Sentences with phrase «on adaptation challenges»

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Having completed our adaptation to those challenges in mid-2014, and extensively detailing the central lessons, we're simply focused on executing that discipline.

The Council mounted this challenge to the monistic cast of mind, a term that Weigel uses interchangeably with «totalitarian,» through a recovery and adaptation of the pluralistic principle articulated by Pope Gelasius I to Anastasius in 494 a.d.: «Two there are, august emperor, by which this world is ruled on title of original and sovereign right» the consecrated authority of the priesthood and the royal power.»

His adaptation has been tremendous, able to battle his way through physical challenges when the need to cease a counter-attack arises, and then follow up with a vital pass to set Wolves» electric front players on.

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Baby - friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) in 2016, UNICEF and WHO collected 13 country case studies about the BFHI, which document the country adaptations in implementation, achievements, challenges and lessons learned and recommendations for the global BFHI guidance.

Drawing on a wealth of research (including the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk & Adaptation), Paul challenged the ways we often try to predict or measure success and helped change the public conversation about the kinds of experience and environments children need from infancy to adulthood.

Dr Jochen Hinkel from Global Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.»

Upping the disaster quotient after their collaboration on 2015's San Andreas, Brad Peyton challenges Dwayne Johnson to battle not one, but three massive, mutated, mad - as - hell monsters wreaking havoc in the videogame adaptation Rampage.

By 2006 it was finally time for Lohman to come into her own on the big screen, a challenge she faced with commendable aplomb in director Michael Mayer's adaptation of the Mary O'Hara novel My Friend Flicka.

Screen Rant got a chance to interview David Leitch on press day where we discuss how he challenged his choreography team to display Domino's powers, being the new kid on the block with the longtime Deadpool creative team of Rhett Reese, Paul Werneck, and Ryan Reynolds, and what he hopes to bring the the video game genre with his adaptation of The Division.

Noel's Take: When Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining was released in 1980, it baffled many film buffs, who couldn't figure out why the man who'd made some of the most challenging, brainy, and beautiful movies of the previous 20 years would spend his precious time and talent on a hammy, heavy B - horror flick.

In Tom Tykwer's wryly comic adaptation of Dave Eggers» novel, Tom Hanks stars as a struggling American businessman who travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Eastern bureaucracy, a perpetually absent monarch, and a suspicious growth on his back.

Adobe Books Backroom Gallery Announces Survival Adaptations An exhibition, public programming and a publication reflecting on recent changes and challenges to surviving and adapting to life in San Francisco as an artist.

Rodin and America: Influence and Adaptation, 1876 - 1936 Building on its stature as a repository of Auguste Rodin's sculpture, Stanford's Cantor Arts Center organized this novel study exhibition (through Jan. 1) of challenges the French master posed to a generation of younger American artists.

The Stephen H. Schneider Symposium, being held in late August in Boulder, Colo., will reflect on his approach to the climate problem and culminate with a session on this question: «The challenge of climate change mitigation and adaptation: How do we translate sound climate science into sound policies?»

The solutions, however, must also include a much better focus than present on climate change adaptation and reducing vulnerability to drought — a «no - regrets» strategy that will help both with natural variability, and the variability that could be made more challenging by human - caused climate change.

And its language on climate adaptation creates big challenges because the treaty only applies to impacts from human - driven climate change.

Problem - oriented basic research will evaluate the possible effects of CE on natural and social systems and international relations, study the challenges in research and governance strategies and communication between scientists and the public, and analyze the possible impact on climate policy in the context of CO2 reduction and adaptation.

Brian Orland, a Fulbright - Nehru Fellow, is starting a nine - month study on climate change adaptation along the Brahmaputra River, where the environment challenges [continue reading...]

The meeting discussed and reflected on the challenges that climate change poses to education systems in SIDS, and on the role that education must play in adaptation to climate change.

Pursue, with key partners, opportunities for adaptation on critical water issues by challenging conventional thinkin

This document is composed of two reports that present complementary views on the challenges and opportunities posed by climate change to developing countries in the fields of adaptation and mitigation.

It also highlights the main challenges and achievements of the partnered organisations and provides several lessons learned concerning work on adaptation.

This module focuese on climate change adaptation and mitigation, aiming to assist forest managers in assessing and responding to climate - change challenges and opportunities.

The National Research Council's 2009 report Restructuring Federal Climate Research to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change establishes six priorities for reorganizing the USGCRP around integrated scientific - societal issues and the strengthening of research on the human and societal dimensions of climate change adaptation, mitigation, and vulnerability.

«Increased Presidential engagement on climate adaptation issues would both elevate the importance of adaptation activities within the government and raise the profile of the adaptation challenge with the nation as a whole.

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This work takes future socio - economic developments based on SSP5 (O'Neill et al. 2014), consistent with high mitigation challenges due to high - end warming and willingness to take adaptation measures against climate impacts.

«Implications of climate change on fisheries and aquaculture: challenges for adaptation and mitigation in the Asia - Pacific region».

«Lately, along with mitigation of anthropogenic impacts on the climate system by reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, the world community places increasing emphasis on the economy and public adaptation to adverse effects of climate change, including analysis and prediction of emerging challenges and threats.»

In particular, the paper focuses on: 1) the contours of the adaptation issue, as well as its relationship to other important issues; 2) the consideration of adaptation within the current international negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), including the issues relating to adaptation finance; 3) the challenge of approaching adaptation at every level in a country: community, local, regional, sectoral and national.

«If we do not accept that climate change is an enormously important dimension of the energy challenge that we face, and larger environmental challenges that we face, we will not put into the legislation that we need, the key ingredient that we need,» Obama science and technology adviser John Holdren said in his remarks to the National Climate Adaptation Summit on May 27.

Copernicus, through its Climate Change Service, provides climate analysis, indicators and projections for helping develop mitigation and adaptation strategies in various sectors and provides information on societal challenges.

I can't say exactly what Prof. Krugman intended to convey with his remark on a «barely habitable» UK, but it strikes me that folks in the UK accustomed to the present regime would indeed find a shift to something resembling Moscow a bit hard to swallow and certainly a severe adaptation challenge.

It also integrates new research data on the Access to Justice crisis and the impact of self - represented litigants, and the adaptations and changes this challenge demands in these and other aspects of lawyering practice.

Adaptations of the medical home to acknowledge the complex challenges that confront poor families require surveillance on the part of the practitioner of both risk and protective factors that characterize each family.

We argue for expanding the research agenda to consider the adaptation of families caring for children with ID through greater understanding of the social - ecological constraints on families and the resources needed to meet the «normal», everyday adaptive challenges they face.