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With these maps and information, Scenic Hudson is supporting communities» efforts to develop adaptation plans by helping them to:

If they don't like any of the particular options that fit the best available evidence on sea level rise, or don't like the particular ones that they suspect a majority of their fellow citizens might, they can be expected to try to stigmatize the municipal and various private groups engaged in adaptation planning by falsely characterizing them and their ideas in terms that bind them to only one of the partisan cultural styles that is now (sadly and pointlessly, as a result of misadventure, strategic behavior, and ineptitude) associated with engagement with climate change science in national politics.

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Before James Cameron made «Avatar» and broke all box - office records, he was planning on making the big - screen adaptation of «Battle Angel Alita,» the famous manga series created by Yukito Kishiro.

Mass Audubon supports the passage of An Act establishing a comprehensive adaptation management plan in response to climate change, which prepares Massachusetts for the impacts of climate change by identifying where we are most vulnerable and taking measures to protect public health, public safety and the economy.

Obama Administration Releases First - Ever Climate Adaptation Plans With plans that incorporate efforts made by the Commerce, Agriculture, Energy, Transportation and Defense departments, among others, the administration's effort acknowledges that climate impacts are happening now and require aPlans With plans that incorporate efforts made by the Commerce, Agriculture, Energy, Transportation and Defense departments, among others, the administration's effort acknowledges that climate impacts are happening now and require aplans that incorporate efforts made by the Commerce, Agriculture, Energy, Transportation and Defense departments, among others, the administration's effort acknowledges that climate impacts are happening now and require action

It recommends that the federal government move aggressively to support those efforts by developing a national adaptation strategy to coordinate planning and exchange information between federal agencies and local governments.

But in the end, the city's climate adaptation plan says, it's «cheapest by far to establish the protection over a longer period, where sections can be protected in connection with other construction projects.»

«A key premise of this commitment is that adaptation planning needs to be informed by a continuing scientific, sound assessment of the impacts of a changing climate and the effectiveness of preparations and response options,» Abbott said.

Australia has created an adaptation program to «help Australians better understand climate change, manage risks, and take advantage of potential opportunities;» In Nigeria, state and local governments are developing action plans for high - risk urban areas, while the federal government is seeking to expand forests by reducing deforestation and wood fuel demand; in Mali, significant efforts are being made to conserve water resources, as well as create usable mechanisms to track the development of climate change.

Such offices shall engage in cooperative research, development, and demonstration projects with the academic community, State Climate Offices, Regional Climate Offices, and other users and stakeholders on climate products, technologies, models, and other tools to improve understanding and forecasting of regional and local climate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory Committee.

Dubbed by some as the next Jennifer Lawrence due to the inevitable comparison of her film to Hunger Games (much to the anger of fans who insist on the stark difference between the two storylines), it seems that the 21 - year - old actress is planning on taking advantage of this career momentum — reps confirm that the shorter do is indeed for her new film The Fault in Our Stars, another film adaptation of a wildly popular novel.

After a three - year hiatus from acting, Robbins returned to the screen in 1997 with the comedy Nothing to Lose; he soon announced plans to mount a film adaptation of Cradle Will Rock, the Marc Blitzstein play first staged by Orson Welles six decades earlier.

The Walking Dead's Negan has joined the cast of Rampage, the planned adaptation of the video game headed up by Dwayne Johnson.

If Vince Vaughn thought he was on to a sure thing — and a chance to show some dramatic action chops — with comic book adaptation Term Life, his plans have been roundly thwarted by Universal, which has abruptly cancelled the film.

Less than a month after its release, plans for a film adaptation of the novel «Burial Rites» by Hannah Kent are already well under way.

In 2016, we reported that Disney was developing a «sequel - reboot» of Joe Johnston's cult classic comic book adaptation The Rocketeer, with the plan being to introduce a new female Rocketeer to take the place of the original jetpack - having hero played by Billy Campbell in 1991 original.

The film, which Fox plans to open June 6, is directed by Josh Boone («Stuck in Love»); Michael H. Weber and Scott Neustadter wrote the adaptation.

Oscar - winner Ben Affleck is planning to make the Dennis Lehane adaptation «Live By Night» his next writing, directing and acting venture.

The first installment of the adaptation of Suzanne Collins's bestselling trilogy, directed by Gary Ross, hits theaters March 23, with two more movies planned.

Film Editors Spencer Averick — «13th,» «Selma» Alexandre de Franceschi — «Lion,» «Bright Star» Keiko Deguchi * — «God Knows Where I Am,» «Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus» Tracy Granger — «Still Life,» «Boys Don't Cry» Sabine Hoffman — «Maggie's Plan,» «Elvis & Nixon» Edie Ichioka — «The Boxtrolls,» «Toy Story 2» Janus Billeskov Jansen * — «The Hunt,» «The Act of Killing» Céline Kélépikis — «The Red Turtle,» «Now or Never» Melissa Kent — «American Pastoral,» «The Age of Adaline» Juan Carlos Macías — «Wild Horses,» «The Official Story» Jim May — «Goosebumps,» «The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe» Fredrik Morheden — «A Man Called Ove,» «The New Country» Christopher Murrie * — «Kubo and the Two Strings,» «Coraline» Tania Michel Nehme — «Tanna,» «Charlie's Country» Tia Nolan — «Annie,» «Friends with Benefits» Anne Østerud — «The Hunt,» «The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo» Gregory Perler — «Sing,» «Despicable Me» Jacopo Quadri — «Fire at Sea,» «The Dreamers» Fabienne Rawley — «Zootopia,» «MonsterHouse» Jake Roberts — «Hell or High Water,» «Brooklyn» Hayedeh Safiyari — «The Salesman,» «A Separation» Nat Sanders — «Moonlight,» «Short Term 12» Per Sandholt — «Land of Mine,» «A Funny Man» Suzanne Spangler — «Imperial Dreams,» «Smashed» Molly Malene Stensgaard — «Land of Mine,» «Melancholia» Alexandra Strauss — «I Am Not Your Negro,» «A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence» Christian Wagner — «The Fate of the Furious,» «Furious Seven» Monika Willi — «Amour,» «The Piano Teacher» Kate Williams — «The Whole Truth,» «Frozen River» Dan Zimmerman — «The Dark Tower,» «The Maze Runner» Lucia Zucchetti — «Their Finest,» «The Queen» Eric Zumbrunnen — «Her,» «Adaptation» Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Richard Alonzo — «Star Trek Beyond,» «Alice in Wonderland» Alessandro Bertolazzi — «Suicide Squad,» «Fury» Christine Beveridge — «The Monuments Men,» «Under the Skin» Felicity Bowring — «Gold,» «Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy» Jerry DeCarlo — «Carol,» «Julie & Julia» Patricia DeHaney — «Sully,» «Interstellar» Naomi Donne — «Cinderella,» «Philomena» Linda Dowds — «RoboCop,» «Rampart» Audrey Doyle — «Legend,» «Mad Max: Fury Road» Tina Earnshaw — «The Promise,» «Titanic» Rick Findlater — «L'Odyssée (The Odyssey),» «The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey» Paul Gooch — «Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children,» «Maleficent» Fae Hammond — «Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,» «The Legend of Tarzan» Miia Kovero — «Inherent Vice,» «The Master» Michael Marino — «American Pastoral,» «The Wrestler» Frances Mathias — «Saving Mr. Banks,» «Beginners» Christopher Nelson — «Suicide Squad,» «Frank Miller's Sin City» Elaine Offers — «The Kids Are All Right,» «Far from Heaven» Conor O'Sullivan — «The Dark Knight,» «Saving Private Ryan» Daniel Phillips — «Florence Foster Jenkins,» «The Queen» Luigi Rocchetti — «Ben - Hur,» «The Nativity Story» Morag Ross — «Hugo,» «The Aviator» Nikoletta Skarlatos — «Free State of Jones,» «The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Parts 1 & 2)» Vittorio Sodano — «Il Divo,» «Apocalypto» Shane Thomas — «The Dressmaker,» «Hacksaw Ridge» Kenneth Walker — «Loving,» «For Colored Girls» Kerry Warn — «The Great Gatsby,» «Australia» Carla White — «Hands of Stone,» «August: Osage County» Ann Pala Williams — «Live by Night,» «Click» Jeremy Woodhead — «Doctor Strange,» «Snowpiercer»

The planned Marvel Studios movie is an adaptation of its Black Panther comic book, whose central character, T'Challa, must defend his kingdom from destruction by enemy forces.

The film adaptation of The Ruins (2008), the novel by Scott Smith (A Simple Plan), sometimes struggles to convey just how scary the book is.

and Intolerable Cruelty... Ryan Gosling is planning to produce and star in a Busby Berkeley biopic based on Buzz: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley by Jeffrey Spivak... Returning once again to the workaday lives of North Africans in modern France, Philippe Faucon will make Fatima, an adaptation of Prière à la Lune, an autobiographical novel by Fatima Elayoubi about the life of a cleaning lady raising two teenage daughters born in France...

The extra scenes and storylines from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story left on the cutting room floor are getting new life in a planned comic book adaptation by Marvel Comics.

b by 2020, increase by x % the number of cities and human settlements adopting and implementing integrated policies and plans towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, resilience to disasters, develop and implement in line with the forthcoming Hyogo Framework holistic disaster risk management at all levels

In FY 2012, the Department took significant strides forward by incorporating climate change adaptation and resiliency considerations into DOT policies and grant programs and releasing its first ever Climate Change Adaptaadaptation and resiliency considerations into DOT policies and grant programs and releasing its first ever Climate Change AdaptationAdaptation Plan.

It was acquired in 1996 by a private group, Grupo Plan, who immediately set about the restoration and adaptation of its buildings.

After passing through various hands, it was acquired in 1996 by a private group, Grupo Plan, who immediately set about the restoration and adaptation of its buildings and 37 hectares of gardens.

By the early»80s, the studio was over budget and past schedule trying to finish its adaptation of The Black Cauldron, and the company's board of directors was considering a plan to break up the company and sell off the pieces, including the storied animation division.

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.

A comprehensive policy will be needed — one with multiple reduction triggers (Downstream Cap and Trade as well as CO2 based CAFE standards for example), an expansive energy R&D policy (much like the one called for by Nordhaus and Shellenberg), and an adaptation plan for areas that will be critically effected by the warming predicted without any current reduction policy.

A first step towards planning adaptation policies of SLR would be the projection of SLR at the local level at different time scales and at its different scenarios, as devised by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

NOAA's Coastal Climate Adaptation site includes a clickable map that lists adaptation - planning resourcesAdaptation site includes a clickable map that lists adaptation - planning resourcesadaptation - planning resources by state.

Importantly, planning for adaptation policies by coastal policy planners and decision - makers requires a pragmatic approach.

Pooh, Planning for adaptation is discussed at length by the IPCC.

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.

Activities supported by the five regional commissions include, among others, the creation of strategies to integrate climate change consideration into development plans, the assessment of the economic impacts of climate change, and the evaluation of the costs of mitigation and adaptation.

discuss how countries can enhance adaptation actions by strengthening the role of climate change risk assessment in national adaptation planning;

The feature profiled the city of Chicago which joined by New York has taken the lead among major municipalities already engaged in adaptation planning and initiatives.

The European research project SUDPLAN, co-ordinated by SMHI, has developed a planning tool for climate adaptation of European cities and regions [continue reading...]

This analytical report presents the concerted action taken by the UN system to assist people and communities in developing countries to adapt to climate change through: (i) risks, impacts and vulnerability assessment; (ii) adaptation planning, including creating an enabling environment; (iii) the implementation of adaptation measures, which includes UNISDR's work on climate change related disaster risk reduction and risk sharing; (iv) awareness raising; and (v) knowledge sharing and facilitate learning.

Strategy 3: State Agencies should prepare sea - level rise and adaptation plans to be completed by September 2010 and regularly updated, modified, and refined based on new information.

Requires the Under Secretary of Commerce to: (1) establish a Climate Service Program, a Climate Service Office, a Climate Service Advisory Committee, and a Summer Institutes Program at the Regional Climate Centers for interaction with and training of students and educators on weather and climate sciences; (2) operate the Climate Service Program; (3) maintain a network of six Regional Climate Centers to work cooperatively with the State Climate Offices on data collection and exchange, research support, and state and local adaptation and response planning on climate; (4) maintain a network of offices as part of the Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments Program; (5) ensure that the core functions and missions of the National Weather Service, the National Integrated Drought Information System, and any other programs within NOAA are not diminished or neglected by the establishment of the Climate Service Program or the duties imposed on such offices or programs; (6) report to Congress on the need for climate services; (7) prepare a plan for creating a Climate Service Program in NOAA and delivering climate products and services to NOAA users and stakeholders; and (8) establish and maintain a clearinghouse of federal climate service products and links to agencies providing climate services.

This manual provides practical, step - by - step guidance on how governments and other national actors can mainstream climate change adaptation into development planning as part of broader mainstreaming efforts.

It is therefore necessary to define adaptation plans in more precise terms and develop specific baseline criteria by which to compare state plans.

The presentation was made by Fred Snijders, Senior Natural Resources Officer in the Climate and Environment Division at the Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans Workshop from the 5 - 7 April 2016, Rome, Italy

What's your plan for dealing with the risks that can't be addressed by adaptation and mitigation?

-- Upon approval by the President, each department or agency that serves on the Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Panel shall implement its adaptation plan through existing and new plans, policies, programs, activities, and actions to the extent not inconsistent with existing Adaptation Panel shall implement its adaptation plan through existing and new plans, policies, programs, activities, and actions to the extent not inconsistent with existing adaptation plan through existing and new plans, policies, programs, activities, and actions to the extent not inconsistent with existing authority.

Such offices shall engage in cooperative research, development, and demonstration projects with the academic community, State Climate Offices, Regional Climate Offices, and other users and stakeholders on climate products, technologies, models, and other tools to improve understanding and forecasting of regional and local climate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory Committee.

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.