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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.

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Cities are projected to require at least USD 1.7 trillion a year for climate change mitigation and adaptation above business as usual in order to align GHG levels with those that limit global warming to 2 °C and avoid the worst effects of climate change.

Furthermore, UTZ works on the landscape - based adaptation planning project with Malawian tea smallholder farmers which will not only address the effects of climate change on tea, but also tackle such environmental impacts as land degradation, deforestation and availability of clean water.

Other Tories view her adaptation of Conservative policy as a sign of the party changing with the times, in a similar manner to David Cameron's current project with the Conservative brand.

The Nature Conservancy hopes that what it learns about the project will make it easier for other communities weighing similar projects to move forward with natural systems, McLeod said last week, speaking on a panel about climate adaptation and resilience at the same event as Bostick.

Offering that «it's very hard to do a systematic change,» Girard cited her work as the chairwoman of Boston's interagency green building committee, in which every major construction project has to pass a checklist produced by the agency to comply with new adaptation codes.

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.

One of these, the Adaptation to Climate Change in Coastal Zones of West Africa (ACCC) project, brings together delegates from Cape Verde, The Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania and Senegal to discuss solutions to climate change problems such as rising sea levels and coastal erosion.

The project aims to reveal if diversification can be explained by the number of interactions a species has with other species over time, a concept known as biotic interaction, which is thought to accelerate adaptation.

Projected temperature and precipitation increases may be favorable in the short term for some Montana crops and forage production, but the effects of warming will become increasingly disruptive as they accelerate beyond adaptation thresholds.

«In Southern Europe, adapting to some of the projected changes could only be achieved by a fundamental, and expensive, re-engineering of each city or water resource system, as significant adaptation to climate extremes has already been implemented and radical changes will be needed to achieve more,» the paper notes.

In addition to supporting adaptation efforts through its pipeline of infrastructure projects (which will average $ 1.1 billion per annum over the next three years), the Bank is providing (in countries such as Morocco, Tunisia, Djibouti, and Yemen) knowledge and technical expertise for better analyzing likely impacts of climate change, and for designing least - cost adaptation interventions to minimize such impacts.

It examines the movie in a fairly standard way, as it goes through the project's genesis and tells us about casting, adaptation issues, Forman's involvement, dealing with the subject matter, costume and production design factors, and reactions to the film.

Collaborating with novelist and playwright Christine Angot, Denis initially approached the project as a potential adaptation of Roland Barthes» volume «A Lover's Discourse: Fragments.»

As the decade progressed, Schreiber continued to be a presence in bigger mainstream projects, such as the 2002 adaptation of Tom Clancy's The Sum of All FearAs the decade progressed, Schreiber continued to be a presence in bigger mainstream projects, such as the 2002 adaptation of Tom Clancy's The Sum of All Fearas the 2002 adaptation of Tom Clancy's The Sum of All Fears.

The 1974 film starring Robert Redford as Gatsby, Mia Farrow as Daisy, and Sam Waterston as Nick is the best known adaptation, and with a cast like that, speculation immediately began as to who would play those parts if Luhrmann pursued the project.

As you well know, even though WB's project was announced first, Disney's adaptation won the race to the big screen, and now Warner Bros. seems to be rethinking how to approach Serkis» film.

But as it became clear that director Jon Favreau's Jungle Book for Disney was not a colorful, song - filled, «Disney - fied» adaptation but instead a photoreal and somewhat dark take on Kipling's story, Warner Bros. no doubt began to fear that their own project — previously titled Jungle Book: Origins — might be too similar.

James Franco has been on an experimental film kick as of late with his rendition of the classic 1930 Faulkner novel As I Lay Dying and his upcoming project Child of God (another novel adaptation), so it really comes.as of late with his rendition of the classic 1930 Faulkner novel As I Lay Dying and his upcoming project Child of God (another novel adaptation), so it really comes.As I Lay Dying and his upcoming project Child of God (another novel adaptation), so it really comes...

Obvious Child started out as a short that Gillian made with Jenny in 2009, and I came to the feature version of that project primarily as a producer, and the writing grew organically in the feature adaptation.

Now, as Garcia pointed out, she's biased about that Star Wars project because it features Alden Ehrenreich, who starred in the film adaptation of her book, Beautiful Creatures.

A director and screenwriter as well as an Oscar - nominated actor (and former «30 Rock» co-star of TODAY guest host Jane Krakowski), James Franco has a new project: a film adaptation of William Faulkner's classic «The Sound and the Fury.»

This tribute to Schepisi's important contribution as an Australian and international filmmaker, a distinctive auteur and jobbing filmmaker, covers his early work in documentary (his fascinating short on The Age newspaper, People Make Papers), the mercurial critical reception of his groundbreaking opus The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, the representation of landscape across his first three Australian features (specifically in the partisan and compassionate Evil Angels, 1988), his initial project in the United States (the elemental and mythic Western, Barbarosa), the now iconic Six Degrees of Separation, and the importance of adaptation and collaboration across his cinema.

The soon - to - be Oscar host is reportedly in talks to take on two directorial projects: an adaptation of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying for Fox...

It's not as poignant or as rich as the comic book treatment, so those expecting a faithful adaptation will be disappointed, but it does benefit by being an isolated story that is easy for even the most casual of Superman fans to follow (indeed, it doesn't really fall under any current Superman project continuity).

After teasing a number of different ambitious projects in 2017 — including an adaptation of Fernando Morais» nonfiction book The Last Soldiers Of The Cold War: The Story Of the Cuban Five and a slightly re-cast version of Idol's Eye, his perpetually stalled Chicago mob thriller — Assayas ultimately went with a previously unannounced project about the French publishing industry as his next film.

Having developed the violent - universe and its larger - than - life characters over the course of 8 years (it started life in 2006 as a completely different project) 23 issues, 2 movie adaptations and a separate spin - off volume, Millar -LSB-...]

The project marks the second King project for Skarsgård, who will star in the film adaptation of King's classic novel, «It,» as the iconic terrorizing clown, Pennywise.

Also Read: Scott Haze, James Franco Discuss Their New LA Theater, Upcoming Projects (Exclusive) Matt Rager adapted the novel, which is the director Franco's second Faulkner adaptation following «As I Lay Dying,» which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

Crimson Peak is Guillermo Del Toro's passion project — the one he has worked on for years (as many as his H.P. Lovecraft adaptation?

Operating on a scale like nothing else on TV, and creatively liberated to play a long game stretching into the future, perhaps no project better distinguishes HBO's status as the leading premium player than David Benioff and D.B. Weiss» meticulous adaptation of George R.R. Martin's fantasy world.

For a while now, the sequel to Mark Millar comic adaptation Wanted has been lost in limbo, unable to find its way as director Timur Bekmambetov concentrated on other projects.

Banshee's Adam Targum is serving as showrunner, and the project is said to be targeted towards «cable networks and streaming services,» two other entities that can't resist a good comic book adaptation.

As it stands, the evidence on offer in his rendition of Macbeth shows little else than that the $ 170 million video game adaptation Assassin's Creed he has signed up to may well be the perfect project for Kurzel (and I mean this in both a positive and a negative sense).

As of this writing, Lindelof has neither denied nor confirmed his involvement in the project but he has been vocal about wanting to be part of it, and that he wants a close adaptation of the comic book.

Meanwhile, Burton's currently got his eye on two scripts from screenwriter Jane Goldman (X-Men: First Class, The Woman in Black): the Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children adaptation and Pinocchio, a project co-written by Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller (with Robert Downey Jr. starring as Geppetto).

As you can probably tell, this project should land Reitman back in the coolly satirical territory of his 2006 debut «Thank You for Smoking» — another Reitman - penned adaptation — as opposed to the cuddlier vein of «Juno.&raquAs you can probably tell, this project should land Reitman back in the coolly satirical territory of his 2006 debut «Thank You for Smoking» — another Reitman - penned adaptation — as opposed to the cuddlier vein of «Juno.&raquas opposed to the cuddlier vein of «Juno.»

You'll likely recall the Akira Project, the crowd - funded fan trailer for a live - action adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo's pioneering manga and anime that sticks close to the source material (as opposed...

His CV includes low - key Brit gems such as Stella Does Tricks and Beautiful People, Ken Loach classics such as Land and Freedom and The Wind that Shakes The Barley, award season darlings like Captain Phillips and, looking to the future, Gillian Flynn adaptation Dark Places and the next directorial project by Sean Penn, The Last Face.

WHY: Hollywood hasn't been shy about its love for sequels, reboots and remakes this year, but as far as big screen adaptations of mildly popular television shows go, you could do a lot worse than «The Man from U.N.C.L.E.» In fact, though director Guy Ritchie has admitted that he wasn't overly familiar with the 1960s TV series before signing on to the project, it's the ideal property for a filmmaker like Ritchie to tackle, because it allows him to cherry - pick the show's best bits and put his own spin on the material without worrying about stepping on too many toes.

When it was first announced that 50/50 director Jonathan Levine would helm an adaptation of the novel Warm Bodies many film - fans dismissed the project as Twilight with zombies.

Hollywood hasn't been shy about its love for sequels, reboots and remakes this summer, but as far as big screen adaptations of mildly popular television shows go, you could do a lot worse than «The Man from U.N.C.L.E.» In fact, though director Guy Ritchie has admitted that he wasn't overly familiar with the 1960s TV series before signing on to the project, it's the ideal property for a filmmaker like Ritchie to tackle, because it allows him to cherry - pick the show's best bits and put his own spin on the material without worrying about stepping on too many toes.

Wolverine 3 is still quite the perplexing project as we had originally expected to be some sort of an adaptation of Old Man Logan, the more we're learning about the third film the less it's looking like a straight - up version of that comic.

There is currently another live - action adaptation set at Universal Pictures, which originally had Chloe Moretz to star as Ariel, before the actress dropped out of that project.

A Steven Soderbergh project scrapped at the eleventh hour of pre-production and inherited by a high - pedigree team composed of Capote director Bennett Miller and scribes Steven Zaillian (the lone holdover) and Aaron Sorkin, it's as much a reinvention of the discarded film — apparently pitched as a data - saturated docudrama — as it is an adaptation of Michael Lewis's best - selling non-fiction book of the same name.

Would his adaptation of The Disaster Artist — an almost criminally amusing account of how The Room came to be, co-written by one of the film's actual stars — treat the genesis of history's best bad movie as nothing but another vanity project?

Danny Boyle and Richard Curtis's Beatles project eyes more talent as an adaptation of «The Secret Garden,» the comedy series «Bad Move,» and the «Men in Black» spinoff prep for spring and summer shoots.

Through her work, she channels the pop culture staples that saturated her youth, and given its subject and marketing, one might see Young Adult as a precursor to a future Cody project: an adaptation of Sweet Valley High.

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Ravitch sees Winnetka as one of a few public school systems that made intelligent adaptations of progressive methods — individualizing instruction, motivating children by tapping into their interests, developing cooperative group projects — in order to achieve the traditional aims of producing knowledgeable and skilled students.