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include clinical algorithms geared for health workers (not lay counselors) to use to counsel mothers and determine the most appropriate time to stop breastfeeding; an
adaptation and finalization of the World Health Organization (WHO) Infant and Young Child Feeding Counseling: An Integrated Course,
including new chapters on complementary feeding and country - specific recommendations;
adaptations and
local drawings / graphics inspired by the WHO counseling cards; and take - home brochures for mothers on exclusive breastfeeding, expressing breastmilk, and replacement feeding.
Dow's recent outreach activities
include the 2016 Carolinas Climate Resilience Conference, held September 12 - 14 in Charlotte, North Carolina, and
local workshops that focus on climate
adaptation planning.
Dow is eager to
include dialogue related to risk tolerance and priorities, and approaches to address the uncertainty in climate
adaptation in ways that everyone —
local community members, regional decision - makers, and scientists — can understand and participate in.
«Implementation and dissemination will depend upon
local factors
including staff availability and training,
adaptation to the patient population and practice characteristics, cost and reimbursement structures, and willingness to invest in change.»
The impacts and management of global climate change in extreme environments,
including adaptation by
local populations.
The Passive House Institute (PHI) has been very active in engaging governments around the world to shape an appropriate framework for
local adaptations,
including a 10 Point Plan position paper.
There is no shortage of support needs for communities to address the impacts of climate change in agricultural systems,
including support for
adaptation for vulnerable regions and transformation to sustainable and resilient food production systems, built around
local food economies.
The
local governments want the industries to pay for damage and
adaptation costs resulting from climate change,
including sea - level rise and more extreme storms.
ClimateAdaptAsia: Determinants and Effectiveness of
Local - Level Adaptation to Climate Change: Case Studies of Two Bangladesh ministries, including the ministries of agriculture, environment and forest, water, health, rural development, food and disaster management, children and women affairs, relevant departments and NGOs have been implementing a number of local level adaptation (LLA) projects with their limited resources [continue readin
Local - Level
Adaptation to Climate Change: Case Studies of Two Bangladesh ministries, including the ministries of agriculture, environment and forest, water, health, rural development, food and disaster management, children and women affairs, relevant departments and NGOs have been implementing a number of local level adaptation (LLA) projects with their limited resources [continue r
Adaptation to Climate Change: Case Studies of Two Bangladesh ministries,
including the ministries of agriculture, environment and forest, water, health, rural development, food and disaster management, children and women affairs, relevant departments and NGOs have been implementing a number of
local level adaptation (LLA) projects with their limited resources [continue readin
local level
adaptation (LLA) projects with their limited resources [continue r
adaptation (LLA) projects with their limited resources [continue reading...]
Parties must ensure that climate policies encompassing agriculture
include considerations and safeguards that protect and promote food security, biodiversity, equitable access to resources, the right to food, animal welfare, and the rights of indigenous peoples and
local populations, while promoting poverty reduction and climate
adaptation.
The
Adaptation Fund originated as part of the overall Bonn Agreements on the Implementation of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action from the 6th COP with an objective to «reduce vulnerability and increase adaptive capacity to respond to the impacts of climate change,
including variability at the
local and national levels.»
The October 2011 report Federal Actions for a Climate Resilient Nation: Progress Report of the Interagency Climate Change
Adaptation Task Force provides an update on actions in key areas of Federal adaptation, including: building resilience in local communities, safeguarding critical natural resources such as freshwater, and providing accessible climate information and tools to help decision - makers manage clim
Adaptation Task Force provides an update on actions in key areas of Federal
adaptation, including: building resilience in local communities, safeguarding critical natural resources such as freshwater, and providing accessible climate information and tools to help decision - makers manage clim
adaptation,
including: building resilience in
local communities, safeguarding critical natural resources such as freshwater, and providing accessible climate information and tools to help decision - makers manage climate risks.
• Tools, datasets, and land management information to support coastal planning,
including better data and resources provided via platforms that improve their usability by decision makers • Linking physical vulnerability with economic analysis, planning, and assessment of
adaptation options • Improving understanding of increased risks of and damage from coastal storm surge flooding • Developing risk - management approaches for coastal development and
local land - use planning
The goal of the Summit was «to inform federal, state, regional, and
local climate
adaptation efforts, including the planning of the federal Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force and the U.S. Global Change Research Progr
adaptation efforts,
including the planning of the federal Interagency Climate Change
Adaptation Task Force and the U.S. Global Change Research Progr
Adaptation Task Force and the U.S. Global Change Research Program.»
This report
includes chapters on Mitigation,
Adaptation, and Decision Support that offer an overview of the options and activities being planned or implemented around the country as
local, state, federal, and tribal governments, as well as businesses, organizations, and individuals begin to respond to climate change.
Roberto Ramirez de la Parra, president of the International Network of Basin Organizations, said, «
Adaptation of water resources to climate change must be organised at the natural level of national or transboundary basin of rivers, lakes and aquifers, and mobilise all actors in the field,
including local authorities, economic sectors and civil society to achieve a common vision to face the climate change challenges.»
In particular, the paper focuses on: 1) the contours of the
adaptation issue, as well as its relationship to other important issues; 2) the consideration of
adaptation within the current international negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC),
including the issues relating to
adaptation finance; 3) the challenge of approaching
adaptation at every level in a country: community,
local, regional, sectoral and national.
The session agenda contained several priority topics,
including sustainable energy in the Arab region, especially energy security and regional integration, technology
adaptation policy and potential for
local manufacturing of adequate renewable energy equipment and a regional agenda for the implementation of the United Nations Decade on Sustainable Energy for All, as well as natural resources management for sustainable development,
including the post-2015 development agenda from the perspective of the Arab region and the energy - water - food nexus in the Arab region.
This paper focuses on participatory methods for technology development and diffusion in urban agriculture,
including use of multiple sources of knowledge in the identification and screening of promising technologies, the development, participatory testing and
adaptation of the most promising technologies under
local urban farming conditions, use of adult education techniques in technology evaluation, participatory diffusion of the results of the technology development and
adaptation process; public - private partnerships in technology development and diffusion in urban agriculture.
Conserving Biodiversity in Yemen In Yemen, where agriculture employs more than 55 percent of the economically active population, the World Bank is tapping
local farmers «long traditions of agrobiodiversity farming practices» to create coping strategies for
adaptation to climate change,
including «the conservation and utilization of biodiversity important to agriculture (particularly the
local land races and their wild relatives) and associated
local traditional knowledge.»