Sentences with phrase «including mitigation efforts»

At least 10 House Republicans will sign on to a resolution today committing to work «constructively» to address climate change, «including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact» on warming.

The final resolution says that Congress should support «economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.»

«[The] House of Representatives commits to working constructively, using our tradition of American ingenuity, innovation, and exceptionalism, to create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.»

Resolved, That the House of Representatives commits to working constructively, using our tradition of American ingenuity, innovation, and exceptionalism, to create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.

The resolution states that the House will «create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.»

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«Mitigation» and control efforts that have been proposed will enrich a favored few with good political ties — at the expense of the great majority of mankind, including especially the poor and the citizens of developing nations.

A unprecedented effort to set aside huge swathes of Canada's boreal forest includes — for the first time — global warming mitigation as a key objective

It is the product of a long and contentious debate in Congress that included efforts to eliminate the Transportation Enhancements program (TEP), which for about 2 decades has required states to spend a small portion of their federal transport funds on 12 types of activities, including bike and walking paths, but also «archaeological planning & research,» and «environmental mitigation.»

States can also fund «archaeological planning & research,» and «environmental mitigation,» including efforts to prevent traffic from killing wildlife and to preserve wetlands.

ASE activities in support of environmental awareness and better planetary stewardship include the Windows on Earth project, the ASE Near Earth Object mitigation effort, publication of the international best - selling book The Home Planet, partnership in the «Arbor Project» international forest conservation effort, and sponsorship of environmental films, projects and videos.

Formulates and recommends Departmental policies, plans and guidelines related to the natural and human environment, including efforts regarding resiliency and climate mitigation; livability and quality of life in states and communities; equity and economic growth; historic preservation, and bicycle and pedestrian transportation.

Mitigation efforts included leveling the drop - off, planting grass that has deep root systems and adding drainage that carries storm water to an area at the bottom of the property.

These significant philanthropic contributions have leveraged public funding — including funds from the San Francisco International Airport wetlands mitigation agreement — to make this ambitious, multi-year restoration effort possible.

All -LCB- developed country Parties -RCB--LCB- all Annex I Parties and all current European Union (EU) member States, EU candidate countries and potential candidate countries that are not included in Annex I to the Convention -RCB--LCB- Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries, countries that are not OECD members but whose economic development stages are equivalent to those of the OECD members, and countries that voluntarily wish to be treated as developed countries -RCB--LCB- shall -RCB--LCB- should -RCB- adopt legally binding mitigation commitments or actions including economy - wide quantified emission limitation and reduction objectives16 for the period from -LCB- 1990 -RCB--LCB- 2013 -RCB--LCB- XXXX -RCB- until -LCB- 2017 -RCB--LCB- 2020 -RCB--LCB- XXXX -RCB-, while ensuring comparability of efforts among them, taking into account differences in their national circumstances.

The mitigation effort includes digging out all the soil down to 15 feet, treating it to contain the heavy metals, barreling it and shipping it off as waste.

Kresge Foundation grant «To ensure that climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts include the needs of communities of color»

They also adopted a range of decisions designed to implement the 2010 Cancun Agreements, including launching a new Green Climate Fund and developing stronger requirements for the reporting and review of countries» mitigation efforts.

The research papers included show that current mitigation and adaptation efforts are not enough.

His statement included an implicit indictment of those in the government who refuse to embrace mitigation efforts.

This analytical report shows the wide range of adverse impacts of climate change in Africa and assesses the balance of economic costs, as a function of a range of scenarios including both successful and failed global mitigation efforts, and strong compared to weak implementation of adaptation measures.

My lectures included something about climate change as background material for energy policy, and I was the editor and one contributor to a book on socioeconomic dimensions of climate change mitigation in 1999, but I didn't make any real effort to understand much more about the atmosphere and the physical climate before retiring.

This cooperation includes technical and policy exchanges on the development of fuel efficiency standards for trucks and buses, continued progress towards implementation of CCUS projects with the selection of a project site in China as the large - scale CCUS demonstration project announced last November, cooperation on reducing HFCs, including private sector commitments to promote climate - friendly alternatives to HFCs, and continued support for phasing down HFCs through the Montreal Protocol, and additional cooperation on direct mitigation efforts across multiple other sectors.

The scenarios include: «business as usual» (BAU), which assumes no mitigation efforts are made («RCP8.5»); «mitigation», which assumes an intermediate level of emissions («RCP4.5») without negative emissions; «carbon dioxide removal» («CDR»), which assumes moderate emissions with long - term CO2 removal; and «solar radiation management» («SRM»), which is the same as the CDR pathway, but also includes enough SRM to limit temperatures to 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels by 2100.

Projected global average temperature rise above pre-industrial levels under a range of future scenarios, «business as usual» (BAU), which assumes no mitigation efforts are made (RCP8.5); «mitigation», which assumes moderate emissions (RCP4.5) without negative emissions, «carbon dioxide removal» (CDR), which assumes moderate emissions with long - term CO2 removal; and «solar radiation management» (SRM), which is the same as the CDR pathway but also includes enough SRM to limit temperatures to 1.5 C by 2100.

A range of mitigation and adaptation efforts are required, including changes in lifestyle and unsustainable consumption patterns mainly in the rich, developed countries that have accumulated an ecological debt to poor communities in the global South.

Once INCAS is applied across the entire country, the detailed data will support the government's efforts to manage emissions and design mitigation actions that meet other national needs, including for sustainable land - use planning purposes.

The meeting aimed to help participants explore options on how to further strengthen co-operation regarding mitigation ambition, including through the targeted utilization of existing UNFCCC institutions and mechanisms and forging new partnerships, to strengthen ongoing efforts to address the increase in non-CO2 GHG emissions.

Emphasizing the role of the Kyoto Protocol in the mitigation effort by Parties included in Annex I, the importance of ensuring continuity in mitigation action by those Parties and the need to start the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol without delay,

Parties also decided to conduct a facilitative dialogue in conjunction with the twenty - second session of the Conference of the Parties to assess the progress in implementing decision 1 / CP.19, paragraphs 3 and 4, and identify relevant opportunities to enhance the provision of financial resources, including for technology development and transfer and capacity - building support, with a view to identifying ways to enhance the ambition of mitigation efforts by all Parties, including identifying relevant opportunities to enhance the provision and mobilization of support and enabling environments.

This activity report demonstrates that Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have time and again risen to the task of managing their fragile environments to meet their sustainable development goals through a broad range of actions, including conservation and sustainable use of critical marine and coastal resources, climate change mitigation, adaptation efforts and more.

The document suggests that in order to foster policy coherence and help ensure that climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts are adequate, sufficiently ambitious, non-discriminatory and otherwise compliant with human rights obligations, the following considerations should be reflected in all climate action, including agreements to be negotiated at the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

RCP 2.6 is of particular interest because it includes reversibility through mitigation efforts, somewhat of a departure from AR 4.

Instead, a range of mitigation efforts are required, including changes in lifestyle and unsustainable consumption patterns in the rich, developed countries.

The incident report should also set out mitigation efforts, including breach containment steps taken and various self - help remedies to be provided to affected individuals.