Sentences with phrase «community adaptation plans»

Developing community adaptation plans is challenging, and requires a team of committed scientists, project implementers and community members who are willing to work together to understand the local impacts of climate change.

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adaptation is taking place at the household or community level, but this is mainly reactive and doesn't translate to a larger scale or to longer - term planning; and

Such offices shall engage in cooperative research, development, and demonstration projects with the academic community, State Climate Offices, Regional Climate Offices, and other users and stakeholders on climate products, technologies, models, and other tools to improve understanding and forecasting of regional and local climate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory Committee.

It was the first strategic community planning document of its kind, and went beyond the issues of energy supply, to look at across - the - board creative adaptations in the realms of food, farming, education, economy, health, and much more.

This analytical report presents the concerted action taken by the UN system to assist people and communities in developing countries to adapt to climate change through: (i) risks, impacts and vulnerability assessment; (ii) adaptation planning, including creating an enabling environment; (iii) the implementation of adaptation measures, which includes UNISDR's work on climate change related disaster risk reduction and risk sharing; (iv) awareness raising; and (v) knowledge sharing and facilitate learning.

NOAA's Coastal Resources Center has developed Roadmap for Adapting to Coastal Risk, an online, three - hour course where participants learn how to characterize community exposure to coastal hazards, and to assess how plans and policies already on the books can be used to jump - start adaptation strategies.

Such offices shall engage in cooperative research, development, and demonstration projects with the academic community, State Climate Offices, Regional Climate Offices, and other users and stakeholders on climate products, technologies, models, and other tools to improve understanding and forecasting of regional and local climate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory Committee.

Here's what is required (leaving aside Theresa May's electorally hamstrung inability to deliver much of it): The entire cabinet and every business leader the government's black book can muster, on stage for the launch of the new strategy; an explicit declaration that this, full decarbonization of the economy, is the post-Brexit economic strategy; clear and attractive retail policies, such as a diesel scrappage scheme, tax breaks for green investment, new apprenticeships, a green home building program; an open invitation to all opposition party leaders to share a platform to support the plan with a declaration that while they may not agree on every component they fully endorse the over-arching goal; a willingness to shame those party leaders who play party politics and refuse to turn up; a fortnight - long program where each day sees a new cabinet member explain how the plan will transform parts of the economy; a Royal Commission on the flaws of GDP as an economic measure and the viability of alternative quality of life metrics; and, yes, a brave assertion that carbon intensive industries will have to transform or be scaled back, backed by a decarbonization adaptation fund to help affected communities respond to this global trend.

To counter this, the report recommends mainstreaming climate change into the national development planning process, ensuring that adequate adaptation and resilience is built in to cushion vulnerable communities against present and future climate change.

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The New York City Department of City Planning (DCP) is working with communities across the city's floodplain to identify changes to development and land use to reduce flood risks, plan for adaptation over time, and create resilient, vibrant neighbourhoods.

Adaptation plans are being developed and documented at the national, subnational, and community levels and by the private sector; however, these is still limited evidence of adaptation impleAdaptation plans are being developed and documented at the national, subnational, and community levels and by the private sector; however, these is still limited evidence of adaptation impleadaptation implementation.

Public and private citizens or institutions who service and anticipate a role in maintaining support for vulnerable populations in Northeast cities and communities indicated that they are making plans to judge the demand for adaptation services.

A strong role for local, affected communities and civil society in national planning processes, building on the principles agreed in the Cancun Adaptation Framework, is essential.

Getting community members involved empowers them to design their own adaptation plans.

Furthermore, a report on a National Preparedness Goal [PDF] issued in September by the Administration (in response to the Presidential Policy Directive on National Preparedness of March 30, 2011) entirely omits any mention of climate change — even though the adaptation task force highlights the actions Federal agencies are taking to «to incorporate climate adaptation into planning, emergency preparedness, and disaster recovery to protect communities and reduce losses.»

The long process of merging scientific and community knowledge creates an integrated understanding that can produce an adaptation plan that is both informed by science and relevant to community members who will be implementing it.

Communities across the Mekong involved in co-designing adaptation plans have been able to participate in the process of designing their own adaptation plans, which has led to the empowerment community members.

Discussions of the scientific and community climate stories lead to a shared understanding of the basis for climate adaptation plans.

Robust federal and state - level policies and resources will be vital to help communities understand their risks, assess their choices, and implement adaptation plans.

NEW DELHI (March 9, 2016)-- Building on adaptation commitments made at the Paris climate talks in December, India is launching the first regional early warning systems and preparedness plans in South Asia this month to protect highly vulnerable communities from deadly heat waves intensified by climate change.

Picketts, I.M., A.T. Werner, T.Q. Murdock, J. Curry, S.J. Dery, D. Dyer, 2012: Planning for climate change adaptation: lessons learned from a community - based workshop.

It aims to provide national and local government decision makers and community leaders with information relevant to defining their adaptation priorities and plans, with the view of eventually integrating this into their regular programmes and budgets.

climate change does not impact everyone in a community or country in the same way; greater attention to the structural inequalities and gendered power relations that impact resilience and adaptation, particularly in the context of small - holder agriculture, pastoralism, fisheries and forestry is crucial for effective adaptation planning in the agriculture sectors.

(Sep 2, 2015) As part of the Obama Administration's Climate Data Initiative, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced a new set of online climate data resources to help Arctic communities with climate change planning, adaptation and management.

Her work focuses on the health effects of climate change; advocating for strategies to prepare for and prevent these impacts, especially for our most vulnerable communities; and making health a more central feature of national, state and local climate change adaptation plans.

The expected outputs range from integrating climate change risks into development planning and coastal zoning regulation to diversifying livelihoods to finding more secure sources of water in communities where saline intrusion is a problem (Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change through Coastal Afforestation).

With these maps and information, Scenic Hudson is supporting communities» efforts to develop adaptation plans by helping them to:

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Specifically, we will partner with community stakeholders and four early childhood centers, two in each state, in a process of planning, program development, implementation, and examination of results followed by adaptation of activities.