Sentences with phrase «for adaptation funding»

It and other oil - producing nations have, among other things, claimed a need for adaptation funding — normally reserved for the poor nations that have done little to cause climate change but are bearing the brunt of weather disasters and other problems — because of rising sea levels that threaten offshore oil rigs.

[BALI] The UN has announced approval for an adaptation fund to bolster the defences of poor countries that lack the money, technology and human resources to cope with climate change.

Manuel Gerochi, a member of the negotiating team from the Philippines, says they had successfully lobbied for the adaptation fund to be overseen by Kyoto signatories, making it easier for developing countries to get funding for adaptation projects in their respective countries.

With the falling carbon prices and very little revenue from CDM shares to fund Adaptation Fund activities, Green Climate Fund, seems to be the only ray of hope for Adaptation Fund to reach its full potential to «reduce vulnerability and increase adaptive capacity to respond to the impacts of climate change».

This analytical report explains how the Adaptation Fund relates to poor women's and men's livelihoods, presents the status to date of gender and the Fund and recommends actions for the Adaptation Fund Executive Board, national and multilateral implementing agencies and civil society organizations to ensure that the Adaptation Fund responds to the needs of poor women and men equitably.

Developed countries have agreed to bear the adaptation costs of developing countries to human induced climate change and that these funds should represent «new and additional resources» a and the Cancun Agreement and subsequent discussions suggests that for adaptation these funds could amount to tens of billions USD per year.

He added that it may take a little time for the Adaptation Fund to become fully operational, since the Fund is filled from a levy on credits obtained via the CDM, which would first have to be sold on the market.

Not exact matches

(Most of the funding — $ 2 billion — goes to another climate priority, infrastructure for «disaster mitigation and adaptation» in the face of a changing climate.)

The three - year, # 110 million UK Department for International Development (DFID)- funded Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED) 1 programme aims to build the resilience of up to 5 million vulnerable people against climate extremes and disasters.

Funding includes $ 154 million for open space programs, $ 86 million for parks and recreation, $ 39 million for solid waste programs and 21 million for climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came and gave a speech in which she said that U.S. would be willing to contribute to a $ 100 billion fund to help pay for adaptation and clean development in the developing world and it had been a big demand of the developing world and something that negotiators here have welcomed.

Establishing a single global standard for reporting greenhouse gas emissions will empower local governments to accelerate their actions and access funding for mitigation and adaptation projects,» said New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, chairman of C40.

«In the light of limited funds for adaptation it is an asset to provide comparable cost assessments.

Governments in the developing world are also now pooling their resources into sovereign insurance funds that make payouts for climate adaptation programs, said Fatima Kassam of the African Risk Capacity Insurance Co., a specialized agency of the African Union.

The country has also received funding for coastal adaptation projects through the Green Climate Fund.

Eliminating fossil fuel subsidies would slash global carbon emission by 20 percent and raise government revenue by 2.9 trillion, well over the funds needed for intelligent policy and action on climate adaptation.»

What proved possible included an extension of the Kyoto Protocol for a period of either five or seven years (excluding Canada, Japan and Russia but adding nitrogen trifluoride, used in semiconductor manufacture, to the list of gases covered — CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, perfluorocarbons), a Green Climate Fund to help low - income countries cope (albeit without any actual funds yet), an Adaptation Committee to coordinate such efforts globally, rules for a global program to reduce deforestation and how to monitor such deforestation, and a Climate Technology Center that will help launch projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Funding for USGS's National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers would shrink in half, while «climate research and development» funding would also fall to pay for what the budget request calls «higher priorities» (Greenwire, FFunding for USGS's National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers would shrink in half, while «climate research and development» funding would also fall to pay for what the budget request calls «higher priorities» (Greenwire, Ffunding would also fall to pay for what the budget request calls «higher priorities» (Greenwire, Feb. 8).

The numerous rules will address issues such as how countries will track and report their emissions and have them verified, all in a transparent way; how countries will be required to communicate their future emissions - reduction plans as well as their pledges for funding adaptation efforts; and if and how market mechanisms, such as emissions trading between countries, will be applied to national targets.

In Doha, in 2012, it was decided that for the second commitment period, international emissions trading and joint implementation would also provide the Adaptation Fund with a 2 percent share of proceeds.

The Initiative for the Adaptation of African Agriculture to Climate Change (AAA) and the Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) Fund Project have joined forces to support land rehabilitation in Africa.

Trostle said four additional federally funded projects, three led by AgriLife Research, are aimed at providing more information for producers on guar in relation to guar agronomics, wheat rotation, plant breeding / adaptation and bioenergy.

She is the principal investigator for the NPA's project, From Postdoc to Faculty: Transition Issues for Women Scientists, funded by a National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination (PAID) Award.

But Demme ultimately dropped out and the Coens were enlisted to direct the movie after they failed to get funding for their intended adaptation of the James Dickey novel To The White Sea.

You'll likely recall the Akira Project, the crowd - funded fan trailer for a live - action adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo's pioneering manga and anime that sticks close to the source material (as opposed...

Increase available funding for adaptation and ensure that community - based groups, including women's groups, have direct access to those adaptation funds;

New financing for Least Developed Countries Fund sends strong signal of commitment as Paris talks get underway Eleven donors have pledged close to $ 250 USD million in new money for adaptation support to the most vulnerable countries on the planet giving a welcome boost to the start of the climate talks here in Paris.

This funding for adaptation is urgently needed to help sustain the hard - earned momentum for action on the ground that some of the most vulnerable countries have achieved in recent years.»

The Phantom Menace: Policies that Protect Districts from Declining or Low Enrollments, Drive Up Spending and Inhibit Adaptation In this paper, part of the Productivity for Results Series published by George W. Bush Institute, authors Jon Fullerton and Marguerite Roza examine the curious practice of states funding school districts for...

Heidi Chen, General Counsel for Zoetis, was recently presented with the 2016 Justice in Action Award by the Asian American Legal Defense Fund, which recognizes outstanding achievements and efforts in advancing social justice in the U.S. Below is an adaptation of Heidi's remarks from the event.

In January 2018, Ann Olson, Founder and Executive Director of Animal Folks, spoke at the Oklahoma Veterinary Medical Association about the veterinary manual for reporting animal cruelty (adaptation funded by Kirkpatrick Foundation).

Major elements will include best practice sharing and strategic consultations for a CTO climate adaptation project funded by the Caribbean Development Bank, in order to strengthen holistic destination management approaches in the Caribbean.

Nintendo 64 Anthology launches Kickstarter campaign An English adaptation of the popular hardback book; the Nintendo 64 Anthology by Geeks - Line and penned by Math Malent is 98 % complete, primed and ready for funding via Kickstarter.

An English adaptation of the popular hardback book; the Nintendo 64 Anthology by Geeks - Line and penned by Math Malent is 98 % complete, primed and ready for funding via Kickstarter.

So when top politicians travel around to international climate summits, but provide little funding for work on mitigation and adaptation — that really is double communication.

Poor countries are asking for a tax on all airline tickets as a means to funding their adaptation to climate change.

There is an urgent need to scale up financial flows, particularly financial support to developing countries; to create positive incentives for actions; to finance the incremental costs of cleaner and low - carbon technologies; to make more efficient use of funds directed toward climate change; to realize the full potential of appropriate market mechanisms that can provide pricing signals and economic incentives to the private sector; to promote public sector investment; to create enabling environments that promote private investment that is commercially viable; to develop innovative approaches; and to lower costs by creating appropriate incentives for and reducing and eliminating obstacles to technology transfer relevant to both mitigation and adaptation.

What if industrialized countries live up to their existing pledges to funnel billions of dollars, and eventually hundreds of billions of dollars, to funds for climate adaptation?

Although funding for adaptation has lagged behind funding for mitigation, the final text of the Paris Agreement supports a balance of climate finance between adaptation and mitigation.

For example, the UN Capital Development Fund's Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) helps build the capacity of local governments, who are on the front lines of adapting to climate change, to access and utilize adaptation finance.

The course was jointly developed by the United Nations Institute of Training and Research (UNITAR), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and funded by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Society, Germany (BMUB) as part of the National Adaptation Plans (NAP - Ag) Programme.

But you may be right about funding for adaptation.

This manual aims to support least developed countries (LDCs) in designing the implementation of national adaptation programmes of action (NAPAs), and to guide country teams in accessing existing funding from the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) for implementing their NAPAs.

In addition to re-assessment and enforcement, an acceptable agreement will need to provide funding for mitigation and adaptation beyond 2020 and will have to improve transparency in accounting and compliance, especially in the developing world.

It's funding for climate change impacts and adaptation research that has increased.

Most of the public funds available for adaptation are given to developing countries as loans that must eventually be paid back with interest.

It holds that countries that historically caused the recent atmospheric carbon dioxide build - up must lead in cutting their emissions, while helping developing countries eventually do likewise, by pouring trillions of dollars in cash and free technology into the Green Climate Fund for supposed climate change adaptation, mitigation and compensation.

Lia Nicholson has been with the Department of Environment in Antigua and Barbuda since 2014, where her responsibilities include developing and implementing climate adaptation and resilience projects in the twin island state, applying for direct access to the Adaptation Fund and the Green Climate Fund, and operationalizing the national Sustainable Island Resource Framework Fund (Sadaptation and resilience projects in the twin island state, applying for direct access to the Adaptation Fund and the Green Climate Fund, and operationalizing the national Sustainable Island Resource Framework Fund (SAdaptation Fund and the Green Climate Fund, and operationalizing the national Sustainable Island Resource Framework Fund (SIRF Fund).

This guidance document explores the costs of meeting adaptation needs and assesses the funding that is available for meeting those needs.

In particular, it provides a number of concrete tools and recommendations to help interested countries, such as: an overview of international public funding sources dedicated to adaptation investments, seven fundamental eligibility criteria for accessing international public funding and guidance on how to apply these concepts to project ideas, a template for developing / presenting adaptation project ideas to international donors; and an overview of critical concepts and requirements for accessing private financing for adaptation and a number of instructive case studies.