Sentences with phrase «other climate mitigation»

I hope momentum from COP21 will lead to greater awareness in 2016 of the critical need for developing carbon removal solutions alongside other climate mitigation solutions today, and renewed action on numerous fronts.

Similar efforts will be needed with other climate mitigation technologies, such as renewables, nuclear and efficiency.

Not exact matches

Coffee, especially shade coffee, is a global crop that has a relatively lower impact on greenhouse gas emissions and a more positive impact on carbon sequestration than many other crops.There is potential for shade coffee farms to contribute to the mitigation of climate change and generate income for farmers at the same time; I have a previous post that outlines the basics.

Massachusetts, along with other states and nations, has a two - part approach to combating the effects of human - induced rapid climate change: emissions reduction (mitigation) and adaptation.

CIF was established in 2008, as one of the largest fast - tracked climate financing instruments in the world, with $ 8.3 - billion funding to provide developing countries with grants, concessional loans, risk mitigation instruments, and equity that leverage significant financing from the private sector, Multinational Development Bank's (MDBs) and other sources.

Apart from air pollution reduction, other benefits of urban green infrastructure include urban heat island mitigation, the potential reduction in energy consumption, better stormwater management, and climate change mitigation.

CSW and others are calling for the creation of a new cabinet - level agency called the National Climate Service to oversee both climate change mitigation as well as preparedness for increasingly extreme weather Climate Service to oversee both climate change mitigation as well as preparedness for increasingly extreme weather climate change mitigation as well as preparedness for increasingly extreme weather events.

Private financing for the CCUS is well and good, he suggested, but «if you're advocating something that deserves major resources as a climate mitigation option, it starts to look more like a distraction in that those resources can be used in other directions.»

On the other hand, while sustained high oil prices could provide climate change mitigation efforts a mild boost, the study concludes that such market developments would be no substitute for concerted global policy to limit climate change to below 2 °C above preindustrial levels.

First, the researchers show how growing native perennial species on marginal lands - land not used for food production because of low fertility or other reasons — avoids competition with food security, and provides the greatest potential for climate mitigation and biodiversity benefits.

According to Cleveland, the findings add weight to the conclusion of several other recent studies: Diet change must be part of successful climate change mitigation policies, and climate change mitigation must be included in policies to improve the food system.

This is designed to convince other countries to follow suit, hopefully eliminating what economists call the «free rider» problem of climate change mitigation programs.

But in a regime of bottom - up climate policy that still aims to achieve top - down temperature targets, other governments would need to step up and declare that they increase their mitigation pledges — and act accordingly.

Beyond preparing for the inevitable, the report also calls for climate mitigation, including implementing the 2015 Paris Agreement in order to have «any hope of avoiding catastrophic effects from sea - level rise and other outcomes of global warming.»

For the Global Energy Technology Strategy Program, he co-authored a number of landmark reports addressing CCS and other climate change mitigation technologies.

James A. Edmonds • Member, IPCC Steering Committee on «New Integrated Scenarios» (2006 - present) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Framing Issues,» IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Global, Regional, and National Costs and Ancillary Benefits of Mitigation,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Decision - Making Frameworks,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, Summary for Policy Makers, IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Energy Supply Mitigation Options,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Mitigation: Cross-Sectoral and Other Issues,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Estimating the Costs of Mitigating Greenhouse Gases,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «A Review of Mitigation Cost Studies,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Integrated Assessment of Climate Change: An Overview and Comparison of Approaches and Results,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1994: Radiative Forcing of Climate Change and An Evaluation of the IPCC IS92 Emission Scenarios (1994) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1992: The Supplementary Report to the IPCC Scientific Assessment (1992) • Major contributor, IPCC First Assessment Report, Working Group III, Response Strategies Working Group (1991).

Beside the climate change mitigation goal, the initiative contributes to many other challenges as biodiversity conservation, food security, governance and fight against land degradation.

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A fairly recent resource teachers may find useful in providing an evidentiary basis for climate science education is CAMEL (Climate Adaptation Mitigation E-Learning), which offers a large selection of articles, videos, and other modalities on a range of climate change climate science education is CAMEL (Climate Adaptation Mitigation E-Learning), which offers a large selection of articles, videos, and other modalities on a range of climate change Climate Adaptation Mitigation E-Learning), which offers a large selection of articles, videos, and other modalities on a range of climate change climate change topics.

One section authorizes the Secretary of Education to award grants to universities and colleges to develop curriculum and training programs that prepare students for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and other forms of climate change mitigation.

In other words, if you really care about clean water and reducing disease, get behind climate change mitigation.

There is, of course, no reason why these choices have to be implemented instead of others, such as energy solutions, climate adaptation and mitigation, etc..

The findings came from the Climate Accountability Institute, an entity led by Richard Heede, whose company, Climate Mitigation Services, advises companies, municipalities and others on how to cut greenhouse gases, and Naomi Oreskes, the Harvard historian and co-author of «Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming.»

Climate smart agriculture will be key to achieving both because investments in agriculture help the poor — 70 percent live in rural areas — more than any other program, and because agriculture is key to both mitigation and adaptation to climate Climate smart agriculture will be key to achieving both because investments in agriculture help the poor — 70 percent live in rural areas — more than any other program, and because agriculture is key to both mitigation and adaptation to climate climate change.

Clearly Kyoto will not do as the mitigation centerpiece of the climate regime, unless the other big emitters are willing to join or rejoin.

What our current administration and so many other climate skeptics fail to realize, is that the costs of mitigation and prevention are so much smaller then the costs of cleanup and reaction.

The White House also announced that, in the context of an overall deal in Copenhagen that includes robust mitigation contributions from China and the other emerging economies, the president is prepared to put on the table a U.S. emissions reduction target in the range of 17 percent below 2005 levels in 2020 and ultimately in line with final U.S. energy and climate legislation.

Therefore, the cost - benefit analyses regarding the mitigation of CO2 and other greenhouse gases need to be considered along with the other human climate forcings in a broader environmental context, as well as with respect to their role in the climate system.»

Without GHG emissions mitigation, they will blink out just as will numerous other species dependent upon cold climate conditions in the arctic and at high elevations around the world.

It is clear from the documents that Heartland advocates against responsible climate mitigation and then uses that advocacy to raise money from oil companies and «other corporations whose interests are threatened by climate policies.»

On the other hand, you argue that climate change is a serious threat and we much work to convince the population that they should implement the mitigation actions advocated by the Greens, socialists, progressives and the so called «environmental NGO's».

At least half of the 60 - plus S&T related positions identified in the Academy report will involve some level of involvement in one aspect or another of climate change: scientific research; assessment of climate change impacts; analysis and evaluation of adaptation and mitigation strategies; development of energy and other technologies for a carbon - constrained economy and society; and so on.

I can imagine that if Roger Pielke Jr. and Paul Nurse were to write down their «no - regrets» moves in light of climate change adaptation or mitigation, there would be many different things put on the table, some of which directly oppose each other.

Carbon removal techniques, while important for fighting climate change, have faced resistance from some in the environmental community partly because they have been perceived as a threat to the deployment of other climate change mitigation techniques.

Amongst other objectives, the foundation concentrates on driving forward climate change mitigation by supporting the reduction of Germany's greenhouse gas emissions.

The accurate monitoring and reporting of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases is essential for countries participating in climate mitigation schemes, such as reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD +)-- a scheme that pays developing countries for the carbon stored in trees and soils.

As brief as it is (3 pages to be exact, or 5 pages if you count the Appendix), Copenhagen Accord is comprehensive in that it covers all the major issues (including forestry - Article 6 - as some media outlets have incorrectly claimed was dropped) and is * somewhat * operational immediately — once the parties declare their mitigation commitments by the end of January, they can proceed to implement them, while the $ 30 billion quick - start fund commences next year as well; other aspects such as transparency and the global climate fund will require further action from the Conference of Parties to proceed.

The fact that we can't control China, India, and other countries makes all this discussion, the expensive satellites, expensive super-computer models, and money dumped on climate science an exercise in futility as far as mitigation of global warming is concerned.

Activities supported by the five regional commissions include, among others, the creation of strategies to integrate climate change consideration into development plans, the assessment of the economic impacts of climate change, and the evaluation of the costs of mitigation and adaptation.

While the greenhouse gas footprint of the production of other foods, compared to sources such as livestock, is highly dependent on a number of factors, production of livestock currently accounts for about 30 % of the U.S. total emissions of methane.316, 320,325,326 This amount of methane can be reduced somewhat by recovery methods such as the use of biogas digesters, but future changes in dietary practices, including those motivated by considerations other than climate change mitigation, could also have an effect on the amount of methane emitted to the atmosphere.327

This activity report provides an overview of mitigation and adaptation finance in the context of the Multilateral Development Banks» strengthened commitment to work with clients, other development finance institutions, the private sector, and stakeholders to tackle climate challenge with targeted and innovative finance.

The extent to which the project has positive co-benefits for other aspects of society, in addition to its climate change mitigation and CO2 reductions.

This guidance document provides access to articles, videos and various other resources that would assist indigenous peoples, local communities, policy makers and other stakeholders in researching on climate change adaptation and mitigation.

The International Development Finance Club (IDFC)-- a group of international, national, and regional development banks based in the developed and the developing world — released its annual report on green investment (i.e. mitigation, adaptation and «other» environmental finance which includes environmental protection and remediation related projects)-- as the world's climate negotiators were meeting in Lima, and its numbers are significant.

As we recommended in the paper, systematic investment in these strategies along with other recommended initiatives are likely to increase substantive news attention to various health threats associated with climate change, and thereby increase the capacity of communities to pursue mitigation and adaptation actions.

In other words, the very challenging numbers in this report are associated with an extremely ambitious global mitigation transition, one that would actually have a good chance of stabilizing the climate system.

UN-Habitat is already working with cities and other local governments in 20 developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to develop mitigation and adaptation strategies for climate change.

The report argues for a strong GEF role in such emerging sectors with high mitigation potential as urban systems combining transport, buildings, water supply, waste treatment, food supply and land use zoning, AFOLU (Agriculture, Forest and Other Land Use), agri - food supply systems — including emerging and often controversial mitigation opportunities such as short - lived climate forcers and carbon capture and storage.

Particularly, it underscored what were, for India and other developing nations, four «non-negotiables»: The countries would never accept legally binding emissions cuts, unsupported mitigation actions, international measurement, reporting and verification of unsupported mitigation actions, and the use of climate change as a trade barrier.

«The other end of the spectrum: municipal climate change mitigation planning in the politically conservative Dallas - Fort Worth region.»