Sentences with phrase «adaptation actions by»

discuss how countries can enhance adaptation actions by strengthening the role of climate change risk assessment in national adaptation planning;

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.

Not exact matches

Director Uli Edel made the harrowing Last Exit To Brooklyn in 1989, an adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr's cult novel and he moves the action along very adeptly here, helped by an excellent cast and a strong screenplay from Eichinger, no stranger to controversial subjects.

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.»

Obama Administration Releases First - Ever Climate Adaptation Plans With plans that incorporate efforts made by the Commerce, Agriculture, Energy, Transportation and Defense departments, among others, the administration's effort acknowledges that climate impacts are happening now and require action

According to the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, global average storm surge damages could increase from about $ 10 - $ 40 billion per year today to up to $ 100,000 billion per year by the end of century, if no adaptation action is taken.

Australia has created an adaptation program to «help Australians better understand climate change, manage risks, and take advantage of potential opportunities;» In Nigeria, state and local governments are developing action plans for high - risk urban areas, while the federal government is seeking to expand forests by reducing deforestation and wood fuel demand; in Mali, significant efforts are being made to conserve water resources, as well as create usable mechanisms to track the development of climate change.

AACA - A was led by Sustainable Development Working Group and is a compilation of assessments and reports prepared by Arctic Council working groups over the past ten year with findings and recommendations that could inform adaptation options and actions.

With only two or so hours of story time, the movies have been forced to sacrifice swaths of her material, and while the scripts have been largely models of adaptation — most, this one included, are by Steve Kloves — the emphasis on action (and interminable games of quidditch) was also a concession to the action - imperative of the modern blockbuster.

I was RALMAO at comments like the ones posted by Linkfx, I mean you want more depth, but there was too much plot & action??? Many got it right, a comic book adaptation isn't on the dramatic side no matter what serious moments are introduced.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening June 11, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS The A-Team (PG - 13 for profanity, smoking, and pervasive action violence) Screen adaptation of the pyrotechnics - driven TV series from the Eighties chronicling the exploits of a squad of former Special Service soldiers determined to clear their names after unfairly being branded war criminals.

By Bob Bloom The following Blu - rays and DVDs are being released on Tuesday, unless otherwise noted: The Jungle Book (Blu - ray + DVD + digital HD) Details: 2016, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment Rated: PG, scary action and danger, violence The lowdown: The concept of a live - action adaptation of «The Jungle Book» using CGI - created animals and -LSB-...]

As someone who isn't familiar with the book or any of the live - action adaptations, including one by Hausu director, Obayashi Nobuhiko, it is interesting to hear just how much more insight Hosoda's version brings to the screen.

«21 Jump Street «It shouldn't have worked — yet another tired reinvention of a preexisting property (in this case a beloved but marginal eighties television series), gussied up with of - the - moment stars and a more comedic bent (something found, time and time again, in the television - series - adaptation subgenre — see also: «The Addams Family,» «The Brady Bunch,» and «Charlie's Angels «-RRB-, shepherded by a pair of directors making the shaky transition from animation to the much woollier world of live action.

If Vince Vaughn thought he was on to a sure thing — and a chance to show some dramatic action chops — with comic book adaptation Term Life, his plans have been roundly thwarted by Universal, which has abruptly cancelled the film.

Back in October, it was revealed that the Avengers and Lucy star Scarlett Johansson would play Major Motoko Kusanagi in DreamWorks Pictures» Ghost in the Shell after Margot Robbie bailed to do Suicide Squad and now Variety brings word that the actress has signed on to play the lead in the live action adaptation of the classic manga by Masamune Shirow.

Hardly a week goes by without Disney announcing a live - action adaptation of something.

The movie adaptation from scripter Juliette Towhidi is directed at a slow pace by James Kent, or, let's say at the kind of deliberate momentum that pays due respect to the heroic actions of several of its participants.

The 34 - year - old actor stars as Thomas McGregor in the new live action / CGI comedy directed by Will Gluck, but Gleeson has admitted filming the adaptation of the beloved Beatrix Potter character was more painful than he anticipated.

Variety reports that Scarlett Johannsen has signed on to play the lead role in DreamWorks» live - action adaptation of the popular manga / anime Ghost In The Shell by Masamune Shirow.

One indication of Manhunt's level of action - movie camp is the fact that it comes tantalizingly close to bringing the showdown of «technology versus horse» envisioned by Adaptation's Donald Kaufman to screen.

Promising to be a darker take on the Kipling classic, Warner Bros adaptation mixes motion capture and live action for Mowgli, a new 3D adaptation of the story of the human child raised by a wolf pack in the jungles of India.

Suicide Squad (PG - 13 for profanity, suggestive content, disturbing behavior and pervasive action and violence) Adaptation of the DC Comics superhero series about a team of convicts recruited by the government yo conduct dangerous missions in exchange for clemency.

This time around Spielberg will tackle a live - action adaptation of the novel Pirate Latitudes, written by the late Michael Crichton.

The Wrap reports that veteran actors Emma Thompson and Kevin Kline have joined the growing cast of Disney's live - action adaptation of Beauty and The Beast which will be directed by Bill Condon.

It appears that the new live action Disney adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, directed by Bill Condon, has found its leading men for the film.

Now Disney has released the atmospheric teaser trailer for the live - action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast — directed by Oscar ® - winner Bill Condon and starring Emma Watson as Belle.

Blood: The Last Vampire (Sony), a live action adaptation of the popular Japanese anime, is an awkward and odd international hybrid: shot in English by a French director (Luc Besson protégé Chris Nahon) with a Hong Kong action choreographer (Corey Yuen), a cast of Brits posing as Americans and Japanese actors performing in English.

Action - comedy caper RED 2 will see most of the crew from Robert Schwentke's adaptation of the cult graphic novel by Warren Eliis and Cully...

Disney has commenced production at the London - area's Pinewood Studios for The One and Only Ivan, a live - action / CG hybrid adaptation of the children's book by Katherine Applegate to be directed by Thea Sharrock (Me Before You).

Before now, the most well - known film adaptation of Saint - Exupéry's work was the 1974 live - action movie directed by «Singin» in the Rain» director Stanley Donen, which starred actor Gene Wilder as the Fox, Richard Kiley as the pilot, and Bob Fosse as the Snake.

This image released by Disney shows Dan Stevens as The Beast, left, and Emma Watson as Belle in a live - action adaptation of the animated classic «Beauty and the Beast.»

For example, the Robert Rodriguez - directed anime - to - live - action adaptation of Alita: Battle Angel, which is being produced by James Cameron (The Terminator), has been locked in for a July 20th, 2018 premiere, which puts it one week before James Wan's Aquaman.

Compared to other adaptations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's work, this Sherlock Holmes (played by Robert Downey Jr.) turns the detective into more of an action hero.

The live - action adaptation of the Monster Hunter franchise begins production this September and is being helmed by Resident Evil director Paul W.S. Anderson.

The Jungle Book, Disney's latest cartoon - to - live - action adaptation, gets a lot of things right: It's wildly entertaining, full of great vocal performances by a stacked A-list cast, and boasts a hilarious / creepy musical number by none other than Christopher Walken.

Imagine if Edgar Wright's adaptation of the graphic novel series Scott Pilgrim, all whooshing, 8 - bit inspired graphics and psychedelic action sequences, took place against the bleak backdrop of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, a world filled with gray, heavily polluted skies harshly illuminated by the glow of neon signs.

In a current movie landscape that's all about comic book adaptations and watered - down PG - 13 blockbusters, real action stars are hard to come by.

This loose adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's play, written and directed by John Huston (with Richard Brooks serving as co-scripter), casts Bogart as Frank McCloud, a WWII veteran who arrives in Key Largo, Florida, to pay his respects to James and Nora Temple (Lionel Barrymore and Bacall), the father and widow of one of his friends killed in action.

Glover will play Simba in the forthcoming live - action adaptation of The Lion King — which is being directed by The Jungle Book's Jon Favreau — with work on the movie well under way.

Few know that the film is actually a loose adaptation of a book by Roderick Thorp from the late 1970s, although the joys of the film lie mostly in the well - developed set - up and characterizations, not to mention great action sequences, rather than the rather straightforward terrorist plot at the heart of the film.

Crossfire Edward Dmytryk, USA, 1947, 35 mm, 86m This adaptation of writer / director - to - be Richard Brooks's novel The Brick Foxhole, about a group of vets, led by Robert Mitchum's Sergeant Keeley, searching postwar Washington for their amnesiac friend (George Cooper) so they can clear him of a murder charge, embodies the essence of what has come to be known as «film noir» — moody, troubled characters; nocturnal action; chiaroscuro cinematography; low - key acting spiced with bits of bravura eccentricity; and a plot so crazy that it feels like a nightmare.

Hereford will relocate the action from London to Chicago for the feature adaptation, which will also be written by Hutson.

Amazon's latest pilot season consists of three series: I Love Dick, created by Transparent's Jill Soloway and based on a feminist novel about a couple's marital struggles in the academic community of Texas, starring Kevin Bacon and Kathryn Hahn; Jean - Claude Van Johnson, a new action comedy starring the actor as a fictionalised version of himself, in which he moonlights as a secret hit - man in between Hollywood jobs; and The Tick, an updated adaptation of the offbeat comic book, starring Peter Serafinowicz.

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Starring Max Records, Catherine Keener, and James Gandolfini Directed by Spike Jonze (Adaptation) Rated PG for mild thematic elements, some adventure action and brief language Appropriate for ages 10 +

Directed by Jon M. Chu, the live - action adaptation of the 1980s animated series follows four aspiring musicians as they're catapulted from Internet video sensations to global superstars.

Disney has officially released the first teaser trailer for their upcoming live - action adaptation of The Jungle Book directed by Iron Man director Jon Favreau.

Magic Tree House, Mary Pope Osborne's long - running book series about a brother and sister sent on various exciting adventures by Morgana Le Fay (the series» mythology is wonderfully bonkers), is getting a live - action franchise adaptation from Lionsgate!

And after that, Pearce seems to have booked gig after gig: he's penning an adaptation of DC Comics ««The Mighty,» about a cop who takes on a superhero, for Paramount; he was picked for another huge franchise with «Sherlock Holmes 3» (his Twitter by - line wryly comments «I mostly write threequels») and he's got an original action - comedy in the works too, «Secretaries Day,» to be directed by «Easy A» and «Friends With Benefits» helmer Will Gluck.