Sentences with phrase «change adaptation plan»

We welcome the new mayor Boris Johnson's commitment to roof gardens as part of London's climate change adaptation plan.

Its climate change adaptation plan proposes more public education on heat waves and their effects, and mapping «hot spots» in the city of populations most vulnerable to these illnesses.

This panel will involve a case study from the climate change adaptation plan that is being developed for the Istanbul New Airport Project, and other aviation climate issues.

Reactions to New York Mayor Bloomberg's recently announced $ 20 billion climate change adaptation plan illustrate this sort of response.

(Sec. 478) Requires each federal agency represented on the Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Panel to complete a Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Plan within a year after enactment of this Act.

In another instance, the Environmental Protection Agency removed links to the Climate Change Adaptation Plan documents, which offer guidelines on climate change mitigation.

In FY 2012, the Department took significant strides forward by incorporating climate change adaptation and resiliency considerations into DOT policies and grant programs and releasing its first ever Climate Change Adaptation Plan.

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 MOOC raised awareness and built the capacities of a wide range of interested stakeholders in climate change adaptation planning, specifically for the agriculture sectors.

While there is no single approach to gender inequality and the linkages to climate change adaptation planning, implementation and M&E, countries often face similar challenges.

WaterSMART Basin Studies - Reclamation's has complimentary activities within the WaterSMART Basin Study Program as a comprehensive approach to incorporate the best available science into climate change adaptation planning.

The following outlines essential elements of effective coastal management plans and state climate change adaptation plans, highlighting key criteria to guide future coastal development and management practices.

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

• The Senate should include a program under which the federal government provides support for state - level climate change adaptation planning and implementation.

Case study: Climate change adaptation planning guidance for local governments in the United States

Sussman, E., 2009: Case study: Climate change adaptation planning guidance for local governments in the United States.

IRTORISKI The study investigated how the use of cost benefit analysis in climate change adaptation planning can be streamlined such as to be useful both for initial prioritisation of natural hazards according to their risk and for initial comparison of measures regarding a particular hazard, while avoiding complex model exercises.

This guidance document aims to promote the use of genetic resources for food and agriculture in climate change adaptation and support their integration into national climate change adaptation planning.

Her work focuses on the health effects of climate change; advocating for strategies to prepare for and prevent these impacts, especially for our most vulnerable communities; and making health a more central feature of national, state and local climate change adaptation plans.

TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 147: Climate Change Adaptation Planning: Risk Assessment for Airports provides guidance for practitioners to understand the specific impacts climate change may have on their airports.

It is little wonder then that more than half the climate change adaptation plans... Read more

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A veteran is committed to seeing a plan through until the end, motivated and determined to find victory even as potential loss lurks all around, through adaptation, change, and improvisation.

But we also know that plans can change and that flexibility and adaptation are far more important skills to master than stubbornness or certainty... especially when it comes to parenting.

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.

Mass Audubon supports the passage of An Act establishing a comprehensive adaptation management plan in response to climate change, which prepares Massachusetts for the impacts of climate change by identifying where we are most vulnerable and taking measures to protect public health, public safety and the economy.

The Massachusetts Climate Change Adaptation Report (September 2011) sets the stage for developing a statewide, comprehensive, quantifiable adaptation plan that protects the health, welfare and nature of MassAdaptation Report (September 2011) sets the stage for developing a statewide, comprehensive, quantifiable adaptation plan that protects the health, welfare and nature of Massadaptation plan that protects the health, welfare and nature of Massachusetts.

Mass Audubon strongly advocates that Massachusetts should have statutorily required policy and planning requirements on the adaptation side of the climate change equation.

The results suggest that recent changes in global vegetation have had impacts on local climates that should be considered in the design of local mitigation and adaptation plans.

In October 2006 the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) endorsed video games as a potential means for teaching «higher - order thinking skills, such as strategic thinking, interpretive analysis, problem solving, plan formulation and execution, and adaptation to rapid change.»

Going forward, the researchers plan to factor into their simulations various ways in which climate change drives adaptation, and how such adaptations in turn shape crop patterns and the agricultural landscape.

The provision of the best information possible is essential for proper planning, decision - making and adaptation to the realities of climate change.

«A key premise of this commitment is that adaptation planning needs to be informed by a continuing scientific, sound assessment of the impacts of a changing climate and the effectiveness of preparations and response options,» Abbott said.

Australia has created an adaptation program to «help Australians better understand climate change, manage risks, and take advantage of potential opportunities;» In Nigeria, state and local governments are developing action plans for high - risk urban areas, while the federal government is seeking to expand forests by reducing deforestation and wood fuel demand; in Mali, significant efforts are being made to conserve water resources, as well as create usable mechanisms to track the development of climate change.

Long - term monitoring efforts that supported this discovery are vital as we continue to monitor changes in the Arctic and develop tools to support adaptation planning for both wildlife and people.»

HUD has an adaptation plan in place to assess those risks and prepare public housing, home lending and other programs for the challenges of climate change but it seems unlikely Carson would make that a priority.

Such offices shall engage in cooperative research, development, and demonstration projects with the academic community, State Climate Offices, Regional Climate Offices, and other users and stakeholders on climate products, technologies, models, and other tools to improve understanding and forecasting of regional and local climate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory Committee.

Teams shall conduct applied regional climate research and projects to address the needs of local and regional decisionmakers for information and tools to develop adaptation and response plans to climate variability and change.

(8) a process for guiding the development of detailed agency - and department - specific adaptation plans required under section 478 to address the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on the natural resources in the jurisdiction of each agency.

It tracks progress on health and climate change across 40 indicators divided into five categories: climate change impacts, exposures and vulnerability; adaptation planning and resilience for health; mitigation actions and health co-benefits; economics and finance; and public and political engagement.

Incorporate into MPA management plans specific adaptation strategies and actions to address climate - change threats (ocean acidification and warming and sea - level rise), including monitoring of their effectiveness.

Critical transitions across states and tipping points lay at the heart of most complex problems in modern biology, including reversible physiological adaptation to environmental change, evolution of interactions in the microbial loop, development of an adult body plan from an embryo, differentiation of a stem cell, and transition from health to disease.

They scrutinized adaptation plans which incorporate urban planning and development actions that lead to the abatement or reduction of vulnerability to climate change, and mitigation plans that include actions such as improved energy efficiency and renewable energy generation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Partnerships are built around various drivers: for example supporting the Polar regions in a period of rapid change; educating the public about polar sciences and climate; contributing to climate change awareness; mitigation and adaptation; defining and implementing CSR action plan; implementing technology solutions for low carbon emissions.

b by 2020, increase by x % the number of cities and human settlements adopting and implementing integrated policies and plans towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, resilience to disasters, develop and implement in line with the forthcoming Hyogo Framework holistic disaster risk management at all levels

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 change.

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

Since then, a planned movie adaptation has languished with budget concerns and changing directors.

Governance, city planning, social adaptation to changing climate (e.g. food, rain, etc) is not what physicists and climate scientists understand well.

John Birch Society - style paranoia has the T - partiers fired up against planning, environmental protection, and climate change adaptation.

Matthew has already reported on how adaptation is becoming a crucial part of climate change plans.