Sentences with phrase «of climate change adaptation»

Who is responsible for paying for the costs of climate change adaptation needs or damages in poor, vulnerable nations?

This flyer highlights that reducing climate ‐ related disaster risks is a crucial part of climate change adaptation.

Partnerships: We engage a broad set of stakeholders that have the ability to implement natural system - based methods of climate change adaptation and mitigation.

The LDCF also supports the national adaptation planning process in coordination with others as a means to reduce medium - and long - term vulnerability to the impacts of climate change and facilitate the integration of climate change adaptation into relevant policies, programs and activities.

«The environmental impact of climate change adaptation on land use and water quality» by Dr Carlo Fezzi, Dr Amii Harwood, Prof Andrew Lovett and Prof Ian Bateman is published in the March edition of Nature Climate Change.

The Hague Institute has now made available the full final report of its project «Governance of Climate Change Adaptation in Small Island Developing States...

Reddy concludes on a note that has become all too familiar for many already experiencing the climate crisis firsthand: «Certainly in the case of climate change adaptation in any community, anywhere in the world — those with greater means at their disposal will fare better.»

In contrast, climate research from Africa and South and Latin America deals more with issues of climate change adaptation and impacts such as droughts and diseases compared to Europe.

Flexible adaptation is «a valuable approach and will be appropriate in certain situations» as Boston moves forward, said Carl Spector, executive director of the city's Air Pollution Control Commission and a member of its climate change adaptation advisory committee.

We'll pay particular attention to the unwanted plants and organisms we consider weeds, noting the edges and borders of the garden as spaces for interspecies collaboration and indicators of climate change adaptation.

I videotaped a short interview with Saleemul Huq, a longtime analyst of climate change adaptation needs and options at the International Institute for Environment and Development, that reflects this emphasis.

I can imagine that if Roger Pielke Jr. and Paul Nurse were to write down their «no - regrets» moves in light of climate change adaptation or mitigation, there would be many different things put on the table, some of which directly oppose each other.

The activity report presents the features and the outcomes of a climate change adaptation training program conducted in Bangladesh.

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Human societies have, through the centuries, often developed the capacity to adapt to environmental change, and some knowledge about the implications of climate change adaptation for sustainable development can thus be deduced from historical analogues (Diamond, 2004; Easterling et al., 2004).

Third International Climate Change Adaptation Conference: The Conference titled «Adaptation Futures 2014» will be the nexus between the research community and the users of climate change adaptation information at regional and global scale.

This policy brief identifies fundamental differences in how developed and developing countries view equity, transparency and accountability in the context of climate change adaptation finance, and looks at the implications for the generation, governance, delivery and use of adaptation finance.

Oxfam: Review of Climate Change Adaptation Practices in South Asia.

Mekong River Basin Initiative (MRBI): Case studies of climate change adaptation projects and an assessment of transboundary issues in the Lower Mekong Basin

IIED: Accurate cost benefit analysis of climate change adaptation actions is not only critical in designing effective local - level adaptation strategies, but also for generating information that feeds into national and global climate policy agreements.

EDgE is working with key European stakeholders representative of private and public sectors to jointly develop and tailor approaches and techniques to assist them in using improved climate information in decision - making, and support development of climate change adaptation and mitigation policies.

The Chinese government delegation at the Copenhagen climate change conference has argued that the Communist dictatorship's one child policy should «serve as a model for integrating population programs into the framework of climate change adaptation.»

said Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, Head of Climate Change Adaptation, UNDP.

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Here are a few takeaways that can inform the future of climate change adaptation:

(Examples include the Urban Resilience Roadmap, the Capacity Building Program on Economics of Climate Change Adaptation, and An Online Sourcebook: Integrating Gender in Climate Change Adaptation Proposals.)

This briefing note illustrates the role and logic of Cost - Benefit Analysis (CBA) in the evaluation of climate change adaptation policies and projects in the agriculture sectors and describes the main analytical steps for conducting it, providing practical examples.

In terms of climate change adaptation, adjusting traffic signals and signs can also alert drivers to road closures or direct them to evacuation sites during severe weather events like Superstorm Sandy, Neudorff said.»