Sentences with phrase «climate change mitigation»

This law aims to establish principles, approaches and general provisions to design, execute, monitor and evaluate public policies for climate change mitigation and adaptation.

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

Objective: To determine the impact of alternative dietary strategies on climate change mitigation and the nutritional quality of the Australian diet.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

As such climate change policy has the potential to generate innovative economic development opportunities for Victorian Traditional Owner groups in new industries that support climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies.

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

While the previous reports dealt with climate change mitigation and adaptation separately, this one will draw links between these fields, he said.

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.

We support this mission by addressing climate change mitigation and adaptation.

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.

Primary areas of focus include climate change mitigation, technology capacity building, and municipal innovation.

By all indications, the Conservative party is about to once again go on a federal campaign with little more than a fig leaf in lieu of a serious climate change mitigation strategy.

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.

Such a feedback loop could result in accelerated warming throughout the globe, which will strongly impact ongoing climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts.

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

Climate change mitigation therefore urgently needs carbon removal technologies.

Or perhaps the news will propel even more nations, cities, businesses and leaders to up the ante with their own climate change mitigation efforts.

Studies that do factor in land use change show that using food crops to produce biofuels — once considered a promising climate change mitigation strategy — is worse for the climate than gasoline.

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

Three tons of carbon dioxide per person per year as goal and guide is the basis for more than typical climate change mitigation and adaptation plans.

These trends point to the tight tension between energy production, water consumption and consequently climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies.

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

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

While warming cities will bring big energy costs, researchers say they may also offer important insight into the role of local policy in climate change mitigation.

We still have the free rider effect strongly governing all action on climate change mitigation.

Over time, this approach could seriously undermine global climate change mitigation and result in a loss of forest carbon stocks in developed country forests.