ON ADAPTATION POLICY in a sentence

In particular, we focus on adaptation policy and finance under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, vulnerability assessments, capacity building and community - based adaptation.

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As a last resort, if you can't find an overview, you might comb through the national communications of Annex I countries to the UN FCCC; they are also supposed to report on adaptation policies (and if those sections are no help, you might find things of interest in the sections on vulnerabilities, anyway).

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Kelly pursued her doctoral work at Yale's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where her research focused on adaptation policies to contend with climate impacts to biodiversity.

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Robert R.M. Verchick, a Loyola University law professor who worked on climate change adaptation policy at the Environmental Protection Agency under Obama, said federal leadership is essential.

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

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Dow is also a lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment's Chapter on Adaptation Opportunities, Constraints and Limits, and the Summary for Policy Makers (2014).

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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.»

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Adaptation may have an impact on water availability, wildlife, biodiversity, carbon policies, and the amount of recreation space.

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Speaking to the State Department's Foreign Affairs Policy Board, Stern warned that there will be «enormous pressure» on donor countries to show they are making progress on a vow to generate $ 100 billion annually by 2020 for clean energy and adaptation.

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If the world is focused on adaptation, Third World countries will suffer the catastrophes caused by climate change while «rich countries will muddle through with dikes, crops redesigned to survive drought, more air conditioning and the like,» Peter Passell wrote in the news magazine Foreign Policy.

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We have a climate change adaptation task force shared by the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Council on Environmental Quality, and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

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Some things we might do if we got desperate enough: scrub greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere technologically, geo - engineering to create cooling effects to offset greenhouse heating, [SLIDE 42] lots of adaptation policies, cropping patterns, heat drought and salt - resistant crops, strengthen public health and environmental engineering defenses against tropical disease, new water projects for flood control and drought management, dyke storm surge barriers, avoiding further development on flood plains in near sea level.

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Policy decisions on both mitigation and adaptation require the same scientific advice, but are influenced by other factors too.

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Societal response strategies are also investigated, focussing on international environmental treaties, international and Australian policy approaches to global warming, and management and adaptation strategies.

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(Progress on each front becomes dependent on progress, or lack of, on other fronts: adaptation awaits «better» science; energy policy is wedded to disputed science - based targets; science is justified for its promise of reduced uncertainties.)

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In light of those concerns, I suggest a suite of policies, focused largely on risk reduction and adaptation, to insulate the United States and countries of strategic concern from the worst effects of climate change.

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Either way, their survival depends far more on their adaptation than it does to US action, since no matter what policies we enact, there is warming already in the «pipeline» and the warming to come from the economic growth in the developing world will dwarf any attempts to limit our own emissions.

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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?»

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We clearly have to take actions on many levels, but you can ruminate on the morality of the following postion: Assuming that hurricane damage in the US is driven by settlement of the Gulf Coast, the US might make a policy choice to emphasize adaptation (the cost of resettlement would be astronomical (> 10 ^ Kyoto).

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A first step towards planning adaptation policies of SLR would be the projection of SLR at the local level at different time scales and at its different scenarios, as devised by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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Tell us why you think that virtually every nation, state, county, city, the military are developing action plans and policies for adaptation & mitigation based on the science that is pointing to us being responsible for the observed changes in our ecosystem.

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However, the constraints on approaches to adaptation due to broader policy and development goals should be carefully considered.

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