Sentences with phrase «adaptation projects»

She is leading an effort to ensure gender equity is integrated into climate adaptation projects.

Only 45 (11 %) of all labeled climate change adaptation projects really had climate change as a project driver and had an explicit adaptation component.

These included highlighting some of the mitigation and adaptation projects already underway or planned in the region and across the globe.

Similar adaptation projects will most likely be needed in other major coastal cities.

And many adaptation projects like building sea walls are essential to the continued existence of climate vulnerable countries, but don't necessarily turn a profit.

There is also evidence of bias against adaptation projects addressing the underlying socioeconomic factors that make marginalized populations more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

«Climate adaptation projects» — whose main aim is to reduce vulnerability to climate hazards, such as a flood management scheme.

The Adaptation Fund was established to finance adaptation projects and programmes in developing countries that are Parties to the Kyoto Protocol.

The Climate Change Adaptation Project at the University of Waterloo, has published a sobering report on adaptation challenges associated with climate change's severe weather, Climate Change Adaptation: A Priorities Plan for Canada Adaptation, in this context, means adjusting social practices, processes and structure to better cope with the changes that climate change is bringing.

The Adaptation Fund (AF) was established in 2001 to finance concrete adaptation projects and programmes in developing country Parties to the Kyoto Protocol that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.

Whenever possible, they'd rather wait with spending big money on adaptation projects until there is more certainty about the things to come.»

I had flown into Pemba in January 2014 to talk with the mayor about USAID's Coastal City Adaptation Project.

The country has also received funding for coastal adaptation projects through the Green Climate Fund.

I applied for the job, was short - listed and interviewed, and was finally offered the post, as the wintering marine biologist within the BAS Marine Organismal Adaptations project.

Adaptation projects worth $ 500 billion are not a feasible option for developing countries nor a cheap option for developed ones.

These questions are at the heart of a recent climate adaptation project led by Oregon State University's David Mildrexler and colleagues.

The 2017 Wonders Material Adaptation Project (MAP) provides guidance for streamlining the 2017 Wonders literacy program in grades K - 6.

Give this rubric to students before they begin their animal adaptation project.

CDR projects frequently require different financing mechanisms than other mitigation and adaptation projects today.

Globally, there are more than 50 different funds supporting adaptation projects.

And the report notes that development finance institutions like the Inter-American Development Bank have increased the number of private sector oriented adaptation projects in their portfolio since 2011.

Lastly, the government's proposal to fund only state adaptation projects is blind - sighted to the need to encourage local mitigation efforts that offer strong development co-benefits like energy efficiency gains, energy security, and clean air.

There have been some successes in attempts to provide such solutions, notably in integrated management of the Hai River in China, strengthening of the new Mexico Metropolitan Organization for urban flooding drainage, the joint adaptation project of European and Andean countries and providing a hydrological information system for the transboundary Congo river.

Case in point is the internationally proposed Green Climate Fund that intends to offer financing options for both mitigation and adaptation projects across the world.

At the Sierra Leone Climate Change Office, I was told that the country's proposed adaptation projects were realistic, if only the funds could work through the UN bureaucracy.

The IPCC report, however, suggests that there are three general «entry points» to implementing adaptation projects, which apply across a range of locations and sectors.

Hasan Mahmud, a member of parliament and Bangladesh's former environment minister said adaptation projects costing less than $ 25 million will suffer the most if Bangladesh's adaptation trust fund has no resources.

Private investors leave unprofitable ventures, including most adaptation projects, by the wayside, so they can not be a substitute for direct public support.

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Using data from the Rural Adaptation Project (a 5 year longitudinal panel study of youth from two rural, ethnically diverse, low income counties in North Carolina), a 2 - level hierarchical linear model was estimated (N = 3580).

We have facilitated the development of five case studies on successful adaptation projects as well as documenting our research findings on transboundary and governance issues on climate adaptation in the LMB.

Yes it is bad, because the only fund that is completely dedicated to funding adaptation projects in developing countries, the Adaptation Fund, is under threat as a result.

They will assist countries to develop clearly defined adaptation programmes that country - owned, country - driven, and that catalyze action beyond the implementation of adaptation projects.

In particular, GCF monies should be directed towards small - scale community - and ecosystem - based adaptation projects and away from «climate - smart» agriculture.

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.

Mark Howden, head of agricultural climate adaptation projects at CSIRO in Canberra, oversees projects to develop new farming systems that reduce water seepage and new crops bred with genetic traits suited to hotter, drier conditions and elevated carbon dioxide.

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The Adaptation Fund was established to finance adaptation projects and programmes in developing countries that are Parties to the Kyoto Protocol.

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.