Sentences with phrase «for adaptation projects»

The group was in charge of devising climate change programs and policies, such as increasing energy efficiency and raising funds for adaptation projects.

Because those who cause climate change are ethically responsible for damages caused by them, funding for adaptation projects needed by those most vulnerable to climate change will not be generated.

Furthermore, distributive justice concerns must structure decisions as to which countries are eligible for funding for adaptation projects and how much funding can be so requested.

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.

Not exact matches

Cities are projected to require at least USD 1.7 trillion a year for climate change mitigation and adaptation above business as usual in order to align GHG levels with those that limit global warming to 2 °C and avoid the worst effects of climate change.

Then, Scorsese's next film, Kundun (a biography of the 14th Dalai Lama), set the stage for the religious tones of what would become a passion project for him: a film adaptation of Silence, the 1966 novel by Shusaku Endo.

Overseen by Animal Genetics and Breeding Unit (AGBU) researcher Matt Wolcott, the project is intensively genotyping and collecting accurate records for male and female reproduction, growth and tropical adaptation traits in Kaiuroo stud bulls and females during the next three years.

The UK also convened a security seminar in 2014 and contributed to two special projects on the Importance of Road Maintenance and on an International Climate Change Adaptation Framework for Road Infrastructure.

The Nature Conservancy hopes that what it learns about the project will make it easier for other communities weighing similar projects to move forward with natural systems, McLeod said last week, speaking on a panel about climate adaptation and resilience at the same event as Bostick.

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.

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

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.

Shengkai Pan, Project manager from BGI, said, «The accomplishment of the Chinese alligator genome is significant for understanding its adaptation for both aquatic and terrestrial environments, and more importantly, for the conservation of such an endangered species.»

Under a no - adaptation scenario, the projected mortalities for North America and Europe shot to 16,000 and 27,300, respectively.

I applied for the job, was short - listed and interviewed, and was finally offered the post, as the wintering marine biologist within the BAS Marine Organismal Adaptations project.

«When you start doing adaptation, you have to go site by site and customize your analysis and time lines for each project.

«This project looked for evidence of rapid adaptation in organisms in response to a changing ocean — and we found it.»

Adaptation projects worth $ 500 billion are not a feasible option for developing countries nor a cheap option for developed ones.

In recent years, S&T Fellows have helped to set up a digital library for Iraqi scientists, provided key data to support the Endangered Species Act, contributed to a federal task force on global climate change adaptation, and worked on recovery and reconstruction projects in Haiti just weeks after the country's devastating January 2010 earthquake.

The exosuit is an adaptation of a previous design developed for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Warrior Web program, a Department of Defense plan to develop assistive exosuits for military applications.

Teams shall conduct applied regional climate research and projects to address the needs of local and regional decisionmakers for information and tools to develop adaptation and response plans to climate variability and change.

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.

Some things we might do if we got desperate enough: scrub greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere technologically, geo - engineering to create cooling effects to offset greenhouse heating, [SLIDE 42] lots of adaptation policies, cropping patterns, heat drought and salt - resistant crops, strengthen public health and environmental engineering defenses against tropical disease, new water projects for flood control and drought management, dyke storm surge barriers, avoiding further development on flood plains in near sea level.

Projected temperature and precipitation increases may be favorable in the short term for some Montana crops and forage production, but the effects of warming will become increasingly disruptive as they accelerate beyond adaptation thresholds.

This review begins to provide details for the formation of robust frameworks to evaluate the impact of projected climatic changes, highlight the risks and opportunities with adaptation, and details the approaches for investment in research.

In addition to supporting adaptation efforts through its pipeline of infrastructure projects (which will average $ 1.1 billion per annum over the next three years), the Bank is providing (in countries such as Morocco, Tunisia, Djibouti, and Yemen) knowledge and technical expertise for better analyzing likely impacts of climate change, and for designing least - cost adaptation interventions to minimize such impacts.

This resulted in the project «Adaptation Actions for a Changing Arctic» (AACA).

PhD Scholarship: The Centre on Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development, part of the Unep (Un Environment Program)- DTU (Technical University of Denmark) Partnership, invites applications for a PhD research project focused on technologies for climate change adaptation in the context of sustainable development.

probabilistically projecting future changes in sea levels and their implications for changing coastal flood risk, and translating those projected changes into actionable information for coastal adaptation; and

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.

Paper Source provides a printable bird silhouette that, with some adaptation, is perfect for this project.

He continued to work steadily in projects including the 2004 adaptation of Vanity Fair, and got good notices for his work in 2006's Jindabyne.

Kudos to Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber for their amusing screenplay adaptation of Greg Sestero's memoir and to producer / director James Franco for his decision to undertake this entertaining project.

Jerry Bruckheimer - one of the two Hollywood producers credited with creating the blockbuster format - recently gave an interview to Latino Review in which he talked about all his upcoming film projects, including the adaptation of the Prince Of Persia: Sands Of Time videogame (advertisements for which have been digitally inserted into the upcoming chick flick Confessions Of A Shopaholic.

Valiant Entertainment has found a director for its big screen supernatural superhero project Shadowman, with THR reporting that Reginald Hudlin (Marshall) has signed on to helm the adaptation, while Adam Simon (showrunner on WGN America's Salem) is set to rewrite the original script by J. Michael Straczynski.

But as it became clear that director Jon Favreau's Jungle Book for Disney was not a colorful, song - filled, «Disney - fied» adaptation but instead a photoreal and somewhat dark take on Kipling's story, Warner Bros. no doubt began to fear that their own project — previously titled Jungle Book: Origins — might be too similar.

Universal has passed on Imagine Entertainment's planned adaptation of Stephen King's fantasy epic, an ambitious and expensive project that calls for a movie trilogy and two television miniseries.

I'm actually a fan of «Chicago» (one of the decade's strongest Best Picture winners, if you ask me), but it's Bill Condon's ingeniously conceived adaptation that did the heaviest lifting on that project and, to my mind, is largely responsible for its success.

Currently, they are in pre-production on a limited series adaptation of the novel, «Today Will Be Different,» by Maria Semple, which has Julia Roberts attached to star, the adult animated series «Amberville,» for Amazon, and «The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,» a Western anthology written and directed by the Coen Brothers, amongst other projects in development.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, a new writer has finally been hired for the project, and it's someone who happens to be familiar with Stephen King's work: Matthew Greenberg, who co-wrote the previous King adaptation 1408 (and also — gulp — Halloween: H20).

This movie adaptation has been knocking around for a good few years now, and at one point Russell Crowe and Canadian director Paul Haggis were attached to the project.

Reeves has recently been set to develop TV shows for 20th Century Fox, and has also mentioned he is developing CLOVERFIELD 2, and adaptations of vampire novel THE PASSAGE and Frankenstein variant THIS DARK ENDEAVOR, although he has been quiet about these projects for some time.

Based on the novel of the same name by Joe Dunthorne, «Submarine» was and is a beloved property for adaptation (Ben Stiller and his producing partner Stuart Cornfeld are among the project's dozen producers, even though there's no easy - fit on - screen part for the comedian), and it's fairly easy to see why.

An adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's neo-western novel, No Country for Old Men generated a significant amount of buzz at Cannes earlier this year and the Coens have already received a considerable amount of praise for the project from a variety of major American publications.

The soon - to - be Oscar host is reportedly in talks to take on two directorial projects: an adaptation of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying for Fox...

It's not as poignant or as rich as the comic book treatment, so those expecting a faithful adaptation will be disappointed, but it does benefit by being an isolated story that is easy for even the most casual of Superman fans to follow (indeed, it doesn't really fall under any current Superman project continuity).

He reveals his father gave him the first issues when he was 12, and takes us through his father's reaction to changes and adaptations over the years, while detouring to explore the two previous times Lindelof had been offered the chance to adapt the project for television.

Street Fighter might not be the most obvious franchise fit for a board game adaptation, but this new project looks pretty cool all the same.

new directorial projects are already being lined up, first among them apparently «Doc Savage» at Sony, and then perhaps manga adaptation «Death Note» for Warners.