Timely provision
of adaptation funds is critical to eradicating poverty and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
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...
He is currently the National UN CC: Learn Coordinator of Ghana and Technical Advisor
of the Adaptation Fund Project.
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.
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 developm
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 developm
fund 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 Mex
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 Mex
Fund 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.