Sentences with phrase «adaptation measures as»

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

He said: «We want to clean our air, our water, our environment, so we are addressing a challenge which takes care of our climate change mitigation and adaptation measures as well.

Not exact matches

They also believe that by measuring a patient's dark adaptation response time they have developed a tool that can help track the onset or progression of the disease as well as measure the effectiveness of drugs that are in development to treat the disease early on.

Next year's school, «Adaptation and Mitigation: Responses to Climate Change,» will explore topics such as greenhouse gas emission scenarios, the economics of climate change, adaptation and mitigation measures, and climateAdaptation and Mitigation: Responses to Climate Change,» will explore topics such as greenhouse gas emission scenarios, the economics of climate change, adaptation and mitigation measures, and climateadaptation and mitigation measures, and climate policies.

One adaptation to this fortunate reality is that rather than using overall survival (OS) as the measure of a drug's success, many clinical trials now use a kind of midpoint, namely progression - free survival (PFS)-- the time that it takes for a tumor controlled by the trial's medicine to restart its growth.

This requires the right kind of adaptation measures that account for this variability — such as intelligent insurance schemes, for example.»

For Ullrich and Thiel, the direct evidence of a rapid and complete adaptation to zero gravity in less than a minute begs the question as to whether previous cell changes measured after hours or days were also the result of an adaptation process.

«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.»

They also believe that by measuring a patient's dark adaptation response time they have developed a tool that can help track the onset or progression of the disease as well as measure the effectiveness of drugs that are in develpoment to treat the disease early on.

What I feel is very much neglected is what most just refer to as the «CNS» because there is no easy way to measure motor - neuron activity / adaptations in relation to the muscle..

Try if you'd like to judge this simply as an adaptation (a measure it still fails), but it is impossible not to view Burton's movie as a wildly inferior remake of one of the most spectacular fantasy films ever made.

The project — entitled Sustainable Tourism through Energy Efficiency with Adaptation and Mitigation Measures in Pangandaran — aims to serve as a model of innovative climate change mitigation and adaptation measures in tourism destinations in Indonesia and south - Adaptation and Mitigation Measures in Pangandaran — aims to serve as a model of innovative climate change mitigation and adaptation measures in tourism destinations in Indonesia and south - eaMeasures in Pangandaran — aims to serve as a model of innovative climate change mitigation and adaptation measures in tourism destinations in Indonesia and south - adaptation measures in tourism destinations in Indonesia and south - eameasures in tourism destinations in Indonesia and south - east Asia.

DIVA is a global model to estimate impacts of sea level rise on all coastal nations as well as the costs and benefits of possible adaptation measures.

It included four areas of assessment: 1) relevance of the strategy to the GEF mandate and focal areas, as well as to countries» national sustainable development and adaptation agenda; 2) effectiveness of the proposed adaptation measures; 3) efficiency of project development and management in implementing the strategy; 4) results of the strategy and projects thus far as well as their sustainability.

This analytical report shows the wide range of adverse impacts of climate change in Africa and assesses the balance of economic costs, as a function of a range of scenarios including both successful and failed global mitigation efforts, and strong compared to weak implementation of adaptation measures.

Andries Rosema even finds it «frightening» that generating pictures of how climate statistics could change is feeding these considerations, as they introduce a large risk of alarmistic messages and overinvestments in mitigation or adaptation measures.

The dialogue highlighted the often - overlooked role of blue carbon ecosystems, such as mangroves and seagrass meadows, in measures for climate change 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.

GBM has been able to initiate 3 demonstration sites in Tamiyoi, Bawa and Porro in the Kirisia ecosystem as a climate change adaptation measure.

The Saudis, after all, had absolutely insisted that whenever «funding for adaptation» became available, the «impacts of response measures» would have to treated as equal in importance to the impacts of global warming itself — as if climate change and the climate treaty were equivalent evils.

Where probabilities can be attached to different outcomes that may result from an adaptation measure, economic tools such as risk and portfolio theory allow us to choose the adaptation option that maximizes the expected net benefits, while allowing for the risks associated with different options.

But as with all decision making approaches, the a challenge for MCA and methods like it is the subjective choices that have to be made about what weights to attach to all the relevant criteria that go into the analysis, including how the adaptation measure being studied impacts poor or vulnerable populations, or how fair it is in the distribution of who pays compared to who benefits.

Second, EIs can function as flexible, low - cost tools to identify adaptation measures.

Indeed some of these methods have already been applied to the evaluation of adaptation measures, such as decisions on which coastal areas to protect and how much to protect them.

Capacity - building as well as funding for adaptation measures are desperately needed if Cambodia is to avoid disastrous flooding in future.

As we shall see, that high - emitting nations have responsibility for funding adaptation measures in developing countries is a conclusion that can be based on strong ethical grounds despite reasonable disagreements about such matters as when the ethical responsibility was triggered, which kinds of adaptation measures should be funded now, and the need to distinguish between responsibilities that arise due to the «fault» of high - emitting countries and responsibilities which arise without attributing «fault.&raquAs we shall see, that high - emitting nations have responsibility for funding adaptation measures in developing countries is a conclusion that can be based on strong ethical grounds despite reasonable disagreements about such matters as when the ethical responsibility was triggered, which kinds of adaptation measures should be funded now, and the need to distinguish between responsibilities that arise due to the «fault» of high - emitting countries and responsibilities which arise without attributing «fault.&raquas when the ethical responsibility was triggered, which kinds of adaptation measures should be funded now, and the need to distinguish between responsibilities that arise due to the «fault» of high - emitting countries and responsibilities which arise without attributing «fault.»

High - mitting developed countries have undeniable ethical obligations to fund reasonable adaptation measures in vulnerable developing countries both as a matter of sound ethical reasoning and international law.

Of the money channeled through the GCF, half will go to funding adaptation measures in developing countries, such as better flood defences, drought monitoring schemes, and water management systems.

Further adaptation measures to reduce the peak flow should make use of natural retention capacity upstream, while rising flood protections should be seen as last resort, to compensate for the residual risk in areas where other options can not be implemented.

Among those steps, the report recommends flood - proofing homes and infrastructure; curtailing development in areas subject to tidal flooding; considering the risks and benefits of adaptation measures such as sea walls and natural buffers; and developing long - term plans based on the best available science.

He directed the chair of CEQ to provide to him within one year «a progress report on agency actions in support of the national adaptation strategy and recommendations for any further such measures as the CEQ Chair may deem necessary.»

In addition to inherent scientific uncertainties slowing response, a variety of human and institutional barriers stand in the way of adaptation measures: long lead - times for rule changes; ideological resistance; a preoccupation with the near - term; false perceptions that climate impacts either won't be too painful or are off in the distant future; business - as - usual assumptions; and lack of national leadership.

The training came to a close with pledges by the participants to initiate climate change adaptation and mitigation measures learnt, as well as sensitize other members of the community.

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.

Given that many of the predicted effects of climate change are considered imminent and unavoidable, the need to mainstream adaptation as a viable coping measure among private households is becoming a topic of increasing importance.

IRTORISKI The study investigated how the use of cost benefit analysis in climate change adaptation planning can be streamlined such as to be useful both for initial prioritisation of natural hazards according to their risk and for initial comparison of measures regarding a particular hazard, while avoiding complex model exercises.

We call for a legally binding agreement that is no longer mitigation - centric, but acknowledges the need for strong adaptation measures, a bold loss and damage mechanism, technology transfer, capacity building, as well as finance flowing from North to South.

UN News Center: Senior United Nations officials hailed the opening in the Republic of Korea today of the UN-backed Green Climate Fund as a significant step in the collective effort to support mitigation, adaptation and resilience measures in developing countries.

This document provides wildlife and conservation biologists with a technical summary that they can use as an information resource for assessing the vulnerability of Maine's wildlife habitats, plant communities and species to climate change, which will aid in the development of effective adaptation measures.

Because of the long atmospheric lifetime of some of the main greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, there is a mismatch between the payoff from climate change mitigation, which involves reducing emissions of planet warming greenhouse gases to lessen to severity of climate change, and climate change adaptation, which refers to measures to better withstand the impacts of climate change.

You kept mentioning adaptation throughout your presentation as an urgent measure to be taken by «developing» countries.

Biological reserves and ecological corridors have been either implemented or planned for the maintenance of biodiversity in natural ecosystems, and these can serve as adaptation measures to help protect ecosystems in the face of climate change.

If they would not give evidence, dangerous criminals would walk free and both society and the administration of justice would suffer; (ii) it was settled law that the paramount object had always been to do justice and that if, in order to do justice, some adaptation of ordinary procedure was called for, it should be made, so long as the overall fairness of the trial was not compromised; (iii) recent case law supported the adoption of protective measures; (iv) the Strasbourg jurisprudence, properly understood, did not condemn the use of protective measures; and (v) the defendant was protected from the risk of unfairness by the prosecutor's duty of disclosure.

He developed one of the most widely used adult measures of personality, the Big Five Inventory, as well as adaptations of that instrument to more than 30 languages and cultures.

Attention should also be given to developing disease - specific measures of daily hassles and social support, as they may better predict adaptation to chronic disease, adherence to medical regimens, and health outcomes compared to generic measures (La Greca & Schuman, 1999).

Regarding this one, research has supported the unidimensional structure of the measure as well as the convergent validity with other instruments.22 The Portuguese adaptation of the MHI - 5 was conducted by Ribeiro20 and replicates the psychometric properties identified in previous studies.

Tribal MIECHV grantees are moving the field of home visiting forward by assessing the impact of models with unique populations, examining the implementation and effectiveness of model adaptations and enhancements aimed at strengthening cultural relevance, and measuring untested outcomes for home visiting such as cultural knowledge, connection and practice.

In this article, measures of treatment adherence and quality of life are viewed as indices of «child adaptation.»

This study was designed to determine whether more paternal involvement was associated with more favorable adaptation to pediatric chronic diseases as measured by indices of maternal psychological adjustment, marital satisfaction, and family functioning.