Sentences with phrase «plan adaptation and mitigation»

AFAIK the UK government is planning adaptation and mitigation.

Not exact matches

IFOAM and IATP presented effective, affordable, locally appropriate mitigation and adaptation practices for integration into action plans and policies.

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.

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.

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.

Partnerships are built around various drivers: for example supporting the Polar regions in a period of rapid change; educating the public about polar sciences and climate; contributing to climate change awareness; mitigation and adaptation; defining and implementing CSR action plan; implementing technology solutions for low carbon emissions.

b by 2020, increase by x % the number of cities and human settlements adopting and implementing integrated policies and plans towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, resilience to disasters, develop and implement in line with the forthcoming Hyogo Framework holistic disaster risk management at all levels

Mitigation — reducing emissions fast enough to achieve the temperature goal A transparency system and global stock - take — accounting for climate action Adaptation — strengthening ability of countries to deal with climate impacts Loss and damage — strengthening ability to recover from climate impacts Support — including finance, for nations to build clean, resilient futures As well as setting a long - term direction, countries will peak their emissions as soon as possible and continue to submit national climate action plans that detail their future objectives to address climate change.

These plans may reflect a diversity of mitigation and adaptation approaches.

Meanwhile, a few scientists, James Lovelock among them, are saying we might have already passed the tipping point, and that instead of mitigation strategies, the experts should now be planning and implementing adaptation strategies, and there are many of them.

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.

These activities include: Investment & Financial Flows Assessments, regional meetings with national climate change focal points, publications about budgetary planning to address climate change, and technical backstopping for countries that begin to consider adaptation and mitigation for climate change in their National Development Plans, as well as participation in UNFCCC side events to present these activities results.

Ms Najira advised that climate information is being integrated into national policy frameworks such as the National Climate Change Management Policy, 2014 - 2018 investment plan, Nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMA), National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPA) and the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC).

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.

First step in this direction would be to constrain GHG emissions and to integrate climate proofing into urban transport planning and policy process thereby synergising development, mitigation and adaptation concerns.

Stainforth explained how climate modellers are told policymakers need local and regional scale predictions for 40 years ahead to enable them to plan mitigation and adaptation.

If they are to be effective, local plans for climate change (both adaptation and mitigation) require the involvement of a variety of stakeholders and a specific focus on the most vulnerable groups.

These plans must address both mitigation (e.g., reducing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere) and adaptation (responding to the impacts of climate change).

The screening showed that the activities planned would generate climate benefits in terms of adaptation to slow - onset climate change (60 %), adaptation to extreme events (18 %) and climate change mitigation (19 %).

As a developing country, India is not bound to set a greenhouse gas emissions target, but Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh said India has adopted what he called an «ambitious» National Action Plan on Climate Change with eight national missions covering both mitigation and adaptation.

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C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, 12 California, 7, 68, 102, 128, 169 - 170, 187, 196, 232 - 234, 245 California Energy Commission, 232 Cambridge Media Environment Programme (CMEP), 167 - 168 Cambridge University, 102 Cameron, David, 11, 24, 218 Cameroon, 25 Campbell, Philip, 165 Canada, 22, 32, 64, 111, 115, 130, 134, 137, 156 - 157, 166, 169, 177, 211, 222, 224 - 226, 230, 236, 243 Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS), 15 Cap - and - trade, 20, 28, 40 - 41, 44, 170, 175 allowances (permits), 41 - 42, 176, 243 Capitalism, 34 - 35, 45 Capps, Lois, 135 Car (see vehicle) Carbon, 98, 130 Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), 192 Carbon Capture and Storage Association, 164 Carbon credits (offsets), 28 - 29, 42 - 43, 45 Carbon Cycle, 80 - 82 Carbon dioxide (CO2), 9, 18, 23, 49 - 51, 53, 55, 66 - 67, 72 - 89, 91, 98 - 99, 110, 112, 115, 118, 128 - 132, 137, 139, 141 - 144, 152, 240 emissions, 12, 18 - 25, 28 - 30, 32 - 33, 36 - 38, 41 - 44, 47, 49, 53, 55, 71 - 72, 74, 77 - 78, 81 - 82, 108 - 109, 115, 132, 139, 169, 186, 199 - 201, 203 - 204, 209 - 211, 214, 217, 219, 224, 230 - 231, 238, 241, 243 - 244 Carbon Dioxide Analysis Center, 19 Carbon Expo, 42 Carbon, footprint, 3, 13, 29, 35, 41, 45, 110, 132 tax, 20, 44, 170 trading, 13, 20, 40, 43, 44, 176, 182 Carbon monoxide (CO), 120 Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), 44 Carlin, George, 17 Carter, Bob, 63 Carter, Jimmy, 186, 188 Cato Institute, 179 CBS, 141, 146 Center for Disease Control, 174 Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, 62, 139 Centre for Policy Studies, 219 CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), 96 Chavez, Hugo, 34 Chicago Tribune, 146 China, 29, 32 - 33, 60 - 62, 120, 169, 176, 187 - 188, 211, 216, 225 - 226, 242 - 243 China's National Population and Planning Commission, 33 Chinese Academy of Sciences, 60 Chirac, Jacques, 36 Chlorofluorocarbons, 42 - 43, 50 Choi, Yong - Sang, 88 Christy, John, 105 Churchill, Winston, 214, 220 Chu, Steven, 187 Citibank (Citigroup), 40, 176 Clean Air Act, 85, 128 - 129 Clean Development Mechanism, 42 Climate Action Partnership, 14 Climate alarm, 4, 13, 21, 32, 35, 38, 56, 102 - 103, 115 - 117, 120, 137, 156, 168, 173, 182 Climate Audit, 66 Climate change, adaptation, 39, 110, 112 mitigation, 16, 39, 110 Climate Change and the Failure of Democracy, 34 Climate Change: Picturing the Science, 121 Climate Change Reconsidered, 242 Climate conference, 38 Cancun, 18, 29, 36 - 37, 124 - 125, 242 Copenhagen, 33, 36, 109, 125, 156, 158, 175, 241 - 242 Durban, 13, 36 - 37, 166, 242 - 243 Climategate, 2, 67, 152, 158 - 170, 180, 182, 242 Climate Protection Agreement, 12 Climate Research Unit (CRU), 48, 67, 120, 147, 152 - 153, 158 - 160, 162 - 163, 165 - 167, 169 Climate Science Register, 142 Climatism, definition, 2, 7 Clinton, Bill, 176, 178 Clinton Global Initiative, 176 CLOUD project, 96 Club of Rome, 21, 186 CO2Science, 59, 61 - 62, 66, 131 Coal, 19 - 20, 39 - 41, 80, 126, 128 - 129, 175, 185 - 186, 188 - 190, 192 - 196, 199 - 201, 209, 214, 217, 219, 222, 229 Coase, Ronald, 145 Coca - Cola, 138 Cogley, Graham, 156 Cohen, David, 220 Colorado State University, 117, 181 Columbia University, 7 Columbus, Christopher, 58 Computer models, 16, 51 - 53, 56, 67, 72, 74,77 - 79, 82, 87, 89 - 91, 94, 105, 110 - 111, 120, 124, 138 - 140, 168, 171,173, 181, 238, 240, 246 Conference on the Changing Atmosphere, 15 Consensus, scientific, 12 Copenhagen Business School, 134 Coral, 53 Corporate Average Fuel Economy, 22 - 23 Cosmic Rays, 72, 93 - 99, 180 Credit Suisse, 176 Crow, Cheryl, 30 Crowley, Tom, 167 Cuadrilla Resources, 224 - 225 Curry, Judith, 164, 167 Cycles, natural, 3, 16, 57, 62 - 63, 66 - 69, 72, 80, 99, 103, 138, 238, 240 Milankovich, 62, 67, 80 Cyprus, 134 Czech Republic, 12, 37

As Section Chief, she oversaw and managed the comprehensive revision of Colorado's 2010 Drought Mitigation and Response Plan, and authored the Water Adaptation section of Colorado's first Climate Action Plan in 2007.

Topic (s): COP22 List of UN Publications, COP23 List of UN Publications, Adaptation, Mitigation, Risk Reduction / Management, Economic and Development Planning, Energy, Transport

Furthermore, this report summarizes information provided in the INDCs / NDCs on Climate - Smart Agriculture (CSA), mitigation - adaptation co-benefits and how countries have developed their INDCs and are planning to implement their NDCs.

What's your plan for dealing with the risks that can't be addressed by adaptation and mitigation?

«(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».

Topic (s): COP22 List of UN Publications, COP23 List of UN Publications, Adaptation, Mitigation, Economic and Development Planning, Energy, Transport

Topic (s): COP22 List of UN Publications, COP23 List of UN Publications, Adaptation, Mitigation, Economic and Development Planning, Industry

And third, developing countries will need strong and increasing financial, capacity - building and technological support from developed countries to implement their mitigation and adaptation plaAnd third, developing countries will need strong and increasing financial, capacity - building and technological support from developed countries to implement their mitigation and adaptation plaand increasing financial, capacity - building and technological support from developed countries to implement their mitigation and adaptation plaand technological support from developed countries to implement their mitigation and adaptation plaand adaptation plans.

The Bali Action Plan from 2007 included five building blocks, which were shared vision, adaptation, mitigation, tech transfer and finance.

You are also planning to save significant funds for the future mitigation and adaptation?

The plan links the City's strategic plan for climate change mitigation and adaptation with its inequality agenda to create an integrated programme for inclusive growth and climate action.

In 2009, the City launched its Climate Change Action Plan 2010 - 2030 and embarked on a long - term adaptation and mitigation effort.

We must forget the obsession with global anthropogenic greenhouse warming alone plus the implementation of draconian global mitigation actions and shift our attention to local and regional climate and weather - related issues and any actionable adaptation measures that can be planned and implemented in order to avoid potential problems.

Three tons of carbon dioxide per person per year as goal and guide is the basis for more than typical climate change mitigation and adaptation plans.

This report includes chapters on Mitigation, Adaptation, and Decision Support that offer an overview of the options and activities being planned or implemented around the country as local, state, federal, and tribal governments, as well as businesses, organizations, and individuals begin to respond to climate change.

Governments should support energy planning for housing and transportation, energy and carbon efficiency requirements for buildings, vehicles and other manufactured products, and climate mitigation and adaptation in undeveloped countries.

A similar framing is that of CE as a plan B, i.e. an option to be pursued if the more preferable option of mitigation and adaptation fails (Davies 2010, 262; Bodansky 2011, 5; Luokkanen, Huttunen and Hildén 2014, 972; Weili and Ying 2014, 1).

[Each Party][All Parties][recognizing the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities][shall][should][other] regularly [formulate][prepare], [communicate][submit], [maintain][update] and [shall][should][other][implement][fulfill][intended][nationally determined mitigation [commitments][contributions][actions]-RSB-[nationally determined mitigation commitments and / or contributions][a nationally determined contribution with a mitigation component], -LSB-, which can be in the form of co-benefits resulting from [its][the Party's] adaptation contributions and economic diversification plans][programmes containing measures to mitigate climate change](NDMC / NDMCC)

Options include such tongue - twisters as «Nationally Determined Mitigation [Contribution][Commitment](NDMC)» and «Intended Nationally Determined Contributions, which can be in the form of co-benefits resulting from the Party's adaptation contributions and economic diversification plans.»)

- Improving planning of mitigation and adaptation practices for key human and societal activities.

Other measures are aimed at the mitigation of «heat islands» through urban planning, the adaptation of housing design to local climate and expanding air conditioning, shifts in work patterns and mortality monitoring (Keatinge et al., 2000; Ballester et al., 2003; Johnson et al., 2005; Marttila et al., 2005; Penning - Rowsell et al., 2005).

Sering said that in order to minimize the impacts of climate change, there is a need to identify «vulnerabilities and strategically plan adaptation efforts» and that financial resources are needed implement climate adaptation and mitigation measures.

urban planning, building design and recycling with benefits for both adaptation and mitigation;

How Predictable are Different Aspects of the Arctic System, and How Can Improved Understanding of Predictability Facilitate Planning, Mitigation, and Adaptation?

These included highlighting some of the mitigation and adaptation projects already underway or planned in the region and across the globe.

watershed planning where water is allocated between hydroelectricity and consumption without explicitly addressing mitigation and adaptation;

It brought together 38 participants representing planning universities and planning professionals and aimed to: reach a common understanding on how better urban planning and design can contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation, especially in the Developing Countries context; agree on how best to equip urban planners and related professionals, especially in developing countries to deal with climate change and to conceptualize the core elements of a toolbox; and reach a common understanding on how urban planning and design schools can better address climate change as an integral part of their curricula.

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