Sentences with phrase «on adaptation»

«It's time to start working on adaptation to climate change,» she says.

More specifically, it focuses on adaptation technologies for building resilience to climate change induced hazards in the water sector.

This work entails enhanced action on adaptation, mitigation and the means of implementation (finance, technology transfer, capacity building).

The report is shaping up to be more nuanced, with far more emphasis on adaptation than the last one in 2007.

(followed by the unfortunate irony that the developed world also has more money to spend on adaptation).

This guide also contains information on adaptations for struggling readers and writers (addressing students with disabilities and English language learners).

In addressing these crises, local media can play a crucial role in reporting on adaptation strategies and facilitating discussion on dealing with environmental change.

Some lecture notes will also be folded into future knowledge products on adaptation planning.

Of the plans, 100 had a section on adaptation: protecting citizens and property from the heightened risks like flooding, drought and sea level rise.

The conversation tends to focus on adaptation funds, which are useful, on technology funds, which are useful, and on global emissions trading.

A final comment is devoted to the uncertainty of climate projections and their impact on adaptation.

Good way to start off any lesson on adaptation or natural selection / evolution.

So I've done papers on adaptation and on how we get the degree of energy innovation many people think will be necessary.

This brochure aims to contribute to the emerging debate on adaptation to climate variability and change and sustainable development.

On the adaptation front, water security was the main concern, with many already counting the costs of drought and flooding.

Join us in celebrating a decade of progress with critical discussions on adaptation, innovation, and resilience.

Land and water management may be affected by mitigation actions, but in most sectors the effects of mitigation on adaptation are likely to be small.

But in general, there are unfortunately few aspects of the negotiations moving on adaptation, which should be among the highest priorities in the negotiations.

I think not, for such statements about immediacy must be balanced with ones which show that life's survival power depends on adaptation and regeneration.

Last week, think tank Resources for the Future released the findings of a two - year research campaign on adaptation to climate change.

Using a new database of urban protection and different assumptions on adaptation, we account for existing and future flood defenses.

Hopefully, as adaptation solutions become as ubiquitous as the warning signs of climate change, we'll see the spotlight on adaptation grow stronger and larger.

This briefing note introduces evaluation methods that provide programme managers and policymakers with thorough evidence on the impact of adaptation interventions, allowing them to make informed policy choices on adaptation options.

If Push was based, as it looks, on some bestselling young adult novel, we could assume a lackluster job was done on the adaptation.

Alongside mitigation, then, we also need policies focused on adaptation, on making sensible adjustments to the unavoidable changes that we now face.

The 53 - page text covers the issues of a shared vision for long - term cooperative action, along with enhanced action on adaptation, mitigation and finance, technology and capacity building.

But other urban centres are at greater risk, and are located in countries that have less money to spend on adaptation.

Partners Bradley Fischer («Black Swan,» «Shutter Island,» «Zodiac») and James Vanderbilt («The Amazing Spider - Man,» «Zodiac») are currently in pre-production on «Truth,» Vanderbilt's directorial debut based on his adaptation of a memoir by Dan Rather's former news producer, Mary Mapes.

Brad Furman gave us the smart LA thriller The Lincoln Lawyer starring Matthew McConaughey in 2011, which got me wondering if he shouldn't be taking on adaptations of Elmore Leonard or Carl Hiaasen.

At the EPA, Dr. Carter integrated the effects of climate change into estimates of future coastal inundation on contaminated lands, such as brownfields and superfund sites, to help guide decisions on adaptation efforts that could better protect nearby communities from the spread of dangerous contaminants during future floods.

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Instead, Catholic leaders like Wenski and Carolyn Woo, who heads Catholic Relief Services in the United States, chose to focus on adaptation efforts and providing relief to communities that are affected by the changing climate and other environmental hazards.

But for this to be the product of the end of some relative taboo on adaptation, it would mean that the taboo lasted until very recently, not until the mid-2000s.

Feybesse, Neto, and Hatfield (2011) conducted a study on the adaptation of the Passionate Love Scale into the Portuguese population by using the data of 204 Portuguese university students.

Mass Audubon strongly advocates that Massachusetts should have statutorily required policy and planning requirements on the adaptation side of the climate change equation.

Since 2001, the GEF — through the LDCF and the Special Climate Change Fund and the Strategic Priority on Adaptation program — has provided $ 1.3 USD billion in grant financing and mobilized $ 7 USD billion from other sources for 320 adaptation projects in 129 countries, including all Least Developed Countries and 33 Small Island Developing States.

At climate negotiations at COP - 13 in Bali, Indonesia in 2007, parties to the UNFCCC agreed to replace the Kyoto Protocol with an agreement that would create a second commitment period under the UNFCCC and would include binding emissions reductions for developed countries and new programs on adaptation for developing countries, deforestation, finance, technology transfer, and capacity building.

Two elements stand out — the weekly video episodes unravelling the personal stories of people involved in agriculture adaptation activities in two countries, Kenya and the Philippines; and the peer assessment project on adaptation action in agriculture.

ECO has noted that adaptation negotiators have worked seriously to make decent progress on the Adaptation Committee in the last days here in Panama.