Sentences with phrase «climate change mitigation strategies»

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.

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.

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 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.

However, the study shows that number can drop from 75 percent to 55 percent if climate change mitigation strategies are enacted, such as those pledged in the 2015 Paris climate accord (SN: 1/9/16, p. 6).

«Our findings have major implications for the way how climate change mitigation strategies should be designed.

At the international level, Thomas looks at the implications of climate planning progress in developing countries for the international negotiations, focusing on the status of NDC preparation and implementation at the global scale, as well as the analysis of the potential economic and social co-benefits for climate change mitigation strategies.

In conclusion, I suggest moving away from the framework of carbon removal as a «third way» and instead framing carbon removal as a critical yet largely missing piece of «Plan A» to deploy large - scale climate change mitigation strategies.

Even more challenging are the policy design issues that will decide the extent to which a REDD instrument will interact with the over-arching climate change mitigation strategy.

The former Australian Government's climate report «The Critical Decade» recognises the need to protect native forests immediately as a key climate change mitigation strategy.

It is not NASA's mission to make policy regarding possible climate change mitigation strategies.

Nevertheless, the work provides another compelling argument «to start scaling up the myriad climate change mitigation strategies that already exist — green subsidies and investment, carbon taxes and markets, and especially ending fossil fuel subsidies,» Lesk said.

Terrestrial biological atmospheric carbon dioxide removal (BCDR) through bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECS), afforestation / reforestation, and forest and soil management is a family of proposed climate change mitigation strategies.

WHO's Health in the Green Economy sector briefings examine the health impacts of climate change mitigation strategies considered by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in their Fourth Assessment Report (Climate Change, 2007).

Canada's bitumen sands continue to be the largest source of growth in Canada's greenhouse gas pollution, and the biggest barrier to Canada's fair participation in a global climate change mitigation strategy.

Much of our predictive power and climate change mitigation strategies depends on supporting the Cinderella science of monitoring.

Trees help fight global warming by absorbing C02 from our atmosphere, making them a vital component of climate change mitigation strategies.

Los Baños, Philippines (28 Nov 2017)-- Enhancing practical farmer knowledge, climate change mitigation strategies, and improving farm productivity for the Bangladesh rice sector were the focus of the visit of Bangladesh Agriculture Minister H.E. Begum Matia Chowdhury to the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) headquarters.

Geneva, 15 September - ICROA, in cooperation with Imperial College London and the UNFCCC, has launched a global survey to investigate the drivers behind corporate engagement in voluntary carbon offsetting and climate change mitigation strategies.

The Cancun Agreement also opened the door for peatlands restoration as a climate change mitigation strategy.

To conclude, a China - based Energy and Climate Registry that will quantify energy use and GHG emissions in a measurable, consistent, and verifiable way is the necessary first solid step toward China's climate change mitigation strategy.

While it has long been known that cost - effective energy efficiency measures are beneficial to economic welfare and therefore worth pursuing on grounds other than climate change mitigation, the magnitude of rebound effects and their implications for the utility of energy efficiency as a climate change mitigation strategy remain contested.