Sentences with phrase «questions of adaptation strategies»

Maybe not needed, but the IPCC should definitely have a committee looking into these questions, and questions of adaptation strategies, too, should all else fail to solve the problems facing us — an IPHN subcommittee of the IPCC.

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This is a question frequently asked by planners, policy makers and other professionals charged with the task of developing and implementing adaptation strategies.

James Hansen and colleagues remark that «Climate sensitivity, sea level and atmospheric carbon dioxide [are such that] burning all fossil fuels would make most of the planet uninhabitable by humans, thus calling into question strategies that emphasize adaptation to climate change.»

Burning all fossil fuels, we conclude, would make most of the planet uninhabitable by humans, thus calling into question strategies that emphasize adaptation to climate change.

A total of 22 European Member States answered the questions focusing on eight thematic areas or topics: governance, vulnerability, impact and adaptation assessments, national and subnational adaptation strategies, climate - change mitigation, strengthening of health systems, awareness raising and capacity building, green health services and sharing best practices.

A key component in answering this question will be a need to establish the likelihood, and realized extent, of species acclimation (or adaptation) to environmental change [7,8] and, if common across functionally important taxa, how such coping and adaptive strategies will alter species — environment interactions in the long term [9].