Sentences with phrase «as damage mitigation»

These parameters change from genre to genre with many action games, shooters, and RPGs using difficulty to tweak key stats such as damage mitigation.

Not exact matches

As many people now know from recent media reports, flood damage mitigation was addressed by a provincial government committee set up after the 2005 floods.

Grant amounts will be based on Federal Emergency Management Agency assessed damage levels as well as applications for new infrastructure and other mitigation, and will be awarded once a community's plan is approved by the state.

Grant amounts will be based on FEMA assessed damage levels as well as applications for new infrastructure and other mitigation, and will be awarded once the community's plan is complete and submitted to the state for approval.

We do not need less dialogue, we need more, centring on the question of how we should best prepare for extreme flooding in the future»; they propose that, in future, flood mitigation measures should be based on four pillars to keep damage levels as low as possible and to distribute the burden fairly:

«Mandatory insurance for all home - owners would reassign the costs for damage within a framework of solidarity, while the premium rebates would create economic incentive for private mitigation measures to tackle elementary damage such as flooding, severe rainfall and snow pressure,» prompts Prof. Reimund Schwarze from UFZ as food for thought.

Mitigation — reducing emissions fast enough to achieve the temperature goal A transparency system and global stock - take — accounting for climate action Adaptation — strengthening ability of countries to deal with climate impacts Loss and damage — strengthening ability to recover from climate impacts Support — including finance, for nations to build clean, resilient futures As well as setting a long - term direction, countries will peak their emissions as soon as possible and continue to submit national climate action plans that detail their future objectives to address climate changAs well as setting a long - term direction, countries will peak their emissions as soon as possible and continue to submit national climate action plans that detail their future objectives to address climate changas setting a long - term direction, countries will peak their emissions as soon as possible and continue to submit national climate action plans that detail their future objectives to address climate changas soon as possible and continue to submit national climate action plans that detail their future objectives to address climate changas possible and continue to submit national climate action plans that detail their future objectives to address climate change.

Senate Democrats issued their own deficit - mitigation plan Thursday, pressing for a retirement incentive plan opposed by House Democrats and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy as damaging to the state's overburdened pension system.

Thus the ever - increasing hype of having to act now made no sense, as the warming was coming regardless, mitigation of the damage and adaptation to the changed climate was the only logical course.

This can only be achieved if the agreement recognises that insufficient mitigation ambition directly increases adaptation needs as well as loss and damage.

If we decide that we should worry about those effects then it is as important to decide whether New York should fund mitigation efforts like a carbon price or adaptation efforts that avoid climate damages to foreign countries to reduce the chance that these impacts will radiate benefits back to New York.

First emerging decades ago as a relatively obscure plea by small island states, loss and damage has now gained recognition as the third pillar of international climate policy, after mitigation and adaptation.

The Paris Agreement set these two issues largely to rights, making the Warsaw mechanism permanent and including loss and damage as its own separate article, on an equal footing with mitigation and adaptation.

Until we have an acceptable central estimate and uncertainties for the damage functions, there can be no valid justification for GHG mitigation policies if the policies will do economic harm (as any policies that increases the cost of energy will do).

Loss and damage was introduced as an insurance mechanism to address sea level rise in hopes to push for greater mitigation ambition.

Because the truth is that, unlike the challenge of mitigation — which can to some degree be met with technology, and market mechanisms, and policy reforms — the challenges of adaptation and loss & damage are absolutely going to elude the devices of politics as usual.

We call for a legally binding agreement that is no longer mitigation - centric, but acknowledges the need for strong adaptation measures, a bold loss and damage mechanism, technology transfer, capacity building, as well as finance flowing from North to South.

So we find a person in his 20's who has yet to be awarded a PhD, who has been a Greenpeace activist, but who is awarded a position as a coordinating lead author on a vital IPCC Chapter which concludes with very high confidence that mitigation is required to head off the more damaging effects of man - made climate change.

A contract is a contract and, as expressed by Chief Justice Winkler on behalf of a unanimous court, «From a practical perspective, it is worth repeating that if parties to an employment agreement specifying a fixed amount of damages intend for mitigation to apply upon termination without cause, they must express that intention in clear and specific language in the contract.»

In proving damages, courts may consider such issues as causation, mitigation, reasonable certainty, speculation, and whether or not the damages are foreseeable.

In general commercial litigation, the courts may consider a number of factors before awarding lost profits, such as causation, mitigation, reasonable certainty, speculation, and whether or not the damages are foreseeable.

-- If a notice of copyright in the form and position specified by this section appears on the published copy or copies to which a defendant in a copyright infringement suit had access, then no weight shall be given to such a defendant's interposition of a defense based on innocent infringement in mitigation of actual or statutory damages, except as provided in the last sentence of section 504 (c)(2).

As such, Linde is currently advising Las Vegas Sands in their insurance recovery for costs of investigating, remediating and repairing the damage to their computer system as well as recovering lost business income and mitigation expenseAs such, Linde is currently advising Las Vegas Sands in their insurance recovery for costs of investigating, remediating and repairing the damage to their computer system as well as recovering lost business income and mitigation expenseas well as recovering lost business income and mitigation expenseas recovering lost business income and mitigation expenses.

Although, I suspect, the differences may be dealt with by way of allocating damages or settlement monies, I find that Plaintiff's need to receive specialized and fact specific advise in respect of their mitigation efforts, as opposed to more uniform advice they may receive in a class setting.

The Court further concluded that the employment income which Ms. Brake earned during her statutory notice entitlement period was not deductible as mitigation income, reasoning that statutory entitlements (termination and severance pay) are not damages and that employees are entitled to receipt of these statutory entitlements whether or not they secure new employment during the period they are intended to cover.

However, subleasing is also prohibited by most agreements, and only lease reassignment is generally offered, but then this does seem to be quite in violation of the damage mitigation statutes as per the specific example in the original question.

While I've raised my own questions about the «trust» approach in the past (as in my commentary on Bernier v. Nygard: http://lawyerbuchanan.blogspot.ca/2013/07/dismissed-employee-wins-summary.html), the reasoning in this case seems to be riddled with the same conflation of damages and mitigation concepts that I argued was problematic in the Garcia case, among others.

The Court held that because the parties had agreed specific amounts payable by the Shipper as damages for its breach of the contract, the mitigation principle did not apply and demurrage could accrue.

As it currently stands, income earned after the end of the statutory entitlement period will be deducted in mitigation of damages.

It should also be noted that where a fixed term contract is terminated by the employer prior to the expiration date, the employer may be held liable for paying the entire balance of the contract as liquidated damages (subject to mitigation).