Sentences with phrase «change adaptation issues»

With respect to climate change, she handles a variety of matters, including advising on climate change risk management, with a particular emphasis on the changing regulatory environment, and climate change adaptation issues.

Not exact matches

Issues of capacity, productivity, flexibility, adaptation to structural change and so on will once again come to centre stage, as they should.

Prior to joining GFI, Charlie worked at the Georgetown Climate Center, where he researched climate change adaptation strategies for local governments preparing for potential climate - related issues.

We held interactive workshops to introduce local decision makers to the issues behind climate change and presented solutions for integrating climate adaptation into local land use management, development, and restoration efforts.

«The Assembly and Senate deserve credit for their work on the critical issue of climate change and adaptation,» said NYLCV President Marcia Bystryn.

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.»

This year, organizers issued a climate - related challenge: «Resolved: Adaptation should be the most urgent response to climate change.»

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.

They have contributed to a stack of books on the issue that could fill a library: all five of the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the 2012 Global Energy Assessment, countless journal articles, and special reports on issues such as adaptation, renewable energy, and more.

The environmental state of the coastal sea, adaptation to climate change and alternatives to conventional fuels — the current issue delves into important topics concerning the future.

He reveals his father gave him the first issues when he was 12, and takes us through his father's reaction to changes and adaptations over the years, while detouring to explore the two previous times Lindelof had been offered the chance to adapt the project for television.

«War Machine» had some good moments but was overall a tonal mess with pacing issues, and «Death Note» was an adaptation that was goofy fun but also a jarring change from the source material.

Siri discusses the cast and characters, adaptation issues and changes to the script, sets and production design, cinematography and story - telling choices, and various influences.

We find information about the adaptation, changes made from Tolkien's source material, and various related issues.

But for whatever reason (perhaps rights issues over Hal Ashby's 1973 film adaptation of the first book), Last Flag Flying is a «spiritual sequel» at best, with the characters» names changed and their backstories subtly adjusted (for one, two of them are former Marines now).

Today, the President will be giving a speech at Georgetown University on climate change issues, with announcements of initiatives that will be taken leveraging the powers of the Administrative Branch because the Congress is unable (and, to a large extent, unwilling) to take meaningful action to address climate change: whether mitigation or adaptation.

To cover modules from introduction to climate change adaptation, agriculture and food security, to international legal frameworks, impacts and risks assessments, action prioritization and addressing issues of governance and finance, the MOOC team leveraged knowledge from more than 40 experts and practitioners in this field.

This study has highlighted the need to treat adaptation to climate change as a primary development issue for Pakistan.

regulars and those responding to this thread in particular may be interested in the class assignment I presently have underway: students are required to select an environmental issue of interest to them and compare the blogging from three sites that reflect a stasist perspective (command and control, science certainty, centalised government, precautionary principle) with the blogging from three dynamist sites (libertarian, individual responsibility, free market, adaptation over prevention, non-dogma): I expect that several of the students will use climate change as a topic and would expect that climate audit, real climate and prometheus will be prominent in the analysis.

Through this training the local level officials and operational professionals were given orientation on the major issues and themes of climate change, adaptation and its linkages with overall risk management through systematic adaptation process.

The overall objectives of the training is to share and learn various issues of Climate Change related issues relating to adaptation approaches and climate forecast applications that would help better manage of the climatic risks in agriculture and allied sectors in the country.

It addresses particularly the issue of finance and the creation of new climate change funds following GEF's Strategic Priority on Adaptation.

The Human Health chapter of Climate Change Reconsidered II: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerabilities, expected to be released next March, will provide a thorough summary of the research and discussion of relevant issues.

There are public health programs in some locations that address climate - sensitive health issues, and integrating such programs into the mainstream public health toolkit as adaptation needs increase would improve public health resilience to climate change.195, 296,297,298 Given that these programs have demonstrated efficacy against current threats that are expected to worsen with climate change, it is prudent to invest in creating the strongest climate - health preparedness programs possible.244 One survey highlighted opportunities to address climate change preparedness activities and climate - health research275 before needs become more widespread.

With 40 years» experience in engaging communities at the grassroots to address issues of environmental degradation, community empowerment and advocacy, GBM is uniquely positioned to offer an integrated response to climate change through mitigation, adaptation and promotion of sustainable development.

This technical document aims to determine, when it comes to the issue of a changing climate, precisely what the types of information input are that financial institutions require to put their risk management expertise at the service of broader adaptation and to provide a first assessment of the current provision to the sector with such information.

The issues highlighted in the document include: reconnect science and policy, catalyze rapid and transformative changes in human behavior towards the environment, develop new insights on water - land interactions, accelerate the implementation of environmentally - friendly renewable energy, integrate biodiversity across the environmental and economic agendas, manage the unintended consequences of climate change mitigation and adaptation, and develop a new approach for minimizing risks of novel technologies and chemicals.

On climate change, the guidelines address both mitigation and adaptation issues, with a focus on identifying practices that could increase vulnerability to climate change.

new: scientific consensus on climate issues does not exist - Novaya Gazeta, December 16, 2009 - Instead of articulating and prosecution of false targets political leaders gathered in Copenhagen should concentrate on the other - to develop policies that promote more effective human adaptation to climate change, economic growth, the development of free trade, protection of property rights, strengthen democracy.

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«The special issue of the International Journal of Global Warming focuses on a crucial topic: «Loss and damage» which refers to adverse effects of climate variability and climate change that occur despite mitigation and adaptation efforts,» Editor - in - Chief Ibrahim Dincer of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology says.

An open access special issue of the International Journal of Global Warming brings together, for the first time, empirical evidence of loss and damage from the perspective of affected people in nine vulnerable countries...... «Loss and damage» refers to adverse effects of climate variability and climate change that occur despite mitigation and adaptation efforts.

He has worked on human dimensions issues related to subsistence, climate change, and adaptation in the Arctic and served on numerous boards and commissions such as the Gwich» in Council International, International Porcupine Caribou Board, and the Yukon River Panel.

This policy document represents a coordinated effort among several institutions and organizations in the Latin America and the Caribbean region to present the results of a joint reflection on the issue of water - based adaptation to climate change as part of a Regional Policy Dialog process.

The chapters assembled for this issue of the State of the World's Forests highlight four key areas that warrant greater attention: regional trends on forest resources; the development of sustainable forest industries; climate change mitigation and adaptation; and the local value of forests.

«The issue of climate change should involve more contribution from the youth and women especially in the developing countries regarding the adaptation measures to climate variability and change.»

The event was held on 10 - 12 May 2016 in Geneva and focused on SDG 14 as well as on other Sustainable Development Goals and targets and considered, inter alia, a range of interconnected issues related to sustainable transport, ship - source pollution prevention and control and climate change adaptation for ports and other critical transport infrastructure.

«(The message is) we go united to COP17, we don't scale down, and we put an emphasis on adaptation,» Dia told Reuters on the sidelines of an African Union summit in Equatorial Guinea, where leaders discussed climate change amongst other issues such as Libya's conflict.

The National Research Council's 2009 report Restructuring Federal Climate Research to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change establishes six priorities for reorganizing the USGCRP around integrated scientific - societal issues and the strengthening of research on the human and societal dimensions of climate change adaptation, mitigation, and vulnerabChange establishes six priorities for reorganizing the USGCRP around integrated scientific - societal issues and the strengthening of research on the human and societal dimensions of climate change adaptation, mitigation, and vulnerabchange adaptation, mitigation, and vulnerability.

The CoNGO Committee for Sustainable Development is pleased to present the attached Climate Change Paper, containing recommendations to Governments on four critical issues: (1) the dangers of unmitigated climate change impacts; (2) reaching accord on climate change at COP15; (3) risk - management mitigation and adaptation strategies; and (4) assistance to developing counChange Paper, containing recommendations to Governments on four critical issues: (1) the dangers of unmitigated climate change impacts; (2) reaching accord on climate change at COP15; (3) risk - management mitigation and adaptation strategies; and (4) assistance to developing counchange impacts; (2) reaching accord on climate change at COP15; (3) risk - management mitigation and adaptation strategies; and (4) assistance to developing counchange at COP15; (3) risk - management mitigation and adaptation strategies; and (4) assistance to developing countries.

The report is based on five studies in climate change issues, physical and biochemical systems, ecosystems and biodiversity, effects on people and society, and adaptation to climate change.

Climate Science Watch participated in the Summit, which brought together more than 180 invited users and providers of climate adaptation information to explore issues of how to make the U.S. more resilient to climate change.

An inventory of climate change adaptation projects in the LMB was taken and existing views and studies on transboundary issues in the region were collated.

Chebet Maikut, the commissioner of the Climate Change Department in the Water and Environment Ministry, says that the Ugandan government remains committed to reducing climate change and has developed a National Adaptation Programme of Action to address immediate and urgent iChange Department in the Water and Environment Ministry, says that the Ugandan government remains committed to reducing climate change and has developed a National Adaptation Programme of Action to address immediate and urgent ichange and has developed a National Adaptation Programme of Action to address immediate and urgent issues.

Some of the gaps in Chapter 3 on ethical issues raised by climate change policy - making include: (1) ethics of decision - making in the face of scientific uncertainty, (2) whether action or non-action of other nations affects a nation's responsibility for climate change, (3) how to spend limited funds on climate change adaptation, (4) when politicians may rely on their own uninformed opinion about climate change science, and (5) who is responsible to for climate refugees and what are their responsibilities.

Ethical and Justice Issues At the Center of the Warsaw Climate Negotiations - Issue 3, Financing Adaptation and Climate Change Responses in Vulnerable Developing Counties and Issue 4, Ethical Responsibilities for Loss and Damages.

These issues include: (a) the need to determine when the obligation of any nation is triggered, (b) difficulties in determining which adaptation and compensation needs are attributable to human - induced warming versus natural variability, (c) challenges in allocating responsibilities among all nations that have emitted ghg above their fair share of safe global emissions, (e) challenges in prioritizing limited funds among all adaptation and compensation needs, (f) needs to set funding priorities in consultation with those who are vulnerable to climate change impacts as a matter of procedural justice, and (e) the need to consider the capacity of some nations to fund adaptation and compensation needs.

Some of the issues that proponents of other equity frameworks have argued should be considered in allocating national emissions targets such as historical emissions or the level of economic development in poor countries are already in serious consideration in international climate change negotiation agenda focused on such matters as: (a) financial responsibility for adaptation, (b) responsibility for loses and damages for climate change, and (c) financing of climate friendly technologies for developing countries.

@ybutt — The biggest issue is that the model assumes that adaptation to climate change is instantaneous.

The state will intensify its climate change mitigation efforts, create new adaptation policies, address resilience issues, and continue to provide the leadership for others.