Sentences with phrase «of adaptation funding»

He is currently the National UN CC: Learn Coordinator of Ghana and Technical Advisor of the Adaptation Fund Project.

The Adaptation Finance Accountability Initiative (AFAI) has developed a proven set of methods that civil society organizations can use to track the flow of adaptation funds and push their governments to...

His expectations for the meeting - being attended by almost 11.000 participants - included the launch of the Adaptation Fund, as well as significant advances on technology transfer, the CDM and the issue of deforestation.

Timely provision of adaptation funds is critical to eradicating poverty and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

WRI's recent report, the Future of the Funds, includes an analysis of the Adaptation Fund's comparative advantages and suggests ways it could serve the Paris Agreement.

Not exact matches

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

The three - year, # 110 million UK Department for International Development (DFID)- funded Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED) 1 programme aims to build the resilience of up to 5 million vulnerable people against climate extremes and disasters.

Governments to provide additional funding to disabled people's organisations and advice agencies, to increase the supply of independent advice and information regarding housing options, including adaptations, with a particular focus on the private - rented sector.

The workshop is sponsored by New York Sea Grant (NYSG) with additional funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Community Climate Adaptation Initiative Program and the Environmental Protection Fund under the authority of the New York Ocean and Great Lakes Ecosystem Conservation Act.

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

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came and gave a speech in which she said that U.S. would be willing to contribute to a $ 100 billion fund to help pay for adaptation and clean development in the developing world and it had been a big demand of the developing world and something that negotiators here have welcomed.

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 the light of limited funds for adaptation it is an asset to provide comparable cost assessments.

Governments in the developing world are also now pooling their resources into sovereign insurance funds that make payouts for climate adaptation programs, said Fatima Kassam of the African Risk Capacity Insurance Co., a specialized agency of the African Union.

While several organizations like the World Bank, European agencies, nonprofit agencies and USAID have commissioned studies, experts yesterday acknowledged that no one has emerged with a systematic approach to understanding local climate change adaptation efforts or using them to inform the work of the multibillion - dollar Green Climate Fund.

«To balance funding between the backlog and climate adaptation, bridge managers will need robust data on collapse risk,» said lead author Madeleine M. Flint, an assistant professor of civil & environmental engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

What proved possible included an extension of the Kyoto Protocol for a period of either five or seven years (excluding Canada, Japan and Russia but adding nitrogen trifluoride, used in semiconductor manufacture, to the list of gases covered — CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, perfluorocarbons), a Green Climate Fund to help low - income countries cope (albeit without any actual funds yet), an Adaptation Committee to coordinate such efforts globally, rules for a global program to reduce deforestation and how to monitor such deforestation, and a Climate Technology Center that will help launch projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Those payments will come in three flavors of so - called climate financing: as part of a bolstered adaptation fund, a new fund to pay developing countries to protect their forests, and money to help poorer countries buy appropriate technology to make their commitments.

In Doha, in 2012, it was decided that for the second commitment period, international emissions trading and joint implementation would also provide the Adaptation Fund with a 2 percent share of proceeds.

Dr Cameron Petrie, director of the ERC - funded project and co-author on the study, commented, «We are investigating the nature of human adaptation to the ecological conditions created by the winter and summer rainfall systems of India.

The Initiative for the Adaptation of African Agriculture to Climate Change (AAA) and the Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) Fund Project have joined forces to support land rehabilitation in Africa.

To assess the maturity of awards within its funding portfolio, Science Foundation Ireland has adopted the same Technology Readiness Level (TRL) evaluation scale as utilised by the Horizon 2020 Programme (outlined below), which is an adaptation of the TRL scale developed by NASA in the 1970s.

But Demme ultimately dropped out and the Coens were enlisted to direct the movie after they failed to get funding for their intended adaptation of the James Dickey novel To The White Sea.

You'll likely recall the Akira Project, the crowd - funded fan trailer for a live - action adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo's pioneering manga and anime that sticks close to the source material (as opposed...

This process of tribal adaptation is one that is usually linked to depressing questions of commercialisation and how private and state funding come with a very different set of cultural provisos.

New financing for Least Developed Countries Fund sends strong signal of commitment as Paris talks get underway Eleven donors have pledged close to $ 250 USD million in new money for adaptation support to the most vulnerable countries on the planet giving a welcome boost to the start of the climate talks here in Paris.

This funding for adaptation is urgently needed to help sustain the hard - earned momentum for action on the ground that some of the most vulnerable countries have achieved in recent years.»

The Phantom Menace: Policies that Protect Districts from Declining or Low Enrollments, Drive Up Spending and Inhibit Adaptation In this paper, part of the Productivity for Results Series published by George W. Bush Institute, authors Jon Fullerton and Marguerite Roza examine the curious practice of states funding school districts for...

The government's recent funding announcement follows on from an Education Endowment Foundation trial of a Singapore - influenced mathematics curriculum, an ongoing national project focused on the use of adaptations of Singapore primary textbooks, and the Shanghai teacher exchange project.

The former is a graphic novel adaptation of a great self - published novel, Broken Bulbs; the latter, the self - published sequel to the excellent, traditionally published Xenowealth series; both were successfully funded.

Berkoff funded his own first theatrical production, an adaptation of Metamorphosis at London's Roundhouse, himself, after going to a money lender, he said.

Steve Eisman (name changed in the movie adaptation to Mark Baum, wonderfully portrayed by Steve Carell) & Co. were a group of four people who operated a hedge fund, FrontPoint Partners, that was owned by Morgan Stanley.

Heidi Chen, General Counsel for Zoetis, was recently presented with the 2016 Justice in Action Award by the Asian American Legal Defense Fund, which recognizes outstanding achievements and efforts in advancing social justice in the U.S. Below is an adaptation of Heidi's remarks from the event.

In January 2018, Ann Olson, Founder and Executive Director of Animal Folks, spoke at the Oklahoma Veterinary Medical Association about the veterinary manual for reporting animal cruelty (adaptation funded by Kirkpatrick Foundation).

Last week, Francis Ford Coppola announced that he will be turning to Kickstarter to help fund his vision of a video game adaptation of the classic war film Apocalypse Now.

Nintendo 64 Anthology launches Kickstarter campaign An English adaptation of the popular hardback book; the Nintendo 64 Anthology by Geeks - Line and penned by Math Malent is 98 % complete, primed and ready for funding via Kickstarter.

An English adaptation of the popular hardback book; the Nintendo 64 Anthology by Geeks - Line and penned by Math Malent is 98 % complete, primed and ready for funding via Kickstarter.

Certain other projects were recognized under the aegis of NEH on the Road, an initiative that supports the adaptation of projects to fit into spaces smaller than 2,000 square feet, so as to help with wider distribution of NEH grant - funded exhibitions.

First there were there was a round of high fives and thumbs up exchanged among delegates from small island states as the chairman of the conference announced that the money in the long planned adaptation fund would be controlled by the states themselves, rather than doled out via some international organization that could monitor the money, like the older Global Environmental Facility.

There is an urgent need to scale up financial flows, particularly financial support to developing countries; to create positive incentives for actions; to finance the incremental costs of cleaner and low - carbon technologies; to make more efficient use of funds directed toward climate change; to realize the full potential of appropriate market mechanisms that can provide pricing signals and economic incentives to the private sector; to promote public sector investment; to create enabling environments that promote private investment that is commercially viable; to develop innovative approaches; and to lower costs by creating appropriate incentives for and reducing and eliminating obstacles to technology transfer relevant to both mitigation and adaptation.

What if industrialized countries live up to their existing pledges to funnel billions of dollars, and eventually hundreds of billions of dollars, to funds for climate adaptation?

Although funding for adaptation has lagged behind funding for mitigation, the final text of the Paris Agreement supports a balance of climate finance between adaptation and mitigation.

As the first nation to get adaptation money from the Least Developed Countries Fund, Bhutan is something of a pioneer among developing nations in their quest to adapt to a warmer future, and the struggles at Thorthormi glacier illustrate the enormous obstacles that adaptation efforts still face.

For example, the UN Capital Development Fund's Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) helps build the capacity of local governments, who are on the front lines of adapting to climate change, to access and utilize adaptation finance.

The course was jointly developed by the United Nations Institute of Training and Research (UNITAR), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and funded by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Society, Germany (BMUB) as part of the National Adaptation Plans (NAP - Ag) Programme.

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is an international fund designed to address the critical climate change mitigation and adaptation needs of developing nations — to foster resilience and low - emission developmFund (GCF) is an international fund designed to address the critical climate change mitigation and adaptation needs of developing nations — to foster resilience and low - emission developmfund designed to address the critical climate change mitigation and adaptation needs of developing nations — to foster resilience and low - emission development.

This manual aims to support least developed countries (LDCs) in designing the implementation of national adaptation programmes of action (NAPAs), and to guide country teams in accessing existing funding from the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) for implementing their NAPAs.

The third provides an overview of financing and capacity building initiatives that could be accessed to fund adaptation and mitigation programmes and projects.

The first is a single grand international fund through which all mitigation and adaptation would be financed − such as, say, a greatly expanded version of the Multinational Climate Change Fund proposed by Mexfund through which all mitigation and adaptation would be financed − such as, say, a greatly expanded version of the Multinational Climate Change Fund proposed by MexFund proposed by Mexico.

This fact sheet briefly presents an environmental project financed by the Least Developed Countries Fund to promote adaptation to the effects of climate change and drought in Zambia.