Sentences with phrase «global adaptation need»

(Global adaptation need is properly estimated as a function of projected temperature change and national vulnerability.

With estimates of the global adaptation need in the range of tens of billions to more than one hundred billion annually, the EU's current commitments fall well short of the necessary order of magnitude.)

Not exact matches

To achieve global standards of practice, there is a need for standardized, model training courses, many of which already exist, and may need only minor adaptation for the revised BFHI.

Eliminating fossil fuel subsidies would slash global carbon emission by 20 percent and raise government revenue by 2.9 trillion, well over the funds needed for intelligent policy and action on climate adaptation.»

Lubchenco emphasizes that the report highlights the need to formulate adaptation strategies to ocean acidification as well as the urgency to create a stronger momentum to reduce global carbon emissions.

Many of these adaptation mechanisms needed for Third World countries require implementing tools that can override natural disturbances caused by global warming.

Dr Jochen Hinkel from Global Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.»

For there place, global warming already happened, we need adaptation to save the people are living on there.

We need more campaigners talking about adaptation for the global poor rather than all mitigation; same with the media.

Declare that, irrespective of the effectiveness of mitigation actions, significant adverse changes in the global climate are now inevitable and are already taking place, and thus parties to the U.N.F.C.C.C. must also include, in the COP15 outcome document, an ambitious agreement on adaptation finance which should prioritize the needs of the most vulnerable countries, especially in the near term,

-- Keep global warming below 2oC, implying a peak in global CO2 emissions no later than 2015 and recognise that even a warming of 2oC carries a very high risk of serious impacts and the need for major adaptation efforts.

By pioneering new renewable energy projects and establishing forward - thinking innovation centers, many countries in Africa are looking to renewable energy as a solution to meet their growing energy needs in a sustainable way, while working toward practical adaptation strategies to mitigate global warming impacts.

They include, among many others, principles on what is each nation's fair share of safe global emissions, who is responsible for reasonable adaptation needs of those people at greatest risk from climate damages in poor nations that have done little to cause climate change, should high - emitting nations help poor nations obtain climate friendly energy technologies, and what responsibilities should high - emitting nations have for refugees who must flee their country because climate change has made their nations uninhabitable?

It concludes that, while there are governance constraints at the global level, African countries need to work, with the support of developed countries, towards stimulating effective domestic demand for climate adaptation and mitigation funds and improving the absorptive capacity of African countries to effectively deploy climate funds.

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.

Consequently, we need to focus efforts on the benefits / costs of «adaptation» compared to all other major global humanitarian projects.

These climate change adaptation decisions need to be made however, and in an effort to produce useful regional scale climate information that embodies the global climate change a number of «downscaling» techniques have been developed.

The guidelines are intended to be used by decision - makers, authorities and experts working on the agriculture sectors and global climate change experts in developing countries to better understand the need and opportunities for adaptation in the agricultural sectors.

He argues that to tackle global warming we need smarter solutions focused on getting long - term solutions like cost - competitive renewables and that many of the impacts of global warming would be better addressed through adaptation.»

Before any further dollars are spent on climate change adaptation and / or mitigation, the world needs to upgrade their global weather / climate reporting network to the USCRN standard so that policymakers have correct temperature change mesurements to base their decisions on.

These issues include: (a) the need to determine when the obligation of any nation is triggered, (b) difficulties in determining which adaptation and compensation needs are attributable to human - induced warming versus natural variability, (c) challenges in allocating responsibilities among all nations that have emitted ghg above their fair share of safe global emissions, (e) challenges in prioritizing limited funds among all adaptation and compensation needs, (f) needs to set funding priorities in consultation with those who are vulnerable to climate change impacts as a matter of procedural justice, and (e) the need to consider the capacity of some nations to fund adaptation and compensation needs.

As we shall see, these countries, among others, have continued to negotiate as if: (a) they only need to commit to reduce their greenhouse gas emission if other nations commit to do so, in other words that their national interests limit their international obligations, (b) any emissions reductions commitments can be determined and calculated without regard to what is each nation's fair share of safe global emissions, (c) large emitting nations have no duty to compensate people or nations that are vulnerable to climate change for climate change damages or reasonable adaptation responses, and (d) they often justify their own failure to actually reduce emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions on the inability to of the international community to reach an adequate solution under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

In the area of climate change, the report highlights the findings of its Emissions Gap Report 2013 — which details the gap between current global emissions and the reduction needed to remain on track to meet the 2 degree Celsius global warming target — and its Africa Adaptation Gap Report, which describes the costs of adaptation measures on the African continent under various global warming Adaptation Gap Report, which describes the costs of adaptation measures on the African continent under various global warming adaptation measures on the African continent under various global warming scenarios.

This report highlights the experiences of nations in the Global South in climate adaptation, and emphasizes the need to bolster the effectiveness of adaptation action in order to ensure that the world's most vulnerable people are well - equipped to respond to the impacts of climate change.

Developing countries in particular are in need of global support for adaptation.

Within this century, a reduction of the Atlantic overturning is a robust climatic phenomena that intensifies with global warming and needs to be accounted for in global adaptation strategies.

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EbA interventions typically combine elements of both climate change mitigation and adaptation to global warming to help address the community's current and future needs.

When you look at the impacts of a climate change or specific adaptations to a climate change, you often need to know how a global warming will affect the local climate.