Sentences with phrase «change adaptation»

Data from its first national climate change adaptation strategy issued last year show that extreme weather events have killed more than 2,000 people each year on average since the 1990s.

As a whole, these three activities represent a comprehensive approach to incorporate the best available science into planning activities for climate change adaptation planning.

Both cities want the companies to pay for climate change adaptation programs, which would include the construction of sea walls and raising low - lying buildings exposed to rising tides.

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

The document also recommends ways to integrate gender into climate change adaptation policies and activities.

The next day I attended a presentation by small - island nations about their climate change adaptation measures.

Who is responsible for paying for the costs of climate change adaptation needs or damages in poor, vulnerable nations?

Policies and strategies therefore need to effectively address climate change adaptation within the agriculture sector, so as to achieve the millennium development goals and promote sufficient food for all.

We aim for this unique research activity to bring immense actionable knowledge with a strong impact on environmental stewardship, climate change adaptation as well as sustainable and equitable nutrition.

These include the development of new strategies and activities to promote climate change adaptation by building on our scientific research, strengthening internal capacity, and preparing producer - oriented tools for implementation.

The good news for us: the proposed bond includes several aspects of our priority climate change adaptation bill.

They explored the fields where they learnt about various food security and climate change adaptation initiatives including simple water harvesting and storage techniques.

There is money for climate change adaptation coming from different sources, flowing through different channels, and being used for different purposes.

It works by providing sustainable social benefits for a local community within climate change adaptation practices.

Climate change adaptation refers to planning, designing, constructing, operating, or maintaining transportation infrastructure while incorporating consideration of climate change impacts.

Cities need to think about how these threats progress over time to prioritize climate change adaptation strategies, the study authors reported.

Many of the experts in this book provide evidence of gender bias across social sectors — in education and academic research, politics, business, and even in climate change adaptation plans.

The committees suggested setting up a national climate change adaptation program to empower communities by using local, indigenous knowledge to help decrease disaster risk and support recovery efforts.

As political leaders and journalists pay increasing attention to climate change adaptation initiatives, still overlooked is the role of the media and communication in this process.

The report argues that migration can be a «sensible climate change adaptation strategy» — if it is managed carefully and supported by good development policies and targeted investments.

Dr Nova Mieszkowska, Inaugural Visiting Fellow National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility

In October, the President's Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force will send Obama its recommendations for creating a national adaptation strategy.

The LDCF also supports the national adaptation planning process in coordination with others as a means to reduce medium - and long - term vulnerability to the impacts of climate change and facilitate the integration of climate change adaptation into relevant policies, programs and activities.

IIED: Accurate cost benefit analysis of climate change adaptation actions is not only critical in designing effective local - level adaptation strategies, but also for generating information that feeds into national and global climate policy agreements.

The UK also convened a security seminar in 2014 and contributed to two special projects on the Importance of Road Maintenance and on an International Climate Change Adaptation Framework for Road Infrastructure.

According to a climate change adaptation report from the city government, average air temperatures in Rio have increased by about 0.05 degrees Celsius per year in recent decades.

The IPCC report advises that climate change adaptation work needs to be pursued simultaneously with efforts to slash emissions, pointing to data showing that long - term warming will largely be determined by the amount of greenhouse gases put into the atmosphere during the next few decades.

Mass Audubon and our Climate Change Adaptation Coalition commend Governor Baker on this important step forward.

Mass Audubon served on the Climate Change Adaptation Advisory Committee, which ensured that the GWSA included measures to help people and nature adapt to climate change impacts that are inevitable even if greenhouse gas emissions were stopped immediately.

Mayor Bloomberg had initiated a climate change adaptation task force with 40 agencies.

Results are still being analyzed and documented, says Valdemar Holmgren, a climate change adaptation specialist at the center.

Brian Orland, a Fulbright - Nehru Fellow, is starting a nine - month study on climate change adaptation along the Brahmaputra River, where the environment challenges [continue reading...]

The 3rd European Climate Change Adaptation Conference (ECCA 2017), 6 - 8 June 2017 in the SECC, Glasgow, Scotland.

The report also considers climate change adaptation knowledge in the various water basins analyzed.

The summit is convened by Governments of Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and India, that will lead to adoption and endorsement of next 10 years climate change adaptation road map to ensure food, water, energy security vis - à - vis maintaining biodiversity for the region.