Sentences with phrase «adaptation fund»

The conversation tends to focus on adaptation funds, which are useful, on technology funds, which are useful, and on global emissions trading.
But efforts are ongoing to address the huge imbalance towards mitigation, with adaptation funding accounting for just a quarter of all public climate finance.
Chancel / and Piketty, for their part, see the mitigation INDCs as evidence that «emerging and developing countries have already stopped hiding behind their poor,» and they thus focus on the challenge of adaptation funding.
According to Adaptation Fund Board Report, some developed countries, Sweden, Belgium and Australia, in 2012 - 13 pledged a total sum of $ 30 million.
It and other oil - producing nations have, among other things, claimed a need for adaptation funding — normally reserved for the poor nations that have done little to cause climate change but are bearing the brunt of weather disasters and other problems — because of rising sea levels that threaten offshore oil rigs.
The United States should establish an international climate change adaptation fund with new money over and above what is already dedicated to development assistance.
In January 2018, Ann Olson, Founder and Executive Director of Animal Folks, spoke at the Oklahoma Veterinary Medical Association about the veterinary manual for reporting animal cruelty (adaptation funded by Kirkpatrick Foundation).
And in south Florida, where rising sea levels are already stressing storm water systems, four counties (Broward, Miami - Dade, Palm Beach and Monroe) have formed a regional partnership and requested federal adaptation funding [pdf].
Finally, the world should follow through on the promised Climate Adaptation Fund announced last December in the Bali Climate Change conference, to help poor countries face the growing risks to food production from increasingly adverse climate conditions.
Those payments will come in three flavors of so - called climate financing: as part of a bolstered adaptation fund, a new fund to pay developing countries to protect their forests, and money to help poorer countries buy appropriate technology to make their commitments.
Adding to the challenge, international finance mechanisms have thus far proved sluggish in mobilising funds for adapting to climate change, as the debate on adaptation funding at the recent climate conference in Warsaw once again confirmed.
Prioritize adaptation funding to build community resilience for those most affected by climate change in existing climate funds under the UNFCCC;
First there were there was a round of high fives and thumbs up exchanged among delegates from small island states as the chairman of the conference announced that the money in the long planned adaptation fund would be controlled by the states themselves, rather than doled out via some international organization that could monitor the money, like the older Global Environmental Facility.
The early start of activities under the UNFCCC Adaptation Fund should make an important contribution in this respect.
Here's a link to «Fast - start adaptation funding: keeping promises from Copenhagen,» by David Ciplet, Achala Chandani, J. Timmons Roberts and Saleemul Huq, and here's a summary.
In this case, redistribution would be handled by the Multilateral Adaptation Fund, an agency that would use the carbon tax receipts to help countries that are having to deal with climate change.
So long as the Green Climate Fund and Adaptation Fund remain empty.
There also has to be an agreement on exactly how to fund and administer adaptation funds and climate risk insurance for developing countries for people who are at risk of climate impacts and vulnerabilities around the world — not just in developing countries but in developed countries as well.
«This study presents evolutions in the global distribution of CO2e emissions (CO2 and other Green House Gases) between world individuals from 1998 and 2013 and examines different strategies to finance a global climate adaptation fund based on efforts shared among high world emitters rather than high - income countries.
If Congress moves to establish a federal emissions regulatory program to mandate reduced greenhouse gas emissions, then the United States should dedicate a percentage of the revenue generated through the auction of emission credits to an International Adaptation Fund.
There were a few notable exceptions: Adaptation Fund pledges, a few constructive interventions, and some stark reminders of what is at stake.
Africa also demanded from the West better climate change adaptation fund worth US$ 67 billion per year by 2020.
Instead, the focus should be more explicit and open about the main issue which is how to allocate the currently very limited adaptation funds across different countries, with a view to the urgency of their situations.
Adaptation fund A fund for projects and programmes that help developing countries cope with the adverse effects of climate change.
The Adaptation Finance Accountability Initiative (AFAI) has developed a proven set of methods that civil society organizations can use to track the flow of adaptation funds and push their governments to...
Adaptation Fund Board recommended that GEF and GCF should use CDM as a tool to quantify mitigation (which would mean the CDM would be under COP as well as CMP in order to create demand, pushing the price of credits up).
Its National Adaptation Plan of Action reflects this, and it will receive international help for its dry - area irrigation schemes, but not until 2011, when administrator of the UN adaptation funds, the Global Environment Facility, can factor it in.
Well the very same Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics), together with Lucas Chancel (IDDRI, Paris School of Economics) has just published a paper called Trends in the global inequality of carbon emissions (1998 - 2013) & prospects for an equitable adaptation fund.
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Shot over four years, from 2013 to 2017, the film follows former Kiribati president Anote Tong on his world tour — with stops at the UN and multiple climate change conferences — to educate foreigners about the situation in Kiribati and to encourage climate change adaptation funding.
In Doha, in 2012, it was decided that for the second commitment period, international emissions trading and joint implementation would also provide the Adaptation Fund with a 2 percent share of proceeds.
The Adaptation Fund was established to finance adaptation projects and programmes in developing countries that are Parties to the Kyoto Protocol.
The Adaptation Fund (AF), the second oldest fund, was established in 2001 under the Kyoto Protocol.
I'm working to build the organization's Climate Change Adaptation Program across the Americas and helping manage The Climate Adaptation Fund, which supports on - the - ground adaptation efforts.
Increase available funding for adaptation and ensure that community - based groups, including women's groups, have direct access to those adaptation funds;
• The meetings put adaptation to climate change strongly on the agenda through the launch of the Adaptation Fund for support to developing countries.
He is currently the National UN CC: Learn Coordinator of Ghana and Technical Advisor of the Adaptation Fund Project.
[BALI] The UN has announced approval for an adaptation fund to bolster the defences of poor countries that lack the money, technology and human resources to cope with climate change.
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