Sentences with phrase «adaptation decisions need»

These climate change adaptation decisions need to be made however, and in an effort to produce useful regional scale climate information that embodies the global climate change a number of «downscaling» techniques have been developed.

This suggests that adaptation decisions need to be made using approaches that are robust to this ambiguity.

Not exact matches

More research is needed to guide decisions about adoption, adaptation and replication, and support scale - up of evidence - based home visiting programs.

Urban decision makers need to know where to focus resources as they plan their adaptation strategies, potentially as a matter of life and death.

The approach presented here is based on three main pillars: an adaptation mechanism based on a broad understanding of system dependencies; efficient use of system knowledge through involvement of actors throughout the process; and technological solutions to enable efficient actor communication and information handling.The book provides readers with a better understanding of the factors that influence decisions, and put forward solutions to facilitate the rapid adaptation to changes in the business environment and customer needs through intelligent upgrade i...

Numerous regulatory decisions made by USACE will need to be informed by climate change impacts and adaptation considerations throughout the U.S., especially in western states.»

This analytical report describes how United Nations organizations use the information provided by space - based technologies to monitor the Earth's climate system and support decision - making about climate change adaptation, prediction and mitigation, including addressing the needs identified under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

by Judith Curry Last week, I was privileged to host the UK - US Workshop on Climate Science Needed to Support Robust Adaptation Decisions.

The guidelines are intended to be used by decision - makers, authorities and experts working on the agriculture sectors and global climate change experts in developing countries to better understand the need and opportunities for adaptation in the agricultural sectors.

There is just too much uncertainty to be able to make that judgment (unless the «decision» includes: «do nothing now expect identify possible adaptation measures to be implemented if and when needed»).

Before any further dollars are spent on climate change adaptation and / or mitigation, the world needs to upgrade their global weather / climate reporting network to the USCRN standard so that policymakers have correct temperature change mesurements to base their decisions on.

The UN Development Program estimates subnational governments» decisions can influence 50 - 80 % of greenhouse gas mitigation and adaptation initiatives needed to address climate change.

Although this creates learning opportunities, successive short - term decisions need to be monitored to avoid unwittingly creating an adaptation path that is not sustainable as climate change continues, or which would cope only with a limited sub-set of possible climate futures.

A research initiative that mapped decisions by town managers in Maine to sources of climate information, engineering design, mandated requirements, and calendars identified the complex, multi-jurisdictional challenges of widespread adaptation for even such seemingly simple actions as using larger culverts to carry water from major storms.116 To help towns adapt culverts to expected climate change over their lifetimes, the Sustainability Solutions Initiative is creating decision tools to map culvert locations, schedule maintenance, estimate needed culvert size, and analyze replacement needs and costs.

As part of our contribution, CSW commented that the document might carry greater relevance for decision - makers who want to advance a needed adaptation agenda to an unconvinced or climate - skeptic audience (a very real possibility) by including more explicit language on the ways in which climate change issues can be framed to appeal to diverse groups — for example, emphasizing the potential damages to people and property to one community, the negative impacts to industry in another.

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It highlights for decision makers the needed promotion of local knowledge to adapt to climate fluctuations in order to better define and implement adaptation policies at the national and regional level.

This suggests that, for sea - level adaptation choices with consequences beyond the next 30 years, traditional benefit - cost analysis is of limited utility; decision - makers may need to bring alternative tools to bear.

Most of the policy decisions related to climate policy and adaptation policy won't need input from GCMs.

Figure 2 shows that the lifetime of the adaptation decision is a key factor determining whether planning needs to address a relatively certain set of changes, or allow for diverging, and potentially very different, climate futures.

Christina Chan is the Director for the Climate Resilience Practice, which seeks to help national and sub-national decision - makers understand the drivers of climate vulnerability in their countries, engage vulnerable people in adaptation efforts, and access the information, tools, and resources they need to take account of climate change in planning and programs.

When it comes to climate adaptation policymaking, a lot of work needs to be done, as it's still a topic that has been largely ignored by U.S. decision makers.