Sentences with phrase «adaptation over mitigation»

Any attempt at adaptation over mitigation efforts would be no different to situation of the old woman who swallowed a fly, and then swallowed a spider to catch the fly, and then swallowed a bird to catch the spider...

I know Roger is a strong partisan of adaptation over mitigation, but I have never found this approach very convincing, except in certain limited cases.

Ray (response to # 6)- You mischaracterize my views when you write, «I know Roger is a strong partisan of adaptation over mitigation, but I have never found this approach very convincing, except in certain limited cases.»

If that means adaptation over mitigation, then all well and good, since we have no idea where the climate will go in the future.

JC comments: When I raise the issue of emphasizing adaptation over mitigation, the response I often get is that the sea level rise issue is so global and overwhelming that mitigation is the only sensible way to deal with the global sea level rise.

[Response: We suggest an emphasis on adaptation over mitigation for grasslands in particular, especially where precipitation is relatively low, because they fluctuate annually between weak sources and sinks and the extensive management strategies applied have minimal effects on carbon balance.

Not exact matches

The first three volumes, based on outlines approved by the IPCC's 195 member governments in October 2009, were released over the past fourteen months: The Physical Science Basis in September 2013, Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, in March 2014 and Mitigation of Climate Change in April 2014.

This is because it demonstrates that adaptation (over and above what is necessary to reduce vulnerabilities to current climate conditions) is unnecessary if mitigation is dramatic enough.

I have never said that it is the «primary» way to achieve mitigation and adaptation, as I have defined them, in the shorter term, but that it should be elevated in importance, because it will aid with both over the next say three centuries.

In order to meet the scale of financial resources required -LCB- and the commitments under Articles -LCB- 4.1 -RCB-, 4.3, 4.4 and 4.5 -RCB- to support enhanced action on adaptation and mitigation by developing country Parties and for technology cooperation and capacity - building, developed country Parties -LCB- and Annex II Parties -RCB--LCB- and other Parties according to agreed eligibility criteria, which shall be updated through a periodic review -RCB--LCB- shall -RCB- provide scaled - up, new and additional, -LCB- over and above -LCB- existing -RCB- ODA -RCB-, sustainable, adequate, predictable and stable financial resources, in a measurable, reportable and verifiable manner.

However, preliminary evaluations have shown that adaptation and mitigation interventions alone may not «fix» the climate system over the next millennium.

So, you have a choice: how much money to spend on mitigation that wont have a benefit for 30 years versus spending on adaptation to do the best we can over the next 30 years.

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Steven Mosher: So, you have a choice: how much money to spend on mitigation that wont have a benefit for 30 years versus spending on adaptation to do the best we can over the next 30 years.

Potential - In the context of climate change, potential is the amount of mitigation or adaptation that could be - but is not yet - realized over time.

The report brings forth questions that will occupy the world community over the next decade or more regarding the role of agriculture in climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Building on lessons from earlier Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) efforts over the past decade, it offers a systematic approach for conducting assessments in order to identify, evaluate and prioritize technological means for both mitigation and adaptation.

It simply opens up the tired debate over whether adaptation and mitigation are in conflict.

BartR: You make an excellent case for preferring individual Adaptation over command - and - control Mitigation.

COP10 was to focus on «adaptation,» and by so doing feature the interests of the poorer and more vulnerable countries over the rich world's obsession with low - cost mitigation.

For example, South Africa estimates that over 2020 - 2050, adaptation costs under a low mitigation scenario would range from $ 200 million to $ 53.1 billion; in a high mitigation scenario, costs would range from $ 200 million to $ 50 billion.

Rather than public evaluation of the evidence, independent validation of the models, and robust public debate over adaptation vs mitigation, climate alarmists like Lewandowsky et al. try to frustrate the scientific method, prevent debate, and impose their incredibly expensive mitigation policies.

The unpleasant reality is that mitigation and adaptation will be incapable of fully contending with the most severe impacts of climate change over the coming decades.

Between 1985 and 2014 there were more than twice as many articles on adaptation than on mitigation and the gap declined during that period, from over ten times as many in 1985, to just 30 % more in 2013.

Mitigation and adaptation are essential to addressing climate change over the long term, but over the short to medium term they will almost certainly be insufficient to protect the world's poorest from the worst effects of global warming.

And yet that security is precisely what the environmental movement, in pushing mitigation over adaptation, seems intent on denying people.

Topic 4 discusses adaptation and mitigation options over the next few decades and their interactions with sustainable development.

This activity report presents GEF's experience over the years in supporting the deployment and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies (ESTs) that address climate change mitigation and adaptation.

This is because it demonstrates that adaptation (over and above what is necessary to reduce vulnerabilities to current climate conditions) is unnecessary if mitigation is dramatic enough.

Most books about climate change focus on some aspect of the science of the issue; some deal with issues of mitigation — that is, reducing emissions of greenhouse gases — or adaptation — that is, actions to adjust human behavior or infrastructure to the consequences of the warming that Earth will experience over the coming decades.

Supposedly the GCF will allow for direct access of money for real on the ground projects — but there are also the usual concerns over the involvement of the private sector and the kind of preference for financing mitigation that meant since inception the GEF has given $ 3b to mitigation projects and only $ 300m for urgently needed adaptation.

We codirect the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN), a group of over 600 experts who provide climate science information on adaptation and mitigation to urban leaders and practitioners from governments, the private sector, nongovernmental organizations and the community.

Further, Von Doussa urges governments to ensure that «Indigenous peoples custodial role over traditional lands, flow on impacts for environmental protection and caring for country, are fully taken into account when developing strategies for mitigation and adaptation».