Sentences with phrase «climate plans an opportunity»

Are India's state climate plans an opportunity to redirect development towards climate and environmental sustainability, or just vehicles for existing development action?

Not exact matches

NEW DELHI (AP)-- Given a rare opportunity to lunch with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Gaurav Dalmia was less interested Thursday in discussing the planned topics at hand, including climate change or even the trade dispute between India and the U.S. Instead, the Indian businessman was focused on Kerry himself — and whether he would be able to smooth over brittle relations between Washington and New Delhi for the sake of economic growth.

Today, I am pleased to announce another important building block in our Climate Change plan — designed to help us achieve our targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to generate real emission reduction opportunities across the economy.

Australia has created an adaptation program to «help Australians better understand climate change, manage risks, and take advantage of potential opportunities;» In Nigeria, state and local governments are developing action plans for high - risk urban areas, while the federal government is seeking to expand forests by reducing deforestation and wood fuel demand; in Mali, significant efforts are being made to conserve water resources, as well as create usable mechanisms to track the development of climate change.

«Confronting the challenges of a changing climate presents opportunities for managers and other decision - makers to plan ahead, foster resilient landscapes, and ensure that the benefits forests provide are sustained into the future,» said Michael T. Rains, Director of the Northern Research Station and the Forest Products Laboratory.

As climate science advances, the department will regularly re-evaluate climate change risks and opportunities in order to develop policies and plans to manage its effects on the department's operating environment, missions, and facilities.

Known as the Clean Power Plan, these historic standards represent the most significant opportunity in years to help curb the growing consequences of climate change.

«Canada's leaders have missed an opportunity to lay out a strong plan that would ramp up renewable energy and drive deeper cuts in their emissions,» said David Waskow, international climate director of the World Resources Institute.

Now it has the opportunity to use that growth to work on plans for climate change.

As climate science advances, the Department will regularly reevaluate climate change risks and opportunities in order to develop policies and plans to manage its effects on the Department's operating environment, missions, and facilities.

You would think researchers would welcome opportunities to balance that vast library of one - sided research with an analysis of the natural causes of climate change — so that they can evaluate the relative impact of human activities, more accurately predict future changes, and help ensure that communities, states and nations can plan for, mitigate and adapt to those impacts.

In a paper prepared by him as the coordinator of the African Climate Policy Centre, Sokona described this approach as an «opportunity to transform climate challenges into development opportunities... to modernize and upgrade their water, energy, urbanization plans and agricultural systems.Climate Policy Centre, Sokona described this approach as an «opportunity to transform climate challenges into development opportunities... to modernize and upgrade their water, energy, urbanization plans and agricultural systems.climate challenges into development opportunities... to modernize and upgrade their water, energy, urbanization plans and agricultural systems.»

The plan seeks to implement the concept of using the campus as a kind of «living laboratory» to explore innovative and scalable ways of tackling the daunting challenges of climate change, and to use that living laboratory to enhance the educational experience of MIT's students and provide new hands - on teaching opportunities for its faculty.

Recently, the national government, with the help of the UN, finalised a detailed action plan for how the country will handle climate change - related risks and opportunities over the next 15 years.

Parts 1 - 5 introduce training participants to the multiple facets of population dynamics and climate change adaptation, and part 6 presents opportunities for integration through an examination of international and national policy dialogues, adaptation planning and programs, and planning in other sectors.

As the Alberta government crafts a new climate change action plan, it has the opportunity to put in place the policies that will allow the province to compete for this investment, and demonstrate that it knows what it really means to be a clean energy leader.

In any case, the Senate hearing might well have been the perfect opportunity for Congressional Democrats to match today's climate science to a realistic plan for taking strong action against rising GHG emissions, a plan founded entirely in the provisions of existing environmental laws and regulations.

Some of the objectives of the project are to identify spatial vulnerability of populations during extreme heat events in selected areas; identify the impacts of extreme heat events on the health, work productivity and livelihoods of vulnerable population, to select appropriate, innovative and affordable climate adaptation measures for improving health and livelihood resilience for the urban population with consideration of gender - based implications, to strengthen the capacity of key stakeholders through training opportunities and to facilitate active use of information and evidence for policy - makers to drive the implementation of the Heat Stress Action Plans into municipal disaster strategies.

Co-organised by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) and its energy proof - of - concept projects, the European Climatic Energy Mixes (ECEM) and the CLIM4ENERGY projects, the Symposium was a nice opportunity to showcase the two C3S energy demonstrators and discuss how these tools can benefit research, energy planning decisions and policy.

«As new methods provide new opportunities we plan to examine further linkages between tropical cyclone activity and other climate indices and ways in which this new index could be incorporated into climate or forecasting models,» said Haig.

The Bank supports country - led development strategies and priorities aimed at integrating climate - and disaster - resilience in national development planning, while helping countries take advantage of new economic, capacity building, and financing opportunities that climate change presents.

This has included developing the BC Agriculture & Climate Change Action Plan, leading a project to evaluate the agriculture sector's risks and opportunities in relation to climate change and the managing, development and delivery of current adaptation programming for the sector in B.C.. From 2004 to 2008, Emily was a Program Manager with the Investment Agriculture FounClimate Change Action Plan, leading a project to evaluate the agriculture sector's risks and opportunities in relation to climate change and the managing, development and delivery of current adaptation programming for the sector in B.C.. From 2004 to 2008, Emily was a Program Manager with the Investment Agriculture Founclimate change and the managing, development and delivery of current adaptation programming for the sector in B.C.. From 2004 to 2008, Emily was a Program Manager with the Investment Agriculture Foundation.

Is adaptation all about minimising damage or are their opportunities as well; can adaptation proceed only through deliberately planned actions focused specifically on adaptation to climate change; how much must be known about future climates to make decisions about adaptation?

The Maldives and Costa Rica are the first countries to adopt a carbon reduction goal more ambitious than that of Plan B. 5 Achim Steiner, Executive Director of UNEP, describes climate neutrality as «an idea whose time has come, driven by the urgent need to address climate change but also the abundant economic opportunities emerging for those willing to embrace a transition to a Green Economy.»

The Methane Reduction Plan will both reduce the emissions changing our climate and create new opportunities for food donations and organics recycling.»

Adapting to climate change means understanding what climate we are likely to experience in the future, and creating proactive plans that take advantage of opportunities and prepare for impacts.

The CCSP strategic plan's vision is «a nation and the global community empowered with the science based knowledge to manage the risks and opportunities of change in the climate and related environmental systems.»

These efforts are not designed to argue in favor of any one policy or political party, but should rather provide the motivation and opportunities for citizens to connect, plan, learn, and voice their preferences on climate change.

With Governor Brown's recent Executive Order instructing all of California's state agencies to take climate change issues into account when making public policy decisions, doing infrastructure planning, and making regulatory decisions, a golden opportunity is arising in the Golden State for advocates of the renewables to force California to adopt a renewables - only approach to building new or replacement power generation capacity.

In response to the challenges and opportunities posed by climate change, Kenya has developed a National Climate Change Response Strategy whose objective, among others, is to provide a concerted action plan coupled with resource mobilization plan to combat climate climate change, Kenya has developed a National Climate Change Response Strategy whose objective, among others, is to provide a concerted action plan coupled with resource mobilization plan to combat climate Climate Change Response Strategy whose objective, among others, is to provide a concerted action plan coupled with resource mobilization plan to combat climate climate change.

This call to action is also an opportunity for policymakers to integrate the impact of a class of super GHGs, known as hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), into climate and health planning.

The resolution also directs the public schools to develop an implementation plan for «curriculum and educational opportunities that address climate change» in all Portland Public Schools.

They highlighted climate benefits, lessons learned, challenges and plans for further scaling up as well as sharing opportunities for mobilizing finance, technology and capacity - building to implement land use actions with climate benefits in developing countries.

Speaking at the closing ceremony of the fifth National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Expo in Sharm - el - Sheikh, Egypt, Ms Espinosa emphasized that adapting to climate impacts is as much an opportunity to build resilient economies and societies as it is to improving the state of the world.

In countries where business has had the opportunity to provide inputs on national climate action plans (Nationally Determined Contribution, or «NDCs»), the process can already be seen to have benefitted from such engagement.

• Help countries develop strategic plans and investment pipelines that integrate the risks and opportunities of climate change.

But on the climate action plan there's certainly a lot of opportunity for improvement.

Moreover, «they are ahead of their governments in planning for climate change risks, costs, and opportunities,» according to a 2014 report on the global corporate use of carbon pricing.

The planning framework internalizes risks and opportunities associated with alternative hydro - climate scenarios to identify a long - term system configuration robust to uncertainty.

: Disclose the actual and potential impacts of climate - related risks and opportunities on business and financial planning where the information is material.

As a highly credible talented and savvy Washington insider with significant contacts on the «hill» that can be leveraged, I have had the opportunity to plan, develop, accomplish, and showcase major initiatives that drove policy change and represented significant role in supporting climate change war activities that involved national and international participants.

Specific responsibilities listed on an Elementary Educator example resume are developing lesson plans, organizing instructional activities, ensuring a positive educational climate, updating job knowledge by taking part to educational opportunities, and tracking student attendance.