Sentences with phrase «related local adaptation»

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Prior to joining GFI, Charlie worked at the Georgetown Climate Center, where he researched climate change adaptation strategies for local governments preparing for potential climate - related issues.

Dow is eager to include dialogue related to risk tolerance and priorities, and approaches to address the uncertainty in climate adaptation in ways that everyone — local community members, regional decision - makers, and scientists — can understand and participate in.

These results suggest that elevation - related differences in song structure in chickadees might serve as a signal for local adaptation.

Further, local risk assessments and adaptation measures, along with other community initiatives related to e.g. energy diversification / independence, have been underway for years in many parts of the world.

The contributions of urban agriculture to various policy goals are manifold and relate a.o to poverty alleviation, food security, environmental and waste management, local economic development, social and community development and community adaptation to climate change.

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.

In particular, the paper focuses on: 1) the contours of the adaptation issue, as well as its relationship to other important issues; 2) the consideration of adaptation within the current international negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), including the issues relating to adaptation finance; 3) the challenge of approaching adaptation at every level in a country: community, local, regional, sectoral and national.

Yet women are so often barred from the public sphere and thus absent from local, national and international decision - making related to natural disasters and adaptation.»

RUAF Foundation brought together a group of international and local scientists to jointly design indicators and tools to measure the various impacts of urban agriculture and forestry on climate change adaptation and mitigation and related developmental co-benefits.