Sentences with phrase «adaptation and mitigation damages»

Not exact matches

Mitigation — reducing emissions fast enough to achieve the temperature goal A transparency system and global stock - take — accounting for climate action Adaptation — strengthening ability of countries to deal with climate impacts Loss and damage — strengthening ability to recover from climate impacts Support — including finance, for nations to build clean, resilient futures As well as setting a long - term direction, countries will peak their emissions as soon as possible and continue to submit national climate action plans that detail their future objectives to address climate change.

Investments in climate - change adaptation and mitigation can provide a wide range of co-benefits that enhance protection from current climate variability, decrease damages from air and water pollution, and advance sustainable development.

To be risk averse is good policy in my VALUE SYSTEM — and we always must admit that how to take risks — with climate damages or costs of mitigation / adaptation — is not science but world views.

Mitigation has the potential to reduce climate change impacts, and adaptation can reduce the damage of those impacts.

To be risk averse is good policy in my VALUE SYSTEM — and we always must admit that how to take risks — with climate damages or costs of mitigation / adaptation — is not science but world views and risk aversion philosophy.

We want you not to invest in markets, we want you to put the money in the right places: public finance of Mitigation, adaptation and Loss & Damage.

Given the probability of sea level rises, «preparedness efforts, adaptation actions and hazard mitigation undertaken today» can help prevent damage along the coastline.

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«[These] ethical, legal, and historical considerations may further inform discussions about carbon producer responsibilities to contribute to limiting climate change through investment in mitigation, support for adaptation, and compensation for climate damages,» they conclude.

On climate finance, Harjeet Singh, global climate lead at ActionAid International, said: «The issue of finance underpins so many different parts of the climate negotiations, because poor countries simply can't cover the triple costs of loss and damage, adaptation and mitigation on their own.

«The special issue of the International Journal of Global Warming focuses on a crucial topic: «Loss and damage» which refers to adverse effects of climate variability and climate change that occur despite mitigation and adaptation efforts,» Editor - in - Chief Ibrahim Dincer of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology says.

An open access special issue of the International Journal of Global Warming brings together, for the first time, empirical evidence of loss and damage from the perspective of affected people in nine vulnerable countries...... «Loss and damage» refers to adverse effects of climate variability and climate change that occur despite mitigation and adaptation efforts.

«Loss and damage» refers to adverse effects of climate variability and climate change that occur despite mitigation and adaptation efforts.

Thus the ever - increasing hype of having to act now made no sense, as the warming was coming regardless, mitigation of the damage and adaptation to the changed climate was the only logical course.

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.

It finds in all cases that efforts to reduce vulnerability to losses, often called climate adaptation, have far greater potential effectiveness to reduce damage related to tropical cyclones than efforts to modulate the behaviour of storms through greenhouse gas emissions reduction policies, typically called climate mitigation and achieved through energy policies.

However, payments of loss and damage to the most vulnerable developing nations like Tuvalu may be a non-starter, and funds for mitigation and adaptation projects will be relatively modest.

This can only be achieved if the agreement recognises that insufficient mitigation ambition directly increases adaptation needs as well as loss and damage.

Reaffirming the urgency to address the current imbalance in mitigation and adaptation finance — in light of recent studies showing the adaptation and loss and damage costs in developing countries will very likely be well in excess of US$ 100 billion per year by 2020.

On climate finance, Harjeet Singh, Global Climate Lead, ActionAid International: «The issue of finance underpins so many different parts of climate negotiations, because poor countries simply can't cover the triple costs of loss and damage, adaptation and mitigation on their own.

The Philippines has been at the forefront of recent criticisms of developed countries» reluctance to assist developing nations with mitigation and adaptation efforts, and cover for loss and damage.

First emerging decades ago as a relatively obscure plea by small island states, loss and damage has now gained recognition as the third pillar of international climate policy, after mitigation and adaptation.

Carbon pricing is a small addition to the cost to pay for its later damage and the costs of adaptation and mitigation too.

The Paris Agreement set these two issues largely to rights, making the Warsaw mechanism permanent and including loss and damage as its own separate article, on an equal footing with mitigation and adaptation.

No developed country has explained how their contributions to the major climate funds relate in any quantitative way to their obligations under the UNFCCC for adaptation, mitigation, or losses and damages.

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.

Mitigation and climate stabilization once and for all costs less than continuing costs for adaptation and damage for centuries.

And you will find climate related damages that are CONCERNING, but not alarming, and you will find that the choices between mitigation and adaptation are more interestinAnd you will find climate related damages that are CONCERNING, but not alarming, and you will find that the choices between mitigation and adaptation are more interestinand you will find that the choices between mitigation and adaptation are more interestinand adaptation are more interesting..

And even this is far less than the minimum necessary to actually address the adaptation, loss and damage and mitigation needs of people in developing countries,» stated Meena Raman of Friends of the Earth MalaysAnd even this is far less than the minimum necessary to actually address the adaptation, loss and damage and mitigation needs of people in developing countries,» stated Meena Raman of Friends of the Earth Malaysand damage and mitigation needs of people in developing countries,» stated Meena Raman of Friends of the Earth Malaysand mitigation needs of people in developing countries,» stated Meena Raman of Friends of the Earth Malaysia.

Two key objectives of the framework are: the prevention of loss and damage through mitigation and adaptation efforts, and compensation and rehabilitation following the occurrence of loss and damage.

Because the truth is that, unlike the challenge of mitigation — which can to some degree be met with technology, and market mechanisms, and policy reforms — the challenges of adaptation and loss & damage are absolutely going to elude the devices of politics as usual.

Identifying key vulnerabilities can help guide efforts to increase resiliency and avoid large damages from abrupt change in the climate system, or in abrupt impacts of gradual changes in the climate system, and facilitate more informed decisions on the proper balance between mitigation and adaptation.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)'s technical paper on the subject says that the negative effects of slow onset events are already affecting developing countries and the resulting loss and damage associated with slow onset events is likely to increase significantly, even assuming that appropriate mitigation and adaptation action is undertaken.

Julie - Anne Richards, a UK - based campaigner for and author of the Climate Damages Tax, an initiative seeking to make rich countries and the fossil fuel industry pay for climate damage to poor and vulnerable communities, explains that loss and damage is the third pillar of climate change finance, added to mitigation and adaptation.

To spell it out: NDCs have to include components regarding adaptation, finance, technology transfers, capacity, loss and damage, AND mitigation and responsibility has to be differentiatand damage, AND mitigation and responsibility has to be differentiatAND mitigation and responsibility has to be differentiatand responsibility has to be differentiated.

We call for a legally binding agreement that is no longer mitigation - centric, but acknowledges the need for strong adaptation measures, a bold loss and damage mechanism, technology transfer, capacity building, as well as finance flowing from North to South.

«A central issue will be whether loss and damage continues to fall within adaptation or whether it becomes a separate, third pillar (alongside adaption and mitigation), which we believe would lead the [United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change] UNFCCC to focus increasingly on blame and liability, which in turn would be counterproductive from the standpoint of public support for the convention,» the document adds.

The vast majority of climate justice oriented civil society groups support public finance for mitigation, adaptation, and loss and damage efforts so it is worrisome that the Marry Robinson Foundation is asking YOUNGO to sign a letter that leaves those important points out.