Sentences with phrase «money for adaptation»

Money for adaptation, and money for sustainable development projects at a time when climate finance is non-existent.

Others saw Copenhagen as a success for achieving agreement on the long - term goals of the UNFCCC, new voluntary commitments from many developing countries, new levels of cooperation from China on verifying its voluntary emissions reductions commitments, and promises to mobilize significant amounts of money for adaptation in developing countries.

Scientists want to keep international temperature rises below 2 degrees compared with pre-industrial levels, while providing poor countries with money for adaptation.

As Revkin introduced one webpage said, UN depress the money for adaptation, it is not right thing.

Eleven donors have pledged close to $ 250 USD million in new money for adaptation support to the most vulnerable countries on the planet giving a welcome boost to the start of the climate talks here in Paris.

New financing for Least Developed Countries Fund sends strong signal of commitment as Paris talks get underway Eleven donors have pledged close to $ 250 USD million in new money for adaptation support to the most vulnerable countries on the planet giving a welcome boost to the start of the climate talks here in Paris.

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But most the time is when poor families can not support and in need of Money to support the rest of family members... it is pity but upon need should not we be surprised to see families selling their children or shipping them to the west for adaptation...?!

«One of the enemies of happiness is adaptation,» says Dr. Thomas Gilovich, a psychology professor at Cornell University who has been studying the question of money and happiness for over two decades.

We've had some good Stephen King adaptations in 2017 (and some bad ones, lookin» at you Dark Tower), but Gerald's Game gives Andy Muschietti's It a run for its money as the best one of the year.

Andrew Haigh's adaptation of a novel by alt - country singer - songwriter Willy Vlautin concerns a teenage boy (All The Money In The World's Charlie Plummer) who gets a summer job working for a grizzled race - horse trainer (Steve Buscemi) and ends up bonding with one of his new boss» aging meal tickets.

Sadly, even though it's clearly yet another ploy for more money, August is filled with some sincere efforts such as Ryan Murphy's much - anticipated adaptation of Eat Pray Love, even if it will be overshadowed by the indie / geek-fest that is Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World.

The film was set up at Universal Studios, Scorsese picked Robert De Niro to play Rocco, the lead, and Richard Price (who wrote the riveting screenplay for Scorsese's «The Color of Money») wrote the adaptation from his bestselling...

Reviews are rolling in for the new adaptation of Stephen King's It, and while you could not pay me enough money to sit through this film, by all accounts this one is a creepy clown triumph.

While Disney roles on with their money making live - action remakes of their classic animated features, they are courting talents of all different types for their projects with Skyfall director Sam Mendes in early talks to direct their Pinocchio adaptation.

That was still more than was earned by Killers, her attempt at a big summer action comedy, which she and Lionsgate will try again this year in the Janet Evanovich adaptation One for the Money.

Some of you expressed strong opinions (mostly negative) when we posted about Katherine Heigl getting tapped to play Stephanie Plum in the film adaptation of Janet Evanovich's One for the Money.

She's just finishing up filming on One for the Money, but a New York Times profile hints that Katherine Heigl has a new literary adaptation in the works: Diana Gabaldon's Outlander.

Either way, the fact a group of fans were trying to collect money for a Zelda adaptation didn't sit well with the Nintendo lawyers.

The Queen's Gambit was written when Walter Tevis» previous novels were known more for their film adaptations - The Colour of Money, The Hustler and The Man Who Fell to Earth.

I'll try to convey to the folks back home that any money that will come from the Cancun agreements is not only for specific climate change mitigation or adaptation projects but also providing us a chance to rethink and revise our national agricutural, energy, and land use policies.

Even if real, new adaptation money ever shows up, this guarantees intense competition for it among nations with differing levels of confidence in the source of their climate - related injuries, as described here and here.

So, you have a choice: how much money to spend on mitigation that wont have a benefit for 30 years versus spending on adaptation to do the best we can over the next 30 years.

Steven Mosher: So, you have a choice: how much money to spend on mitigation that wont have a benefit for 30 years versus spending on adaptation to do the best we can over the next 30 years.

[BALI] The UN has announced approval for an adaptation fund to bolster the defences of poor countries that lack the money, technology and human resources to cope with climate change.

The United States had promised $ 800 million a year to help finance climate adaptation for the least developed nations, and that money is unlikely to come through in a Trump presidency — although Congress has the final say on how money is spent.

Right now, it's more profitable road for oil companies to fight policies like LCFS than invest considerably more money in adaptation.

Technology transfer - The exchange of knowledge, hardware and associated software, money and goods among stakeholders, which leads to the spreading of technology for adaptation or mitigation.

The situation is indeed clear; we can logically conclude from geology, physics, climate science, ecology, and economics that a few hundred more ppm of CO2 would most likely be net beneficial globally and even for those areas or circumstances in which global warming would not be beneficial it would be considerably more feasible and cost effective to implement local adaptations than attempt global mitigation which comes with no money - back guarantees should the entire (100 %) world not play ball.

The tax is a mitigation, and the monies could be used for adaptation or further mitigation, depending on cost effectiveness.

Developed countries need to get serious about the need to improve predictability of climate finance and put new commitments to real money on the table by COP24, including for adaptation and for the Green Climate Fund.

If a developed nation's contribution to climate funds such as the Green fund are simply a shift of money from existing foreign aid funds, they should expressly admit to this while explaining why they have no ethical obligations to increase funding for adaptation and response in vulnerable nations.

Friends of Science Society says trillions of dollars are being diverted to climate change initiatives, such as wind and solar farms, when that money would be better spent on adaptation, flood mitigation, and reserve funds set - up for post-hurricane restoration programs.

There is money for climate change adaptation coming from different sources, flowing through different channels, and being used for different purposes.

(Climate finance is the money developed countries owe to developing countries for climate mitigation and adaptation.)

Given that $ 50 billion is the price often quoted for providing everyone on earth with clean water, why are you not criticising that, rather than making it seem that it is the as - yet imaginary money going towards climate mitigation and adaptation that is holding the world back?

We know that money can make you happier, though after your basic needs are met, it doesn't make you that much happier...» One of the enemies of happiness is adaptation,» says Dr. Thomas Gilovich, a psychology professor at Cornell University who has been studying the question of money and happiness for over two decades.

Supposedly the GCF will allow for direct access of money for real on the ground projects — but there are also the usual concerns over the involvement of the private sector and the kind of preference for financing mitigation that meant since inception the GEF has given $ 3b to mitigation projects and only $ 300m for urgently needed adaptation.

What's worse, they'll be dictated practices that maximize mitigation; there's no money to be made off of adaptation for adaptation's sake.

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