Sentences with phrase «change adaptation programs»

The Summit report identifies seven priorities for near - term action, starting with the need to develop «an overarching national strategy to guide federal climate climate change adaptation programs.

(1) to provide new and additional assistance from the United States to the most vulnerable developing countries, including the most vulnerable communities and populations therein, in order to support the development and implementation of climate change adaptation programs and activities that reduce the vulnerability and increase the resilience of communities to climate change impacts, including impacts on water availability, agricultural productivity, flood risk, coastal resources, timing of seasons, biodiversity, economic livelihoods, health and diseases, and human migration; and

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.

I'm working to build the organization's Climate Change Adaptation Program across the Americas and helping manage The Climate Adaptation Fund, which supports on - the - ground adaptation efforts.

Subtitle E: Adapting to Climate Change - Part 1: Domestic Adaptation - Subpart A: National Climate Change Adaptation Program - Global Change Research and Data Management Act of 2009 -(Sec. 451) Requires the President to establish or designate an interagency committee to ensure cooperation and coordination of all federal research activities pertaining to processes of global change for the purpose of increasing the overall effectiveness and productivity of federal global change research efforts.

Part 2: International Climate Change Adaptation Program -(Sec. 491) Requires the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Administrator of USAID, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the EPA Administrator, to establish an International Climate Change Adaptation Program.

Focusing on five countries in the region (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka), this review captures examples of good practice in climate change adaptation programming, in order to inform Oxfam's learning, enabling it and other organizations to replicate some of these good practices in their own programs and to advocate their adequate financing and governance.

It is what Jessica Hellmann, associate professor and leader of Notre Dame's climate change adaptation program, called an «enormous climate challenge.»

She now works as a Technical Adviser for GIZ, the German Agency for International Cooperation, on a climate change adaptation program.

And then, last week, the EPA closed down its climate change adaptation program — a program designed to help coastal communities adapt to the impacts of climate change, such as sea level rise.

Intact's commitment to improving the Insurance situation in Canada is evident initiatives such as the Hail Suppression Program and Climate Change Adaptation Program.

Not exact matches

Through the CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program, a research that focuses on the development and adaptation of climate - smart technologies for sustainable intensification of farming systems in South Asia is in progress.

Existing programs continued to reach fathers and father figures, with some adaptations to meet changing needs and opportunities.

The EPA last night sent employees a list of eight approved talking points on climate change from its Office of Public Affairs — guidelines that promote a message of uncertainty about climate science and gloss over proposed cuts to key adaptation programs.

Funding includes $ 154 million for open space programs, $ 86 million for parks and recreation, $ 39 million for solid waste programs and 21 million for climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Of all of the participants, 48 percent said they would agree to enter a government program for climate change adaptation or mitigation, Niles said.

The authors concluded that this research reinforces the sunflower as a model for ecological and evolutionary studies and climate change adaptation, and will accelerate breeding programs.

«As the story goes with exercise - induced changes in strength, neural adaptations are contributing first with muscle growth playing a more prominent role in the latter portion of a training program: however, there is little direct evidence that this is actually true in an adult partaking in a resistance training program,» said Dr. Jeremy Loenneke, senior author of the Muscle & Nerve article.

This is an important step that can be taken now, rather than a future adaptation to climate change,» says co-author Andrés Cisneros - Montemayor, Nippon Foundation - UBC Nereus Program manager.

Sustainable landscapes, like adaptation and clean energy, were a pillar of the Global Climate Change Initiative, an informal Obama - era construct that came to cover a host of projects and programs.

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.

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.

By instituting adaptation and mitigation programs, forest managers can act now to lessen the likelihood and magnitude of climate change impacts on Montana's forests.

Through the CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program, a research that focuses on the development and adaptation of climate - smart technologies for sustainable intensification of farming systems in South Asia is in progress.

PhD Scholarship: The Centre on Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development, part of the Unep (Un Environment Program)- DTU (Technical University of Denmark) Partnership, invites applications for a PhD research project focused on technologies for climate change adaptation in the context of sustainable development.

The Senior ECPA Fellows Program seeks to facilitate the transfer of knowledge between the U.S. and Latin America in innovative solutions and technologies related to the areas of clean energy, sustainable urban development, climate change adaptation, and reducing emission from deforestation.

To counter the slow - changing nature of policy and service delivery, we need to embrace risk - taking, catalyze creative thinking, promote short - cycle sharing, learn quickly from failure, support continuous adaptation, and reject uncritical loyalty to existing programs or strategies.

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In FY 2013, the Department took significant strides forward by incorporating climate change adaptation and resiliency considerations into DOT policies and grant programs, especially those related to Hurricane Sandy.

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 Adaptationchange adaptation and resiliency considerations into DOT policies and grant programs and releasing its first ever Climate Change Adaptaadaptation and resiliency considerations into DOT policies and grant programs and releasing its first ever Climate Change AdaptationChange AdaptationAdaptation Plan.

The Green Belt Movement and The New Course through the support of MacArthur Foundation have partnered to develop a program that will unlock women's potential in natural resource management and in climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies across three East African priority watersheds.

Adobe Books Backroom Gallery Announces Survival Adaptations An exhibition, public programming and a publication reflecting on recent changes and challenges to surviving and adapting to life in San Francisco as an artist.

It began a program called Harita (Horn of Africa Risk Transfer for Adaptation) in Tigray that included insurance as part of a larger climate change - adjustment program, which includes access to credit, help with savings and programs to increase crop yields.

Climate smart agriculture will be key to achieving both because investments in agriculture help the poor — 70 percent live in rural areas — more than any other program, and because agriculture is key to both mitigation and adaptation to climate change.

For example, heat wave early warning systems are much less expensive than treating heat - related illnesses.274 Existing adaptation programs have improved public health resilience.5, 244 One survey highlighted opportunities to address climate change preparedness activities and climate - health research275 before needs become more widespread.

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.

(Sec. 265) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a research program to: (1) identify the factors affecting consumer actions to conserve energy and make improvements in energy efficiency; and (2) make grants to institutions of higher education to study the effects of consumer behavior on total energy use, the potential energy savings from changes in consumption habits, the ability to reduce GHG emissions through changes in energy consumption habits, increasing public awareness of federal climate adaptation and mitigation programs, and the potential for alterations in consumer behavior to further American energy independence.

Anticipated impacts are taken from the Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerabilities, and Adaptation in the San Francisco Bay Area: A Synthesis of PIER Program Reports and Other Relevant Research.

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.

They believe «The entire portfolio of USACE Civil Works water resources infrastructure and programs, existing and proposed, could be affected by climate change and adaptation to climate change.

Parts 1 - 5 introduce training participants to the multiple facets of population dynamics and climate change adaptation, and part 6 presents opportunities for integration through an examination of international and national policy dialogues, adaptation planning and programs, and planning in other sectors.

On climate change, the book looks at programs to secure investment and income opportunities that arise from carbon sequestration and enhancing carbon stocks, as well as at climate change adaptation through SLM in the Pacific Islands.

-- Upon approval by the President, each department or agency that serves on the Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Panel shall implement its adaptation plan through existing and new plans, policies, programs, activities, and actions to the extent not inconsistent with existing Adaptation Panel shall implement its adaptation plan through existing and new plans, policies, programs, activities, and actions to the extent not inconsistent with existing adaptation plan through existing and new plans, policies, programs, activities, and actions to the extent not inconsistent with existing authority.

Through the program the Secretary will make grants to public and private institutions of higher education to study the effects of consumer behavior on total energy use; potential energy savings from changes in consumption habits; the ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through changes in energy consumption habits; increase public awareness of Federal climate adaptation and mitigation programs; and the potential for alterations in consumer behavior to further American energy independence.

-- Consistent with its authorities under other laws and with Federal trust responsibilities with respect to Indian lands, each Federal department or agency with representation on the National Resources Climate Change Adaptation Panel shall consider the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification and integrate the elements of the strategy into agency plans, environmental reviews, programs, and activities related to the conservation, restoration, and management of natural resoChange Adaptation Panel shall consider the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification and integrate the elements of the strategy into agency plans, environmental reviews, programs, and activities related to the conservation, restoration, and management of natural resochange and ocean acidification and integrate the elements of the strategy into agency plans, environmental reviews, programs, and activities related to the conservation, restoration, and management of natural resources.

The recommendations focus on the components of legislation that should address climate change preparedness and adaptation, a prospective National Climate Service, and the U.S. Global Change Research Prchange preparedness and adaptation, a prospective National Climate Service, and the U.S. Global Change Research PrChange Research Program.

Roger replied that he favors incremental approaches to climate change (i.e., don't let failure to legislate adaptation stand in the way of getting started with mitigation) and does not support waiting for a grand comprehensive program, but that his testimony is simply a call to develop a larger vision with which to organize individual initiatives on sustainability («I am calling for a little bit broader vision than tuning the atmosphere to a specific ppm target.»)

The Green Belt Movement and The New Course through the support of MacArthur Foundation have partnered to develop a program that will unlock women's potential in natural resource management and in climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies across three East African priority watersheds.

The UN Development Program estimates subnational governments» decisions can influence 50 - 80 % of greenhouse gas mitigation and adaptation initiatives needed to address climate change.

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