Sentences with phrase «adaptation activities»

While short - term adaptation activities are underway, resource and capacity constraints are limiting the implementation of long - term adaptive strategies.

It is not much, but it is a significant help when there are no resources in the national budget for adaptation activities.

This center should serve as a one - stop point of entry for states and local communities nationwide to access federal expertise and support for operational adaptation activities.

In fact, in order to rise to the climate change challenge, mitigation and adaptation activities need to be examined within the same system.

Support will be provided to developing countries for planning, implementation and communication of adaptation activities.

The Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact was executed by Broward, Miami - Dade, Monroe, and Palm Beach Counties in January 2010 to coordinate climate mitigation and adaptation activities across county lines.

Two elements stand out — the weekly video episodes unravelling the personal stories of people involved in agriculture adaptation activities in two countries, Kenya and the Philippines; and the peer assessment project on adaptation action in agriculture.

It stresses that forest adaptation activities that assist mitigation should be eligible for carbon financing, and that the adaptive capacity of forest - dependent people can be improved by the allocation of forestland use rights, local - level capacity building and improving forest - based products access to markets.

«Increased Presidential engagement on climate adaptation issues would both elevate the importance of adaptation activities within the government and raise the profile of the adaptation challenge with the nation as a whole.

Representatives from developing countries as well developed countries, civil society constituencies and the Food and Agriculture Organizations (FAO) gave reports about their experiences in adaptation activities related to agriculture and food security.

However, Indigenous people must be adequately resourced and remunerated for any climate change mitigation or adaptation activities undertaken, just as their non-Indigenous counterparts would be.

It is great to see the South Florida community coming together to foster sustainability and climate resilience at a regional scale, while also coordinating mitigation and adaptation activities across county lines.

Public climate finance provided to developing countries is the finance provided by governments and bilateral and multilateral institutions for mitigation and adaptation activities in developing countries.

AACA - B was led by Canada and Russia and focuses on the adaptation activities that are being implemented by Arctic Council member states on a national, sub-national, regional and local level.

For that reason, the Roadmap to Zero Emissions report also contains guidelines for financial incentives for developing countries to access technical support, design services, and relevant information and tools — key barriers to scaling up their mitigation and adaptation activities.

These elements include binding targets for some nations, differentiated responsibilities (especially between developed and developing countries), phased reductions in emissions, some form of international emissions trading, and assistance to developing countries for their mitigation and adaptation activities.

Because it is increasingly apparent that materials relevant to IPCC Reports, in particular, information about the experience and practice of the private sector in mitigation and adaptation activities, are found in sources that have not been published or peer - reviewed (e.g., industry journals, internal organisational publications, non-peer reviewed reports or working papers of research institutions, proceedings of workshops etc) the following additional procedures are provided.

The review is needed to measure the CIFs» performance in key areas, including country and local community ownership; sustainable development, social and environmental impacts; implementation and scale - up of long - lasting mitigation and adaptation activities; private sector leverage and public risk; and transparency and accountability.

Countries will have flexibility on the timing and methods for communicating information about their adaptation activities or efforts.

Here's how countries can meet the Funds» requirements to help finance mitigation and adaptation activities.

This analytical document refers to a «climate financing gap», which to be filled requires identifying alternative and innovative sources of funds from both the public and private sectors, but also developing the appropriate institutional and policy landscape to redirect existing financial flows towards climate mitigation and adaptation activities that also deliver on sustainable development priorities.