Sentences with phrase «focused on adaptation»

Kelly pursued her doctoral work at Yale's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where her research focused on adaptation policies to contend with climate impacts to biodiversity.

There were major disagreements in the ADP open - ended consultations focused on adaptation.

Alongside mitigation, then, we also need policies focused on adaptation, on making sensible adjustments to the unavoidable changes that we now face.

Pat received an MA from Carleton University where his studies focused on adaptation and Canadian cinema.

If the world is focused on adaptation, Third World countries will suffer the catastrophes caused by climate change while «rich countries will muddle through with dikes, crops redesigned to survive drought, more air conditioning and the like,» Peter Passell wrote in the news magazine Foreign Policy.

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.

In the wake of Superstorm Sandy in fall 2012, it has intensified its focus on the adaptation of Sunset Park to the changing climate and to deepening its community resiliency.

Instead, Catholic leaders like Wenski and Carolyn Woo, who heads Catholic Relief Services in the United States, chose to focus on adaptation efforts and providing relief to communities that are affected by the changing climate and other environmental hazards.

AACA - B was led by Canada and Russia and focuses on the adaptation activities that are being implemented by Arctic Council member states on a national, sub-national, regional and local level.

Most people tend to focus on the adaptations occurring at the muscular level in their training: hypertrophy.

Countries will continue to engage in a process on mitigation opportunities and will put added focus on adaptation opportunities.

If that is the case, then much of our attention, I suspect, needs to focus on adaptation.

Comment by Sashka... > My opinion is that we should better focus on adaptation to the inevitable rather than wasting resources trying to stop what can not be stopped.

My opinion is that we should better focus on adaptation to the inevitable rather than wasting resources trying to stop what can not be stopped.

Bloomberg Businessweek put it on the cover --» It's Global Warming, Stupid «-- and in my TIME cover story, I focused on adaptations that cities like New York could make now to ensure that the next storm wouldn't be so destructive.

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This manual report focuses on the Adaptation and Mitigation Initiatives in Agriculture (AMIA) that are designed for a rice cultivation sector.

... called for accelerated action to curb greenhouse gases, greater emphasis on research into technologies that will help wean the US from its fossil - fuel habit, and more focus on adaptation to global warming.

The NRC recommendations highlight the need for a change in orientation to an overarching strategic research focus on adaptation, mitigation, and human and societal vulnerability.

It's a pity they didn't decide instead to focus on adaptation and build more resilient infrastructure.

Sweeping away the debate over human - made vs. «natural» climate change, and focusing on adaptation to extreme weather, sounds like it may be the best chance to get some real action.

But the focus on adaptation and preparedness acknowledges that even if Obama meets his promised goal of a 17 percent reduction by 2020, the effects of climate change will be difficult to prevent.

In particular, we focus on adaptation policy and finance under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, vulnerability assessments, capacity building and community - based adaptation.

More specifically, it focuses on adaptation technologies for building resilience to climate change induced hazards in the water sector.

This is probably because some people view any focus on adaptation as taboo.

I have repeatedly written that we need a greater focus on adaptation, and that adaptation and mitigation must be complements.

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.

Not exact matches

Having completed our adaptation to those challenges in mid-2014, and extensively detailing the central lessons, we're simply focused on executing that discipline.

Also offers Climate Ventures 2.0, a 12 - week program for entrepreneurs focused on innovations in climate adaptation and resilience, particularly impacting food, agriculture and water in urban areas.

The course was initially created as an adaptation of Buddhist teachings on mindfulness, although Kabat - Zinn subsequently played down the connection to Buddhism, instead focusing on the scientifically proven benefits of mindfulness.

Yet Collins» stories aren't paedaphobic pulp fiction, and Gary Ross» film adaptation doesn't focus on the brutality of the idea.

Likewise, the early Chicago theologians focused their inquiry on the function of theological concepts and ideologies, they tended to analyze their subject in terms of the interplay of organism and environment, and they thought in terms indicative of a context of adjustment and adaptation.

Research focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improving soil management and climate change adaptation.

Through the CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program, a research that focuses on the development and adaptation of climate - smart technologies for sustainable intensification of farming systems in South Asia is in progress.

Governments to provide additional funding to disabled people's organisations and advice agencies, to increase the supply of independent advice and information regarding housing options, including adaptations, with a particular focus on the private - rented sector.

Her research focuses on global change ecology and climate adaptation; she was among the first to propose and study ways to reduce the impact of climate change through new techniques in conservation management.

Dr. Dow is a social environmental geographer focusing on climate impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation.

Dow's recent outreach activities include the 2016 Carolinas Climate Resilience Conference, held September 12 - 14 in Charlotte, North Carolina, and local workshops that focus on climate adaptation planning.

Gaucher works within the Evogenics Focus Group, which attempts to interpret genomic information from a historical or evolutionary perspective in order to study the origin and adaptation of life on Earth, and perhaps other planets.

Longer - term adaptation strategies focus on genetics.

His research focus is on climate change mitigation and adaptation in fire - prone forests.

Mach's current research focuses on complicated adaptation strategies that require tradeoffs, such as managed retreat, a coastal management strategy in which people are moved away from encroaching shorelines.

His research focuses on the origins of adaptations and biodiversity at both the molecular and organismal levels.

While the majority of climate change scientists focus on the «direct» threats of changing temperatures and precipitation after 2031, far fewer researchers are studying how short - term human adaptation responses to seasonal changes and extreme weather events may threaten the survival of wildlife and ecosystems much sooner.

B. Riegl and S. Purkis's E-Letter on our recent Review (1) focuses on promoting assisted migration, based on a belief that local adaptation and (unassisted) migration will be insufficient to allow corals to cope with the effects of global warming and ocean acidification.

Yet adaptation measures focused on making power plants more efficient and flexible could mitigate much of the decline.

Dr Li said the latest research findings give a better understanding of changes in human - perceived equivalent temperature, and indicate global warming has stronger long - term impacts on human beings under both extreme and non-extreme weather conditions, suggesting that climate change adaptation can not just focus on heat wave events, but should be extended to the whole range of effects of temperature increases.

«In order to sustain water and energy security in the next decades, the electricity focus will need to increase their focus on climate change adaptation in addition to mitigation.»

Dr Jochen Hinkel from Global Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.»

According to Meng, the results suggest that if we are to reduce climate losses on manufacturing output, adaptation measures should not focus solely on reducing the sensitivity of workers to extreme heat, but also that of factory machines.