Enhanced action and international cooperation on adaptation is urgently required to enstue the implementation of the Convention by enabling and supporting the implementation
of adaptation actions aimed at reducing vulnerability and building resilience in developing countries, especially in those that are particularly vulnerable, especially least developed countries, small island developing States and tiuther taking into account the need of countries in Africa affected by drought, desertification and floods.
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It also intends to inform Parties of the knowledge and resources being provided by Nairobi work programme partners through the wide variety
of adaptation actions in these areas.
This analytical report contains a compilation of case studies on national adaptation planning processes, including tools and approaches used for the prioritization and implementation
of adaptation actions.
Large - scale public - private risk reduction initiatives and economic diversification are examples
of adaptation actions.
The cost - benefit evaluation and optimization
of adaptation actions can produce the best structural adaptation strategies considering both the expected lifecycle loss and total structural adaptation cost.
«Implementation
of adaptation actions has only just started.
This report highlights the experiences of nations in the Global South in climate adaptation, and emphasizes the need to bolster the effectiveness
of adaptation action in order to ensure that the world's most vulnerable people are well - equipped to respond to the impacts of climate change.
The first leg of the pilot program involved an outreach effort where city officials visited community associations and other citizen groups to explain the benefits
of adaptation action areas and the reasons for creating them.
Not exact matches
The studio does have a pair
of big spring releases in Ghost in the Shell, the controversial
adaptation of the popular manga comic that stars Scarlett Johansson, as well as the
action - comedy
adaptation of the 1990s lifeguard TV show Baywatch.
It's not the first modern reboot
of the retro comedy: Along with two really bad live
action movie
adaptations, even animators like Seth McFarlane have (unsuccessfully) tried their hand at bringing the series back.
Kenneth Branagh's Cinderella comes out this week, the latest in a trend
of Disney's live -
action fairytale
adaptations (Maleficent, Into the Woods, and the upcoming Beauty and the Beast).
Ghost In the Shell is one
of the most influential anime graphic novels
of all time, and a script for a live
action adaptation has been kicking around Hollywood for quite some time.
In general, however, these interpretations and
adaptations to later situations are easily recognizable, since they usually stand in a strained relation to the
action and meaning
of the parable itself.
If your daughter has already watched the live -
action adaptation and they already have a copy
of it, but still, they can't get enough
of Cinderella, then this doll will undoubtedly satisfy them.
A Natural England report commissioned from organisations including the RSPB, has suggested pest control such as the «killing
of foxes» as one
of several «key
adaptation actions» to assist «priority species».
Director Uli Edel made the harrowing Last Exit To Brooklyn in 1989, an
adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr's cult novel and he moves the
action along very adeptly here, helped by an excellent cast and a strong screenplay from Eichinger, no stranger to controversial subjects.
The Minister
of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Mahama Ayariga, has said Ghana needs $ 22.6 billion in investments from domestic and international public and private sources to finance its 31 Programme
of Action on climate mitigation and
adaptation.
What is more worrying is that government is engaging in this environmentally unfriendly
action at a time Ghana's development partners and the international community are sympathizing with the Ghanaian people on the increasing impacts
of climate change on livelihoods and supporting the country with huge resources to implement a number
of climate
adaptation projects to help the people especially rural communities to improve livelihoods under severe climate change impacts through effective
adaptation interventions.
Hellmann has co-authored several climate assessment and
adaptation planning efforts, including the biodiversity and ecosystem portions
of the Chicago Climate
Action Plan and the 2014 National Climate Assessment.
Establishing a single global standard for reporting greenhouse gas emissions will empower local governments to accelerate their
actions and access funding for mitigation and
adaptation projects,» said New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, chairman
of C40.
«In moving from two to four degrees you really do see, in all our best estimates, a major increase in the level
of action required,» says climate -
adaptation expert Mark Stafford Smith, science director for Australia's national science agency.
According to the study published in the Proceedings
of the National Academy
of Sciences, global average storm surge damages could increase from about $ 10 - $ 40 billion per year today to up to $ 100,000 billion per year by the end
of century, if no
adaptation action is taken.
«Immediate
action is required to develop a carbon - neutral or carbon - negative future or, alternatively, prepare
adaptation strategies for the effects
of a warmer climate,» said Dr Goodwin, Lecturer in Oceanography and Climate at Southampton.
That's the sort
of visualization that the Obama administration believes can spark
action toward climate
adaptation in communities around the nation.
«New data confirm increased frequency
of extreme weather events: European national science academies urge further
action on climate change
adaptation.»
Researchers from the University
of Zurich have succeeded in documenting an extremely rare case
of evolutionary
adaptation «in
action» among wild snow voles near Chur.
Australia has created an
adaptation program to «help Australians better understand climate change, manage risks, and take advantage
of potential opportunities;» In Nigeria, state and local governments are developing
action plans for high - risk urban areas, while the federal government is seeking to expand forests by reducing deforestation and wood fuel demand; in Mali, significant efforts are being made to conserve water resources, as well as create usable mechanisms to track the development
of climate change.
The national
action programmes (NAPs), national biodiversity strategies and
action plans (NBSAPs) and national
adaptation programmes
of action (NAPAs) are the implementation tools.
Climate
Adaptation: The State
of Practice in U.S. Communities is the first study to examine in depth
actions that multiple municipalities are taking to address climate - change fueled events like flooding, heat waves, wildfires and intense storms.
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.
-- 7) Forest models for Montana that account for changes in both climate and resulting vegetation distribution and patterns; 8) Models that account for interactions and feedbacks in climate - related impacts to forests (e.g., changes in mortality from both direct increases in warming and increased fire risk as a result
of warming); 9) Systems thinking and modeling regarding climate effects on understory vegetation and interactions with forest trees; 10) Discussion
of climate effects on urban forests and impacts to cityscapes and livability; 11) Monitoring and time - series data to inform adaptive management efforts (i.e., to determine outcome
of a management
action and, based on that outcome, chart future course
of action); 12) Detailed decision support systems to provide guidance for managing for
adaptation.
Assisted
adaptation — often defined as management to assist gene flow or selection for specific genetic traits — may be a more useful tool than assisted migration whereby a species is deliberately moved to a different habitat; carefully consider implications
of either
action Identify potential climate refugia to focus restoration efforts Plant a mix
of seeds genetically selected and adapted to likely future and current conditions (McLachlan et al. 2007; McKenney et al. 2009; Aitken and Whitlock 2013; Alfaro et al. 2014)
They scrutinized
adaptation plans which incorporate urban planning and development
actions that lead to the abatement or reduction
of vulnerability to climate change, and mitigation plans that include
actions such as improved energy efficiency and renewable energy generation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Partnerships are built around various drivers: for example supporting the Polar regions in a period
of rapid change; educating the public about polar sciences and climate; contributing to climate change awareness; mitigation and
adaptation; defining and implementing CSR
action plan; implementing technology solutions for low carbon emissions.
For human systems, existing studies focus on frameworks and principles
of adaptation planning, but examples
of implemented
adaptation actions and evaluation
of outcomes are scarce.
AACA - A was led by Sustainable Development Working Group and is a compilation
of assessments and reports prepared by Arctic Council working groups over the past ten year with findings and recommendations that could inform
adaptation options and
actions.
While sweeping, government - backed
adaptations like this one are particularly exciting, there is plenty
of Drawdown - inspired
action we can take on an individual level too.
Influence
of eccentric
actions on skeletal muscle
adaptations to resistance training.
Dudley GA, Tesch PA, Miller BJ, Buchanan P. Importance
of eccentric
actions in performance
adaptations to resistance training.
Their role is to assist the client with their own exploration
of actions and lifestyle
adaptations that bring about specific, measurable and realistic change.
The last time I genuinely enjoyed a movie
adaptation video game was the Lord
of the Rings
action games on my Playstation 2!
With only two or so hours
of story time, the movies have been forced to sacrifice swaths
of her material, and while the scripts have been largely models
of adaptation — most, this one included, are by Steve Kloves — the emphasis on
action (and interminable games
of quidditch) was also a concession to the
action - imperative
of the modern blockbuster.
Following his directorial debut Catch Me If You Can (1989), Sommers gained further Hollywood notice with his live -
action adaptations of The Adventures
of Huck Finn (1993) and Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1994) for Disney.
Sure to delight X-fans everywhere and thrill
action - lovers all around, this movie is most likely the best comic - to - film
adaptation produced yet, despite a few changes made for the sake
of creating an original story.
What's the Deal: More character study than
action movie, this
adaptation of Martin Booth's 1990 novel «A Very Private Gentleman» is instead concerned with the inner workings
of its amoral antihero, whom we witness do very bad things at film's start that haunt him until the very end.
One
of 2013's biggest flops — not that it was much
of a surprise — Disney's mega-budget,
action - heavy
adaptation of the radio serial failed despite the presence
of producer Jerry Bruckheimer, director Gore Verbinski, and star Johnny Depp, the team behind The Pirates
of the Caribbean franchise.
The works
of Max Brooks, who wrote 2003's satirical and subversively political, «The Zombie Survival Guide», and 2006's, «World War Z: An Oral History
of the Zombie War», provided the kernels
of inspiration for this mega-budgeted horror -
action - thriller that mostly makes up its own narrative, independent
of much
of the book content (jettisoning the first - person account style and most
of the events), to make it fit more with the ranks
of current, eye - candy loaded popcorn movies than a thoughtful
adaptation of the best - seller.
It seems, in retrospect, that a film
adaptation was the natural course
of action for WB to take, especially given that they owned the property outright thanks to a series
of corporate mergers during the 1970s.