Sentences with phrase «change mitigation»

This technical document seeks to provide a resource for city managers and other stakeholders in their consideration of climate change mitigation strategies and other sustainable development goals.

Only then will the public demand that our policymakers take action to address climate change, and only then will those policymakers implement serious climate change mitigation policies.

Many experts suggest that declaring wood burning a carbon - neutral form of energy is not only inaccurate, but a potential step backward for global climate change mitigation efforts.

The project helps prevent deforestation of native rainforests and contributes to climate change mitigation as well as the protection of unique biodiversity.

In these circumstances, every opportunity for policy integration can be of value in order to reach climate change mitigation goals.

Investing in human development programs could result in avoided climate change mitigation costs enough to pay for the programs themselves, the researchers found.

This is designed to convince other countries to follow suit, hopefully eliminating what economists call the «free rider» problem of climate change mitigation programs.

It also discusses considerations for measurement, reporting and verification to build trust and keep track of climate change mitigation activities.

The simulation exercise provided participants an experiential learning opportunity to explore the risks of climate change impacts, climate change mitigation options and the challenges of negotiating international agreements to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The report underscores that integrating crops can be an effective climate change mitigation approach.

This solution has received very little attention in the climate change mitigation literature.

This policy brief discusses the potential negative effects of climate change mitigation programmes on biodiversity.

In other words, humanity should be willing to pay for the service of climate change mitigation provided by carbon stored in trees and other biomass.

It's been demonstrated in several pilot projects and features prominently in many international climate - change mitigation schemes.

The add - on certification module promotes additional climate - smart adaptation and climate change mitigation practices.

Climate change mitigation therefore urgently needs carbon removal technologies.

Our goal is to help policymakers and practitioners see how their decision can not only lead to larger agricultural production, but also how agriculture can be part of the climate change mitigation solution.

This may change as countries begin to integrate climate change mitigation objectives more fully into national forestry policies.

Research on climate change mitigation tends to focus on supply - side technology solutions.

The results suggest that profound changes can be expected at high - latitude regions regardless of the climate change mitigation policies.

This paper shows the importance of including region - specific circumstances in long - term climate change mitigation strategies, by example of a modeling exercise of the transport sector.

These businesses are making the shift from seeing climate change mitigation as a cost, to seeing it as an opportunity.

At the same time, the global climate change mitigation effort will reduce the CO2 emissions per unit of electricity and steel inputs, further limiting life - cycle greenhouse gas emissions.

This paper analyzes the climate change mitigation goals that have been set and the key policies that have been and are being implemented.

It notes that buildings account for approximately a third of the world's energy consumption and are a high - impact sector for urgent climate change mitigation action.

Our results show that the limitations imposed by climate objectives and the available means of combating climate change could have a major impact on the optimal climate change mitigation measures.

A number of existing mechanisms exist that encourage climate change mitigation through conservation and restoration of natural systems.

Each model has certain strengths that, when used alongside other models and analytical tools, can produce thorough analyses of climate change mitigation programs.

Policies and finance mechanisms being developed for climate change mitigation may offer an additional route for effective coastal management.

Amin Asadollahi is the North American lead on climate change mitigation at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) in Canada.

«Investors express a preference for and will pay a premium for projects that demonstrate social and environmental benefits in addition to robust climate benefits,» observes Joanna Durbin, Director of the Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA) that developed a design standard for climate change mitigation projects to ensure the projects are designed to support sustainable development and biodiversity in addition to their carbon benefits.

For the Global Energy Technology Strategy Program, he co-authored a number of landmark reports addressing CCS and other climate change mitigation technologies.

Once adapted for non-EU member states, the project will benefit hotels worldwide, thus contributing to climate change mitigation while helping hotels increase business profits.

With the renewed public interest in climate change mitigation after the Paris conference, the question was, whether or not the COP would generate results and help to keep momentum in international climate protection efforts.

Nuclear power faces persistent concerns about safety, nuclear waste, and potential weapons proliferation, despite past contributions to mortality prevention and climate change mitigation [232].

«The other end of the spectrum: municipal climate change mitigation planning in the politically conservative Dallas - Fort Worth region.»

These include Brazil's forest code, which requires Amazon landholders to keep 50 - 80 percent of their land forested, and a proposed climate change mitigation mechanism, known as internationally as REDD, that would compensate land owners for keeping their forests standing.

The scientists conclude that agroforestry should therefore attract more attention in global agendas on climate change mitigation because of its positive social and environmental impacts.

In a special issue of Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, scientists say that in most parts of Africa, climate change mitigation focuses on reforestation and forest protection however, such efforts to reduce deforestation conflict with the need to expand agricultural production in Africa to feed the continent's growing population.