Sentences with phrase «discussions on adaptation»

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This fall, the EC's delegation in the United States, the embassy of Sweden, and AAAS have organized a series of discussions in Washington, D.C., on adaptation to climate change.

Oklahoma has been battered by extreme weather events in recent years and much of the discussion focused on adaptation toward maximizing benefits and minimizing losses for the state.

Please join us for a panel discussion with on the ground innovators from federal agencies, nonprofits and businesses who are using these tools to reduce GHG emissions and improve climate adaptation and resilience.

-- 7) Forest models for Montana that account for changes in both climate and resulting vegetation distribution and patterns; 8) Models that account for interactions and feedbacks in climate - related impacts to forests (e.g., changes in mortality from both direct increases in warming and increased fire risk as a result of warming); 9) Systems thinking and modeling regarding climate effects on understory vegetation and interactions with forest trees; 10) Discussion of climate effects on urban forests and impacts to cityscapes and livability; 11) Monitoring and time - series data to inform adaptive management efforts (i.e., to determine outcome of a management action and, based on that outcome, chart future course of action); 12) Detailed decision support systems to provide guidance for managing for adaptation.

Blu - ray extras include a making - of documentary; four deleted songs and two deleted scenes; a discussion with co-directors John Musker and Ron Clements; a piece on the Broadway adaptation of Aladdin; outtakes from Williams» recording session as the Genie; and, for those so inclined, music videos of Aladdin tunes by the likes of Clay Aiken and Jessica Simpson.

Academy Award - winning director Ang Lee and author Yann Martel will sit down with Film Society of Lincoln Center Program Director Richard Peña for a discussion of the film adaptation of Martell's Man Booker Prize - winning book LIFE OF PI on Friday, September 28 at 12:00 pm (ET).

There's also a fair amount of discussion regarding the influences on the movie's design, which include classic art, previous film adaptations, and the novel itself.

Not only would I have loved to hear from celebrity fans David Lynch and Sofia Coppola (who paid homage to the title sequence in Lost in Translation), but an account of the battle Kubrick and producer James Harris waged with the Catholic Legion of Decency would've made for incredibly compelling material, while a scholarly discussion of Lolita the novel might've thrown new light on this adaptation, so often naively dismissed as a sanitization of the source material.

Coppola has set the comparison bar high for herself, and discussion will surely also focus on the claim that it is not a remake but a new adaptation.

This one - page film guide on the adaptation of The Tempest is designed to support pre - and post-screening discussions of character, costume and the nature of adaptation for use with school students aged 11 and over.

This one - page film guide on the film West Side Story the musical adaptation of the play Romeo and Juliet, set in 1950s New York, incorporates themes around street crime, immigration and the American dream, is designed to support pre - and post-screening discussions of character, genre and the key themes of the film for use with primary school pupils aged 7 and over.

This week's episode has a long discussion on videogame music of the past, while Jonah discusses Batman: Arkham Origins and iPad adaptations of board games.

Weekend schedule: Friday, August 31, 2012 6 — 8 pm: Carbon 13 opening at Ballroom Marfa 8 — 10 pm: Community dinner at The Capri Saturday, September 1, 2012 9:30 am: FarmStand Marfa 10 am: Marfa Lights Festival Parade 1 pm: Discussion: Art and Environmental Activism, moderated by Rebecca Solnit at the Crowley Theater 3 pm: Discussion: Climate Change and Adaptation, with Diana Liverman and John Nielsen - Gammon at the Crowley Theater 6 pm: Michael Pollan in conversation with Hamilton Fish at the Crowley Theater, co-presented with Dixon Water Foundation Sunday, September 2, 2012 9 — 11 am: Brunch and guided nature walk on Mimms Ranch with Robert Potts 1 pm: Reading by Rebecca Solnit at Marfa Book Company 3:30 pm: Presentation by Tom Rand at Marfa Book Company 8 pm: Performance of This Clement World by Cynthia Hopkins at the Crowley Theater All events are free and open to the public.

# 519 Thomas said fwiw, I am intentionally avoiding UV and posting this type of info here on FR only — new class of open thread for discussions of climate solutions, mitigation and adaptation.

Note that discussions about mitigation and / or adaptation should be on the Forced Responses thread.

One thing I see lacking in this «longest monopoly game» is discussion of the most well proven, well practiced human strategy in dealing with adverse environments: adaptation and mitigation on a case - by - case basis.

Presentations from representatives of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) set the scene for the discussions by highlighting the scientific aspects of adaptation and adaptation co-benefits from a global perspective.

The causes, impacts and legacies of various strategies - including liberalisation policies, decades of structural adjustment programmes (SAP) and market conditions - can not be ignored in discussions on poverty alleviation and adaptation to stresses, including climate change.

Chapter 6 of the Climate Action Report, «Impacts and Adaptation,» drew substantially on the findings of the National Assessment for its discussion of the potential consequences of climate change for the United States.

Climate adaptation and risk reduction: Increasing community resilience through nature - based solutions November 7, 16:30 - 18:00 — Germany Pavilion Presentations and a dynamic panel discussion on the latest trends in nature - based solution policies and scalable ecosystem - based adaptation (EBA) tools.

Finally, there will be a general discussion on how our knowledge informs adaptation and solutions strategies for B.C..

The intense and constructive discussions on and off the negotiating floor on inter alia, the adaptation fund, a new green / climate fund, funding the avoidance of deforestation and forest degradation, the climate - related budgets of development banks, and the need for government assistance to more effectively bring private sector on board, will all be for naught if previous experience with development financing is any indication how climate funding promises pan out over the coming years.

It will be presented as a panel - discussion divided into five parts.This session is taking place on the afternoon of the 09 July 2015 16:30 -18:00 at UNESCO Fontenoy - ROOM IX Parallel Session 2232, as part of the Forecasting and Adaptation day.

In discussions on agriculture and adaptation, for example, vulnerable countries» efforts to move towards implementation, were stalled by developed countries» apparent allergy to anything that has cost implications.»

The report addresses, for the first time, how integrating expertise in climate science, disaster risk management, and adaptation can inform discussions on how to reduce and manage the risks of extreme events and disasters in a changing climate.

He has engaged in the discussion on our limits of adaptation in a number of articles, for example, in the Guardian, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Nature magazine.

There has been discussion of the potential for adaptation and mitigation as substitutes within narrow economic analysis (cost - benefit frameworks), and some studies have tried to assess the optimal policy balance of mitigation and adaptation using CBA based on IAMs.

At today's press briefing in Poznań, Yvo de Boer gave an update on a number of areas under discussion, including Adaptation.

Parties were also considering how to increase funds for adaptation through the carbon market, with discussions focusing on extending the current 2 % levy on mitigation projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to the other Kyoto mechanisms, Joint Implementation and Emissions Trading, Mr. de Boer said.

This activity report provides a series of Regional Briefings is based on the consultations and discussions of the regional National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) workshops held throughout 2016 and 2017 in Sri Lanka, Cote D'Ivoire and Guyana.

Further discussion focused on the possible content of the ERF: it could contain objectives for adaptation and mitigation, based on global temperature goals (2 and 1.5 °C); and corresponding relative fair efforts by countries.

In addressing these crises, local media can play a crucial role in reporting on adaptation strategies and facilitating discussion on dealing with environmental change.

With Fiji presiding over this COP, discussions were expected to focus on adaptation — the question of how we deal with climate impacts — even before a summer of storms rocked South Asia and the Caribbean.

He notes that an overwhelming focus on mitigation has largely obscured the issue of adaptation and that, at least until fairly recently, discussion of adaptation has not been welcome:

All very interesting, but what I found missing from the discussion is the role of the billable hour and its impact on IT adaptation in firms.