Sentences with phrase «of adaptation and mitigation»

engaging and supporting Indigenous peoples is essential to ensure the effectiveness of adaptation and mitigation strategies for both Indigenous communities and the broader Australian community.

contribute, as major landholders, to the development of adaptation and mitigation strategies to address climate change

His 2009 «vision» for AR5, btw, is that «sustainable development... should pervade that entire report... [and] sustainable development [should be an] overarching framework in the context of both adaptation and mitigation.»

Many policy - makers are saying that climate - smart agriculture is the ideal intersection of adaptation and mitigation.

They are quite happy to report on a manufactured controversy rather than the horrifying unknown of colossal changes of adaptation and mitigation.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established jointly by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to assess periodically the science, impacts, and socio - economics of climate change and of adaptation and mitigation options.

It recognizes that a portfolio of adaptation and mitigation actions is required to reduce the risks of climate change.

In order to address intertwined issues of adaptation and mitigation, synergies and trade - offs will need to be carefully examined.

At the policy level (e.g., portfolios, funding, strategies), the same M → A and A → M issues apply, but the wider potential for cross-sectoral linkages makes simultaneous consideration of adaptation and mitigation, A ∩ M, more important.

Some actions result from the simultaneous consideration of adaptation and mitigation.

Carbon pricing is a small addition to the cost to pay for its later damage and the costs of adaptation and mitigation too.

In order to promote a more productive dialogue between scientists and policymakers, the discussion of adaptation and mitigation options in the policy arena needs to be reframed so that it addresses environmental degradation and sustainability in the broad sense, not just the impacts of climate change.

As noted in the overview of a Climate and Health Workshop at the NOAA Southeast Regional Climate Center: «The ultimate success of adaptation and mitigation strategies in response to climate change and human health will depend on the depth of understanding of the mechanistic links between climate change and the complex components of human health.»

This technical document discusses a strategy of inclusion of adaptation and mitigation expenses in a model of optimal growth under threat of climate change.

This option may be used for instance to obtain case study materials from private sector sources for assessment of adaptation and mitigation options.

This document is composed of two reports that present complementary views on the challenges and opportunities posed by climate change to developing countries in the fields of adaptation and mitigation.

At least half of the 60 - plus S&T related positions identified in the Academy report will involve some level of involvement in one aspect or another of climate change: scientific research; assessment of climate change impacts; analysis and evaluation of adaptation and mitigation strategies; development of energy and other technologies for a carbon - constrained economy and society; and so on.

What we can do, however, is develop strategies of adaptation and mitigation, how humans will be affected, how our lives will change, and how we can prevent a dramatic loss of life due to ecological disaster, scarcity of resources, or other significant problems.

Delay in initiating effective mitigation actions increases significantly the long - term social and economic costs of both adaptation and mitigation.

Not exact matches

Of course, this idea may not factor into Musk's motivation, but in the world of climate change mitigation and adaptation, perceptions matteOf course, this idea may not factor into Musk's motivation, but in the world of climate change mitigation and adaptation, perceptions matteof climate change mitigation and adaptation, perceptions matter.

(Most of the funding — $ 2 billion — goes to another climate priority, infrastructure for «disaster mitigation and adaptation» in the face of a changing climate.)

In CETA there is also a provision which says that the costs of pollution are borne by the polluter and requires Canada and Europe to prioritize trade in environmental goods and services related to renewable energy and co-operate on climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Cities are projected to require at least USD 1.7 trillion a year for climate change mitigation and adaptation above business as usual in order to align GHG levels with those that limit global warming to 2 °C and avoid the worst effects of climate change.

Mitigation of environmental impact and adaptation to climate change will be discussed at the upcoming IDF Symposium on the Role of Dairy in Sustainable Diets, Seville, 1st and 2nd February 2018...

Currently, Cambodia and IRRI are conducting joint research projects on climate change adaptation and mitigation, climate - resilient rice varieties, remote sensing - based crop monitoring, improvement of farmers» livelihoods, and postharvest technology.

Massachusetts, along with other states and nations, has a two - part approach to combating the effects of human - induced rapid climate change: emissions reduction (mitigation) and adaptation.

The IET is calling for the UK to become a clear and influential global leader in climate change mitigation and adaptation, encouraging exports of new low carbon technologies and equipment.

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.

All funds collected under the previous version would go into the climate change mitigation and adaptation account of the state Environmental Protection Fund.

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.

The results suggest that recent changes in global vegetation have had impacts on local climates that should be considered in the design of local mitigation and adaptation plans.

Professor Ed Hill, Executive Director of the National Oceanography Centre commented, «We trust that these findings will help inform coastal sea level adaptation and mitigation strategies.

Next year's school, «Adaptation and Mitigation: Responses to Climate Change,» will explore topics such as greenhouse gas emission scenarios, the economics of climate change, adaptation and mitigation measures, and climateAdaptation and Mitigation: Responses to Climate Change,» will explore topics such as greenhouse gas emission scenarios, the economics of climate change, adaptation and mitigation measures, and climateMitigation: Responses to Climate Change,» will explore topics such as greenhouse gas emission scenarios, the economics of climate change, adaptation and mitigation measures, and climateadaptation and mitigation measures, and climatemitigation measures, and climate policies.

This climate assessment is significantly longer than the previous one and includes a number of new chapters, such as two on adaptation and mitigation options.

Overall, the panel includes three working groups — one studying the science involved in climate change, one studying the adaptation to climate change and one studying the mitigation of climate change which is the group Rice's team is part of.

By the time you sit down at the table in December 2009, you are missing the last four years of what we now understand about climate, adaptation, mitigation, security and about all sorts of interactions with our society.

The core of this meeting is entirely devoted to mitigation and adaptation.

IPCC has been established to assess scientific, technical and socio - economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.

One impetus for the study was to investigate how a future warmer climate would affect the demand of water, especially as more cities are seeking out climate mitigation and adaptation strategies.

And since mitigation reduces the rate as well as the magnitude of warming, it also increases the time available for adaptation to a particular level of climate change, potentially by several decades.

In his paper, Okal reflects on the progress made since the catastrophic event of 2004 in various aspects of tsunami science, warning and mitigation and more generally in tsunami resilience, i.e., the preventive adaptation of communities to this form of natural hazard.

His main research interests are in the development and application of probabilistic concepts and methods to civil and marine engineering, including: structural reliability; life - cycle cost analysis; probability - based assessment, design, and multi-criteria life - cycle optimization of structures and infrastructure systems; structural health monitoring; life - cycle performance maintenance and management of structures and distributed infrastructure under extreme events (earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and floods); risk - based assessment and decision making; multi-hazard risk mitigation; infrastructure sustainability and resilience to disasters; climate change adaptation; and probabilistic mechanics.

The first three volumes, based on outlines approved by the IPCC's 195 member governments in October 2009, were released over the past fourteen months: The Physical Science Basis in September 2013, Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, in March 2014 and Mitigation of Climate Change in April 2014.

He has had to learn to navigate the murky waters of bureaucracy to sell the ministry's mitigation and adaptation initiatives.

Adaptation and mitigation must remain the cornerstones of tackling climate change.

«This mixture shows the role that agroforestry can play in addressing both climate mitigation and adaptation in primarily food - focused production systems of Africa» says Dr. Cheikh Mbow, Senior Scientist, Climate Change and Development at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and lead author of the article.

The first of these, due out in March 2014, will cover impacts, adaptation and vulnerability; the second, out the following month, will cover mitigation.

If we embark on a path that is equivalent to setting emissions to zero now (say by having a period of negative emissions in the 2035 to 2050 time frame), and call the sequestration we accomplish mitigation then mitigation can arrest climate change, make adaptation unneeded and bring us to a safe concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as Hansen has pointed out.

The so - called KICs, each of which will include labs or centers from multiple countries, will tackle climate change mitigation and adaptation, sustainable energy and information, and communication technologies.

Ed's research currently focuses on public understanding of — and engagement in — climate change, including its risks and mitigation and adaptation options.