Instead, a
range of mitigation efforts are required, including changes in lifestyle and unsustainable consumption patterns in the rich, developed countries.
The relatively slow response of glaciers to global warming means it will take to the end of the century — and beyond — to see the
benefits of mitigation efforts in the coming decades, the study says.
At the last second, and claiming a» technical error», the USA demanded the changing of «shall» to «should», lessening the binding
status of mitigation efforts.
It states, for example, that if warming is not kept below 2 °C — which «will require the
strongest of mitigation efforts and currently looks very unlikely to be achieved» — then substantial global impact will occur.
Yet times have changed as twenty
years of mitigation efforts have yielded little progress and the adaptation challenge has now become a pressing priority.
Testifying before Congress on the subject of black carbon in 2010, Veerabhadran Ramanathan of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography observed that policymakers could «have a unique opportunity to witness the
success of their mitigation efforts during their tenure.»
Those constraints are that (a) greater uncertainty about the climate system is necessarily associated with greater expected damages from warming, and (b) greater uncertainty translates into a greater risk of the
failure of mitigation efforts.
The Cancun Agreements, the most recent product of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, set the groundwork for monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV)
of mitigation efforts agreed to in future global climate treaties.
Parties, in their submissions, noted the need to address reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries as
part of mitigation efforts to achieve the ultimate objective of the Convention.The SBSTA decided that the workshop should provide an opportunity for Parties to share experiences and consider relevant aspects relating to reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries.
Although, I suspect, the differences may be dealt with by way of allocating damages or settlement monies, I find that Plaintiff's need to receive specialized and fact specific advise in
respect of their mitigation efforts, as opposed to more uniform advice they may receive in a class setting.
Rodgers submitted that the period of reasonable notice for termination of his employment with CEVA was between 18 and 24 months and his damages for wrongful dismissal should be calculated on this basis less what he had earned as a
result of his mitigation efforts.
«This agreement will not only cut pollution, it will fund the long term
benefits of mitigation efforts that further clean our air and environment,» said Faith Bugel, Senior Clean Air Attorney with the Environmental Law & Policy Center, counsel for eleven of the Citizen Groups.