Sentences with phrase «international adaptation efforts»
Abroad, the department will increase its investment in the Defense Environmental International Cooperation Program not only to promote cooperation on environmental security issues, but also to augment international adaptation efforts.
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Case studies show that a gap has developed between international and local global warming adaptation efforts
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«The special issue of the International Journal of Global Warming focuses on a crucial topic: «Loss and damage» which refers to adverse effects of climate variability and climate change that occur despite mitigation and adaptation efforts,» Editor - in - Chief Ibrahim Dincer of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology says.
An open access special issue of the International Journal of Global Warming brings together, for the first time, empirical evidence of loss and damage from the perspective of affected people in nine vulnerable countries...... «Loss and damage» refers to adverse effects of climate variability and climate change that occur despite mitigation and adaptation efforts.
Practical adaptation options (e.g. strengthening buildings and coastal defences, expanding areas of coastal vegetation) and supporting international policies (e.g. cooperative efforts to regulate fisheries, managing shared river systems to avoid erosion) can minimize the risks and maximize the opportunities.
The new initiative comes from the Sustainable Wetlands Adaptation and Mitigation Program (SWAMP), a collaborative effort between the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the United States Forest Service.
Relative - gains concerns incited by the international resource transfers implicit in climate change policy may compel some states to be prudent in their international climate change efforts and conserve resources domestically for future contingencies, including their own adaptation and resiliency.
What adaptations refuse to admit, however, is that the first critical step in any adaptation effort is to eliminate fossil fuel combustion as an energy source, and to pursue international agreements aimed at that goal.
This misses enormous opportunities for effective action to reduce human suffering due to climate and weather disasters, and to lay a stable foundation for cooperative international efforts to address both climate adaptation and mitigation.
In 2010, Breakthrough coauthored the influential Hartwell Paper, proposing an alternative international approach to climate change focused on efforts that would accelerate adaptation to climate change and technology innovation to make clean energy cheap and accessible around the planet.