Sentences with phrase «other than mitigation»

Not exact matches

The widespread use of portfolio diversification and other risk mitigation tactics, combined with recent advancements, have made markets more interconnected than ever before.

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.

Concentrations across the Antarctic continent have since declined, but still are about four-fold higher than before industrialization, despite the phase out of leaded gasoline and other mitigation efforts in many countries in the Southern Hemisphere, the report states.

Jeep is also keen to point out that the 2018 Wrangler has no less than «75 available active and passive safety and security features,» and although all (thankfully) aren't listed, we are told there's blind - spot monitoring, ESC with roll mitigation and «Rear Cross Path» detection available among many other things.

Using data from a series of sensors, dynamic stability control applies brake force to wheels that it detects as having lost traction, while active roll mitigation senses when the Sport is heavier on one side than the other and uses corrective braking to prevent rollover.

Dozens were killed, more than 500,000 others suffered from respiratory infections and 43 million people across Indonesia and neighboring states had to brave smog, according to the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB).

On the other side, while there will undoubtedly be high costs to any serious attempt at mitigation, this would also require something like a global agreement (covering at least the rich world, India and China, and probably other states with large and currently poor populations) which would inevitably have to bring in issues other than greenhouse gas emissions — such as those you mention — if only because these states will say, reasonably enough, that they can not bring their populations on board without serious help in those other areas.

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 change.

On the other hand most of those who call themselves environmentalists seem strikingly focused on far more than just the practical problems of day to day pollution mitigation.

CDR projects frequently require different financing mechanisms than other mitigation and adaptation projects today.

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

One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.

And (in the last chapter) the range of «mitigation» approaches available, other than reduction of fossil fuel use (which the middle of the book is all about).

The group developed a proposal later adopted by the WG, which states that by 2050, annual CO2 emissions derived from Earth System Models following RCP2.6, a mitigation scenario, are smaller than 1990 emissions, and that by the end of the 21st century, about half of the models infer emissions slightly above zero, while the other half infer a net removal of CO2 from the atmosphere.

What this leads to is that scaremongering has no effect on me other than to make me more determined to educate people to realise what would be the cost to humanity of the irrational mitigation policies proposed by the CAGW Alarmists.

Definition: Climate ambition is taking a stronger mitigation action than would make sense for reasons of pure self interest * when here is no commitment by others that they will reciprocate.

Imagining that climate mitigation might proceed under any other circumstances represents no less a denial of reality than does pretending that climate change doesn't exist.

The bulk of mitigation occurs via other policies, whose implicit carbon prices are often much higher than in the market.

Since we do not have these models, it seems impossible to support anything other than «no regrets» policies on the issue and that those supporting expensive climate mitigation actions to be doing so not based on the science, but on their personal set of belief system.

Even though some of these key risks are more likely to materialise than others, and they differ in the extent that they can be managed by adaptation and mitigation, they all warrant attention from a risk management perspective, given their potential major consequences for the region.

The study cites Spencer and Bast along with other «manufacturers of doubt,» whose work to undermine the public understanding of this consensus has been stunningly successful — only 12 percent of Americans, their previous work found, know that more than 90 percent of scientists agree on this — and has resulted in «cascading effects on public understanding that climate change is happening, human caused, a serious threat, and in turn, support for climate change mitigation and adaptation policies.»

Sequestering carbon in the soil gets less attention than other, longer - lasting carbon - capture techniques, but its benefits extend beyond climate mitigation.

And I can't run models, other than simple ones in Excel where I can change input parameters and view the results — preferably in the charts I am most interested in; e.g., your Figure 3 here http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-012-0613-3 and my Figure 1 from DICE - 2013R outputs showing net benefit of mitigation policies per 5 years to 2100 (posted @ December 30, 2016 at 10:52 pm up thread).

What function is it serving, other than to divert attention from the substance of the case for mitigation, which has not in fact been made?

According to Kairo mangroves are critical in the climate change mitigation because «mangroves and associated blue carbon sequester more carbon than any other system.

On the other hand, most of those who call themselves environmentalists seem strikingly focused on far more than just the practical problems of day - to - day pollution mitigation.

The truth is there is simply no other comparable near - term strategy for greenhouse gas mitigation than a phase down of HFCs under the Montreal Protocol.

There are those on one side who see unintended consequences of probable government attempts at mitigation for AGW, given the current dominating political philosophies, as something worse than even some rather severe effects from AGW, and those on the other hand that see a major role for government in these areas that mitigation would encompass no matter what the future may hold for AGW.

While it has long been known that cost - effective energy efficiency measures are beneficial to economic welfare and therefore worth pursuing on grounds other than climate change mitigation, the magnitude of rebound effects and their implications for the utility of energy efficiency as a climate change mitigation strategy remain contested.

The AVE can be turned off at will and therefore is far safer than other global warming mitigation proposals.

The real challenge then is to design conversations around geoengineering and mitigation that reinforce rather than hamper each other.

For those who are determined to maintain a contrarian position on AGW, there are other much better grounds on which to base that position (maybe climate sensitivity is low, or maybe the impacts of GW will be on balance positive, or maybe the impacts will be negative but the costs of mitigation would be higher than the benefits).

On the other hand, the proposed mitigation policies will increase the probability of worse well - being, than would otherwise be the case, for a large proportion of the global population.

IPCC needs to apply itself more seriously to mitigation other than CO2 reduction.

I suppose the battle - lines here are drawn between on the one - hand those who believe in either significant natural feedbacks impacting the carbon cycle as - we - speak or who believe today's mitigation measures are useless, and on the other - hand those who would welcome some signs of a weakening of the accelerating CO2 - rise as this would encourage more mitigation actions (and less hand - wringing) and who consider CO2 emissions reporting is more than «fluff».

(I suppose the other bad news is that this a higher figure than has been suggested by past reports on what percentage of GDP should be devoted to climate change mitigation.)

The accord stops short, however, of determining the ratio of funds that will be spent on mitigation and adaptation, respectively, and of identifying any specific mechanisms or sources of finance other than «public and private, bilateral and multilateral, including alternative sources.»

* According to the Berkeley group, the Earth's surface temperature will have risen (on average) slightly less than what indicated by NASA, NOAA and the Met Office * Differences will be on the edge of statistical significance, leaving a lot open to subjective interpretation * Several attempts will be made by climate change conformists and True Believers to smear the work of BEST, and to prevent them from publishing their data * After publication, organised groups of people will try to cloud the issue to the point of leaving the public unsure about what exactly was found by BEST * New questions will be raised regarding UHI, however the next IPCC assessment's first draft will be singularly forgetful of any peer - reviewed paper on the topic * We will all be left with a slightly - warming world, the only other certitude being that all mitigation efforts will be among the stupidest ideas that ever sprung to human mind.

It is hard to imagine that Socolow's comments can be in reference to anyone other than Romm, who has probably done more to confuse issues of mitigation policy than anyone.

These measures are often adopted mainly for reasons other than GHG mitigation (see Section 8.7.3).

More than any other type of harm mitigation, we are firm believers in working hard to ensure that a property insurance claim doesn't become a life insurance claim.

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