Sentences with phrase «highest adaptation potential»

According to the analysis, corn has the highest adaptation potential.

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In October 2006 the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) endorsed video games as a potential means for teaching «higher - order thinking skills, such as strategic thinking, interpretive analysis, problem solving, plan formulation and execution, and adaptation to rapid change.»

Australia has created an adaptation program to «help Australians better understand climate change, manage risks, and take advantage of potential opportunities;» In Nigeria, state and local governments are developing action plans for high - risk urban areas, while the federal government is seeking to expand forests by reducing deforestation and wood fuel demand; in Mali, significant efforts are being made to conserve water resources, as well as create usable mechanisms to track the development of climate change.

Strictly speaking, the higher the intensity, the higher the potential adaptation, but this is only true if the plyometric exercise can be mastered in a safe way with proper execution.

This is consistent with reports associating regular exercise with reduced incidence of dementia3 and several cancer types.26 - 28 Potential reasons for improved functional status and survival among regular exercisers may include increased cardiovascular fitness and improved aerobic capacity and organ reserve,29 - 31 increases in skeletal mass and metabolic adaptations of muscle with decreased frailty,29 - 31 lower levels of circulating inflammatory markers, 32 improved response to vaccinations, 33 and improved higher - order cognitive functions.34

The COP further decided to continue the technical examination of opportunities with high mitigation potential, including those with adaptation, health and sustainable development co-benefits, in the period 2015 — 2020 and requested the ADP to make recommendations in relation to further advancing the technical examination process, including the periodic assessment of the technical expert meetings, to the COP at its twenty - first session.

There is less certainty (high) about pest effects and about the potential for adaptation actions to significantly mitigate the risk of crop loss.

Parties also decided to accelerate activities under the workplan on enhancing mitigation ambition in accordance with decision 1 / CP.17, paragraphs 7 and 8, by, inter alia, intensifying, as from 2014, the technical examination of opportunities for actions with high mitigation potential, including those with adaptation and sustainable development co-benefits, with a focus on the implementation of policies, practices and technologies that are substantial, scalable and replicable, with a view to promoting voluntary cooperation on concrete actions in relation to identified mitigation opportunities in accordance with nationally defined development priorities.

(Sec. 265) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a research program to: (1) identify the factors affecting consumer actions to conserve energy and make improvements in energy efficiency; and (2) make grants to institutions of higher education to study the effects of consumer behavior on total energy use, the potential energy savings from changes in consumption habits, the ability to reduce GHG emissions through changes in energy consumption habits, increasing public awareness of federal climate adaptation and mitigation programs, and the potential for alterations in consumer behavior to further American energy independence.

Through the program the Secretary will make grants to public and private institutions of higher education to study the effects of consumer behavior on total energy use; potential energy savings from changes in consumption habits; the ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through changes in energy consumption habits; increase public awareness of Federal climate adaptation and mitigation programs; and the potential for alterations in consumer behavior to further American energy independence.

At lower levels of temperature rise, adaptation has high potential to off - set projected declines in yields for many crops, but this effectiveness is expected to be much lower at higher temperatures.

Although it's true that agriculture does contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, it also has high potential for climate change mitigation and adaptation.