Sentences with phrase «develop adaptation strategies»

The findings may help policymakers develop adaptation strategies early before it becomes too late.

«With these new results government agencies can begin to develop adaptation strategies, including new policies, for safely developing the shoreline,» said Anderson.

The pilot projects aim to increase adaptive capacity of countries sharing transboundary river basins and to promote dialogue in developing adaptation strategies and measures.

Farther south, New York City has taken numerous steps to implement PlaNYC, a far - reaching sustainability plan for the city, including amending the construction code and the zoning laws and the implementation of measures focused on developing adaptation strategies to protect the City's public and private infrastructure from the effects of climate change; 26 some major investments in protection have even been conceptualized.

Read the latest from RFF experts on developing adaptation strategies for coastal ecosystems and agriculture, household demand for flood insurance and NFIP reform options, possibilities for state and regional carbon pricing policies, and more.

«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.

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The study suggests that an understanding of how human use of the landscape interact with climate and ecosystem processes is important for organizations that want to develop strategies for climate change adaptation, biodiversity conservation and local development in one of the world's poorest regions.

Low - tech adaptation strategies are helping people in developing countries cope with the dangers of a warmer world.

«Fortunately some adaptation strategies are being developed that do not destroy nature, some of which are even ecosystem - based.

«Immediate action is required to develop a carbon - neutral or carbon - negative future or, alternatively, prepare adaptation strategies for the effects of a warmer climate,» said Dr Goodwin, Lecturer in Oceanography and Climate at Southampton.

Given the predicted changes to dryland habitats globally, the outcome of this research is essential for developing strategies for adaptation by policy makers.»

It recommends that the federal government move aggressively to support those efforts by developing a national adaptation strategy to coordinate planning and exchange information between federal agencies and local governments.

An important goal of climate research is to reduce and characterize uncertainty in the climate change projections so that they can be more useful for assessing climate change impacts and developing adaptation and mitigation strategies.

To develop effective adaptation strategies for agriculture, we must understand the local trends in our agroecosystems.

In May 2013 the Arctic Council decided to continue its work on the AACA initiative and requested the AMAP Working Group to «produce information to assist local decision - makers and stakeholders in three pilot regions in developing adaptation tools and strategies to better deal with climate change and other pertinent environmental stressors».

Rather CBT is an approach that relies on the use of many different techniques that are designed to deal with each unique situation and individual and focus primarily on the changing of particular behaviours, developing better strategies for managing troublesome situations, and learning how to think about, perceive and interpret circumstances in ways that lead to a healthier adaptation to conditions that are producing the symptoms.»

The Special Education Teacher will be responsible for the successful completion of the following tasks: + Manage and provide instructional guidance, virtual teaching and general strategies for a caseload of students; + Develop, write and help implement IEPs; + Evaluate tests and assessments, complete report cards and conduct parent conferences; + Communicate regularly with parents / learning coaches of students with special needs to insure that their IEP goals are being met, and that their needs are addressed in a timely and appropriate fashion; + Consult with teachers and coordinate the implementation of specially designed instruction as defined in the IEP regarding students with specific needs and potential learning issues; + Provide direct services to students including services delivered through web - conferencing software, as needed; + Schedule, organize and conduct IEP related meetings in a virtual environment, as needed; + Participate in the school's Student Support Team; help teachers and learning coaches develop and implement program modifications and strategies for all students; + Assist, as needed, with the organization and proper implementation of all paperwork, documentation and procedures for the IEP process; + Assist with locating service providers for students needing related services as mandated by their IEPs; + Assist with negotiating and executing contracts with service providers for students requiring such services; + Maintain accurate and up - to - date data in the school's Learning Management System and special education software; + Assist with administering state testing and coordinate the special adaptations that are required based on the IEP; and + Other duties as asDevelop, write and help implement IEPs; + Evaluate tests and assessments, complete report cards and conduct parent conferences; + Communicate regularly with parents / learning coaches of students with special needs to insure that their IEP goals are being met, and that their needs are addressed in a timely and appropriate fashion; + Consult with teachers and coordinate the implementation of specially designed instruction as defined in the IEP regarding students with specific needs and potential learning issues; + Provide direct services to students including services delivered through web - conferencing software, as needed; + Schedule, organize and conduct IEP related meetings in a virtual environment, as needed; + Participate in the school's Student Support Team; help teachers and learning coaches develop and implement program modifications and strategies for all students; + Assist, as needed, with the organization and proper implementation of all paperwork, documentation and procedures for the IEP process; + Assist with locating service providers for students needing related services as mandated by their IEPs; + Assist with negotiating and executing contracts with service providers for students requiring such services; + Maintain accurate and up - to - date data in the school's Learning Management System and special education software; + Assist with administering state testing and coordinate the special adaptations that are required based on the IEP; and + Other duties as asdevelop and implement program modifications and strategies for all students; + Assist, as needed, with the organization and proper implementation of all paperwork, documentation and procedures for the IEP process; + Assist with locating service providers for students needing related services as mandated by their IEPs; + Assist with negotiating and executing contracts with service providers for students requiring such services; + Maintain accurate and up - to - date data in the school's Learning Management System and special education software; + Assist with administering state testing and coordinate the special adaptations that are required based on the IEP; and + Other duties as assigned.

This STORE strategy of developing a foundational curriculum of six exemplar lessons as a vehicle for building teachers» capacities to then develop or adapt innovative materials themselves resembles a teacher professional development study that looked at student outcomes of a science education innovation in three comparison groups: (a) teachers implementing a predeveloped curriculum with adaptations as needed, (b) teachers being taught how to carry out their own instructional designs then developing their own curricula, and (c) a hybrid condition where they were expected to do both.

The Green Belt Movement and The New Course through the support of MacArthur Foundation have partnered to develop a program that will unlock women's potential in natural resource management and in climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies across three East African priority watersheds.

As part of the Programme, with support from PRBB Foundation, the Green Belt Movement developed a specialised Training of Community Trainers project which sees local women taught about climate change adaptation strategies that can be used to provide practical solutions to effects of climate change at a local level.

To address this issue, we commit to support urgent actions to mainstream adaptation into broader development strategies and encourage developing countries themselves to integrate adaptation into their development policies.

What we can do, however, is develop strategies of adaptation and mitigation, how humans will be affected, how our lives will change, and how we can prevent a dramatic loss of life due to ecological disaster, scarcity of resources, or other significant problems.

With climate change leading to a rise in temperatures and rapid concretisation exacerbating urban heat island effect, it has become important to develop both mitigation and adaptation strategies to reduce and combat heat stress... Read More

In particular, its main objectives were: to identify possible adaptation strategies, compare them using multiple criteria and select the most sustainable alternatives; to identify risk communication methods and materials, select appropriate ones, tailor them to the local contexts, and implement them; to develop and apply indicators to monitor the performance of the overall project.

The project thereby aims to develop mitigation and adaptation strategies for the transport sector, crucial to the framing of transport policy towards sustainable development.

«Perhaps in as little as a year, real resources for adaptation can begin to flow to developing countries and the UNFCCC is willing to assist developing countries prepare their national adaptation strategies,» de Boer added.

As part of its work, the Group will develop practical proposals on how to significantly scale - up long - term financing for mitigation and adaptation strategies in developing countries from various public as well as private sources.

These webinars provide assistance to state and local health departments to conduct analytic and programmatic activities aimed at reducing the health consequences of climate change and variability, and to develop public health adaptation strategies.

The report focuses on existing strategies and plans that some countries have developed to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change, including on elements of the prioritization and implementation of adaptation activities.

UN-Habitat is already working with cities and other local governments in 20 developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to develop mitigation and adaptation strategies for climate change.

This analytical report focuses on exploring an increasingly important question: how can developing countries effectively integrate Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) tools within climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies?

This web platform for exchange of experience between the pilot projects contains some of the first transboundary adaptation strategies developed wordwide, such as those on the Neman and Dniester Basins, developed by UNECE and partners, and those developed by river basin commissions such as the Danube and Rhine.

This includes model verification using observations, quantification of model probabilities and uncertainties, identification of key vulnerabilities as well as adaptation potentials, and, finally, developing response strategies.

The web platform for exchange of experience between the pilot projects contains some of the first transboundary adaptation strategies developed wordwide, such as those on the Neman and Dniester Basins, developed by UNECE and partners, and those developed by river basin commissions such as the Danube and Rhine.

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.

(Sec. 475) Requires the President to: (1) establish the Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Panel to serve as a forum for interagency consultation on and the coordination of the development and implementation of a Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Strategy; and (2) develop such Strategy to protect, restore, and conserve natural resources to enable them to become more resilient to, adapt to, and withstand the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification and to identify opportunities to mitigate those impacts.

(C) develop and implement adaptation strategies to reduce vulnerabilities to climate variability and change.

This guidance document collects a vast range of experiences in order to illustrate the different steps in developing a basin - wide adaptation strategy with concrete examples and thereby to distil some recommendations to take into account in similar efforts in the future.

As President of Climate Forecast Applications Network (CFAN) LLC, I have worked with decision makers on climate impact assessments, assessing and developing meteorological hazard and climate adaptation strategies, and developing subseasonal climate forecasting strategies to support adaptive management.

To develop climate change scenarios and trends for Uganda by meteorologists and forecasters which can be fed into the adaptation and disaster risk reduction strategies of the country.

The Green Belt Movement and The New Course through the support of MacArthur Foundation have partnered to develop a program that will unlock women's potential in natural resource management and in climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies across three East African priority watersheds.

And it is time for the United States to develop and implement a national climate change preparedness and impacts adaptation strategy.

The CoNGO Committee for Sustainable Development is pleased to present the attached Climate Change Paper, containing recommendations to Governments on four critical issues: (1) the dangers of unmitigated climate change impacts; (2) reaching accord on climate change at COP15; (3) risk - management mitigation and adaptation strategies; and (4) assistance to developing countries.

During this stakeholder workshop, participants will share their opinions and insights on how extreme event risk assessments could be further developed for comprehensive risk management, aiding Bangladesh policymakers in developing appropriate adaptation strategies for achieving Sustainable Development Goals.

The Summit report identifies seven priorities for near - term action, starting with the need to develop «an overarching national strategy to guide federal climate climate change adaptation programs.

Rosenzweig, C., W. D. Solecki, R. Blake, M. Bowman, C. Faris, V. Gornitz, R. Horton, K. Jacob, A. LeBlanc, R. Leichenko, M. Linkin, D. Major, M. O'Grady, L. Patrick, E. Sussman, G. Yohe, and R. Zimmerman, 2011: Developing coastal adaptation to climate change in the New York City infrastructure - shed: Process, approach, tools, and strategies.

Of the 12 states in the Northeast, 11 have developed adaptation plans for several sectors and 10 have released, or plan to release, statewide adaptation plans.102 Given the interconnectedness of climate change impacts and adaptation, multi-state coordination could help to ensure that information is shared efficiently and that emissions reduction and adaptation strategies do not operate at cross-purposes.

The report's full title was Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, and any adaptation or mitigation stories that were used looked at case studies in the developed world — there were few positive illustrations of people involved in the strategies in developing Adaptation and Vulnerability, and any adaptation or mitigation stories that were used looked at case studies in the developed world — there were few positive illustrations of people involved in the strategies in developing adaptation or mitigation stories that were used looked at case studies in the developed world — there were few positive illustrations of people involved in the strategies in developing countries.

The Regional Strategy for Disaster Risk Management (DRM) in the Agriculture Sector and Food and Nutrition Security (FNS) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) was developed under the leadership of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), which identified the need for a common tool to foster the collaboration and coordination among its member states with regards to DRM and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) in the agriculture sector.

This is a question frequently asked by planners, policy makers and other professionals charged with the task of developing and implementing adaptation strategies.