Sentences with phrase «help vulnerable communities»

These elements are crucial to help vulnerable communities cope with the enduring effects of climate change in a way that is both just and equitable.

This guidance document showcases how climate services intend to help vulnerable communities address these challenges by providing the information they need to make well - informed decisions.

In global climate negotiations, the need to help these vulnerable communities is highlighted in discussions of «loss and damage», which is UN language for the impacts of climate change that people have not been able to cope with or adapt to.

By helping local and national decision - makers understand the current and future impacts before them, the IPCC report provides guidance on where to focus our attention in order to help vulnerable communities adapt to climate change.

It was not just a well - planned civil disobedience, but a statement about the need for a unified climate justice focused deal to help vulnerable communities in their struggles.

Its goals are to promote «practices and economic growth that help both vulnerable communities and business adapt to the impacts of climate change; and... public policies that facilitate adaptation efforts to prepare for and respond to the consequences of a changing climate.»

It funds projects in developing countries that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help vulnerable communities adapt to the unavoidable impacts of climate change.

In particular, it presents four key messages, namely that: biodiversity is key to climate change adaptation; a different set of policy directions, changed incentive structures, reduced or phased - out perverse subsidies, and increased engagement of business leaders is required to work towards «holistic economics»; environmental limits need to be established to ensure society remains within them in order to achieve sustainability; and ecosystem - based adaptation (EBA) is an emerging approach that works with nature to help vulnerable communities and build resilience to climate change.

With this attack on science, the Trump administration prevents researchers from helping vulnerable communities identify and fight what is making them sick.

Almost 100 organizations Thursday launched a worldwide petition that calls for dramatically curbing greenhouse - gas emissions and helping vulnerable communities prepare for rising sea levels, more - frequent storms, longer droughts and other effects of global warming.

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Community Partners are one way Zillow Group is making a meaningful commitment to help address the unique housing needs of some of the most vulnerable and underserved members of our communities.

Through a new smallholder farmer loan initiative with the Inter-American Developmental Bank (IDB) directed toward a women - led coffee cooperative, and an expanded partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) aimed at helping young coffee farmers in post-conflict zones build greater resiliency and expertise, Starbucks will help create opportunities in some of Colombia's most vulnerable coffee growing communities.

On December 7, 2017, the Center for Disaster Philanthropy's Midwest Early Recovery Fund hosted the webinar, «Wildfires & Vulnerable Populations,» to address the devastating 2017 wildfire season and what funders can do to help Midwest communities recover.

«Additionally, the UK Government's # 1.1 billion commitment is helping hundreds of thousands of the most vulnerable people in Syria and the region to rebuild their lives and next month's Syria conference in London will raise significant new funding from the international community.

We also talk with Matthew Soerens, the US Director of Church Mobilization for World Relief and the co-author of «Seeking Refuge: On the Shores of the Global Refugee Crisis,» about how you can help some of the world's most vulnerable communities.

And Help One Now is a catalytic tribe committed to empowering and resourcing high - capacity local leaders who care for orphans and vulnerable children in order to transform communities and break the cycle of extreme poverty.

The U.S. Agency for International Development helps some of the world's most vulnerable communities.

Just 18 months after deciding to leave his position, his rapidly growing Castle Community Bank has helped some of the most vulnerable people in one of the city's poorest neighbourhoods.

He is an amazing person, and is all over our community helping our vulnerable residents, and serves as pastor in 2 churches, changing minds and lives, one person at a time.

It is particularly exciting that Golden Rice has the potential to help the poorest people in the most vulnerable and remote communities get enough vitamin A where they currently can not.

Please watch this video and educate yourself on the conditions in many vulnerable communities about what you can do (beyond leaving comments on blogs) to help transform these areas from «first food deserts» into First Food Friendly neighborhoods.

As apart of this rich annual event, BMBFA is excited to partner with Henry Ford Health System to launch Mommy - Friendly Detroit ™ — a celebration of black motherhood that helps Detroit to become a place where systems, policies and practices align to achieve racial and health equity on behalf of all women, with an emphasis on Detroit's most vulnerable women, their babies, families and communities.

Help Me Grow promotes the healthy development of children by supporting families, providers and communities to identify vulnerable children and link families to community - based programs and services.

As individuals and communities, we should think about how we can assist vulnerable people in our neighbourhoods — doing our bit to help them, out of the principles of kindness, compassion and companionship.

The best way to help vulnerable members of the community, according to them, was to link performance in this area to shareholder return.

Vulnerable people are not ones who mount the barricades, or put themselves at risk in the streets, or immerse themselves in communities that need help, or release confidential documents.

These federal funds will help Mohawk Valley Community Action Agency, Inc. support important educational programs for children and will reduce the cost of high - quality early childhood care for some of the most vulnerable families in our cCommunity Action Agency, Inc. support important educational programs for children and will reduce the cost of high - quality early childhood care for some of the most vulnerable families in our communitycommunity.

This is how government is supposed to work, strengthening communities and helping those most vulnerable reclaim their lives.

Cuomo says the investment in the youngest New Yorkers is an investment in the state's «very future» and will help «level the playing field» for children from vulnerable communities.

These capital improvements help with the renovation of youth facilities that provide safe havens for our most vulnerable communities, while also enhancing and improving access to resources for those who need it the most.

Mr Albert de Sousa Costa, President and Chief Executive Officer of the charity, said the charity worked across the globe to ensure sustainable, long term solutions to help communities vulnerable to natural disasters, disease, poverty and displacement as a result of war and internal conflicts.

«Instead of chastising and denigrating local authorities through the media, the government should deploy all its effort to help councils minimise the impact on vulnerable communities and front - line services.»

Community organizations and agencies gathered in Utica today to call on Washington to repeal sequestration and support measures that will help close the federal deficit without hurting vulnerable groups.

Cuomo said the investment in the youngest New Yorkers is an investment in the state's «very future» and will help «level the playing field» for children from vulnerable communities.

Incorporating recent research into the NFIP could help establish a framework for identifying which properties and communities are most vulnerable to repetitive flooding and create more efficient standards to determine buyout eligibility.

«Community health centers have the unique ability to help fulfill the promise of health reform by providing much - needed primary care to our nation's most vulnerable populations,» said Feygele Jacobs, president and CEO of the RCHN Community Health Foundation.

I don't know about you, but I love having ornaments on my Christmas tree that I know helped to create dignified jobs in vulnerable communities.

Leeds Beckett University has teamed up with social enterprise Stronger Minds Community Interest Company to raise awareness and give teachers the tools they need to help vulnerable pupils.

Obvious things are volunteering to help the community, particularly the vulnerable, or working to protect the environment.

AB 2548 would have helped guarantee that our state's new system of accountability will provide parents, educators and community groups with the information they need to help increase equity and close achievement gaps that deprive the state's most vulnerable students of a level playing field.

PDK International strives to be a leader in a movement aimed at changing the narrative about teaching by investing in helping communities grow their next generation of educators to transform public education, especially for our most vulnerable students.

They include a «Later to Literacy» program that supports the literacy needs of ESL students; the «Village of Attachment,» where staff, families, and community members create a web of support around the most vulnerable students; «Youth in Transitions,» an after - school program that works closely with students alongside their parents; and «PAWS,» a program designed to help immigrant students who entered the school system late in their high school years develop fundamental skills for success.

And the district is refusing to tell local families and the community how it is really using the funds, and whether they're actually being used to help the vulnerable students this money is intended for.

Most of this money is targeted to help states meet the needs of the most vulnerable children in the country — whose communities can not raise enough revenue through property values.

Through comprehensive coverage of the programs in place to support family and community engagement, district leaders were able to understand the importance of community partnerships for helping vulnerable children and families within Nashville's context.

If we analyze our data, identify needs, reallocate resources, and work closely with community members, we can help vulnerable students.

I felt drawn to the specialty because it offered help to one of the most vulnerable animal populations; it combined my interests of working towards the greater good in the community and public health; and it was profession where I felt like I could make a difference improving the lives of un-homed animals every day.

But the story of their recovery also gives us all hope: hope that pain and fear can be transformed into love and the comfort of a warm lap or kind pet on the head — but only because of your continued dedication and support to helping the most vulnerable animals in our community.

Whether we're working to move animals out of the City shelter and into placement via our Wheels of Hope program, training New Yorkers to perform Trap - Neuter - Return (TNR) and care for community cats through our NYC Feral Cat Initiative, helping our community's most vulnerable pet owners keep their pets despite difficult circumstances via our Helping Pets and People in Crisis program, or preparing for our large - scale Adoptapalooza events, every day is difhelping our community's most vulnerable pet owners keep their pets despite difficult circumstances via our Helping Pets and People in Crisis program, or preparing for our large - scale Adoptapalooza events, every day is difHelping Pets and People in Crisis program, or preparing for our large - scale Adoptapalooza events, every day is different.

And so, simply by acting humanely, we as caring communities can help those most helpless and vulnerable in our neighborhoods stay safe and stay alive this winter.