Sentences with phrase «change impact assessment»

Tribune: The European Union has provided a grant of 1.2 million euros for conducting a climate change impact assessment study in Swat basin in the wake of Munda Dam multi-purpose project in Mohmand Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata).

Our study of the faster increases in apparent temperature has produced important findings for this kind of climate change impact assessment, providing a strong scientific support for more stringent and effective climate change mitigation efforts to combat global warming.»

The Commission produced a Plan of Action that included a comprehensive climate change impact assessment, a greenhouse gas reduction strategy, and actions for reducing Maryland's vulnerability to climate change.

• With the benefit of 20 years of experience since the development of the original Global Change Research Act and 10 years since the first National Assessment of Climate Change Impacts was carried out, the Senate should update and strengthen the requirements for climate change impacts assessments.

Many existing climate change impact assessments in Australia and New Zealan What regional information should I take into account for climate risk management for the 20 year time horizon?

Sofaer H. R., J. J. Barsugli, C. S. Jarnevich, J. T. Abatzoglou, M. K. Talbert, B. W. Miller and J. T. Morisette (July 2017): Designing ecological climate change impact assessments to reflect key climatic drivers.

The largest climate change impacts assessment ever initiated and sponsored by the U.S. Government was «disappeared» from further discussion.

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«The rules changed, but we hadn't seen a full assessment of the impact.

The B Impact self - assessment takes several hours — unless the questions make you want to implement immediate changes.

This Update should have provided the Government's assessment of the impact of the change in demographics.

Both the spirit and notion of social acceptability are major driving forces behind the sweeping changes to Quebec's environmental impact assessment and review regime that are set to come into effect this month.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

For example, a health impact assessment conducted by the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project found that when schools implement healthier standards for snack and a la carte foods, students are more likely to purchase a school meal — a change that improves children's diets and school budgets at the same time, because schools earn reimbursements for meal sales.

The government must do a gender impact assessment of any further public spending changes — so that we can understand the true impact on women, and prevent women from once again being hardest hit.

The changes include protecting students and teachers from the impact of state assessments and reducing the amount of local testing associated with the teacher evaluation law.

A Commons debate on the need for a cumulative impact assessment of welfare reforms saw MPs from across the country sharing stories of how the changes affected people in their constituencies.

In late June, the U.S. Government Accountability Office released an assessment of how the consequences of climate change, from rising temperatures and sea levels to changes in precipitation patterns and sea ice cover, might impact the military.

With this study we could show that small changes in one area can have large impacts in remote places, something that should be considered in future assessments of climate projections.»

He, Ziska and nine coauthors included nutritional erosion in the 2016 U.S. scientific assessment of the impacts of climate change on human health.

To inform its Earth system models, the climate modeling community has a long history of using integrated assessment models — frameworks for describing humanity's impact on Earth, including the source of global greenhouse gases, land use and land cover change, and other resource - related drivers of anthropogenic 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.

This assessment is focused on the analysis of climate change impacts to the sectors of water (Chapter 3), forests (Chapter 4), and agriculture (Chapter 5).

Her postdoc work includes scenario planning, land use change modelling, impact assessments, and development of conservation goals and priorities for coastal protection and restoration for the Great Barrier Reef coastal zone.

This information is used throughout the assessment to explain the key impacts that climate change may or will produce in Montana.

For the assessments of climate impacts made herein, we follow guidance from the National Climate Assessment and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on how to standardize confidence levels and uncertainty characterization in our key messages, as provided below.

The assessment concludes with an analysis of the major information gaps — and thus areas for future research — related to climate change and its impacts to the three sectors covered herein (Chapter 6).

This assessment of the potential impacts of climate change on Montana agriculture is a starting point to identify and prioritize the aspects of agriculture that might be most impacted.

Can science results be used effectively in policy - oriented integrated assessment models that are our only tool for evaluating global - level impacts of policy and climate change, particularly with regard to land use?

PNNL scientists have contributed to the IPCC's authoritative assessments of the state of the global climate, the impacts associated with climate change, and the set of technological, institutional and policy options available to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

He is a director of the Climate Impact Lab, a multi-institutional collaboration of more than two dozen economists, data scientists, climate scientists, and policy experts, working to bring Big Data approaches to the assessment of the economic risks of climate change.

These tools will help to better understand ongoing changes in chemical and biological state of the North Sea from alkalinity fluxes originating from the Wadden Sea over a synthesis model that integrates OA sensitivities at organism level into a North Sea ecosystem model (5.1) to an economical impact assessment.

I'm one of the directors of the Climate Impact Lab, a collaboration of more than two dozen climate scientists, economists, data scientists and policy scholars, working to bring Big Data approaches to the assessment of the economic risks of climate change.

A group of experts all around the globe has come up with a climate change report that aims to highlight the importance of risk assessment and the impacts of global warming to the society.

Despite claims to the contrary, the conclusions of the IPCC take CO2 fertilisation properly into account in the assessment of climate change feedbacks involving the carbon cycle, and in the assessment of the impacts of climate change on ecosystems.

One of the underdeveloped areas, including in IPCC assessment reports, is evaluating what are the avoidable impacts [of climate change].

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In order to create a culture around research assessment that is free from metrics including Journal Impact Factor, the university held a series of meetings to facilitate discussions with researchers on the best ways to create change.

«The 2 °C target was all about warming and didn't involve consideration of ocean acidification in any direct way,» said University of Queensland professor Ove Hoegh - Guldberg, one of the lead authors of the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment chapter dealing with ocean impacts.

This information is used throughout the assessment to explain the key impacts of climate change observed in recent decades and projected in the future.

The assessment concludes with an analysis of major knowledge gaps — and thus areas for future research — related to climate change and its impacts on the three sectors covered herein (Chapter 6).

Importantly for risk assessment, ESMs may fail to capture the low - probability, high - impact end of potential future climate change altogether.

School leaders need to think carefully about any changes they are proposing and consider, as part of their assessments, the impact they will have on workload and teacher morale.

Four years from now it will be clear that while the Race to the Top competition drove important state - level policy changes, the work of the assessment consortia will have made the most direct impact on teaching and learning.

«If we can develop better formative assessments that provide diagnostic information that is used to go back and change the course of instruction,» [Professor Chris] Dede said, «we can have a much greater impact.»»

Year 6 Science Assessments and Tracking Objectives covered: Describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including micro-organisms, plants and animals Give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics Identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function Describe the ways in which nutrients and water are transported within animals, including humans Recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago Recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution Recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain that objects are seen because they give out or reflect light into the eye Explain that we see things because light travels from light sources to our eyes or from light sources to objects and then to our eyes Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them Associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuit Compare and give reasons for variations in how components function, including the brightness of bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and the on / off position of switches Use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram

The study, which includes 150 secondary school teachers in twenty - eight states, is measuring «the impact of these instructional changes, such as more frequent assessment and types of classroom discourse, on student performance in algebra.»

The importance of defining progress can not be understated as it impacts many issues in relationship to effective use of assessment, instructional decision - making, and lastly, the importance of how we think about our work as evaluators, change agents, and adaptive learning experts and the impact these thoughts can have on student achievement and the success of our teaching.

The culmination of these changes have had a significant impact on Florida's accountability system and today many Floridians lack confidence in the assessments and school grades as a precise measure of a school's performance,» the superintendents» association notes in a legislative briefing.

This knowledge, along with an assessment of a school's current culture, provides the foundation for developing a plan to improve the school culture and then assess the impact of the changes.

Changing the common sense beliefs of teachers about heterogeneous grouping effects on the learning of struggling students requires those providing leadership to bring relevant evidence to the attention of their colleagues in accessible and convincing ways, to encourage actual trials with heterogeneous groupings under conditions which include opportunities for practice, feedback and coaching and to help teachers generate «the kind of assessment information that will make the impact of tracking and detracking more visible» (Riehl, 2000).