Sentences with phrase «own adaptation plans»

Furthermore, UTZ works on the landscape - based adaptation planning project with Malawian tea smallholder farmers which will not only address the effects of climate change on tea, but also tackle such environmental impacts as land degradation, deforestation and availability of clean water.

The Massachusetts Climate Change Adaptation Report (September 2011) sets the stage for developing a statewide, comprehensive, quantifiable adaptation plan that protects the health, welfare and nature of Massachusetts.

An adaptation plan, to be published next year, will also examine existing risks and how the country can minimise them, he said.

Hellmann has co-authored several climate assessment and adaptation planning efforts, including the biodiversity and ecosystem portions of the Chicago Climate Action Plan and the 2014 National Climate Assessment.

Dow's recent outreach activities include the 2016 Carolinas Climate Resilience Conference, held September 12 - 14 in Charlotte, North Carolina, and local workshops that focus on climate adaptation planning.

The results suggest that recent changes in global vegetation have had impacts on local climates that should be considered in the design of local mitigation and adaptation plans.

Obama Administration Releases First - Ever Climate Adaptation Plans With plans that incorporate efforts made by the Commerce, Agriculture, Energy, Transportation and Defense departments, among others, the administration's effort acknowledges that climate impacts are happening now and require action

The study improves our understanding on future trends in river flood risk in Europe while also highlighting the need to prepare effective adaptation plans for a likely increase in the severity and frequency of floods in Europe.

However, considerable increase in flood risk is predicted in Europe even under the most optimistic scenario of 1.5 °C warming as compared to pre-industrial levels, urging national governments to prepare effective adaptation plans to compensate for the foreseen increasing risks.

But in the end, the city's climate adaptation plan says, it's «cheapest by far to establish the protection over a longer period, where sections can be protected in connection with other construction projects.»

«A key premise of this commitment is that adaptation planning needs to be informed by a continuing scientific, sound assessment of the impacts of a changing climate and the effectiveness of preparations and response options,» Abbott said.

Though they seem discouraging, results from the study will help Forest Service managers classify watersheds in response to human - produced stressors and develop regional climate adaptation plans.

Long - term monitoring efforts that supported this discovery are vital as we continue to monitor changes in the Arctic and develop tools to support adaptation planning for both wildlife and people.»

HUD has an adaptation plan in place to assess those risks and prepare public housing, home lending and other programs for the challenges of climate change but it seems unlikely Carson would make that a priority.

Such offices shall engage in cooperative research, development, and demonstration projects with the academic community, State Climate Offices, Regional Climate Offices, and other users and stakeholders on climate products, technologies, models, and other tools to improve understanding and forecasting of regional and local climate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory Committee.

(8) a process for guiding the development of detailed agency - and department - specific adaptation plans required under section 478 to address the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on the natural resources in the jurisdiction of each agency.

The new research also shows that the Arctic, North America and Europe will be the first regions to transition to a new climate, underscoring the urgent need for adaptation planning.

It tracks progress on health and climate change across 40 indicators divided into five categories: climate change impacts, exposures and vulnerability; adaptation planning and resilience for health; mitigation actions and health co-benefits; economics and finance; and public and political engagement.

The Facility would simultaneously contribute to the implementation of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets (CBD), the Land Degradation Neutrality targets (UNCCD), and the Nationally Determined Contributions and National Adaptation Plans (UNFCCC).

They found that one in every three European cities has no plans on the table to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while seven in every ten urban areas have no formal adaptation plans in place.

This information is needed in the near - term (from a season to a year) to mitigate risks to society and ecosystems, and in the longer term (from a decade to centuries) for effective adaptation planning.

They scrutinized adaptation plans which incorporate urban planning and development actions that lead to the abatement or reduction of vulnerability to climate change, and mitigation plans that include actions such as improved energy efficiency and renewable energy generation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The highest proportion of cities with an adaptation plan are in the UK (80 percent of 30 cities), Finland (50 percent of 4 cities) and Germany (33 percent of 40 cities).

For human systems, existing studies focus on frameworks and principles of adaptation planning, but examples of implemented adaptation actions and evaluation of outcomes are scarce.

Northern Rockies vulnerability assessment and adaptation plan (NRAP).

Many of the experts in this book provide evidence of gender bias across social sectors — in education and academic research, politics, business, and even in climate change adaptation plans.

So it looks like Javier Bardem is no longer officially on board as Roland, assuming he ever actually was, though Howard seems to still be committed to the ambitious joint movie / TV adaptation plan, Universal's budget skittishness be damned.

«UNEP currently invests US$ 20 million annually in supporting Ecosystem - based Adaption in 47 countries as part of its EbA Flagship Programme and will catalyse further action to strengthen EbA as part of overall national adaptation planning.

In FY 2012, the Department took significant strides forward by incorporating climate change adaptation and resiliency considerations into DOT policies and grant programs and releasing its first ever Climate Change Adaptation Plan.

Title: 2014 DOT Adaptation Plan OCRP Link: https://www.transportation.gov/mission/sustainability/2014-dot-adaptatio...

A comprehensive policy will be needed — one with multiple reduction triggers (Downstream Cap and Trade as well as CO2 based CAFE standards for example), an expansive energy R&D policy (much like the one called for by Nordhaus and Shellenberg), and an adaptation plan for areas that will be critically effected by the warming predicted without any current reduction policy.

The paper suggests that long - term strategic adaptation plans for the full range of possible SLR need to be widely developed.

The latter showed that future ESL changes can be significant in certain areas, adding to, or damping the effects of SLR; such information needs to be accounted for in coastal management and adaptation plans in addition to SLR projections.

When future projections are modelled, it could be a crucial input in devising adaptation planning and implementation.

Half of cities do have an «adaptation plan,» which is one step ahead of simple admission of the problems.

The course was jointly developed by the United Nations Institute of Training and Research (UNITAR), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and funded by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Society, Germany (BMUB) as part of the National Adaptation Plans (NAP - Ag) Programme.

This is an outreach event, which was held on 4 - 6 April 2018 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, to promote experience sharing and collaboration on how to advance National Adaptation Plans (NAPs).

The MOOC raised awareness and built the capacities of a wide range of interested stakeholders in climate change adaptation planning, specifically for the agriculture sectors.

Some lecture notes will also be folded into future knowledge products on adaptation planning.

While there is no single approach to gender inequality and the linkages to climate change adaptation planning, implementation and M&E, countries often face similar challenges.

In another instance, the Environmental Protection Agency removed links to the Climate Change Adaptation Plan documents, which offer guidelines on climate change mitigation.

discuss how countries can enhance adaptation actions by strengthening the role of climate change risk assessment in national adaptation planning;

More information on the INDC process and portal is available here Information on undertakings on adaptation planning is available here

«If you look on the websites of these jurisdictions, you will see they have done reports on sea level rise and adaptation planning,» said Sean Hecht, a UCLA law professor who is advising some of the litigants.

The feature profiled the city of Chicago which joined by New York has taken the lead among major municipalities already engaged in adaptation planning and initiatives.

Additionally, the highly customizable tool will accelerate the pipeline from research to real - world impact, providing immediate information to guide climate adaptation planning and other decisions.

It also provides a synthesis of relevant additional examples of adaptation planning and practices undertaken in other countries, which were reported under the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change.

This slide presentation provides an argument for the evaluation of adaptation plans.

This analytical report contains a compilation of case studies on national adaptation planning processes, including tools and approaches used for the prioritization and implementation of adaptation actions.

Having a climate adaptation plan alone may not have protected the state from Hurricane Harvey, as Burnham acknowledged — but it's hard to imagine adequately preparing for Harvey without taking shifting climate into account.