Sentences with phrase «adaptation funded by»

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).

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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.

Eliminating fossil fuel subsidies would slash global carbon emission by 20 percent and raise government revenue by 2.9 trillion, well over the funds needed for intelligent policy and action on climate adaptation.»

Dr Cameron Petrie, director of the ERC - funded project and co-author on the study, commented, «We are investigating the nature of human adaptation to the ecological conditions created by the winter and summer rainfall systems of India.

Trostle said four additional federally funded projects, three led by AgriLife Research, are aimed at providing more information for producers on guar in relation to guar agronomics, wheat rotation, plant breeding / adaptation and bioenergy.

To assess the maturity of awards within its funding portfolio, Science Foundation Ireland has adopted the same Technology Readiness Level (TRL) evaluation scale as utilised by the Horizon 2020 Programme (outlined below), which is an adaptation of the TRL scale developed by NASA in the 1970s.

She is the principal investigator for the NPA's project, From Postdoc to Faculty: Transition Issues for Women Scientists, funded by a National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination (PAID) Award.

In case you haven't heard by now, From Software's popular Souls series is getting an official board game adaptation, and the board game's Kickstarter campaign reached its original funding goal mere minutes after it first went up, proving that fans are still very much prepared to die, and die, and die again.

The Phantom Menace: Policies that Protect Districts from Declining or Low Enrollments, Drive Up Spending and Inhibit Adaptation In this paper, part of the Productivity for Results Series published by George W. Bush Institute, authors Jon Fullerton and Marguerite Roza examine the curious practice of states funding school districts for...

Steve Eisman (name changed in the movie adaptation to Mark Baum, wonderfully portrayed by Steve Carell) & Co. were a group of four people who operated a hedge fund, FrontPoint Partners, that was owned by Morgan Stanley.

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.

Major elements will include best practice sharing and strategic consultations for a CTO climate adaptation project funded by the Caribbean Development Bank, in order to strengthen holistic destination management approaches in the Caribbean.

Nintendo 64 Anthology launches Kickstarter campaign An English adaptation of the popular hardback book; the Nintendo 64 Anthology by Geeks - Line and penned by Math Malent is 98 % complete, primed and ready for funding via Kickstarter.

An English adaptation of the popular hardback book; the Nintendo 64 Anthology by Geeks - Line and penned by Math Malent is 98 % complete, primed and ready for funding via Kickstarter.

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.

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.

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.

The course was jointly developed by the United Nations Institute of Training and Research (UNITAR), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and funded by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Society, Germany (BMUB) as part of the National Adaptation Plans (NAP - Ag) Programme.

This fact sheet briefly presents an environmental project financed by the Least Developed Countries Fund to promote climate change adaptation and integrated coastal zone management in Yemen.

The first is a single grand international fund through which all mitigation and adaptation would be financed − such as, say, a greatly expanded version of the Multinational Climate Change Fund proposed by Mexfund through which all mitigation and adaptation would be financed − such as, say, a greatly expanded version of the Multinational Climate Change Fund proposed by MexFund proposed by Mexico.

This fact sheet briefly presents an environmental project financed by the Least Developed Countries Fund to promote adaptation to the effects of climate change and drought in Zambia.

This fact sheet briefly presents an environmental project financed by the Least Developed Countries Fund to integrate climate change adaptation into agricultural production and food security in Sierra Leone.

Manuel Gerochi, a member of the negotiating team from the Philippines, says they had successfully lobbied for the adaptation fund to be overseen by Kyoto signatories, making it easier for developing countries to get funding for adaptation projects in their respective countries.

It holds that countries that historically caused the recent atmospheric carbon dioxide build - up must lead in cutting their emissions, while helping developing countries eventually do likewise, by pouring trillions of dollars in cash and free technology into the Green Climate Fund for supposed climate change adaptation, mitigation and compensation.

The report compiles and synthesizes information on capacity - building contained in reports published by relevant bodies established under the Convention and its Kyoto Protocol and by the operating entities of the Financial Mechanism and the Adaptation Fund Board from the 4th meeting of the Durban Forum to the end of December 2015.

This technical document explores the possibility of expanding the funding available for adaptation measures by raising a levy on international transport services.

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.

This analytical report synthesizes the information provided by Parties and relevant organizations on the preparation and implementation of national adaptation programmes of action (NAPAs), including on accessing funds from the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF).

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.

Analysis by Carbon Brief last year showed Brazil had received $ 109m between 2013 and 2016 (inclusive) from multilateral climate funds, one of the vehicles for distributing international climate finance for mitigation and adaptation.

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.

Chancel / Piketty also take a realist turn and discuss implementation by way of an aviation levy designed to finance the adaptation fund.

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 pledges to the Adaptation Fund of -LRB-...) ** collectively made by Annex 2 Parties for 2013/2014, as contained in Annex C of this decision, and those made by other Parties.

Developed countries need to get serious about the need to improve predictability of climate finance and put new commitments to real money on the table by COP24, including for adaptation and for the Green Climate Fund.

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.

Some of the gaps in Chapter 3 on ethical issues raised by climate change policy - making include: (1) ethics of decision - making in the face of scientific uncertainty, (2) whether action or non-action of other nations affects a nation's responsibility for climate change, (3) how to spend limited funds on climate change adaptation, (4) when politicians may rely on their own uninformed opinion about climate change science, and (5) who is responsible to for climate refugees and what are their responsibilities.

Funds generated by auction allowances would fund sea level rise adaptation in coastal areas, economic transition efforts for southwest Virginia, energy efficiency for low - income families, and distributed renewable energy programs.

That those who are causing climate change have an ethical responsibility to protect those who could be seriously harmed by human - induced warming by funding responsible adaptation measures is a conclusion that follows from numerous ethical theories and several international law principles.

Because those who cause climate change are ethically responsible for damages caused by them, funding for adaptation projects needed by those most vulnerable to climate change will not be generated.

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.

The ongoing process of the Kyoto mechanisms, such as the CDM and the emissions trading system, demand market certainty, made possible by a strong mandate to develop effective tools to mitigate GHG emissions and fund adaptation projects.

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.

Africa also demanded from the West better climate change adaptation fund worth US$ 67 billion per year by 2020.

The city asked the court to require the companies to abate the nuisance by funding a climate adaptation program to build sea walls and other infrastructure necessary to protect public and private property from sea level rise and other climate impacts.»

The survey was commissioned by the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility and funded by the federal government's Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency's Climate Change Adaptation Research Grants program.

There are currently three international financing sources for adaptation, all administered by the GEF: the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF), the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF), and the Piloting an Operational Approach to Adaptation (SPA) under the GEF tadaptation, all administered by the GEF: the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF), the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF), and the Piloting an Operational Approach to Adaptation (SPA) under the GEF trust fFund (LDCF), the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF), and the Piloting an Operational Approach to Adaptation (SPA) under the GEF trust fFund (SCCF), and the Piloting an Operational Approach to Adaptation (SPA) under the GEF tAdaptation (SPA) under the GEF trust fundfund.

In addition to providing guidance to the GEF, Parties have established four special funds: the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF), the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF), both managed by the GEF, and the GCF under the Convention; and the Adaptation Fund (AF) under the Kyoto Protocol.

His expectations for the meeting - being attended by almost 11.000 participants - included the launch of the Adaptation Fund, as well as significant advances on technology transfer, the CDM and the issue of deforestation.