent need to scale up financial flows, particularly financial support to developing countries; to create positive incentives for actions; to finance the incremental costs of cleaner and low - carbon technologies; to make more efficient use of funds directed toward climate change; to realize the full potential of appropriate market mechanisms that can provide pricing signals and economic incentives to the private sector; to promote public sector investment; to create enabling environments that promote private investment that is commercially viable; to develop innovative approaches; and to lower costs by creating appropriate incentives for and reducing and eliminating obstacles to technology transfer relevant to both mitigation and adaptation.

Emphasis should be placed on climate change adaptation, rather than mitigation as advocated by Mr. Savory, to support the well - being of millions of human inhabitants.

Perhaps some climate activists fear that support of adaptation efforts would be akin to recognizing that climate change is, after all, not as dire a crisis as it is being made out to be through polarizing political rhetoric.

There is no shortage of support needs for communities to address the impacts of climate change in agricultural systems, including support for adaptation for vulnerable regions and transformation to sustainable and resilient food production systems, built around local food economies.

Our mission is to do climate change impact research to support in climate change adaptation and risk assessments.

Activities supported by the five regional commissions include, among others, the creation of strategies to integrate climate change consideration into development plans, the assessment of the economic impacts of climate change, and the evaluation of the costs of mitigation and adaptation.

These initiatives aim to enhance adaptation of agriculture and support the integration of climate change and sustainable use of water into agricultural sector policies to support countries that included these sectors in their NDCs.

The TNA workshop on climate change mitigation and adaptation, currently ongoing today and running until the 27 February 2018 in Hanoi, Viet Nam, is aimed at enhancing the technology transfer, deployment, and dissemination of climate change solutions thus supporting the goals of the Paris Agreement to further promote and facilitate environmentally sound technologies for mitigation and adaptation in Southeast Asian countries.

A new research project supported by the Research Council of Norway titled «CLIMATRANS — Coping with Climate: Assessing Transport Sector Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation for Indian Cities» will be examining the GHG emissions contributions of transport sector in cities in India.

The innovative and tailored products improve the climate change services for society and support adaptation to a changing environment.

The report argues that migration can be a «sensible climate change adaptation strategy» — if it is managed carefully and supported by good development policies and targeted investments.

The brief promotes climate - smart agriculture, where: agricultural development is directed along pathways that lead to sustainable increases in agricultural productivity; social and ecological resilience are increased in order to contribute to climate change adaptation; and agriculture is used to support the achievement of national food security and development goals.

«[These] ethical, legal, and historical considerations may further inform discussions about carbon producer responsibilities to contribute to limiting climate change through investment in mitigation, support for adaptation, and compensation for climate damages,» they conclude.

By presenting their own experiences of participating in disaster risk reduction activities, it aims to highlight the capacity of children in order to inspire other children and youth, as well as encourage local governments, NGOs, and the private sector to support child - centered community risk reduction and climate change adaptation.

CCCI is also developing a suite of tools to support city leaders and practitioners in addressing the impact of climate change (adaptation) and to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions (mitigation).

The document considers the legal challenges for persons uprooted by climate change both internally and across borders and explores how regional labour mobility arrangements can support climate adaptation.

This manual builds on a large range of UNDP's ongoing initiatives to support adaptation to climate change.

Advancements and improvements in the field of damage and losses monitoring are crucial to support global and regional initiatives on climate change adaptation in agriculture.

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The report complements this analysis by offering concrete lessons learned and practical suggestions aimed at developing country decision makers and practitioners, thus fostering the adoption of novel, ICT - supported approaches to climate change adaptation and mitigation.

In particular, the Framework is intended to support and promote climate change adaptation measures, many of which will require climate services that are not currently available.

In support of Reclamation's new Climate Change Adaptation Strategy, this seminar will provide staff a high - level orientation on climate change, equip staff with talking points about how climate change relates to Reclamation's mission, and summarize initial tools that are available to support Strategy implementChange Adaptation Strategy, this seminar will provide staff a high - level orientation on climate change, equip staff with talking points about how climate change relates to Reclamation's mission, and summarize initial tools that are available to support Strategy implementchange, equip staff with talking points about how climate change relates to Reclamation's mission, and summarize initial tools that are available to support Strategy implementchange relates to Reclamation's mission, and summarize initial tools that are available to support Strategy implementation.

The intention behind the NDC Partnership is that we can best tackle climate change and support climate adaptation by pooling our strengths and our knowledge.

Rockefeller Foundation grant for «For use by the climate community and biodiversity alliance in support of developing an agriculture standard that will help to elevate the quality of smallholder farmer - and community - led climate change mitigation and adaptation projects in developing coun»

To support an informed assessment of climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies, model results for regional climate simulations must be robust at reasonable computational cost.

You could believe climate change has nothing to do with humans and still support adaptation.

The report offers some answers and concrete proposals — while recognizing that much more needs to be learned, more questions formulated, and more experience gained, to build an effective strategy to support global agricultural adaptation while harnessing its significant potential contribution to climate change mitigation and taking into consideration development objectives and food security concerns.

This analytical report describes how United Nations organizations use the information provided by space - based technologies to monitor the Earth's climate system and support decision - making about climate change adaptation, prediction and mitigation, including addressing the needs identified under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNchange adaptation, prediction and mitigation, including addressing the needs identified under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNChange (UNFCCC).