Sentences with phrase «changing land use decisions»

Not exact matches

We held interactive workshops to introduce local decision makers to the issues behind climate change and presented solutions for integrating climate adaptation into local land use management, development, and restoration efforts.

Now a new analysis is estimating the pace of species movement because of both climate change and land use, revealing new pressures that stem from local decisions to build, plant and cut on the warming landscape.

The study and its maps are being used by state agencies and land managers to make decisions under changing conditions.

Or it could be that methane variations are mostly produced by wetland emission, driven by climate change as well as land use decisions, according to another set of papers.

Human decisions have introduced additional perturbations to the carbon cycle, in the form of fossil - fuel burning, cutting down forests, and land use changes, just to name a few.

Decision 6 / CMP.9: Guidance for reporting information on activities under Article 3, paragraphs 3 and 4, of the Kyoto Protocol Decision 2 / CMP.7: Land - use, land - use change and forestry Decision 2 / CMP.6: The Cancun Agreements: Land - use, land - use change and foreLand - use, land - use change and forestry Decision 2 / CMP.6: The Cancun Agreements: Land - use, land - use change and foreland - use change and forestry Decision 2 / CMP.6: The Cancun Agreements: Land - use, land - use change and foreLand - use, land - use change and foreland - use change and forestry

Over 1.8 million climate records have been digitized to date, increasing Kenya's capacity to make informed decisions on climate change and land use.

Depending of the reported commitment period, accounting of the LULUCF activities under the Kyoto Protocol shall apply guidelines contained in the following decisions: The annex to decision 16 / CMP.1: Land use, land - use change and forestry provides rules for accounting of LULUCF activities under KP in the first commitment perLand use, land - use change and forestry provides rules for accounting of LULUCF activities under KP in the first commitment perland - use change and forestry provides rules for accounting of LULUCF activities under KP in the first commitment period.

The annex to decision 2 / CMP.7: Land use, land - use change and forestry provides rules for accounting of LULUCF activities under KP in the second commitment perLand use, land - use change and forestry provides rules for accounting of LULUCF activities under KP in the second commitment perland - use change and forestry provides rules for accounting of LULUCF activities under KP in the second commitment period.

Decision 17 / CMP.1: Good practice guidance for land use, land - use change and forestry activities under Article 3, paragraphs 3 and 4, of the Kyoto Protocol Decision 16 / CMP.1: Land use, land - use change and foreland use, land - use change and forestry activities under Article 3, paragraphs 3 and 4, of the Kyoto Protocol Decision 16 / CMP.1: Land use, land - use change and foreland - use change and forestry activities under Article 3, paragraphs 3 and 4, of the Kyoto Protocol Decision 16 / CMP.1: Land use, land - use change and foreLand use, land - use change and foreland - use change and forestry

For the first commitment period decision 15 / CMP.1 Guidelines for the preparation of the information required under Article 7 of the Kyoto Protocol stipulates that each Party included in Annex I shall include in its annual greenhouse gas inventory information on anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions by sources and removals by sinks from land use, land - use change and forestry activities under Article 3, paragraph 3, and, if any, elected activities under Article 3, paragraph 4, in accordance with Article 5, paragraph 2, as elaborated by any good practice guidance in accordance with relevant decisions of the COP / MOP on land use, land - use change and forestry.

The incorporation of climate change adaptation into each urban centre's development planning, infrastructure investments and land - use management is well served by an iterative process within each locality of learning about changing risks and uncertainties that informs an assessment of policy options and decisions.

Many negotiators tell Ecosystem Marketplace that REDD itself is no longer a contentious issue, but that things get hairy when they try to digest the decision made in Bali to expand the land - use debate from REDD alone into broader issues of «conservation, sustainable management of forests, changes in forest cover and associated carbon stocks and greenhouse gas emissions and the enhancement of forest carbon stocks to enhance action on mitigation of climate change and to the consideration of reference levels.»

This effort is a critical component of NOAA's research into the future of the earth as a system under the influence of anthropogenic forcing to better understand how emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels, land use decisions and climate and ecological interactions will determine future carbon dioxide levels and the corresponding climate change.

Welcomes the agreement achieved by the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol on its work pursuant to decisions 1 / CMP.1, 1 / CMP.5 and 1 / CMP.6 in the areas of land use, land - use change and forestry (decision - / CMP.7), emissions trading and the project - based mechanisms (decision - / CMP.7), greenhouse gases, sectors and source categories, common metrics to calculate the carbon dioxide equivalence of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks, and other methodological issues (decision - / CMP.7) and the consideration of information on potential environmental, economic and social consequences, including spillover effects, of tools, policies, measures and methodologies available to Annex I Parties (decision - / CMP.7);

Global decisions on climate change are not separated from our daily choices of consumption, land use, the way of living and having.

Global, national, regional and local leaders are being asked by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to make bold and long - term decisions on ways to invest in more resilient infrastructure, revise land use, enhance coordination, update building codes, adjust natural resource management and other practices to improve the resilience of their communities to the impact of climate cChange to make bold and long - term decisions on ways to invest in more resilient infrastructure, revise land use, enhance coordination, update building codes, adjust natural resource management and other practices to improve the resilience of their communities to the impact of climate changechange.

Hosted by Thomson Reuters Practical Law ™, the webinar covered the Religious Land Use & Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) and how it has changed the landscape of local zoning decisions and disputes involving religious exercise.