Sentences with phrase «focused on climate change mitigation»

... three of my new applied NBER economics papers focused on climate change mitigation....

«The UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative should have a major focus on climate change mitigation via the food system,» he said.

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Miami Mayor Francis Suarez's suggestion to focus our sea - level rise and climate change mitigation efforts on building a more - resilient city are on point.

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

The new study builds on research conducted for the IIASA - coordinated Global Energy Assessment, and provides an analysis linking water, energy, and climate change mitigation, a focus of several new IIASA research projects.

«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.»

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) budget request reveals a strong focus on planning for and mitigating the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events, with money set aside for new weather satellites, climate mitigation planning, and additional grants for coastal resilience studies.

Ed's research currently focuses on public understanding of — and engagement in — climate change, including its risks and mitigation and adaptation options.

22 This report focuses on climate change impacts, not mitigation.

Thomas» work focuses primarily on the synergies between climate change mitigation and the development agenda.

We are providing a 21st century approach to its observance not just by recharging memory, but through an artistic reflection with a balanced affirmation of Hispanic heritage and indigenous traditions for collaborative new routes of expression from ancestral roots focused on the concerns of UNESCO: Cultural Rapprochement, Biodiversity, Ocean Care and Seafaring, Climate Change mitigation through sustainable energy, reforestation, gender equity and health issues.

Given that our best bet of climate sensitivity has remained the same (1.5 — 4.5 C) for over 30 years with all new information «pretty much cancelling out», at one point do we begin to focus this investment more on mitigation or another approaches to climate change in general?

Another study, in the journal Nature Climate Change in 2012, concluded that «communication should focus on how mitigation efforts can promote a better society» rather than «on the reality of climate change and averting its risks.Climate Change in 2012, concluded that «communication should focus on how mitigation efforts can promote a better society» rather than «on the reality of climate change and averting its risks.&Change in 2012, concluded that «communication should focus on how mitigation efforts can promote a better society» rather than «on the reality of climate change and averting its risks.climate change and averting its risks.&change and averting its risks.»

Billions of dollars are committed each year to the international fight against climate change, but the majority of these funds focus on mitigation initiatives, mainly renewable energy, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

If they are to be effective, local plans for climate change (both adaptation and mitigation) require the involvement of a variety of stakeholders and a specific focus on the most vulnerable groups.

Thus, a strategy with a dual focus on both air quality and climate change mitigation may present a unique opportunity to engage parties and nations not yet fully committed to climate change mitigation for its own sake.

While the IPCC reports cover the physical science, impacts, and mitigation efforts, CCR - II is strictly focused on the physical science of climate change.

On climate change, the guidelines address both mitigation and adaptation issues, with a focus on identifying practices that could increase vulnerability to climate changOn climate change, the guidelines address both mitigation and adaptation issues, with a focus on identifying practices that could increase vulnerability to climate changon identifying practices that could increase vulnerability to climate change.

WG III focuses on mitigation of 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?

«The special issue of the International Journal of Global Warming focuses on a crucial topic: «Loss and damage» which refers to adverse effects of climate variability and climate change that occur despite mitigation and adaptation efforts,» Editor - in - Chief Ibrahim Dincer of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology says.

In particular, it addresses the critical question of what policy options, and what type of REDD + funding mechanism, are most conducive towards effectively financing forest - based climate change mitigation (with a focus on Phase 3 of REDD + implementation).

Two new studies have warned that climate change mitigation efforts will fail by merely focusing on checking of carbon dioxide emissions.

With the completion of the review, the IPCC can now focus fully on its mandate to assess in a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the scientific, technical and socio - economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of the risks of climate change, its potential impacts, and options for adaptation and mitigation,» IPCC Chair Rajendra Pachauri said.

Amidst high - profile international climate negotiations that focus largely on emissions mitigation, the message that those who are least responsible for driving climate change will suffer the greatest consequences is often lost.

For me, it looks like the Stern report is rather a traditional optimisation computation focused on some sort of worst case for damages from climate change and best case for mitigation cost, amalgamated with some alternative discounting methodology.

A 2012 research report from Yale University's Project on Climate Change Communication found that placing the conversation within a public - health frame was more likely «to elicit emotional reactions consistent with support for climate change mitigation and adaptation» than a traditional environmental frame, or even one focused on national seClimate Change Communication found that placing the conversation within a public - health frame was more likely «to elicit emotional reactions consistent with support for climate change mitigation and adaptation» than a traditional environmental frame, or even one focused on national secChange Communication found that placing the conversation within a public - health frame was more likely «to elicit emotional reactions consistent with support for climate change mitigation and adaptation» than a traditional environmental frame, or even one focused on national seclimate change mitigation and adaptation» than a traditional environmental frame, or even one focused on national secchange mitigation and adaptation» than a traditional environmental frame, or even one focused on national security.

Successful mitigation of climate change is not about finding «a solution,» but developing appropriate institutional and policy options for technological innovation — options that allow experimentation and progress on multiple fronts, tolerate risk, accept that there will be both successes and failures, and focus on creating the initial conditions for progress.

The consequences of such doubts are important: elimination of the science is settled arguments; less money and talk on drastic climate change mitigation measures; more focus on alleviation of Third World poverty.

It would be very interesting to follow closely contract attributions both off and on campuses and how much a discount may be offered to Universities new buildings in relation with the number of municipal contracts linked to «climate change» mitigation... Local newspapers that are surviving mostly on real estates ads are very much willing propagandists of the worst kind: http://www.nsnews.com/north-vancouver-city-plans-for-climate-change-floods-1.668838 «Although the city approved an ongoing strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in 2005, the focus is now on dealing with existing climate change, said Caroline Jackson, section manager of environmental sustainability at the City of North Vancouver.»

The project is one of nine groundbreaking climate change initiatives selected and funded by the NRCS's 2011 Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG) program, and is focused on greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation for one of the least protected and most imperiled ecosystems in the world.

Agreements related to climate change, but not specifically focused on GHG mitigation, are less extensively analysed in the climate literature.

At the same time, Singh said issues of financing mitigation actions to tackle climate change have been a focus of intense discussion in negotiations under the auspices of the UN Framework Convention on Climate climate change have been a focus of intense discussion in negotiations under the auspices of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Cchange have been a focus of intense discussion in negotiations under the auspices of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Climate ChangeChange.

It is divided into three working groups, focusing respectively on the physical science basis (WGI), impacts, adaptation and vulnerability (WGII), and mitigation of climate change (WGIII), each reviewing the existing literature in their fields.

Adrian's research focuses on energy and climate change policy, with emphasis on the role of urban areas in climate change mitigation and on the economics of fossil fuel production and consumption.

Zaelke and the team at IGSD will continue to focus on maximizing the climate - change mitigation potential of the ozone treaty through the destruction of CFCs and HCFCs contained in old air conditioners and other equipment.

Watch the recording of the event here Time and venue: May 1st, 16.45 — 18.15, Bonn Climate Change Conference / World Conference Center, Kaminzimmer This side event focused on measures to uphold the rights of local stakeholders affected by climate mitigation projects in the context of the negotiations on the Sustainable Development Mechanism (SDM), with consideratClimate Change Conference / World Conference Center, Kaminzimmer This side event focused on measures to uphold the rights of local stakeholders affected by climate mitigation projects in the context of the negotiations on the Sustainable Development Mechanism (SDM), with consideratclimate mitigation projects in the context of the negotiations on the Sustainable Development Mechanism (SDM), with considerations...

It stresses that generally attention has focused on mitigation - slowing the pace of climate change - and adaptation - helping people cope with its effects.

International efforts to address climate change have focused on reducing the amount of warming greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere, or mitigation.

The NAMA focuses on a set of interventions and measures related to policy development, technical assistance, and access to finance that will be integrated within sustainable commercial oriented investment activities that contribute to enhanced agriculture productivity, climate change mitigation and adaptation, improved food security, and increased incomes.

A total of 22 European Member States answered the questions focusing on eight thematic areas or topics: governance, vulnerability, impact and adaptation assessments, national and subnational adaptation strategies, climate - change mitigation, strengthening of health systems, awareness raising and capacity building, green health services and sharing best practices.

Achieving emissions reductions for environmental justice communities through climate change mitigation policy by Nicky Sheats, PhD This paper focuses on emissions reductions for EJ communities under the Clean Power Plan in particular as well as climate change mitigation policy in general and argues that these reductions should be both mandatory and planned.

Ed's research currently focuses on public understanding of — and engagement in — climate change, including its risks and mitigation and adaptation options.

Meanwhile, we should focus on improving mitigation and adaptation technologies and our knowledge of climate change science, economics, and responses.

Most books about climate change focus on some aspect of the science of the issue; some deal with issues of mitigation — that is, reducing emissions of greenhouse gases — or adaptation — that is, actions to adjust human behavior or infrastructure to the consequences of the warming that Earth will experience over the coming decades.

Research on climate change mitigation tends to focus on supply - side technology solutions.

«A central issue will be whether loss and damage continues to fall within adaptation or whether it becomes a separate, third pillar (alongside adaption and mitigation), which we believe would lead the [United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change] UNFCCC to focus increasingly on blame and liability, which in turn would be counterproductive from the standpoint of public support for the convention,» the document adds.

Mitigation focuses on reducing sources of climate change, such as greenhouse gas and other human - causing emissions, through clean energy, carbon sink, and sequestration projects.