Sentences with phrase «climate change adaptation coming»

There is money for climate change adaptation coming from different sources, flowing through different channels, and being used for different purposes.

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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.

SAN FRANCISCO — A giant tidal barrier stretched across the Golden Gate is among the adaptation remedies proposed by a Bay area nonprofit to cope with anticipated sea level rise caused by climate change over the coming century.

Aiming to help farmers adapt their rice farming practices to climate change, the CLUES project (Climate change affecting land use in the Mekong Delta: Adaptation of rice cropping systems) could not have come at a betteclimate change, the CLUES project (Climate change affecting land use in the Mekong Delta: Adaptation of rice cropping systems) could not have come at a betteClimate change affecting land use in the Mekong Delta: Adaptation of rice cropping systems) could not have come at a better time.

Welcoming the injection of new financing, GEF CEO and Chairperson, Naoko Ishii, said «Given that we're already locked into climate change trajectories for many years to come, increased investment in adaptation has to be at the core of the new climate agreement.»

I am one of the founders but am also involved in a lot of other things including climate change adaptation in East Africa, which is where I came into this movie (professionally) in 1966.

I'll try to convey to the folks back home that any money that will come from the Cancun agreements is not only for specific climate change mitigation or adaptation projects but also providing us a chance to rethink and revise our national agricutural, energy, and land use policies.

Prior to coming here I was in Ethiopia to look at how social protection, disaster risk reduction, and climate change adaptation can unite forces to help poor people better manage climate and disaster risk.

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This technical document aims to determine, when it comes to the issue of a changing climate, precisely what the types of information input are that financial institutions require to put their risk management expertise at the service of broader adaptation and to provide a first assessment of the current provision to the sector with such information.

Finally we come to the question of whether regional climate projections should be used in climate change adaptation decisions concerning infrastructure development?

The growing interest in GCM performance at regional scales, rather than global, has come from at least two different directions: the climate modelling community and the climate change adaptation community.

Probably the stronger demand for regional scale information from climate models is coming from the climate change adaptation community.

Thus the ever - increasing hype of having to act now made no sense, as the warming was coming regardless, mitigation of the damage and adaptation to the changed climate was the only logical course.

Just happened to go to a UW lecture by Nives Dolsak an energy researcher at the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs yesterday on Breaking the Adaptation Taboo: How Information on the Costs of Adapting to Climate Change Influences Support for Mitigation, where I - 732 came up as an example of putting a price on climate Climate Change Influences Support for Mitigation, where I - 732 came up as an example of putting a price on climate cChange Influences Support for Mitigation, where I - 732 came up as an example of putting a price on climate climate changechange.

The unpleasant reality is that mitigation and adaptation will be incapable of fully contending with the most severe impacts of climate change over the coming decades.

«The distribution of the world's fresh water, already an important topic will occupy front and center stage for years to come in developing adaptation strategies to a changing climate,» says Cliff Jacobs of National Science Foundation, which funded the research.

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.

Upon initial review, the CIS found funds classified as climate ODA from Belgium going to a «Love movie festival», or ODA coming from Greece going to a «Green Parliament contribution to UNICEF telemarathon», or Switzerland allocating funds for «Earthquake safety», none of which seem to have anything to do with mitigation or adaptation, unless the «love movie festival» reduced the vulnerability of a country to the impacts of climate change by further expanding their emotional depth.

As it is, our atmosphere has 4 % more moisture in it NOW, and wherever the coal is burned, and wherever it comes from, we are in the adaptation stages of climate change already.

Most books about climate change focus on some aspect of the science of the issue; some deal with issues of mitigation — that is, reducing emissions of greenhouse gases — or adaptation — that is, actions to adjust human behavior or infrastructure to the consequences of the warming that Earth will experience over the coming decades.

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This project was given CEO approval in December 2008, and is estimated to be completed by February 2013 with the 5.5 million USD funding coming from the Global Environment Fund (GEF) and the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF)(Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change through Coastal Afforestation).