Sentences with phrase «investment in climate mitigation»

However, Lomborg ends these common - sense recommendations with the conclusion that current investments in climate mitigation, including renewable energy subsidies, are wasteful.

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The Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Mahama Ayariga, has said Ghana needs $ 22.6 billion in investments from domestic and international public and private sources to finance its 31 Programme of Action on climate mitigation and adaptation.

The evidence supports the need for considerable investment in adaptation and mitigation actions toward a «climate - smart food system» that is more resilient to climate change influences on food security.

In the current passive investment space, market participants can choose from a wide range of indices that relate to personal values, including human capital, climate change mitigation, long - termism, faith based, and social responsibility.

Investments in climate - change adaptation and mitigation can provide a wide range of co-benefits that enhance protection from current climate variability, decrease damages from air and water pollution, and advance sustainable development.

Climate smart agriculture will be key to achieving both because investments in agriculture help the poor — 70 percent live in rural areas — more than any other program, and because agriculture is key to both mitigation and adaptation to climate Climate smart agriculture will be key to achieving both because investments in agriculture help the poor — 70 percent live in rural areas — more than any other program, and because agriculture is key to both mitigation and adaptation to climate climate change.

Because responding to climate change will require long - term investment in infrastructure, research and mitigation, we need an economic environment that is sufficiently consistent to reward such investment.

Given that our best bet of climate sensitivity has remained the same (1.5 — 4.5 C) for over 30 years with all new information «pretty much cancelling out», at one point do we begin to focus this investment more on mitigation or another approaches to climate change in general?

Investments in mitigation during both the near term and the longer - term do, however, have substantial leverage on the magnitude of climate change in the latter decades of the century, making the second half of the 21st century and beyond an era of climate options.

Investment in mitigation and adaptation is not only our moral obligation as a major contributor to climate change, but also a sound investment in alleviating poverty and ensuring global food security now and in tInvestment in mitigation and adaptation is not only our moral obligation as a major contributor to climate change, but also a sound investment in alleviating poverty and ensuring global food security now and in tinvestment in alleviating poverty and ensuring global food security now and in the future.

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These activities include: Investment & Financial Flows Assessments, regional meetings with national climate change focal points, publications about budgetary planning to address climate change, and technical backstopping for countries that begin to consider adaptation and mitigation for climate change in their National Development Plans, as well as participation in UNFCCC side events to present these activities results.

The authors see many investors adopting defensive behaviors, but also note that the investment sector should take an active role in contributing to climate change mitigation.

In fact, the recommendations make no pretensions in any way of promoting investment in energy infrastructure that would improve access to clean energy, help developing countries adapt to climate change, increase energy efficiency, or increase mitigation of greenhouse gases (GHGsIn fact, the recommendations make no pretensions in any way of promoting investment in energy infrastructure that would improve access to clean energy, help developing countries adapt to climate change, increase energy efficiency, or increase mitigation of greenhouse gases (GHGsin any way of promoting investment in energy infrastructure that would improve access to clean energy, help developing countries adapt to climate change, increase energy efficiency, or increase mitigation of greenhouse gases (GHGsin energy infrastructure that would improve access to clean energy, help developing countries adapt to climate change, increase energy efficiency, or increase mitigation of greenhouse gases (GHGs).

Thank you for downloading the «Climate Change Mitigation Opportunities Index», developed by The EIU with the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing, is a starting point for investors to identify in - country investment opportunities in climate change mitigation techClimate Change Mitigation Opportunities Index», developed by The EIU with the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing, is a starting point for investors to identify in - country investment opportunities in climate change mitigation tMitigation Opportunities Index», developed by The EIU with the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing, is a starting point for investors to identify in - country investment opportunities in climate change mitigation techclimate change mitigation tmitigation technology.

Investments in stopping deforestation make up less than 1.5 % — US$ 2.3 bn — of the US$ 167 bn committed by multilateral institutions and developed country donors since 2010 to climate change mitigation.

«[These] ethical, legal, and historical considerations may further inform discussions about carbon producer responsibilities to contribute to limiting climate change through investment in mitigation, support for adaptation, and compensation for climate damages,» they conclude.

The International Development Finance Club (IDFC)-- a group of international, national, and regional development banks based in the developed and the developing world — released its annual report on green investment (i.e. mitigation, adaptation and «other» environmental finance which includes environmental protection and remediation related projects)-- as the world's climate negotiators were meeting in Lima, and its numbers are significant.

As we recommended in the paper, systematic investment in these strategies along with other recommended initiatives are likely to increase substantive news attention to various health threats associated with climate change, and thereby increase the capacity of communities to pursue mitigation and adaptation actions.

This brief examines how the public sector can most effectively incentivise needed investments in climate change - related mitigation in Africa.

He noted that for the European Union to achieve its climate mitigation pledges, there was a need for greater government investment in renewable energy sources and new regulatory frameworks to speed the transition.

Susanna is an active environmentalist and conservationist, advocating for local and national responses to climate change and providing philanthropic support to organizations educating and advocating for conservation, climate change mitigation policy, and investment in sustainable public and private enterprises.

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The decision for or against a reduction or mitigation of predicted climate - change impacts is always a decision for or against the promotion of other investments, e.g. in water supply or education for developing countries.

Arguments that these technologies are very unlikely to exist late this century are, I suspect, motivated by a well - intentioned belief that the only way to get rapid investment in mitigation is to convince the public that it's the only way to avoid the climate crisis.

«Pastoralist communities need more investment in good basic services such as health care and education, flood - proof transport and communication links, financial and technical support services, livestock - marketing opportunities, drought and flood mitigation and preparedness systems, access to climate information, and effective conflict - mitigation mechanisms.

To calculate the total net costs and benefits of climate mitigation, one needs some estimate of the cost of investment in various mitigation technologies.

With this one investment we can make strides in climate change mitigation, public health, and -LSB-...]

The large investment in climate modeling, both in the U.S. and internationally, has been made with the expectation that climate models will support decision making on both mitigation and adaptation responses to climate change.

The Bank is currently working with 130 countries on climate change; it doubled its lending for adaptation to $ 4.6 billion in 2012 and put $ 7.1 billion into mitigation, in addition to its work with carbon finance and the Climate Investment Funds; and it now includes climate change in all country assesclimate change; it doubled its lending for adaptation to $ 4.6 billion in 2012 and put $ 7.1 billion into mitigation, in addition to its work with carbon finance and the Climate Investment Funds; and it now includes climate change in all country assesClimate Investment Funds; and it now includes climate change in all country assesclimate change in all country assessments.

«We are thrilled to be able to show that private sector investment in climate change mitigation is able to achieve the kind of sustainable development the international community has agreed to pursue, «says Johannes Ebeling, Investment Director of investment in climate change mitigation is able to achieve the kind of sustainable development the international community has agreed to pursue, «says Johannes Ebeling, Investment Director of Investment Director of BioCarbon.

The challenge is to draft the most workable and effective international treaty that, if implemented, has the potential to increase foreign investments in climate change mitigation and adaptation.