Sentences with phrase «change mitigation measures»

The range of possibilities highlighted for future climate at all scales clearly demonstrates the urgency for climate change mitigation measures and provides non-discountable ranges which can be used by the impacts community (e.g. Stern 2006).

It outlines a set of strategies and approaches seeking to ensure that forest and other land - use climate change mitigation measures deliver sustainable development benefits in an equitable and cost - effective manner.

The consequences of such doubts are important: elimination of the science is settled arguments; less money and talk on drastic climate change mitigation measures; more focus on alleviation of Third World poverty.

In China, bamboo is now recognized as carbon offset, and as a tool for climate change mitigation measures.

Western policy pronouncements are that climate change mitigation measures are economically rational.

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.

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The resolution states that the House will «create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.»

Next year's school, «Adaptation and Mitigation: Responses to Climate Change,» will explore topics such as greenhouse gas emission scenarios, the economics of climate change, adaptation and mitigation measures, and climateMitigation: Responses to Climate Change,» will explore topics such as greenhouse gas emission scenarios, the economics of climate change, adaptation and mitigation measures, and climate polChange,» will explore topics such as greenhouse gas emission scenarios, the economics of climate change, adaptation and mitigation measures, and climate polchange, adaptation and mitigation measures, and climatemitigation measures, and climate policies.

Authors project with high confidence that continued growth in emissions from global passenger and freight activity could «outweigh future mitigation measures,» says a preliminary version of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) study obtained by ClimateWire.

At 1.5 / 2 °C temperature warming level, how the global and regional climate will change, is a matter of public concern and relates to the decisions of policies, guidelines and measures on mitigation and adaption of future climate change.

The project — entitled Sustainable Tourism through Energy Efficiency with Adaptation and Mitigation Measures in Pangandaran — aims to serve as a model of innovative climate change mitigation and adaptation measures in tourism destinations in Indonesia and south - Mitigation Measures in Pangandaran — aims to serve as a model of innovative climate change mitigation and adaptation measures in tourism destinations in Indonesia and south - eaMeasures in Pangandaran — aims to serve as a model of innovative climate change mitigation and adaptation measures in tourism destinations in Indonesia and south - mitigation and adaptation measures in tourism destinations in Indonesia and south - eameasures in tourism destinations in Indonesia and south - east Asia.

South Africa, however, has adopted a more balanced view of the risks posed by climate change and mitigation measures, translating into a far more constructive role in the negotiations.

The important issue in getting change is cost - effectiveness of mitigation measures.

The first part of the chain is that we know that climate change is happening, we know what is most likely to happen, and we can both anticipate the pace of events and the pace of necessary mitigation and adaptation measures.

Resolved, That the House of Representatives commits to working constructively, using our tradition of American ingenuity, innovation, and exceptionalism, to create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.

«[The] House of Representatives commits to working constructively, using our tradition of American ingenuity, innovation, and exceptionalism, to create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.»

Some adaptation measures to climate change, like air - conditioning and water pumps use energy and may contribute to even higher CO2 emissions, and thus necessitate even more mitigation (high agreement, limited evidence)[4.5.5].

Article 4.2 states that the parties «shall adopt national policies and take corresponding measures on the mitigation of climate change.»

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Source: S. Stoll - Kleemann, Tim O'Riordan, Carlo C. Jaeger, The psychology of denial concerning climate mitigation measures: evidence from Swiss focus groups, Global Environmental Change, 11 (2001) 107 - 117

It presents a structured framework of policies and measures to promote energy efficiency investments for climate change mitigation and sustainable development, as well as to develop a menu of energy efficiency policies and measures.

This activity report provides an overview of measures taken to contribute to climate change mitigation and adaption, as climate change is affecting the world's poorest and most vulnerable countries, including Small Island Developing States, landlocked countries, arid - and semi-arid areas and countries where people are dependent on natural resources.

The Initiative supports cities responding to the negative impact of climate change that is already being felt worldwide, and to put in place appropriate mitigation measures.

-- change its brief and focus away from simply investigating human - induced climate change and its impact, consequences plus possible mitigation and adaptation measures to truly researching all aspects of our planet's climate and

Identifying and implementing appropriate measures for emissions mitigation and adaptation to climate change

This analytical report shows the wide range of adverse impacts of climate change in Africa and assesses the balance of economic costs, as a function of a range of scenarios including both successful and failed global mitigation efforts, and strong compared to weak implementation of adaptation measures.

The prioritization was carried out through weighted scoring taking into account: the ability of the measure to decrease climate change impacts; the urgency for implementing a measure in order to gain maximum benefit; «no regret» strategies that can be justified in economic terms even without climate change; positive secondary effects; and possible climate change mitigation co-benefits.

Climate finance is used to fund climate change mitigation and adaptation measures.

It notices that this country is facing two difficult and intertwined environmental tasks: minimizing the adverse impact of climate change through varied mitigation / adaptation measures and restoring its degraded environment.

Andries Rosema even finds it «frightening» that generating pictures of how climate statistics could change is feeding these considerations, as they introduce a large risk of alarmistic messages and overinvestments in mitigation or adaptation measures.

Stossel writes that even if America reaches Obama's «absurd» pledge to put 1,000,000 electric vehicles on the road by 2015, the impacts of climate change would only be delayed by «one hour,» according to Lomborg, and the mitigation measure was merely a «symbolic act.»

The dialogue highlighted the often - overlooked role of blue carbon ecosystems, such as mangroves and seagrass meadows, in measures for climate change mitigation and adaptation.

In the build - up to 21st Conference of the Parties (CoP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Parties to the Montreal Protocol launched formal negotiations on one of the largest, fastest and most cost - effective global climate mitigation measures available — the phase down of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).

In the short run, we could assign specific financial resources to enable women to participate equally in benefits and opportunities of mitigation and adaptation measures; create opportunities for the education and training of women on climate change.

Business Standard: India is amongst the countries most vulnerable to climate change and must develop its own model to study changes at the regional level and take necessary mitigation measures, a senior US scientist of Indian origin said.

He said: «We want to clean our air, our water, our environment, so we are addressing a challenge which takes care of our climate change mitigation and adaptation measures as well.

«REDD and other climate change mitigation and adaptation measures will only achieve lasting results if they are adapted to conditions on the ground and help meet the needs of local people,» said Forests Dialogue in a statement.

Mitigation measures that reduce greenhouse gas emissions lessen the impacts of climate change on water resources.

Many mitigation measures that reduce emissions of climate - altering pollutants (CAPs) have important direct health benefits in addition to reducing the risk of climate change.

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Countries are spending countless billions of dollars annually on faulty to fraudulent IPCC climate models and studies that purport to link every adverse event or problem to manmade climate change; subsidized renewable energy programs that displace food crops and kill wildlife; adaptation and mitigation measures against future disasters that exist only in «scenarios» generated by the IPCC's GIGO computer models; and welfare, food stamp and energy assistance programs for the newly unemployed and impoverished.

He said climate change adaptation and mitigation measures should be adopted and integrated into Ghana's national development agenda, adding that developing countries should be supported with grants to engage in landscape restoration efforts in degraded lands.

Bolivia draws strongly and explicitly upon ethical justifications for requiring deep cuts in national ghg emissions by other nations, together with financial contributions and holistic mitigation and adaptation measures, capable of both reducing poverty and vulnerability to climate change yet has not identified an equity framework that could be applied at the global scale.

Decisions around mitigation measures will have long - ranging effects: A recently published study in Nature Climate Change looks into the «deep time» implications of carbon dioxide impacts and found that government policies today that are being set to mitigate (or not) carbon dioxide impacts will have implications spanning at least the next 10,000 years.

This will be a panel with important stakeholders from aviation sector, with a main goal to discuss and assess the climate change adaptation and mitigation measures taken at airports.

Sering said that in order to minimize the impacts of climate change, there is a need to identify «vulnerabilities and strategically plan adaptation efforts» and that financial resources are needed implement climate adaptation and mitigation measures.

The training came to a close with pledges by the participants to initiate climate change adaptation and mitigation measures learnt, as well as sensitize other members of the community.

We develop mechanisms and bylaws on how to implement various mitigation and adaptation measures to cope with climate change.

The workshop drew 30 community leaders from different locations in Nakuru who were trained on climate change, causes, effects and adaptation and mitigation measures.

Kroemker, D. and Mosler, H. J. (2002) Human Vulnerability — Factors Influencing the Implementation of Prevention and Protection Measures: An Agent based Approach, Global Environmental Change in Alpine Regions: Recognition, Impact, Adaptation and Mitigation, Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 93 - 112.