Sentences with phrase «level adaptation strategies»

IIED: Accurate cost benefit analysis of climate change adaptation actions is not only critical in designing effective local - level adaptation strategies, but also for generating information that feeds into national and global climate policy agreements.

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Professor Ed Hill, Executive Director of the National Oceanography Centre commented, «We trust that these findings will help inform coastal sea level adaptation and mitigation strategies.

«Until recently, only West Antarctica was considered unstable, but now we know that its ten times bigger counterpart in the East might also be at risk,» says Levermann, who is head of PIK's research area Global Adaptation Strategies and a lead - author of the sea - level change chapter of the most recent scientific assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC.

The Australian government recently invested nearly $ 500 million in climate change research, including $ 126 million specifically earmarked to identify the best strategies for adaptation to hotter days, storm surges, drought, and rising sea levels.

Incorporate into MPA management plans specific adaptation strategies and actions to address climate - change threats (ocean acidification and warming and sea - level rise), including monitoring of their effectiveness.

For example, occasional «sleep low» strategies (skipping the post workout carbs after an evening session) can be beneficial for adaptations at the cellular level [6, 7].

This strategy is very similar to one I have used at tertiary level with an adaptation of the «jigsaw» method (which there are many variations possible).

Kedda continues to act as Senior Program Director of State and Local Networks, leading the strategy, development, and adaptation of national - level equity guidance that supports meaningful engagement at the state and local levels.

As part of the Programme, with support from PRBB Foundation, the Green Belt Movement developed a specialised Training of Community Trainers project which sees local women taught about climate change adaptation strategies that can be used to provide practical solutions to effects of climate change at a local level.

Khan, in his research paper, Climate change induced sea level projections for the Pichavaram mangrove region of the Tamilnadu coast, India: A way forward for framing time - based adaptation strategies, looks at how this information can facilitate coastal managers and adaptation planners to frame location - specific and time - based mangrove adaptation strategies to SLR.

At least half of the 60 - plus S&T related positions identified in the Academy report will involve some level of involvement in one aspect or another of climate change: scientific research; assessment of climate change impacts; analysis and evaluation of adaptation and mitigation strategies; development of energy and other technologies for a carbon - constrained economy and society; and so on.

This is a deterrent, as one can not frame climate - based adaptation strategies and policies at the local level.

Adaptation is considered one of the most appropriate response strategies to address the challenges of SLR at a local level, particularly to conserve major coastal resources.

In support of Reclamation's new Climate Change Adaptation Strategy, this seminar will provide staff a high - level orientation on climate change, equip staff with talking points about how climate change relates to Reclamation's mission, and summarize initial tools that are available to support Strategy implementation.

Strategy 3: State Agencies should prepare sea - level rise and adaptation plans to be completed by September 2010 and regularly updated, modified, and refined based on new information.

This technical document focuses on current and projected impacts on climate due to the high levels of greenhousegas emissions, adaptation is a necessary strategy at all scales in a changing climate.

James Hansen and colleagues remark that «Climate sensitivity, sea level and atmospheric carbon dioxide [are such that] burning all fossil fuels would make most of the planet uninhabitable by humans, thus calling into question strategies that emphasize adaptation to climate change.»

However (and thankfully), abandoning old capitalistic and nationalistic get - rich - quick ideologies, collaborating on never - before - seen international levels for the purpose of achieving the greater good of humanity, and all of the adaptation strategies being adopted on local levels across the globe are among the significant positive effects of global warming on humans.

We recommend future adaptation strategies to be based on a combination of different measures working in synergy and optimized at the level of river basins, rather than through independent actions over selected river reaches.

At the policy level (e.g., portfolios, funding, strategies), the same M → A and A → M issues apply, but the wider potential for cross-sectoral linkages makes simultaneous consideration of adaptation and mitigation, A ∩ M, more important.

To cover this vast amount of ground, it discusses, at a high level, subjects ranging from observations of various parts of the climate system and climate modelling to the limits of economic assessments, the different pathways of greenhouse gas emissions considered, adaptation response strategies and methods of mitigation that include everything from from taxing greenhouse gas emissions to removing carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere.

Through training workshops, communities will gain knowledge on different mitigation and adaptation strategies as well as capacity building on how to monitor emissions from their households and community level.

This guidance document is principally aimed at the tourism industry and government organizations at the different levels, who will have the primary responsibility of developing mitigation and adaptation strategies to respond to the challenges that global climate change will bring to the tourism sector.

This analytical report assesses farmers» incentives and conditioning factors that hinder or promote adaptation strategies and evaluates its impact on crop productivity by utilizing household level data collected in 2011 from nationally representative sample households in Malawi.

Such policies are needed now because we've gone so far, so fast — we are at 397 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere when scientists say we use return to a safe level of 350ppm — and our pollution mitigation and climate adaptation strategies are lacking in rigor, seriousness, and imagination.

«The magnitude of sea - level rise is so enormous, it turns out it is unlikely that any engineering approach imaginable can mitigate it,» concludes co-author Anders Levermann, head of Global Adaptation Strategies at PIK and scientist at Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory.

Finally, further positive results were obtained by Srikala & Kishore Kumar (2010) about the application of these life skills educational programs in the promotion of adaptation at school, success, and self - esteem: so, adolescents significantly increased their levels of self - esteem, adopted more adequately coping strategies, were engaged more frequently in prosocial behaviors, and developed positive interactions with teachers at school.

In river catchments, where increasing urban and rural water demand has already exceeded sustainable levels of supply, ongoing and proposed adaptation strategies are likely to buy some time.