Sentences with phrase «as adaptation solutions»

Hopefully, as adaptation solutions become as ubiquitous as the warning signs of climate change, we'll see the spotlight on adaptation grow stronger and larger.

Not exact matches

If Canada's most brilliant adaptations to the offense formerly known as pro-style have been solutions for how to run the ball effectively between the tackles without dominant personnel, how does that translate at LSU, where the Tigers do have dominant personnel?

Nature - based approaches (also known as green infrastructure) to climate change adaptation can provide significant cost savings compared to manmade solutions.

Dr Jochen Hinkel from Global Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.»

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.

Keto - adaptation is for people who are serious about eating well and take the low - carb approach as a lifestyle rather than a short - term solution to weight loss.

As proven by his adaptation of Proust, Ruiz is a master at finding cinematic solution to translate «the passing time, the stalled time, the time that repeats itself».

However, they should have a certain level of knowledge so as to define their technological needs, select the right solutions, monitor their services» undisrupted operation, or be aware of maintenance needs and systems adaptations due to frequent technological changes.

Understanding manufacturing limitations and the creative core of the idea is really important with this kind of work, as is being creative enough to make adaptations and recommendations to find solutions.

As part of the Programme, with support from PRBB Foundation, the Green Belt Movement developed a specialised Training of Community Trainers project which sees local women taught about climate change adaptation strategies that can be used to provide practical solutions to effects of climate change at a local level.

Nonetheless, they faced the same issues as later generations, and enacted some of the same adaptations and solutions: playing both at femininity and masculinity as artificial roles, speaking to each other in private in a different manner than in public speech, and letting their work be filled with their own, unnamed sensibility.

There is, of course, no reason why these choices have to be implemented instead of others, such as energy solutions, climate adaptation and mitigation, etc..

In fact, the NAS report highlights that it is very important to invest in developing CDR systems in addition to rapidly scaling up climate mitigation and adaptation solutions (given the importance of viable, sustainable, CDR options in the event we do not decarbonize as quickly as necessary to prevent climate change).

By pioneering new renewable energy projects and establishing forward - thinking innovation centers, many countries in Africa are looking to renewable energy as a solution to meet their growing energy needs in a sustainable way, while working toward practical adaptation strategies to mitigate global warming impacts.

A research initiative that mapped decisions by town managers in Maine to sources of climate information, engineering design, mandated requirements, and calendars identified the complex, multi-jurisdictional challenges of widespread adaptation for even such seemingly simple actions as using larger culverts to carry water from major storms.116 To help towns adapt culverts to expected climate change over their lifetimes, the Sustainability Solutions Initiative is creating decision tools to map culvert locations, schedule maintenance, estimate needed culvert size, and analyze replacement needs and costs.

Even among the researchers who find CE a policy option worth thinking about, the great majority analyzes those technologies not as a full - blown solution to climate change in their own right, but rather a necessary evil to supplement (neglected) mitigation and adaptation efforts.

As we shall see, these countries, among others, have continued to negotiate as if: (a) they only need to commit to reduce their greenhouse gas emission if other nations commit to do so, in other words that their national interests limit their international obligations, (b) any emissions reductions commitments can be determined and calculated without regard to what is each nation's fair share of safe global emissions, (c) large emitting nations have no duty to compensate people or nations that are vulnerable to climate change for climate change damages or reasonable adaptation responses, and (d) they often justify their own failure to actually reduce emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions on the inability to of the international community to reach an adequate solution under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangAs we shall see, these countries, among others, have continued to negotiate as if: (a) they only need to commit to reduce their greenhouse gas emission if other nations commit to do so, in other words that their national interests limit their international obligations, (b) any emissions reductions commitments can be determined and calculated without regard to what is each nation's fair share of safe global emissions, (c) large emitting nations have no duty to compensate people or nations that are vulnerable to climate change for climate change damages or reasonable adaptation responses, and (d) they often justify their own failure to actually reduce emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions on the inability to of the international community to reach an adequate solution under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Changas if: (a) they only need to commit to reduce their greenhouse gas emission if other nations commit to do so, in other words that their national interests limit their international obligations, (b) any emissions reductions commitments can be determined and calculated without regard to what is each nation's fair share of safe global emissions, (c) large emitting nations have no duty to compensate people or nations that are vulnerable to climate change for climate change damages or reasonable adaptation responses, and (d) they often justify their own failure to actually reduce emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions on the inability to of the international community to reach an adequate solution under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

«The scenarios from the research community form the backbone of our analysis of potential climate change impacts as well as mitigation and adaptation solutions,» said Ottmar Edenhofer at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and co-chair of Working Group III, which deals with the mitigating climate change.

Coastal cities like New York will have some big decisions if sea - level rise accelerates, because at some point adaptation is no good as a long - term solution and a waste of resources, and you have to just give up the land.

Such adaptation will not happen as long as false expectations are held out for easier solutions.

Adaptation in some places (maybe eventually most places) will be necessary, but as a solution, it is no solution.

I particularly welcome Victor's focus on the need for better strategies to engage with emerging economies, such as India, that are making serious proactive contributions to mitigation, and adaptation, demonstrating that while they have not caused the problem, they will be part of the solution.

«I applied Legal Design as a General Counsel and could see the value created both for the business teams and the legal division: the user - centric approach guarantees effective implementation of legal solutions and the iterative process enables agile adaptation to ever - evolving business and legal environments.