Sentences with phrase «how adaptation efforts»

Preston studies how adaptation efforts can reduce risk from climate change, especially at the state and city level (such as impacts to critical energy, water and transportation systems).

Not exact matches

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.

The numerous rules will address issues such as how countries will track and report their emissions and have them verified, all in a transparent way; how countries will be required to communicate their future emissions - reduction plans as well as their pledges for funding adaptation efforts; and if and how market mechanisms, such as emissions trading between countries, will be applied to national targets.

While the novel of «Fifty Shades Freed» offered a more satisfying and complete arc that showcases how married life has changed the protagonists, for both better and worse, the movie adaptation cut some of the most important plot points, in an effort to create a shorter and more cohesive plotline.

Not having read Roald Dahl's 1982 children's book, I can't say how faithful this adaptation is (though colleagues have suggested that darker aspects have been watered down), but it seems to follow the same basic trajectory: Cute British orphan Sophie (newcomer Ruby Barnhill) gets abducted by the title character (played, or performance - captured, by recent Oscar winner Mark Rylance), who turns out to be the smallest and kindest inhabitant of Giant Country; Sophie winds up enlisting the Queen (Penelope Wilton) in an effort to stop the other, meaner giants (led by a performance - captured Jemaine Clement) from eating England's children.

But I also think it is important to increase our efforts in making further progress in terms of our ability to get a clearer picture of how a global warming may affect the local climate and what that may mean for adaptation.

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It intends to highlight how climate change is impacting specific ingredients and recipes, and how each country's adaptation efforts are changing the ingredients and cooking methods traditionally used.

This manual provides practical, step - by - step guidance on how governments and other national actors can mainstream climate change adaptation into development planning as part of broader mainstreaming efforts.

That's how mitigation policy was born and incubated so talking about adaptation doesn't do justice for the decades of expert power seeking and manipulation associated to AGW and statist efforts.

Another focus is on how CE might reduce efforts into mitigation and adaptation, commonly referred to as the «moral hazard» or «risk compensation» problem (see, for example, Bunzl 2009, 2; Shepherd et al. 2009, 37; Corner and Pidgeon 2010, 30; Heyen 2012, 43; Burns 2013, 209; Lin 2013; Michaelson 2013, 100; Corner and Pidgeon 2014, 2; Rayner 2014, 6; Reynolds 2014, 2).

UN Climate Change News, 8 May 2018 - In an effort to step up action to increase resilience to climate change impacts such as floods or droughts, experts and governments are convening 9 and 10 May in Bonn to discuss how successful adaptation in communities and ecosystems can be scaled up and replicated.