Adaptation actions refer to the steps or measures taken to adjust or change certain things in order to cope with or respond to a particular situation or challenge. These actions are designed to help individuals, organizations, or communities adapt to changes in their environment, such as climate change, economic shifts, or technological advances.
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We agree that developed countries shall provide adequate, predictable and sustainable financial resources, technology and capacity - building to support the implementation of
adaptation action in developing countries.
Large - scale public - private risk reduction initiatives and economic diversification are examples
of adaptation actions.
It will include developing institutional capacities to assess risk, design corrective measures and
implement adaptation actions with community participation.
The Strategy, found here, is a collaborative effort of national, state, and tribal governments to develop a framework for preparedness and
adaptation action on climate change.
The study authors say that their findings can help identify areas
where adaptation actions are not only desired but essential.
Their adaptive capacity is lowest, but some countries have been moving ahead on first planning and then implementing
adaptation actions around the world.
The relationship between climate change and food production depends to a large degree on when and
which adaptation actions are taken.
For human systems, existing studies focus on frameworks and principles of adaptation planning, but examples of
implemented adaptation actions and evaluation of outcomes are scarce.
There will be dialogue on long term financing which was set 10 Billion USD per year for 2010 - 2013 at Copenhagen to help developing nations on re-forestation, clean technology and
adaptation actions for climate change, which will come to an end in 2012 and there are no aspirational goals set yet given that it was set further 100 Billion USD annually in years to come till 2020.
The overarching challenge is to secure a future by beginning to plan progress as soon as possible other recommendations include utilizing
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discuss how countries can enhance
adaptation actions by strengthening the role of climate change risk assessment in national adaptation planning;
Recommendations and suggestions were provided on ways and means to strengthen activities beyond 2010 in support of
enhanced adaptation action in all sectors and at all levels.
- Make informed decisions on
practical adaptation actions and measures to respond to climate change on a sound scientific, technical and socio - economic basis, taking into account current and future climate change and variability.
Recognizing the state of adaptation practice, funding and capacity development challenges, similarities of climate risk across the LMB countries, diversity of funding and implementing actors and national sovereignty needs, we propose a multi-stakeholder Regional Climate Change
Adaptation Action Network approach to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of future climate change action in the LMB.
This is true of mitigation action as well
as adaptation action: as the Philippines wryly noted «we would like to do mitigation action, but first we must stop drowning.»
This policy document presents the strategies developed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to
support adaptation action in developing countries and countries with economies in transition.
The LoCAL program took its inspiration from another set of players that have been forging ahead
with adaptation action at a rapid pace — cities.
The guidebook may help practitioners
develop adaptation actions and incorporate those actions into the airport's planning processes.
A Natural England report commissioned from organisations including the RSPB, has suggested pest control such as the «killing of foxes» as one of several «
key adaptation actions» to assist «priority species».
Officials have also been working on an update to the National Climate Change Action Plan, for the period from 2016 to 2021, oriented to the implementation and funding of mitigation and
adaptation actions contemplated in Chile's intended nationally determined contributions.
Abstract: Coastal communities in tropical environments are at increasing risk from both environmental degradation and climate change and require urgent
local adaptation action.
The talks in Paris also made it clear that all countries are expected to
take adaptation action, but that their approaches can be flexible to accommodate countries» unique circumstances.
This process includes activities relating to national adaptation plans, national adaptation programmes of action, the Nairobi work programme (NWP), the work programme on loss and damage, the Adaptation Committee, research and systematic observation under the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), and support for the implementation of
adaptation action under the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) and the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform (ADP).
The Western Province in Sri Lanka is the first provincial government in the country to include urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry in its climate change
adaptation action strategy.
We expect South Africa's INDC to galvanize important conversations about a global adaptation goal, the connections between mitigation and adaptation, and the challenges of
costing adaptation action.
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Most adaptation actions to date appear to be incremental changes,» the survey notes, «not the transformational changes that may be needed in certain cases to adapt to significant changes in climate.»
• Asia — Adaptation is being facilitated in some areas through mainstreaming climate
adaptation action into subnational development planning, early warning systems, integrated water resources management, agroforestry, and coastal reforestation of mangroves.
Moving forward, this is a crucial question — the document's short and relatively underdeveloped «implementation» section does little to
initiate adaptation action beyond broad «Federal, state, and tribal governments should...» statements.
«Even when our knowledge is incomplete, we often have robust grounds for choosing best -
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Negotiators also had productive conversations about increasing capacity for delivering on national climate plans, including both for reducing emissions and
planning adaptation actions.
The City of Fort Lauderdale has instituted a pilot program to
designate adaptation action areas and then implement public infrastructure projects to mitigate the risk of sea rise events posed to those areas.
Norms such as personalization, dramatization, novelty, reliance on authoritative spokespersons and balance of opposing viewpoints contributes to coverage that coheres with «dominant market - based and utilitarian approaches to discussing the spectrum of possible mitigation and
adaptation action on climate change» (page 117).
According to a 2013 study from the Climate Group, a London - headquartered nongovernmental organization, China will need at least $ 24 billion per year for
adaptation actions by 2020; by contrast, the nation's estimated budget is only $ 13.5 billion based on its current expenditures.
Third, there are shortcomings of a default approach of conflating existing development work
with adaptation action.