Sentences with phrase «nations adapt to climate change»

The World Bank has also urged an end to fossil fuel subsidies, as a way to help poor nations adapt to climate change (though the World Bank figure on how much is spent on subsidies is markedly lower than the IEA's; I'd trust the latter's).

You already probably purchase a carbon offset for all your flights, but would you pay a surcharge of about 1 % on long - haul flights if that money would be used to help poor nations adapt to climate change?

Second, to help the most vulnerable countries including small island nations adapt to climate change by building barriers against rising seas or developing drought - resilient crops.

The administration also suggested eliminating language in the draft calling for «sufficient, predictable, additional and sustainable financial resources» to help poor nations adapt to climate change, on the grounds that it is vague.

Remaining issues include mechanisms for transparency that would ensure nations live up to their commitments, how much money will be available to help struggling nations adapt to climate change or deal with loss and damage from extreme weather, and whether commitments will be revisited and made more ambitious in the future.

Not exact matches

For example, the initiative could enable member nations to partner in the development and distribution of climate - smart rice varieties adapted to region - specific conditions of drought, flooding, and salinity brought on by climate change.

The EU has said that there should be a $ 150 billion annual package of public and private finance by 2020 to help poorer nations develop green industries and adapt to climate change.

«This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the [2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient develClimate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; 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But it's also a sign of how much of the developing world is willfully making itself more vulnerable to climate change, even as poor nations ask rich ones to spend hundreds of billions per year on helping them to adapt.

One of the major thrusts of the report, which was discussed at PCAST's 15 March meeting in Washington, D.C., was to emphasize «climate preparedness» — a relabeling of the idea that the government should be doing more to prepare the nation to adapt to changes expected to be caused by global warming, such as rising seas, droughts, and floods.

China has led the way in trying to persuade developed countries to set up financing mechanisms to help poorer nations cut emissions and adapt to climate change.

The CDM has since 2005 helped channel more than $ 315 billion to poor nations to help them cut their CO2 emissions or adapt to the effects of climate change.

The agreement also creates a «green fund» which will help developing nations cut emissions and adapt to climate change.

That is why we have a responsibility to provide the financial and technical assistance needed to help these nations adapt to the impacts of climate change and pursue low - carbon development.

Included in that bill is funding to help poor nations to «adapt» to climate change.

-- That the world's established powers pay for any costs borne by poorer nations as they adapt to climate change and shift away from business as usual on emissions.

Instead, the leaders pledged to reach some sort of political accord calling for reductions in emissions and aid for developing nations to adapt to a changing climate.

With his leadership, and the leadership of every world leader, we need to establish the tools and financing to help developing nations embrace clean energy, adapt to climate change, and ensure that there's not a false choice between economic development and the best practices that can save our planet.

Although the United States has significant capacity to adapt to climate change, it will pose challenges for civil society and DoD alike, particularly in light of the nation's extensive coastal infrastructure.

It also promises financial support to poorer nations, to help them adapt to the damage that will be caused by the climate changes that are already happening.

For every nation, this coerced energy and economic deprivation will make it increasingly difficult to adapt to future climate changes that nature inevitably will bring our way.

Wealthy nations pledged billions to help the poor adapt to climate change.

The main purpose of the GCF is to help build the capability of developing nations to limit or reduce their greenhouse gas emissions through low carbon development pathways and to adapt to the unavoidable impacts of climate change.

A key issue (uncertainty) is the extent to which the nation, states, communities and individuals will be able to adapt to climate change because this depends on the levels of local exposure to climate - health threats, underlying susceptibilities, and the capacities to adapt that are available at each scale.

You would think researchers would welcome opportunities to balance that vast library of one - sided research with an analysis of the natural causes of climate change — so that they can evaluate the relative impact of human activities, more accurately predict future changes, and help ensure that communities, states and nations can plan for, mitigate and adapt to those impacts.

The Paris Agreement sealed in 2015 brought together the U.S. and European Union with big developing nations from China to India to Brazil in pledging limits on fossil - fuel pollution and funds to help poorer countries adapt to climate change.

This is a vision of the future that goes beyond just surviving or enduring climate change, beyond «mitigating» and «adapting» to it in the grim language of the United Nations.

Rich, industrialised countries like the EU and US have a legal obligation under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC — which the talks fall under) to take the lead in cutting their emissions while providing the finance and technology to poorer countries to adapt to climate impacts and avoid the same fossil - fuel intensive development pathways thClimate Change (UNFCCC — which the talks fall under) to take the lead in cutting their emissions while providing the finance and technology to poorer countries to adapt to climate impacts and avoid the same fossil - fuel intensive development pathways thclimate impacts and avoid the same fossil - fuel intensive development pathways they did.

The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown recently proposed establishing a fund of $ 100 billion, contributed by the wealthiest nations, to help the most vulnerable countries adapt to climate change... Wisely planning how the funds generated by the Prime Minister's recent proposal should be invested therefore needs good scientific guidance.

The Paris Agreement builds upon the Convention and for the first time brings all nations into a common cause to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change and adapt to its effects, with enhanced support to assist developing countries to do so.

Among the targets on his hit list: the United Nations» Green Climate Fund (GCF), which hands out money for programs to adapt or mitigate global warming; the Clean Technology Fund and the Strategic Climate Fund — saving $ 239 million; and the Global Climate Change Initiative, saving U.S. taxpayers $ 362 million.

The majority of support for the 2 - degree plan came from industrialized nations better equipped to adapt to climate change.

The United Nations Environment Programmme (UNEP) has launched a web app and infographic to support people living and working on coasts in making decisions on how to adapt to a changing climate.

It also calls for 100 percent renewable energy by 2050 and financing to help developing nations adapt to the hazards of a changing climate: persistent drought, extreme heat, dangerous storms, and rising seas.

Over the course of the past year, 186 nations have come forward with «intended nationally determined contributions» (INDCs), spelling out how they intend to tackle their emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change.

Given that mainstream climate change scientific view holds that the Earth could experience rapid non-linear climate change impacts which outstrip the ability of some people and nations to adapt, should this fact affect whether nations which emit high levels of ghgs should be able to use scientific uncertainty as an excuse for non-action on climate change?

The countries still have major issues to hash out, including how to handle the billions of dollars to be funneled from wealthy nations to poorer ones to help them adapt to climate change and develop cleaner sources of energy.

And only 20 per cent of the fast start finance has been allocated to projects that will help poor nations adapt to a changing climate.

Nations around the world will have to adapt to at least some climate change, including sea level rise, changes in precipitation, disruptions to agriculture, and species extinctions.

In particular, there was controversy over whether they should include plans on how to adapt for the impacts of climate change and further financial donations from rich nations to the poor.

Earlier this month, Bangladesh's foreign minister chided the world's developed nations for failing to honor their pledge to help this low - lying, water - logged nation adapt to the effects of climate change.

The latest study from the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) put the inevitability of drastic global warming in the starkest terms yet, stating that major impacts on parts of the world — in particular Africa, Asian river deltas, low - lying islands and the Arctic — are unavoidable and the focus must be on adapting life to survive the most devastating changes.

And so, President Obama seems thus to acknowledge US obligations to help developing nations to adapt to climate change.

The agreement also establishes a mechanism for giving tropical nations financial compensation for preserving their rain forests and calls for expanding financial aid for countries struggling to adapt to climate change.

Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN climate secretariat, said the Poznan talks were edging towards an agreement on how rich countries could pay to help developing nations adapt to the effects of climate change.

This speech also acknowledged that it is probably too late to avoid the need of nations to adapt to climate change's adverse impacts.This is so because even if aggressive action it taken on climate change around the world, some adverse climate change impacts are inevitable.

We certainly are very concerned about the threats that climate change poses to these nations, and we and other countries have ramped up climate assistance for climate adaptation for the most vulnerable countries to ensure that they are getting support as they seek to adapt to the effects of climate change, as well as move their economies forward on a clean and green basis.

«The nation must prepare for and adapt to a changing climate,» its premise emphasizes, «to safeguard our valuable living resources for current and future generations.»

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Despite the significant progress summarized in Federal Actions for a Climate Resilient Nation [PDF], the U.S. still has no national strategy for adapting to climate change, leaving America dangerously unprepared for climate conditions that are becoming more extreme and disrClimate Resilient Nation [PDF], the U.S. still has no national strategy for adapting to climate change, leaving America dangerously unprepared for climate conditions that are becoming more extreme and disrclimate change, leaving America dangerously unprepared for climate conditions that are becoming more extreme and disrclimate conditions that are becoming more extreme and disruptive.