«This research sort of simplifies things, and shows that we can use our understanding of all earthquakes for
more effective mitigation.»
Not exact matches
Our study of the faster increases in apparent temperature has produced important findings for this kind of climate change impact assessment, providing a strong scientific support for
more stringent and
effective climate change
mitigation efforts to combat global warming.»
«National drought policies with
effective early warning systems would be crucial in promoting vulnerability assessment and risk
mitigation measures, particularly in light of the devastating droughts witnessed in Africa this year that have left
more than 20 million people on the verge of starvation,» she added.
The National Disaster
Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has said cultural approaches are often
more effective...
The National Disaster
Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has said cultural approaches are often
more effective than structural ones in handling those fleeing natural disasters.
Of course some here deride the cost benefit analysis while many of the same lauded the UK effort that established a cost benefit analysis arguing that
mitigation is the
more effective choice.
Most studies I have seen show that money spent on
mitigation is much
more cost
effective than money spent reducing carbon emissions, because the latter is a worldwide problem.
As for 4) «that adaptation as needed is massively
more cost -
effective than any attempted
mitigation» — what an unimaginative and pessimistic bunch of people these are.
A Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) report by Willem de Lange and Bob Carter suggest that, with regards to sea level change «adaptation is
more cost -
effective than
mitigation.»
The report offers some answers and concrete proposals — while recognizing that much
more needs to be learned,
more questions formulated, and
more experience gained, to build an
effective strategy to support global agricultural adaptation while harnessing its significant potential contribution to climate change
mitigation and taking into consideration development objectives and food security concerns.
Paul mind if I flip your question and ask you for evidence that adaptation is
more beneficial and cost
effective than
mitigation?
Ignoring your posturing, what evidence can you produce that
mitigation is
more beneficial and cost -
effective than adaptation?
It is important to know what
mitigation will cost, how
effective it will be, how its politics will or won't work, when is adaptation
more cost - efficient, etc..
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.
Climate Science for Serving Society: Research, Modeling and Prediction Priorities fosters a
more effective dialogue between the climate information and knowledge developers — the research community — and decision makers who must respond to difficult adaptation,
mitigation and risk management issues.
The document also boldly states «That adaptation as needed is massively
more cost -
effective than any attempted
mitigation and that a focus on such
mitigation will divert the attention and resources of governments away from addressing the real problems of their peoples.»
If you want
effective mitigation policy you need to be
more than heard.
Potentially, contributors to such a facility could include governments for whom domestic
mitigation action might be
more costly than investment through the global market, or sectors where the technology is not yet fully available to enable them to take
effective large scale
mitigation action — such as the aviation industry.
A survey of experts suggests a cost - minimizing distribution would be
more effective for
mitigation than equitable distribution.
Improved data and information sharing would enable
more cities to choose the most cost -
effective mitigation strategies, evidence - based and locally appropriate.
The loss in delaying
mitigation may be even overcompensated by the
more effective solutions selected later.
«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.
Therefore, what balance between adaptation (dealing with whatever happens) and
mitigation (doing something about the emissions that contribute to climate change) is likely to be
more cost
effective is not a question within the remit of the IPCC (although many options are discussed in the WG III report).
But surely, the higher the ECS the
more relatively cost -
effective mitigation becomes.
However the science ends up, this Luke warmer thinks that adaptation is a
more cost -
effective public policy than
mitigation.
Uh... if you don't care about the science, what makes you think adaptation is a
more cost -
effective public policy than
mitigation?
Even if
mitigation were likely to be
effective, it would do
more harm than good: already millions face starvation as the dash for biofuels takes agricultural land out of essential food production: a warning that taking precautions, «just in case», can do untold harm unless there is a sound, scientific basis for them.
Google has worked with Adobe to improve Flash's protections against various type of attack, and these exploit
mitigations are
more effective on 64 - bit versions of Chrome.
Currently, property owners can not access
mitigation grant dollars until after the property floods despite it being
more cost
effective to elevate or relocate beforehand.