Sentences with phrase «global adaptation strategies»

«The magnitude of sea - level rise is so enormous, it turns out it is unlikely that any engineering approach imaginable can mitigate it,» concludes co-author Anders Levermann, head of Global Adaptation Strategies at PIK and scientist at Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory.

Within this century, a reduction of the Atlantic overturning is a robust climatic phenomena that intensifies with global warming and needs to be accounted for in global adaptation strategies.

Using the model Acclimate he contributes to studying the resilience of the global supply system leading to identification of possiblities and limits of global adaptation strategies along different warming scenarios.

«Until recently, only West Antarctica was considered unstable, but now we know that its ten times bigger counterpart in the East might also be at risk,» says Levermann, who is head of PIK's research area Global Adaptation Strategies and a lead - author of the sea - level change chapter of the most recent scientific assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC.

Not exact matches

China and Chinese companies are at the forefront of regional and global climate adaptation through green investment, government - backed pilot schemes, and the Belt & Road strategy.

Lubchenco emphasizes that the report highlights the need to formulate adaptation strategies to ocean acidification as well as the urgency to create a stronger momentum to reduce global carbon emissions.

Yet these women hold a wealth of knowledge and expertise that can be used in our global response to climate change, disaster reduction and adaptation strategies.

Societal response strategies are also investigated, focussing on international environmental treaties, international and Australian policy approaches to global warming, and management and adaptation strategies.

The James E. Lovelock Virtual Museum of Adaptation Strategies for Global Warming: / / pcillu101.blogspot.com

By pioneering new renewable energy projects and establishing forward - thinking innovation centers, many countries in Africa are looking to renewable energy as a solution to meet their growing energy needs in a sustainable way, while working toward practical adaptation strategies to mitigate global warming impacts.

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Climate, 7, 367 - 380.

The report offers some answers and concrete proposals — while recognizing that much more needs to be learned, more questions formulated, and more experience gained, to build an effective strategy to support global agricultural adaptation while harnessing its significant potential contribution to climate change mitigation and taking into consideration development objectives and food security concerns.

After these threats are identified for each resource, then the relative risk from natural - and human - caused climate change (estimated from the global climate model projections, but also the historical, paleo - record and worst case sequences of events) can be compared with other risks in order to adopt the optimal mitigation / adaptation strategy.

Here's what is required (leaving aside Theresa May's electorally hamstrung inability to deliver much of it): The entire cabinet and every business leader the government's black book can muster, on stage for the launch of the new strategy; an explicit declaration that this, full decarbonization of the economy, is the post-Brexit economic strategy; clear and attractive retail policies, such as a diesel scrappage scheme, tax breaks for green investment, new apprenticeships, a green home building program; an open invitation to all opposition party leaders to share a platform to support the plan with a declaration that while they may not agree on every component they fully endorse the over-arching goal; a willingness to shame those party leaders who play party politics and refuse to turn up; a fortnight - long program where each day sees a new cabinet member explain how the plan will transform parts of the economy; a Royal Commission on the flaws of GDP as an economic measure and the viability of alternative quality of life metrics; and, yes, a brave assertion that carbon intensive industries will have to transform or be scaled back, backed by a decarbonization adaptation fund to help affected communities respond to this global trend.

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 13, 453 - 466, doi: 10.1007 / s11027 -007-9131-4.

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IIED: Accurate cost benefit analysis of climate change adaptation actions is not only critical in designing effective local - level adaptation strategies, but also for generating information that feeds into national and global climate policy agreements.

The 63 - page guide (downloads in pdf) is clearly written in plain English, and offers comprehensive information on the science of global climate change, potential impacts, adaptation and mitigation strategies, and policies.

Many National Meteorological Services play a special role in climate services by contributing to national adaptation strategies, to the European Copernicus project and to the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).

Becoming embedded in planning processes, integrated within existing programs such as disaster risk management and water management, adaptation strategies are increasingly being adopted to mitigate the effect of global warming on humans.

However (and thankfully), abandoning old capitalistic and nationalistic get - rich - quick ideologies, collaborating on never - before - seen international levels for the purpose of achieving the greater good of humanity, and all of the adaptation strategies being adopted on local levels across the globe are among the significant positive effects of global warming on humans.

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 9, pp. 201 - 216, Centre for Economic Policy Research, London.

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Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies for Global Change, 9, pp. 383 - 390.

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 1 (4), 311 - 339.

In a study to be published in Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, Fearnside estimates that in 1990 the greenhouse effect of emissions from the Curuá - Una dam in Pará, Brazil, was more than three - and - a-half times what would have been produced by generating the same amount of electricity from oil.

This guidance document is principally aimed at the tourism industry and government organizations at the different levels, who will have the primary responsibility of developing mitigation and adaptation strategies to respond to the challenges that global climate change will bring to the tourism sector.

It stresses that mitigation alone is not enough, as global warming is already underway, and adaptation strategies are now a matter of urgency.

This policy document presents the strategies developed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to support adaptation action in developing countries and countries with economies in transition.

«Integrated Strategies to Reduce Vulnerability and Advance Adaptation, Mitigation, and Sustainable Development,» Mitigation and Adaption Strategies for Global Change DOI 10.1007 / s11027 -007-9098-1 (2007).