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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 United States should establish an international climate change adaptation fund with new money over and above what is already dedicated to development assistance.

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.

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Governments to provide additional funding to disabled people's organisations and advice agencies, to increase the supply of independent advice and information regarding housing options, including adaptations, with a particular focus on the private - rented sector.

The workshop is sponsored by New York Sea Grant (NYSG) with additional funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Community Climate Adaptation Initiative Program and the Environmental Protection Fund under the authority of the New York Ocean and Great Lakes Ecosystem Conservation Act.

While several organizations like the World Bank, European agencies, nonprofit agencies and USAID have commissioned studies, experts yesterday acknowledged that no one has emerged with a systematic approach to understanding local climate change adaptation efforts or using them to inform the work of the multibillion - dollar Green Climate Fund.

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.

This process of tribal adaptation is one that is usually linked to depressing questions of commercialisation and how private and state funding come with a very different set of cultural provisos.

Where funders saw too much adaptation to local circumstances with Annenberg, they have responded with an overemphasis on national models and replicating a common strategy across multiple districts.

Heidi Chen, General Counsel for Zoetis, was recently presented with the 2016 Justice in Action Award by the Asian American Legal Defense Fund, which recognizes outstanding achievements and efforts in advancing social justice in the U.S. Below is an adaptation of Heidi's remarks from the event.

Certain other projects were recognized under the aegis of NEH on the Road, an initiative that supports the adaptation of projects to fit into spaces smaller than 2,000 square feet, so as to help with wider distribution of NEH grant - funded exhibitions.

Placed in a «green fund,» he said, this money could be invested in the most vulnerable developing countries to protect rain forests, plant new forests, expand farming methods that store carbon, and help with adaptation and energy programs.

[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.

Most of the public funds available for adaptation are given to developing countries as loans that must eventually be paid back with interest.

Moreover, while there is a much discussion around vulnerability, most of the funding is going to mitigation rather than adaptation (with the exception of the Pacific).

Lia Nicholson has been with the Department of Environment in Antigua and Barbuda since 2014, where her responsibilities include developing and implementing climate adaptation and resilience projects in the twin island state, applying for direct access to the Adaptation Fund and the Green Climate Fund, and operationalizing the national Sustainable Island Resource Framework Fund (Sadaptation and resilience projects in the twin island state, applying for direct access to the Adaptation Fund and the Green Climate Fund, and operationalizing the national Sustainable Island Resource Framework Fund (SAdaptation Fund and the Green Climate Fund, and operationalizing the national Sustainable Island Resource Framework Fund (SIRF Fund).

In 2015, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) started working in Myanmar's central «dry zone» with the support of a roughly $ 8m grant from the Adaptation Fund.

This activity report provides an overview of country - led efforts on climate change adaptation supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) partnership with financing from the GEF - managed Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF), Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) and Strategic Priority on Adaptation (Sadaptation supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) partnership with financing from the GEF - managed Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF), Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) and Strategic Priority on Adaptation (SAdaptation (SPA) funds.

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd told reporters, «When we talk about the need for a fast - start fund for adaptation purposes, as well as mitigation purposes, it's to provide the immediate resources necessary for a number of those states to deal with the real challenges that their populations face in the here and now, starting in 2010, 2011, 2012, before, in fact, the post-Kyoto agreement would kick in.»

This analytical report displays CCCI's engagements with Adaptation Fund, EU Covenant of Mayors, Compact of Mayors, SIDA, Vilankulo, Mozambique, Glasgow and Caribbean cities.

«EU funds will be focused on clean energy, and sustainable cities and agriculture, with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation also pledging $ 300m towards climate adaptation.»

It concludes that, while there are governance constraints at the global level, African countries need to work, with the support of developed countries, towards stimulating effective domestic demand for climate adaptation and mitigation funds and improving the absorptive capacity of African countries to effectively deploy climate funds.

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The Adaptation Fund originated as part of the overall Bonn Agreements on the Implementation of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action from the 6th COP with an objective to «reduce vulnerability and increase adaptive capacity to respond to the impacts of climate change, including variability at the local and national levels.»

Developed countries obligations to finance mitigation and adaptation in the developing world have been followed with sparse or empty funds.

With very little money in its pocket, an unsuccessful online fundraising that only raised $ 1000 and no funding commitments from developed country parties, the Adaptation Fund seems to be drawing to an extinction.

This activity report facilitates the identification of priority mitigation and adaptation measures by the participating countries, in line with their national sustainable development strategies, and how these measures can be effectively supported financially by public and private sector funding, multilateral initiatives, carbon markets and other sources of funding or investment.

The government has joined hands with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) for the implementation of $ 37.6 - million «Adaptation for Smallholders in Hilly Areas» (ASHA) programme for a new six - year period (2015 - 2018).

The report also recommends baseline research on adaptation, mitigation, and vulnerability, and the need for agencies with appropriate expertise to «increase funding and take a leadership role in supporting, managing, and directing this research.»

Here's what is required (leaving aside Theresa May's electorally hamstrung inability to deliver much of it): The entire cabinet and every business leader the government's black book can muster, on stage for the launch of the new strategy; an explicit declaration that this, full decarbonization of the economy, is the post-Brexit economic strategy; clear and attractive retail policies, such as a diesel scrappage scheme, tax breaks for green investment, new apprenticeships, a green home building program; an open invitation to all opposition party leaders to share a platform to support the plan with a declaration that while they may not agree on every component they fully endorse the over-arching goal; a willingness to shame those party leaders who play party politics and refuse to turn up; a fortnight - long program where each day sees a new cabinet member explain how the plan will transform parts of the economy; a Royal Commission on the flaws of GDP as an economic measure and the viability of alternative quality of life metrics; and, yes, a brave assertion that carbon intensive industries will have to transform or be scaled back, backed by a decarbonization adaptation fund to help affected communities respond to this global trend.

Adopt the risk - management mitigation and adaptation strategies in the IPCC reports, with adequate increased funding for non fossil - fuel energy (solar, wind, geothermal, fusion).

From the paper:... Funding for research described in this paper was supplied by the Annenberg Public Policy Center in connection with the Annenberg / Cultural Cognition Project «Cognitive Adaptation Research Initiative,» and by the Skoll Global Threats Fund, in connection with the «Southeast Florida Evidence - based Science Communication Imitative.»

UNDP Regional Centre: As a matter of national urgency, the Bhutanese Government — with assistance from an international climate change adaptation fund that was established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and partner organizations such as the United Nations Development Programme, the Global Environment Facility, the World Wildlife Fund and the Government [continue readingfund that was established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and partner organizations such as the United Nations Development Programme, the Global Environment Facility, the World Wildlife Fund and the Government [continue readingFund and the Government [continue reading...]

The Daily Star: As the release of the UN climate change fund for vulnerable countries is being delayed, Bangladesh should implement adaptation programmes with assistances from its development partners through bilateral arrangements, according to experts.

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.

It strengthens the Adaptation Fund, with a 3 - year interim mandate for the World Bank to manage it; establishes the Copenhagen Accord's promised Green Fund, involving a transitional committee with a majority of developing countries as members; creates a registry to record nationally appropriate mitigation actions by developing countries seeking supportive finance and technology, and sets up a network - based technology centre.

These issues include: (a) the need to determine when the obligation of any nation is triggered, (b) difficulties in determining which adaptation and compensation needs are attributable to human - induced warming versus natural variability, (c) challenges in allocating responsibilities among all nations that have emitted ghg above their fair share of safe global emissions, (e) challenges in prioritizing limited funds among all adaptation and compensation needs, (f) needs to set funding priorities in consultation with those who are vulnerable to climate change impacts as a matter of procedural justice, and (e) the need to consider the capacity of some nations to fund adaptation and compensation needs.

With the late - summer ice edge located farther north than it used to be, storms produce larger waves and more coastal erosion.5 An additional contributing factor is that coastal bluffs that were «cemented» by ice - rich permafrost are beginning to thaw in response to warmer air and ocean waters, and are therefore more vulnerable to erosion.22 Standard defensive adaptation strategies to protect coastal communities from erosion, such as use of rock walls, sandbags, and riprap, have been largely unsuccessful.23 Several coastal communities are seeking to relocate to escape erosion that threatens infrastructure and services but, because of high costs and policy constraints on use of federal funds for community relocation, only one Alaskan village has begun to relocate (see also Ch.

But even if the rest of the world presses ahead with emissions cuts, U.S. withdrawal would make it much harder for the signatories to meet the agreement's financial goals, including big funding targets to help developing countries pay for climate adaptation.

«Supposedly, the funding that we've been talking about with adaptation is now separate from loss and damage.

We have already implemented the first project on adaptation — Adapting to the climate change impact — with $ 6 million fund from UNFCCC.

Upon initial review, the CIS found funds classified as climate ODA from Belgium going to a «Love movie festival», or ODA coming from Greece going to a «Green Parliament contribution to UNICEF telemarathon», or Switzerland allocating funds for «Earthquake safety», none of which seem to have anything to do with mitigation or adaptation, unless the «love movie festival» reduced the vulnerability of a country to the impacts of climate change by further expanding their emotional depth.

IFAD helps countries access funding opportunities with the GEF for climate change adaptation and mitigation.

The first, the Adaptation Fund, was close to finalization, he said, with the question of direct access by developing countries seen as very important.

Parties were also considering how to increase funds for adaptation through the carbon market, with discussions focusing on extending the current 2 % levy on mitigation projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to the other Kyoto mechanisms, Joint Implementation and Emissions Trading, Mr. de Boer said.

Such a representative body already exists in the Adaptation Fund Board with its 32 members including representatives from all UN country groupings.

The Bank is currently working with 130 countries on climate change; it doubled its lending for adaptation to $ 4.6 billion in 2012 and put $ 7.1 billion into mitigation, in addition to its work with carbon finance and the Climate Investment Funds; and it now includes climate change in all country assessments.

Justice for the poor can be delivered by funding climate adaptation and mitigation activities in developing nations with at least US$ 160 billion per year, by a commitment to reduce overconsumption, wherever it exists, to equitable, sustainable levels and by eliminating developed countries» subsidies on fossil fuels and shifting them to renewable energy.

Because much of the cost will be realized after the emissions occur, the funds would have to be invested in order to produce resources in the future to compensate or make the best of conditions then; this can be investment in infrastructure (aquaducts and flood water management planning) and such things as R&D for drought / flood resistant crops, efforts to save ecosystems (those parts that will survive the climate change, or otherwise planting trees, etc, where they will do well in the future, or otherwise reducing other stresses so that ecosystems will be more resilient to climate change)(remember that ecosystems provide us with ecosystem services), etc, and / or investment in the economy in general so that more resources will be available in the future to compensate for losses and pay for adaptation.

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.