Sentences with phrase «adaptation and mitigation approaches»

It notes that traditional barriers remain that impinge on agricultural development, but that there is an opportunity to integrate adaptation and mitigation approaches.

Not exact matches

Massachusetts, along with other states and nations, has a two - part approach to combating the effects of human - induced rapid climate change: emissions reduction (mitigation) and adaptation.

GBM's approach empowers communities to take action against climate change, the impacts of which are already being witnessed across Africa, through food security and water harvesting activities (adaptation) and planting the appropriate trees in appropriate places (mitigation).

These plans may reflect a diversity of mitigation and adaptation approaches.

The Stephen H. Schneider Symposium, being held in late August in Boulder, Colo., will reflect on his approach to the climate problem and culminate with a session on this question: «The challenge of climate change mitigation and adaptation: How do we translate sound climate science into sound policies?»

[Parties [are encouraged to][may][support and] implement][The [mechanism][framework] for] policy approaches and positive incentives for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation; and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks [and associated non-carbon benefits]; as well as [the [mechanism][framework] for] alternative policy approaches such as joint mitigation and adaptation approaches for the integral and sustainable management of forests; [and also the associated non-carbon benefits]; [which] consist of the decisions, methods and guidance already adopted under the Convention; [Parties are encouraged [to support their effective implementation][to implement] the [mechanism [s]-RSB-[framework [s]-RSB--RSB-.

There is an urgent need to scale up financial flows, particularly financial support to developing countries; to create positive incentives for actions; to finance the incremental costs of cleaner and low - carbon technologies; to make more efficient use of funds directed toward climate change; to realize the full potential of appropriate market mechanisms that can provide pricing signals and economic incentives to the private sector; to promote public sector investment; to create enabling environments that promote private investment that is commercially viable; to develop innovative approaches; and to lower costs by creating appropriate incentives for and reducing and eliminating obstacles to technology transfer relevant to both mitigation and adaptation.

But Meena Raman, of the Third World Network, feared that the developed world's focus on mitigation ran the risk of «leaving the rest of the issues in limbo» with linkages to finance, technology transfer and adaptation «orphaned» by such an approach.

The changing focus from urgent mitigation, an excuse to raise the price of energy by a factor of 5 - 10 or more, to adaptation and slower remediation approaches makes the whole thing useless to the socialist agenda, so they turn their attention to other excuses.

The issues highlighted in the document include: reconnect science and policy, catalyze rapid and transformative changes in human behavior towards the environment, develop new insights on water - land interactions, accelerate the implementation of environmentally - friendly renewable energy, integrate biodiversity across the environmental and economic agendas, manage the unintended consequences of climate change mitigation and adaptation, and develop a new approach for minimizing risks of novel technologies and chemicals.

The report complements this analysis by offering concrete lessons learned and practical suggestions aimed at developing country decision makers and practitioners, thus fostering the adoption of novel, ICT - supported approaches to climate change adaptation and mitigation.

In conclusion, the report argues that urban areas have a pivotal role in both climate change mitigation and adaptation and identifies strategies and approaches for strengthening this role.

Building on lessons from earlier Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) efforts over the past decade, it offers a systematic approach for conducting assessments in order to identify, evaluate and prioritize technological means for both mitigation and adaptation.

Roger replied that he favors incremental approaches to climate change (i.e., don't let failure to legislate adaptation stand in the way of getting started with mitigation) and does not support waiting for a grand comprehensive program, but that his testimony is simply a call to develop a larger vision with which to organize individual initiatives on sustainability («I am calling for a little bit broader vision than tuning the atmosphere to a specific ppm target.»)

Reaffirming the unwavering commitment of parties to keep global average temperature increase well below 2 degrees C above pre-industrial levels and the continuum approach between mitigation, adaptation, loss & damage and finance that is required to ensure equity before 2020.

In the CERP approach, the user selects their own preferred approach to equity, including both their approach to responsibility and their approach to progressivity, and the result is applied to both the mitigation and the adaptation challenges.

Rebuilding Trust in REDD + November 11, 15:45 - 16:45 — Fiji Pavilion Forest conservation, and specifically REDD +, is one of the key approaches recognized as having transformative potential for both adaptation and mitigation under the Paris Agreement.

This approach pays landholders or farmers for actions that preserve the services to public and environmental health provided by ecosystems on their property, including services that contribute to both climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Article 6 establishes two new provisions for voluntary cooperation and carbon trading, recognizing that such approaches «allow for higher ambition in their mitigation and adaptation actions» and «promote sustainable development and environmental integrity.»

In Cancún, the imperative of including agriculture and biofuels; or to decide on a blueprint for mitigation of emissions caused by bunker fuels; or to define system - wide, large - scale levers for market - based action on mitigation and adaptation; or, establish new approaches that differentiate and foster innovation for climate from technological drivers in other areas and in the past, were all avoided.

We believe there must be stronger emphasis on the Non Market Approaches, especially newer and innovative mechanisms, such as the Joint Mitigation and Adaptation Mechanism, as proposed by the Bolivian delegation.

If I may add one more, it can be an integrated approach of adaptation, mitigation and sustainable development.

China's scientists have been active in the global effort to understand climate change and are increasingly involved in developing technical approaches to both mitigation and adaptation.

On how adaptation and mitigation complement each other: «The community would benefit more by recognising the complementing nature of the two approaches.»

GBM's approach is a holistic watershed - based, community resilience approach that acknowledges the role of the environment in mitigation and adaptation of climate change.

The report concludes that the GCF should approach private companies and financiers slowly and with a high degree of caution, and only engage them to the extent that they can guarantee compliance with high standards on environmental, social and development effectiveness; implement robust processes designed to address financial, social and environmental risks; and produce effective mitigation and adaptation outcomes.

Given the scale of potential impacts from tipping elements, we anticipate that they will shift the balance toward stronger mitigation and demand adaptation concepts beyond incremental approaches (107, 108).

If the political focus shifts from mitigation policies to adaptation, I can readily see the «robust» and «no regrets» approaches leading to plenty of special pleading from the Army Corps of Engineers, various real - estate interests, the air - conditioning industry, the insulation people, pest - control people, and so on.

This analytical report analyses the gender dimension of climate change and the policies enacted to mitigate and adapt to its impacts with the aim of developing gender sensitive approaches with regards to mitigation measures, adaptation projects and national regimes.

Paragraph 2: Parties are encouraged to take action to implement and support, including through results - based payments, the existing framework as set out in related guidance and decisions already agreed under the Convention for: policy approaches and positive incentives for activities relating to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries; and alternative policy approaches, such as joint mitigation and adaptation approaches for the integral and sustainable management of forests, while reaffirming the importance of incentivizing, as appropriate, non-carbon benefits associated with such approaches.

We highlighted the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy as a means through which to establish this linkage, as it already fosters an integrated approach combining mitigation, adaptation and access to energy at the urban scale.

«The role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries; and alternative policy approaches, such as joint mitigation and adaptation approaches for the integral and sustainable management of forests,» is the «+» in «REDD +» — all the other land - use issues associated with farms and fields.

In order to enhance action on development and transfer of technology we decide to establish a Technology Mechanism as set forth in decision - / CP.l5 to accelerate technology development and transfer in support of action on adaptation and mitigation that will be guided by a country - driven approach and be based on national circumstances and priorities.