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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.

NCSE is now engaged in an NSF - funded project on creating a Climate, Adaptation, and Mitigation e-Learning (CAMEL) community.

«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.

Eliminating fossil fuel subsidies would slash global carbon emission by 20 percent and raise government revenue by 2.9 trillion, well over the funds needed for intelligent policy and action on climate adaptation.»

global indebtedness — leaving states more reliant on external financial aid and limiting their ability to fund development and adaptation;

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.

Trostle said four additional federally funded projects, three led by AgriLife Research, are aimed at providing more information for producers on guar in relation to guar agronomics, wheat rotation, plant breeding / adaptation and bioenergy.

I'm working to build the organization's Climate Change Adaptation Program across the Americas and helping manage The Climate Adaptation Fund, which supports on - the - ground adaptatioAdaptation Program across the Americas and helping manage The Climate Adaptation Fund, which supports on - the - ground adaptatioAdaptation Fund, which supports on - the - ground adaptationadaptation efforts.

Shot over four years, from 2013 to 2017, the film follows former Kiribati president Anote Tong on his world tour — with stops at the UN and multiple climate change conferences — to educate foreigners about the situation in Kiribati and to encourage climate change adaptation funding.

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 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.

Where funders saw too much adaptation to local circumstances with Annenberg, they have responded with an overemphasis on national models and replicating a common strategy across multiple districts.

In a Kickstarter campaign that launched and received 100 % funding within the same day, Lucky Duck Games outlines how they landed on the board game adaptations.

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.

So when top politicians travel around to international climate summits, but provide little funding for work on mitigation and adaptation — that really is double communication.

Poor countries are asking for a tax on all airline tickets as a means to funding their adaptation to climate change.

He is currently a principal investigator on a USAID - funded project in Nepal on climate adaptation and food security.

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.

It addresses particularly the issue of finance and the creation of new climate change funds following GEF's Strategic Priority on Adaptation.

«Developing countries should benefit from the adaptation fund,» said Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

The report compiles and synthesizes information on capacity - building contained in reports published by relevant bodies established under the Convention and its Kyoto Protocol and by the operating entities of the Financial Mechanism and the Adaptation Fund Board from the 4th meeting of the Durban Forum to the end of December 2015.

In particular, it provides a number of concrete tools and recommendations to help interested countries, such as: an overview of international public funding sources dedicated to adaptation investments, seven fundamental eligibility criteria for accessing international public funding and guidance on how to apply these concepts to project ideas, a template for developing / presenting adaptation project ideas to international donors; and an overview of critical concepts and requirements for accessing private financing for adaptation and a number of instructive case studies.

This technical document explores the possibility of expanding the funding available for adaptation measures by raising a levy on international transport services.

This activity report provides an overview of country - led efforts on climate change adaptation supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) partnership with financing from the GEF - managed Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF), Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) and Strategic Priority on Adaptation (Sadaptation supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) partnership with financing from the GEF - managed Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF), Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) and Strategic Priority on Adaptation (SAdaptation (SPA) funds.

The Cancun conference also agreed on establishing a new global climate fund under the UNFCCC to help finance the mitigation and adaptation.

«EU funds will be focused on clean energy, and sustainable cities and agriculture, with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation also pledging $ 300m towards climate adaptation.»

(Sec. 479) Requires each state to prepare a natural resources adaptation plan detailing the state's current and projected efforts to address the potential impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources and coastal areas in order to be eligible for funds under this subpart.

The Adaptation Fund originated as part of the overall Bonn Agreements on the Implementation of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action from the 6th COP with an objective to «reduce vulnerability and increase adaptive capacity to respond to the impacts of climate change, including variability at the local and national levels.»

This analytical report synthesizes the information provided by Parties and relevant organizations on the preparation and implementation of national adaptation programmes of action (NAPAs), including on accessing funds from the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF).

Although some progress was made on a few issues in the two year lead - up to Copenhagen, little progress was made on the major issues and particularly on commitments for GHG emissions reductions and funding for adaptation, deforestation programs, and technology transfer.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change is funding a programme of climate science and related research to inform Government policy on mitigation of, and adaptation to, climate change.

(Thomson Reuters Foundation)-- Bangladesh plans to cut spending from its own budget on climate change adaptation and rely more in the future on funds from donors, government officials said.

-- In order to be eligible for funds under section 480, not later than 1 year after the development of a Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Strategy required under section 476 each State shall prepare a State natural resources adaptation plan detailing the State's current and projected efforts to address the potential impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources and coastal areas within the State's jurAdaptation Strategy required under section 476 each State shall prepare a State natural resources adaptation plan detailing the State's current and projected efforts to address the potential impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources and coastal areas within the State's juradaptation plan detailing the State's current and projected efforts to address the potential impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources and coastal areas within the State's jurisdiction.

«(6) under the Bali Action Plan, developed country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, including the United States, committed to «enhanced action on the provision of financial resources and investment to support action on mitigation and adaptation and technology cooperation,» including, inter alia, consideration of «improved access to adequate, predictable, and sustainable financial resources and financial and technical support, and the provision of new and additional resources, including official and concessional funding for developing country parties».

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The report also recommends baseline research on adaptation, mitigation, and vulnerability, and the need for agencies with appropriate expertise to «increase funding and take a leadership role in supporting, managing, and directing this research.»

Here's what is required (leaving aside Theresa May's electorally hamstrung inability to deliver much of it): The entire cabinet and every business leader the government's black book can muster, on stage for the launch of the new strategy; an explicit declaration that this, full decarbonization of the economy, is the post-Brexit economic strategy; clear and attractive retail policies, such as a diesel scrappage scheme, tax breaks for green investment, new apprenticeships, a green home building program; an open invitation to all opposition party leaders to share a platform to support the plan with a declaration that while they may not agree on every component they fully endorse the over-arching goal; a willingness to shame those party leaders who play party politics and refuse to turn up; a fortnight - long program where each day sees a new cabinet member explain how the plan will transform parts of the economy; a Royal Commission on the flaws of GDP as an economic measure and the viability of alternative quality of life metrics; and, yes, a brave assertion that carbon intensive industries will have to transform or be scaled back, backed by a decarbonization adaptation fund to help affected communities respond to this global trend.

3) Given that a true sceptic should concede some role for AGW (L1), given that climate variation is a cause for alarm as such, would you support a climate policy based on some cap and trade, assistance for adaptation, REDD, climate research funding?

3) Given that a true skeptic should concede some role for AGW (L1), given that climate variation is a cause for alarm as such, would you support a climate policy based on some cap and trade, assistance for adaptation, REDD, climate research funding?

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Many negotiators from developing countries and activists across the globe pushed instead for a dedicated climate fund under the UN Climate Convention that would put the adaptation and mitigation needs of people in developing countries first — an institution based on sound environmental integrity, socioeconomic justice, and efficacy.

Developed countries need to get serious about the need to improve predictability of climate finance and put new commitments to real money on the table by COP24, including for adaptation and for the Green Climate Fund.

The intense and constructive discussions on and off the negotiating floor on inter alia, the adaptation fund, a new green / climate fund, funding the avoidance of deforestation and forest degradation, the climate - related budgets of development banks, and the need for government assistance to more effectively bring private sector on board, will all be for naught if previous experience with development financing is any indication how climate funding promises pan out over the coming years.

Some of the gaps in Chapter 3 on ethical issues raised by climate change policy - making include: (1) ethics of decision - making in the face of scientific uncertainty, (2) whether action or non-action of other nations affects a nation's responsibility for climate change, (3) how to spend limited funds on climate change adaptation, (4) when politicians may rely on their own uninformed opinion about climate change science, and (5) who is responsible to for climate refugees and what are their responsibilities.

Although progress was made on adaptation in Cancun, the Cancun agreements defer many of the tougher issues to COP - 17 and beyond particularly on funding issues.

As we shall see, that high - emitting nations have responsibility for funding adaptation measures in developing countries is a conclusion that can be based on strong ethical grounds despite reasonable disagreements about such matters as when the ethical responsibility was triggered, which kinds of adaptation measures should be funded now, and the need to distinguish between responsibilities that arise due to the «fault» of high - emitting countries and responsibilities which arise without attributing «fault.»

With the late - summer ice edge located farther north than it used to be, storms produce larger waves and more coastal erosion.5 An additional contributing factor is that coastal bluffs that were «cemented» by ice - rich permafrost are beginning to thaw in response to warmer air and ocean waters, and are therefore more vulnerable to erosion.22 Standard defensive adaptation strategies to protect coastal communities from erosion, such as use of rock walls, sandbags, and riprap, have been largely unsuccessful.23 Several coastal communities are seeking to relocate to escape erosion that threatens infrastructure and services but, because of high costs and policy constraints on use of federal funds for community relocation, only one Alaskan village has begun to relocate (see also Ch.