Sentences with phrase «adaptation finance more»

Civil society has the power to make adaptation finance more transparent and accountable.

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Many people first heard of the «Wish I Was Here» project when Braff, one - time star of the TV show «Scrubs,» more recently on - stage in the adaptation of «Bullets Over Broadway,» sent out an appeal via the crowdfunding website Kickstarter for financing, setting off a predictable cycle of backlash.

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.

Although my impression is that adaptation policies are probably more enthusiastically adopted because they are politically easier to sell and can be financed via short term budgets that the democratic process can handle.

To cover modules from introduction to climate change adaptation, agriculture and food security, to international legal frameworks, impacts and risks assessments, action prioritization and addressing issues of governance and finance, the MOOC team leveraged knowledge from more than 40 experts and practitioners in this field.

Consequently, Europe must take more serious steps to cut back its own emissions, but also it must act according to the principle that the polluter must pay and must finance adaptation measures and disaster relief in regions like in Latin America and the Caribbean.»

Our collective ambition on other Bali Pillars namely Adaptation, Finance and Technology is also equally, if not more important to this process.

Developing countries are often more sensitive to climate risks, such as drought or coastal flooding, because of their greater economic reliance on climate ‐ sensitive primary activities, and because of inadequate infrastructure, finance, and other enablers of successful adaptation and mitigation.

The intense and constructive discussions on and off the negotiating floor on inter alia, the adaptation fund, a new green / climate fund, funding the avoidance of deforestation and forest degradation, the climate - related budgets of development banks, and the need for government assistance to more effectively bring private sector on board, will all be for naught if previous experience with development financing is any indication how climate funding promises pan out over the coming years.

Learn more about our Electricity Governance Initiative and Adaptation Finance projects.

Learn more about our Adaptation Finance, Measurement and Performance Tracking, EMBARQ, and Access Initiative projects.

Parties have little more than a year to agree on strengthened action on mitigation, adaptation, finance and technology.

If NDCs are to become the long - term instrument for international cooperation, negotiation, and ratcheting up of ambitions to address climate change, then they need to become more transparent and comparable, both with respect to mitigation goals, and to issues such as adaptation, finance, and the way in which NDCs are aligned with national policies.

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Secondly they called for the acknowledgement that there needs to be more coherent information on climate - finance needs in developing countries, including a need for increased capacity in developing countries to conduct comprehensive assessments on their mitigation and adaptation needs.