Sentences with phrase «for damage mitigation»

This seems kinda like a bad idea if you're going for damage mitigation.

Not exact matches

Scalable process for mitigation of laser - damaged potassium dihydrogen phosphate crystal optic surfaces with removal of damaged antireflective coating

When the floodwaters recede and Houston looks toward repairing and rebuilding its damaged infrastructure, there very may well be state and local officials advocating for more mitigation projects.

So right away we can see that the committee's work could never have been sufficient to the task at hand, for the challenge is not just mitigation of damage but minimization of the likelihood and scale of the flooding itself.

Cook County officials released a draft of a hazard mitigation plan that will give county and municipal governments access to federal funding for projects to prevent damage from natural disasters.

Grant amounts will be based on Federal Emergency Management Agency assessed damage levels as well as applications for new infrastructure and other mitigation, and will be awarded once a community's plan is approved by the state.

Counties, cities, towns, villages and special districts that sustained direct physical flood - related damage are eligible to receive up to $ 1,000,000 for repairs to and restoration of municipal infrastructure and systems and up to $ 500,000 for flood mitigation, construction of resiliency measures, or flood control projects.

The bill also establishes a fund for local governments to invest in future flood control and mitigation projects, and it allows some damaged properties to get tax assessment reductions.

Grant amounts will be based on FEMA assessed damage levels as well as applications for new infrastructure and other mitigation, and will be awarded once the community's plan is complete and submitted to the state for approval.

We do not need less dialogue, we need more, centring on the question of how we should best prepare for extreme flooding in the future»; they propose that, in future, flood mitigation measures should be based on four pillars to keep damage levels as low as possible and to distribute the burden fairly:

«Mandatory insurance for all home - owners would reassign the costs for damage within a framework of solidarity, while the premium rebates would create economic incentive for private mitigation measures to tackle elementary damage such as flooding, severe rainfall and snow pressure,» prompts Prof. Reimund Schwarze from UFZ as food for thought.

In this, a carefully structured, mandatory insurance can assign the costs of actual damage in such a way that the economic incentives for mitigation measures against flooding and heavy rainfall are not lost.

While no country in history has achieved its economic growth without causing environmental damage, expectations for Singapore's mitigation ambition are particularly high because it is a leading figure in facilitating a global climate change treaty.

Mitigation — reducing emissions fast enough to achieve the temperature goal A transparency system and global stock - take — accounting for climate action Adaptation — strengthening ability of countries to deal with climate impacts Loss and damage — strengthening ability to recover from climate impacts Support — including finance, for nations to build clean, resilient futures As well as setting a long - term direction, countries will peak their emissions as soon as possible and continue to submit national climate action plans that detail their future objectives to address climate change.

Senate Democrats issued their own deficit - mitigation plan Thursday, pressing for a retirement incentive plan opposed by House Democrats and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy as damaging to the state's overburdened pension system.

And its pothole mitigation system is really great for reducing damage to your car when you are driving on THE AUTOBAHN BECAUSE YOU ARE IN GERMANY.

Having now had a chance to test 1.50 damage mitigation I am fairly confident that everything is simply stacking additively up to the respective cap for that stat, without the 1.32 goofiness at work.

In this edition of EVE Evolved, I look at a few problems with the new damage mitigation mechanic and suggest possible strategic roles for the other capital ships.

«[These] ethical, legal, and historical considerations may further inform discussions about carbon producer responsibilities to contribute to limiting climate change through investment in mitigation, support for adaptation, and compensation for climate damages,» they conclude.

The onus is clearly on the alarmists, if they want to argue for high cost mitigation policies, to demonstrate what is the damage cost of warming.

An open access special issue of the International Journal of Global Warming brings together, for the first time, empirical evidence of loss and damage from the perspective of affected people in nine vulnerable countries...... «Loss and damage» refers to adverse effects of climate variability and climate change that occur despite mitigation and adaptation efforts.

Currently, FEMA administers three programs that provide funding for eligible mitigation planning and projects that reduces disaster losses and protect life and property from future disaster damages.

The case for mitigation is already strong without invoking hurricane damages.

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 methodoloFor 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 methodolofor damages from climate change and best case for mitigation cost, amalgamated with some alternative discounting methodolofor mitigation cost, amalgamated with some alternative discounting methodology.

However, payments of loss and damage to the most vulnerable developing nations like Tuvalu may be a non-starter, and funds for mitigation and adaptation projects will be relatively modest.

The Philippines has been at the forefront of recent criticisms of developed countries» reluctance to assist developing nations with mitigation and adaptation efforts, and cover for loss and damage.

Carbon pricing is a small addition to the cost to pay for its later damage and the costs of adaptation and mitigation too.

You have failed to deliver in providing adequate financing, ambitious mitigation targets and an international mechanism that addresses compensation for loss and damages.

No developed country has explained how their contributions to the major climate funds relate in any quantitative way to their obligations under the UNFCCC for adaptation, mitigation, or losses and damages.

If nations fail to base their climate change policies on what equity, ethics, and justice require of them on mitigation of their greenhouse gas emissions and funding for adaptation, losses, and damages, then the global response to climate change will not likely be ambitious enough to avoid catastrophic climate impacts while deepening existing injustices in the world.

Mitigation and climate stabilization once and for all costs less than continuing costs for adaptation and damage for centuries.

I want to understand the basis for the damage functions, SCC and net - benefits of proposed mitigation policies.

Until we have an acceptable central estimate and uncertainties for the damage functions, there can be no valid justification for GHG mitigation policies if the policies will do economic harm (as any policies that increases the cost of energy will do).

The analyses show that the costs of the mitigation policies would exceed the hypothesised benefits this century, and this is using assumptions and inputs parameters that favour high climate damages for GHG emissions and therefore high benefits from mitigation.

There is no valid justification for wasting money, damaging economies and retarding the rate of development on mitigation policies.

The mitigation CBAs you may be aware of that ultimately argue for adaption focused strategies forecast long lead times to much lower temperature anomalies than three degrees, (and not to mention typically feature high growth, low damages and no handling of uncertainty).

Without the damage function there can be no rational, valid justification for spending money on mitigation, or the huge climate industry.

advocating for GHG mitigation policies given they will almost certainly cost far more than current projections and deliver no net benefits from reduced climate damages?

Loss and damage was introduced as an insurance mechanism to address sea level rise in hopes to push for greater mitigation ambition.

Julie - Anne Richards, a UK - based campaigner for and author of the Climate Damages Tax, an initiative seeking to make rich countries and the fossil fuel industry pay for climate damage to poor and vulnerable communities, explains that loss and damage is the third pillar of climate change finance, added to mitigation and adaptation.

When the likelihood of extreme damage goes up, calls for mitigation become more persuasive and pass muster against a wider variety of economic scenarios.

We call for a legally binding agreement that is no longer mitigation - centric, but acknowledges the need for strong adaptation measures, a bold loss and damage mechanism, technology transfer, capacity building, as well as finance flowing from North to South.

In fact, the Yohe paper that Romm cites suggests that additional warming of up to 2 °C, may be on the whole a net benefit to humanity, even though, like others, it seems that study doesn't fully consider the increases in adaptive capacity and secular technological change, consideration of which would reduce future damages from climate change, effectively increasing the temperature beyond which climate change would result in net losses globally, and reduce the benefit - cost ratio for mitigation.

«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.

The vast majority of climate justice oriented civil society groups support public finance for mitigation, adaptation, and loss and damage efforts so it is worrisome that the Marry Robinson Foundation is asking YOUNGO to sign a letter that leaves those important points out.

FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) grant programs provide funding for eligible mitigation activities that reduce disaster losses and protect life and property from future disasteMitigation Assistance (HMA) grant programs provide funding for eligible mitigation activities that reduce disaster losses and protect life and property from future disastemitigation activities that reduce disaster losses and protect life and property from future disaster damages.

By: Whitten and Lublin Category: Damages for Bad Faith, Mental Distress and Personal Injury, Employment Contracts, Human Rights and Discrimination, Mitigation Comments Off on Make sure to read the fine print

A contract is a contract and, as expressed by Chief Justice Winkler on behalf of a unanimous court, «From a practical perspective, it is worth repeating that if parties to an employment agreement specifying a fixed amount of damages intend for mitigation to apply upon termination without cause, they must express that intention in clear and specific language in the contract.»

By: Whitten and Lublin Category: Cause for Dismissal, Damages for Bad Faith, Mental Distress and Personal Injury, Mitigation Comments Off on Workplace misconduct

Justice Beach acknowledged that the plaintiff had already received damages from Yahoo, which provided some mitigation for damages under the Act, but awarded compensatory damages for vindication of the plaintiff's reputation, reparation of harm, and «consolation for the distress, upset and injury to the plaintiff's feelings occasioned by the publication.»