Sentences with phrase «what adaptation and mitigation»

What adaptation and mitigation options are available and how to select the most adequate ones?

Not exact matches

By the time you sit down at the table in December 2009, you are missing the last four years of what we now understand about climate, adaptation, mitigation, security and about all sorts of interactions with our society.

This is because it demonstrates that adaptation (over and above what is necessary to reduce vulnerabilities to current climate conditions) is unnecessary if mitigation is dramatic enough.

If you actually read the parts of the IPCC report discussing adaptation and mitigation, rather than just saying what you have been led to believe the IPCC says, you would find that they do exactly what you want them to do... and what I agree they should do.

However, what desiater are waiting for our human we do not know, or we know that atom bombs can destory earth 600 times exist at earth, global warming are not mitigationed and adaptationed, yet.

As for 4) «that adaptation as needed is massively more cost - effective than any attempted mitigation» — what an unimaginative and pessimistic bunch of people these are.

The first part of the chain is that we know that climate change is happening, we know what is most likely to happen, and we can both anticipate the pace of events and the pace of necessary mitigation and adaptation measures.

What we can do, however, is develop strategies of adaptation and mitigation, how humans will be affected, how our lives will change, and how we can prevent a dramatic loss of life due to ecological disaster, scarcity of resources, or other significant problems.

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As can be seen from its charter, it was not IPCC's brief to find out what causes climate to change, but rather to establish the risk of human - induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation

The world can either build on what has been created in the Kyoto Protocol, raise the level of ambition as demanded by the science, and provide sufficient finance to meet developing countries» needs for adaptation, mitigation, and REDD.

But his refutation of what he saw as sloppy logic certainly does not imply skepticism about climate change and the need to take mitigation and adaptation efforts seriously, he insists.

As a developing country, India is not bound to set a greenhouse gas emissions target, but Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh said India has adopted what he called an «ambitious» National Action Plan on Climate Change with eight national missions covering both mitigation and adaptation.

This policy document provides guidance on what forest managers should consider in assessing vulnerability, risk, mitigation options, and actions for adaptation, mitigation and monitoring in response to climate change.

WG1 is the physical climate science report, while WG2 covers impacts, adaptation and vulnerability and WG3 looks at what is called «mitigation of climate change.»

This report intends to make an assessment of what the fight against climate change — prevention, mitigation and adaptation — means for the world of work, of the challenges and opportunities involved, and of how to contribute to the just transition to environmental sustainability that will serve to advance both decent work opportunities for all and the protection of the planet.

What's your plan for dealing with the risks that can't be addressed by adaptation and mitigation?

Ignoring your posturing, what evidence can you produce that mitigation is more beneficial and cost - effective than adaptation?

The conference included sessions of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies, which between them look at the «what's and whys and how's» of climate change adaptation, mitigation, technology and finance that will eventually form the policies and practices of the climate change treaty.

If nations fail to base their climate change policies on what equity, ethics, and justice require of them on mitigation of their greenhouse gas emissions and funding for adaptation, losses, and damages, then the global response to climate change will not likely be ambitious enough to avoid catastrophic climate impacts while deepening existing injustices in the world.

China is the world's second largest CO2 emitter behind the U.S. To what extent China gets involved in combating global climate change is extremely important both for lowering compliance costs of climate mitigation and adaptation and for moving international climate negotiations forward.

And yet that security is precisely what the environmental movement, in pushing mitigation over adaptation, seems intent on denying people.

In a study to be published in Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, Fearnside estimates that in 1990 the greenhouse effect of emissions from the Curuá - Una dam in Pará, Brazil, was more than three - and - a-half times what would have been produced by generating the same amount of electricity from oil.

If GHGR is technically a subset of what has been called mitigation, but nevertheless worth highlighting as a separate response category, might the same be said with respect to SRM and adaptation?

WeAdapt: What are mitigation and adaptation?

What you claimed was IPCC's charter, to investigate and report the «scientific basis of risk of human - induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation», was actually its own Principles Governing IPCC Work, 10/1/1998, available on line.

This is because it demonstrates that adaptation (over and above what is necessary to reduce vulnerabilities to current climate conditions) is unnecessary if mitigation is dramatic enough.

Therefore, what balance between adaptation (dealing with whatever happens) and mitigation (doing something about the emissions that contribute to climate change) is likely to be more cost effective is not a question within the remit of the IPCC (although many options are discussed in the WG III report).

But there is little chance that what the developing countries would most like to see — new concessional financing for adaptation and mitigation that is and provided from the national budgets of the wealthy nations — will be forthcoming.

What is particularly embarrassing for Nature, whose coverage of this issue has been second to none, is that they don't even bother with # 2 — even though they have a full article devoted to geo - engineering (a puff piece by someone who «now participates in scientific research on the topic»), another full article on adaptation, and yet another full article just on capturing CO2 from the air, which even one of its major proponents is quoted as saying is «the most expensive climate - mitigation technology.»

Financial Assistance For Climate Change Adaptation Another part of the demand / request (call it what you will) is that the wealthy nations of the world offer up some financial aid for climate change mitigation and adaptatioAdaptation Another part of the demand / request (call it what you will) is that the wealthy nations of the world offer up some financial aid for climate change mitigation and adaptationadaptation efforts.