Sentences with phrase «adaptation measures»

However, there must be room for the necessary adaptation measures in the face of global climate change.

The next day I attended a presentation by small - island nations about their climate change adaptation measures.

While many cities are taking adaptation measures as well as reducing carbon emissions, their jurisdiction stops at the city limits.

Presumably, adverse impacts and effective adaptation measures would vary among the scenarios from different families that share similar cumulative emissions but have different demographic, socio - economic and technological driving forces.

We focus on strengthening land use planning documents to incorporate adaptation measures such as «set backs», managed retreat, and other mechanisms that will support resilient beaches.

Many countries, especially developing ones with large, vulnerable populations, will not be able to afford adaptation measures.

We will have to keep pace with adaptation measures to climate change, where the challenge requires new approaches to efficient allocation of natural resources and the planned use of urban and rural territories.

If Parties so wish, they may include specific adaptation measures in their national contribution or communicate their needs and efforts through other existing channels.

Yet adaptation measures focused on making power plants more efficient and flexible could mitigate much of the decline.

So it is very hard to convince farmers themselves that this isn't «just another drought» but a sign of the future, and hard to get adaptation measures underway.

The means to protect these sectors should be developed and concrete adaptation measures fully incorporated into sector planning.

However, exposure estimates give an incomplete picture of coastal risks to human settlements because they do not consider existing or future adaptation measures that protect the exposed population and assets against coastal hazards.

At the same time adaptation measures in agriculture, water resources and urban areas will remain our key priority.

However, some agricultural adaptation measures — such as planting trees on farms to help retain or restore water retention in soil as temperatures increase — can also help capture greenhouse gas emissions.

These problems with supply are expected to increase in the future, becoming chronic if no appropriate adaptation measures are planned and implemented.

Results suggest that the future increase in expected damage and population affected by river floods can be compensated through different configurations of adaptation measures.

Thus, adaptation measures such as raising the height of sea walls or shifting to drought - resistant crops become very important.

A route - map approach is taken, identifying adaptation measures to span the plausible range of extreme water levels and creating timetables for investment and...

If current climate change and development patterns continue, by 2100, hundreds of millions of people are predicted to be displaced if adaptation measures are not in place, especially in Asia.

Effective adaptation measures required in agriculture due to climate change and weather variability during growing season

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.»

Thus, if the seas rise around them, heatwaves become more prevalent, or malaria, diarrheal disease and hunger spread, they will undertake adaptation measures to protect themselves and reduce, if not eliminate, the adverse consequences.

Significant efforts made by countries are underlined through analysis of mitigation and adaptation measures implemented.

I think it can move us away from spinning our wheels on unsolvable long - term global problems or «chasing windmills» in a futile attempt to change our climate to providing improved climate and weather data to the general public plus local and regional decision makers, which can be used to plan and implement specific actionable adaptation measures if and when they should become needed.

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LONDON, 11 February — If global warming continues on its present ominous path, and if no significant adaptation measures are launched, then coastal flooding could be costing the planet's economies $ 100,000 billion a year by 2100.

• Assisting in determining what adaptation measures are needed beyond current coping capacity.

Not only does this project contribute to better access to infrastructure in the community and has the potential to provide jobs for community people, it also contributes to climate change mitigation and adaptation measures by reducing the amount of greenhouse gas that was previously being emitted by the fuel generators.

This work takes future socio - economic developments based on SSP5 (O'Neill et al. 2014), consistent with high mitigation challenges due to high - end warming and willingness to take adaptation measures against climate impacts.

Relevant adaptation measures in this case include designing and building appropriate infrastructures to protect tourists, installation and maintenance of weather prediction and hazard warning systems, especially during rainy and tropical storm seasons.

The multicountry studies found that the residual impacts of climate stressors, including floods, sea - level rise and droughts, occur even though adaptation measures seem enough.

Co-author Dr James Watson, a lead scientist with WCS and Principle Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, said that with more than 100 million people per year at risk from increasing floods and tropical cyclones, ill - conceived adaptation measures that destroy the ecosystems, which offer our most effective and inexpensive line of defense, must be avoided.

Taking steps Kirshen hopes New York City leaders will consider flexible adaptation measures as the city recovers from Sandy.

In the area of climate change, the report highlights the findings of its Emissions Gap Report 2013 — which details the gap between current global emissions and the reduction needed to remain on track to meet the 2 degree Celsius global warming target — and its Africa Adaptation Gap Report, which describes the costs of adaptation measures on the African continent under various global warming scenarios.

«Brains with autism adapt differently during implicit learning: Severity of symptoms correlates with brain adaptation measures.»

«If these deficits do turn out to be a consistent finding in a sub-group of children with ASD, this raises the possibility that saccade adaptation measures may have utility as a method that will allow early detection of this disorder.»

We might not then need the tar sands and oil shales, and this would be a better overall solution because we would be able to reduce emissions and re-stabilize the climate more quickly, and thus avoid the need for some of the more extreme adaptation measures.