Sentences with phrase «change adaptation task»

We have a climate change adaptation task force shared by the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Council on Environmental Quality, and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

Mayor Bloomberg had initiated a climate change adaptation task force with 40 agencies.

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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.

An adaptation of a 2005 novel by Darryl Ponicsan, a sequel to his own 1970 The Last Detail (the inspiration for Hal Ashby's 1973 New Hollywood cornerstone), Linklater's film catches up with the three former Vietnam vet buddies (whose names have been changed from the original), unexpectedly reunited when Doc (Steve Carell) enlists their aid in the grim task of helping to transport and bury his dead son, killed while on duty in Iraq.

The U.S. government should move toward a coordinated national climate change adaptation strategy, says a federal interagency task force in a recent report to the President.

It notices that this country is facing two difficult and intertwined environmental tasks: minimizing the adverse impact of climate change through varied mitigation / adaptation measures and restoring its degraded environment.

The Regional Resource Centre for Asia and the Pacific (RRC.AP), a UNEP collaboration centre located in the Asian Institute of Technology, entrusted to the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS) the task of conducting an in - depth research into the determinants and effectiveness of local - level adaptation to climate change as part of an initiative called the Regional Climate Change Adaptation Knowledge Platform for Aadaptation to climate change as part of an initiative called the Regional Climate Change Adaptation Knowledge Platform for Asia change as part of an initiative called the Regional Climate Change Adaptation Knowledge Platform for Asia Change Adaptation Knowledge Platform for AAdaptation Knowledge Platform for Asia (AKP).

Nothing we know about solar geoengineering should distract you from the task of agreeing deep and binding cuts in CO2 emissions, and effective support for adaptation to climate change.

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In his Executive Order on Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance on October 5, 2009, President Obama said that the task force was by that time «already engaged in developing the domestic and international dimensions of a U.S. strategy for adaptation to climate change» and should «develop approaches through which the policies and practices of the agencies can be made compatible with and reinforce that strategy.»

Furthermore, a report on a National Preparedness Goal [PDF] issued in September by the Administration (in response to the Presidential Policy Directive on National Preparedness of March 30, 2011) entirely omits any mention of climate change — even though the adaptation task force highlights the actions Federal agencies are taking to «to incorporate climate adaptation into planning, emergency preparedness, and disaster recovery to protect communities and reduce losses.»

This activity report demonstrates that Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have time and again risen to the task of managing their fragile environments to meet their sustainable development goals through a broad range of actions, including conservation and sustainable use of critical marine and coastal resources, climate change mitigation, adaptation efforts and more.

U.S. federal task force calls for domestic and international climate change adaptation strategy

The task is to help families address their unmet psychosocial needs in order to promote positive adaptation and healthy change.