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The tumultuous 2009 Copenhagen conference seemed at the time to spell the end of a UN-centred framework to organise international climate mitigation efforts in favour of smaller and narrower institutional settings.

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According to Princeton University scientists Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow's «wedge» strategy of climate change mitigation — which quantifies as a wedge on a time series graph various sets of efforts to maintain flat global carbon emissions between now and 2055 — at least two million megawatts of new renewable energy will have to be built in the next 40 years, effectively replacing completely all existing coal - fired power plants as well as accounting for increases in energy use between now and mid-century.

Our study of the faster increases in apparent temperature has produced important findings for this kind of climate change impact assessment, providing a strong scientific support for more stringent and effective climate change mitigation efforts to combat global warming.»

In order to end all forms of poverty without driving up global temperatures, world leaders will need to ramp up climate mitigation efforts by 27 %, the lead author tells Carbon Brief.

It has also been the reason why scientists in the climate field are all talking about mitigation and adaptation efforts in combating the climate change; the greatest threat ever confronted mankind.

Formulates and recommends Departmental policies, plans and guidelines related to the natural and human environment, including efforts regarding resiliency and climate mitigation; livability and quality of life in states and communities; equity and economic growth; historic preservation, and bicycle and pedestrian transportation.

Interestingly, Hoerling immediately raises the climate policy issue (stating that mitigation efforts would not prevent extremes) and even denounces our Perspective as «policy - direct», even though we do not even mention policy — it is simply not the topic of our article, we exclusively discuss scientific questions and we point out at the outset that societal impacts and possible policy strategies are discussed in the SREX.

This report seeks to ground the debate on climate finance in an objective analysis of ongoing efforts to finance mitigation and adaptation in developing countries.

Such a feedback loop could result in accelerated warming throughout the globe, which will strongly impact ongoing climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts.

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Another study, in the journal Nature Climate Change in 2012, concluded that «communication should focus on how mitigation efforts can promote a better society» rather than «on the reality of climate change and averting its risks.Climate Change in 2012, concluded that «communication should focus on how mitigation efforts can promote a better society» rather than «on the reality of climate change and averting its risks.climate change and averting its risks.»

China's role as a promoter of renewable energy development in Africa can offer it valuable recognition as a contributor to global efforts towards the mitigation of climate change and can serve to reaffirm its position as a lead nation among developing countries, protecting vulnerable countries from the impacts of global warming and fostering their economic growth and development in the process.12

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The brief suggests that in order to foster policy coherence and help ensure that climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts are adequate, sufficiently ambitious, non-discriminatory and otherwise compliant with human rights obligations, the following considerations should be reflected in all climate action.

With the renewed public interest in climate change mitigation after the Paris conference, the question was, whether or not the COP would generate results and help to keep momentum in international climate protection efforts.

It is hoped that the publication will raise awareness of the specific needs of these countries regarding forests and climate change, in particular regarding climate change adaptation but also mitigation, and will provide a point of departure for identifying and catalyzing regional action to complement and enhance national efforts.

«The special issue of the International Journal of Global Warming focuses on a crucial topic: «Loss and damage» which refers to adverse effects of climate variability and climate change that occur despite mitigation and adaptation efforts,» Editor - in - Chief Ibrahim Dincer of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology says.

An open access special issue of the International Journal of Global Warming brings together, for the first time, empirical evidence of loss and damage from the perspective of affected people in nine vulnerable countries...... «Loss and damage» refers to adverse effects of climate variability and climate change that occur despite mitigation and adaptation efforts.

In the worst cases, those arguing for adaptation efforts were treated as dangerous influences out to a fear that belief that the world could «adapt» to climate impacts could undermine the motives for mitigation.

This analytical report shows the wide range of adverse impacts of climate change in Africa and assesses the balance of economic costs, as a function of a range of scenarios including both successful and failed global mitigation efforts, and strong compared to weak implementation of adaptation measures.

The second, expected in March, will cover «impacts and vulnerabilities» of climate change; the third, on mitigation efforts, is set to go out in April.

-LSB-...] of course, served with great distinction in the Obama Administration where, among other things, Summers helped sabotage progress on Climate Change mitigation (much as he had undermined Global Warming mitigation efforts in the Clinton Administration).

Co-benefit impacts (sometimes called «no regrets» strategies), in which climate mitigation efforts are chosen to help protect health by reducing health - damaging air pollution emissions, lowering the vulnerability of poor populations, improving the built environment, and other means

My lectures included something about climate change as background material for energy policy, and I was the editor and one contributor to a book on socioeconomic dimensions of climate change mitigation in 1999, but I didn't make any real effort to understand much more about the atmosphere and the physical climate before retiring.

Any local authority seeking to play its part in answering the WMO's call for radical efforts to reduce carbon emissions would be wise to follow the recommendations of another UN agency, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, whose latest report on climate change mitigation options, AR5, placed particular emphasis on the passive house stClimate Change, whose latest report on climate change mitigation options, AR5, placed particular emphasis on the passive house stclimate change mitigation options, AR5, placed particular emphasis on the passive house standard.

In 2009, the City launched its Climate Change Action Plan 2010 - 2030 and embarked on a long - term adaptation and mitigation effort.

It finds in all cases that efforts to reduce vulnerability to losses, often called climate adaptation, have far greater potential effectiveness to reduce damage related to tropical cyclones than efforts to modulate the behaviour of storms through greenhouse gas emissions reduction policies, typically called climate mitigation and achieved through energy policies.

This cooperation includes technical and policy exchanges on the development of fuel efficiency standards for trucks and buses, continued progress towards implementation of CCUS projects with the selection of a project site in China as the large - scale CCUS demonstration project announced last November, cooperation on reducing HFCs, including private sector commitments to promote climate - friendly alternatives to HFCs, and continued support for phasing down HFCs through the Montreal Protocol, and additional cooperation on direct mitigation efforts across multiple other sectors.

«Even with mitigation efforts,» the Summit report says, «climate change will continue to unfold for decades due to the long atmospheric lifetime of past greenhouse - gas emissions and the gradual release of excess heat that has built up in the oceans.

In its latest assessment of the progress of climate change, the body said: «If warming is not kept below two degrees centigrade, which will require the strongest mitigation efforts, and currently looks very unlikely to be achieved, the substantial global impacts will occur, such as species extinctions, and millions of people at risk from drought, hunger, flooding.»

It is based on an «extremely ambitious» level of climate mitigation effort where emissions peak immediately and reduce by a maximum rate of 6.1 per cent per year, a fair bit faster than the 5.5 per cent considered in the first study.

Committing to a 20 - year time frame, the commercial sector, despite a huge uptick in air traffic is bracing for a change to support the climate change mitigation efforts.

Gelbspan lampoons tea - party activists for viewing climate change mitigation efforts as «as a conspiracy to impose world government and a sweeping redistribution of wealth», yet in a 2012 amateur audio interview, he offers the following insight at the four minute point: (profanity alert)

Research and outreach efforts are underway in the region to help farmers find ways to cope with a rapidly changing climate, take advantage of a longer growing season, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, 61,112 but unequal access to capital and information for strategic adaptation and mitigation remain a challenge.

In this case, a city or county might be able to use a fee to pay for climate mitigation efforts, like building a seawall, electrifying a bus fleet, or something else with a clear nexus to climate change.

While solar geoengineering can not be a «solution» to climate change, in time it might prove to be a useful complement to mitigation and adaptation efforts, especially for addressing the risks from the greenhouses gases that we've already emitted.

I hear you, Malcolm, about the need to «be pulling all the levers in all countries as hard as possible», but I think Jon's point here is that in the face of failed leadership to undertake such a coordinated global effort, those of us who are ready to take action can focus on the «pullable levers» to get some points on the climate mitigation board.

Even among the researchers who find CE a policy option worth thinking about, the great majority analyzes those technologies not as a full - blown solution to climate change in their own right, but rather a necessary evil to supplement (neglected) mitigation and adaptation efforts.

He said climate change adaptation and mitigation measures should be adopted and integrated into Ghana's national development agenda, adding that developing countries should be supported with grants to engage in landscape restoration efforts in degraded lands.

Adaptation must be vigorously discussed alongside climate mitigation efforts, instead of as an afterthought, or as a Plan B, to be initiated sometime in the future.

China's National Climate Change Action Program, published in June 2007, provides for three major mitigation efforts that, in combination, reduce greenhouse gas emissions:

China's scientists have been active in the global effort to understand climate change and are increasingly involved in developing technical approaches to both mitigation and adaptation.

The Cancun Agreements, the most recent product of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, set the groundwork for monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of mitigation efforts agreed to in future global climate trClimate Change, set the groundwork for monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of mitigation efforts agreed to in future global climate trclimate treaties.

Having COP18 in Qatar presents a unique opportunity to move forward with mitigation and adaptation efforts for climate change in the region, as well as for climate finance.

Sering said that in order to minimize the impacts of climate change, there is a need to identify «vulnerabilities and strategically plan adaptation efforts» and that financial resources are needed implement climate adaptation and mitigation measures.

Hence, global mitigation efforts can enhance sustainable development prospects in part by reducing the risk of adverse impacts of climate change.

As defined by the OECD, mitigation aid «contributes to the objective of stabilization of greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system by promoting efforts to reduce or limit GHG emissions or to enhance GHG sequestration.»

This Synthesis Report repeats with greater certainty findings that have figured prominently in earlier IPCC assessments, that the Earth's climate is warming «unequivocally,» that the human influence in this process is «clear» and that the changing climate is very likely to bring impacts:» [w] ithout additional mitigation efforts beyond those in place today, and even with adaptation, warming by the end of the 21st century will lead to high to very high risk of severe, widespread, and irreversible impacts globally.»

The shift from binding and long term emissions targets to voluntary Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) made inevitable the second historic shift in international climate mitigation efforts, which is the formal and explicit recognition that we do not, in fact, have all the technology we need to achieve deep reductions in emissions.

Ultimately, from the perspective of policy makers and the general public, the impacts of climate change and the required mitigation and adaptation efforts are largely the same in a world of 2 or 4 C per doubling of CO2 concentrations where carbon dioxide emissions are rising quickly.