Sentences with phrase «national climate change»

Data from its first national climate change adaptation strategy issued last year show that extreme weather events have killed more than 2,000 people each year on average since the 1990s.

We expect this funding will engage provinces, territories and municipalities on national climate change solutions.

This guidance document aims to promote the use of genetic resources for food and agriculture in climate change adaptation and support their integration into national climate change adaptation planning.

That will increase the need for meaningful national climate change strategies.

In this capacity, Thomas has worked with national governments to support the ongoing development of national climate change mitigation policy, with specific expertise on the national contexts of Georgia, Kenya, Uganda and Mongolia.

The workshop was organized at the request of the UN CC: Learn partner countries in order to capitalize on lessons learned from developing and implementing national climate change learning strategies.

The same is true in Australia — and it is clear that this traditional knowledge will be a valuable resource in national climate change mitigation efforts.

She has helped establish national climate change programs in Guatemala, Panama, Colombia, Argentina, Ecuador, Honduras, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic.

In 2008, Chile launched its first National Climate Change Action Plan, for the period from 2008 to 2014, to gather information on what was happening in the country, identify the baselines for emissions cuts and measure other key variables.

When President Joko Widodo took office in 2014, he dissolved the REDD + Agency and National Climate Change Council, combining their mandates under the Ministry of Environment and Forestry.

CAN is one of the three core coalitions of the US national climate change movement as ranked by «centrality scores» in a peer reviewed study.

This manual is a fundamental guide for negociators and people in charge of formulating national climate change policies.

By blocking the Kinder Morgan pipeline, he's putting at risk the entire national climate change plan, because Alberta will not be able to stay on if the Kinder Morgan pipeline doesn't go through.»

«Through the Amazon Fund, Brazil has established what has become a model for other national climate change funds.

Our article, «Toward a Second U.S. National Climate Change Assessment.»

It notices that forests are an important component of national climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies.

But if the biggest sinks start releasing theirs first, well, this is one of the Climate Surprises the IPCC and the U.S. National Climate Change assessment talk about.

These rules collectively mean that nations may not base their climate change national strategies on national interest because they they have duties, obligations, and responsibilities to others that they must take into account when setting national climate change policy.

Climate change was first officially referred to in legislation or regulations by the Chinese government in China's National Climate Change Programme of 2007, and repeated in China's Policies and Actions for Addressing Climate Change 2008.

Since most nations entered the Copenhagen and Cancun negotiations as if national interest rather than global responsibility to others was an adequate basis for national climate change policies, the commitments made under the Copenhagen Accord and Cancun agreements fail to satisfy equity criteria.

Here, we measure the current pattern of global climate change equity, and assess whether the situation will improve or worsen by 2030, using data on GHG emissions17 and newly available national climate change vulnerability assessments18.

Instead, the Administration's plans for energy conservation and using energy sources with less CO2 emission will help in the short - term, he said; down the road, a new National Climate Change Technology Initiative will help develop cutting - edge technologies such as fuel cells and carbon dioxide sequestration, Bush said.

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 Center for Biological Diversity, along with other conservation groups, filed suit November 14 in federal district court for the Northern District of California against the Bush administration for refusing to conduct a second U.S. National Climate Change Impacts Assessment.

IPCC, Ethics, and Climate Change: Will IPCC's Latest Report Transform How National Climate Change Policies Are Justified?

The COAG adopted National Climate Change Adaptation Framework identifies the lack of information and knowledge gaps as integral to the two priority areas for potential action.

The bulk of global carbon capture funding, though, came several years ago, when national climate change legislation was in play in both the United States and Canada.

«You have the opportunity, in fact the responsibility, to finalize an agreement that enables the achievement of national climate change goals, that delivers the necessary support for the developing world and that catalyses continuously increasing ambition and action by all»

«Observation of melting glaciers in Glacier National Park and North Cascades National Park has contributed to the global database that tells us glaciers are receding and human climate change is the cause,» notes Patrick Gonzalez, NPS's national climate change scientist.

Dr Nova Mieszkowska, Inaugural Visiting Fellow National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility

The U.S. government should move toward a coordinated national climate change adaptation strategy, says a federal interagency task force in a recent report to the President.

Adaptation efforts in South Asia have so far been fragmented, lacking a strong link between national climate change strategies and plans, and existing disaster risk reduction, agricultural, and other relevant policies.

It is in accord with the recently released report and recommendations of the National Climate Adaptation Summit, which calls for an overarching national climate change adaptation strategy.Book review re-posted from Nick Sundt on the World Wildlife Fund climate blog, October 12:

In some nations it is not possible to determine the actual normative basis for the government's commitment simply by examining what the national government claims is its normative justification; one must understand the arguments made against stronger national climate change policies made by those who have successfully opposed stronger climate action.