Sentences with phrase «reporting on adaptation»

In addressing these crises, local media can play a crucial role in reporting on adaptation strategies and facilitating discussion on dealing with environmental change.

The UN climate change summit in New York follows hot on the heels of the launch of the IPCC's full report on adaptation and mitigation.

As a last resort, if you can't find an overview, you might comb through the national communications of Annex I countries to the UN FCCC; they are also supposed to report on adaptation policies (and if those sections are no help, you might find things of interest in the sections on vulnerabilities, anyway).

In April, for example, a European Union report on adaptation said Europe's most vulnerable regions to climate change will be southern Europe, the Mediterranean basin, the Alps, and the far north.

Not exact matches

A recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report shows that substantial climate adaptation infrastructure will be required to ensure future clean and secure water supplies.

«Higher temperatures and changes in precipitation result in pressure on yields from important crops in much of the world,» says IFPRI agricultural economist Gerald Nelson, an author of the report, «Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security: Impacts and Costs of Adaptation to 2050».

«Until recently, only West Antarctica was considered unstable, but now we know that its ten times bigger counterpart in the East might also be at risk,» says Levermann, who is head of PIK's research area Global Adaptation Strategies and a lead - author of the sea - level change chapter of the most recent scientific assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC.

«Until now, few reports had given us any insight into the long - term impacts of rising CO2 over multiple generations and none have been undertaken on the molecular signature underpinning such adaptation.

The United Nations Environment Programme's annual Emissions Gap Report, expected in November, includes commitments both on mitigation and adaptation.

The IPCC wants world leaders to err on the side of caution in preparing their citizens for extreme weather events that will likely become more frequent; earlier this year they released a report entitled «Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation» to help policymakers do just that.

Their work resulted in the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report and Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation.

It is, in passages, a downright gloomy case, and several authors on Tuesday said the next report in 10 years hence will likely see a shift in emphasis from mitigation - or avoiding the problem - to adaptation, or learning to live with warming.

New research in Physiological Reports shows that although both resistance and endurance exercises activate the PGC - 1α gene, the adaptation processes stimulated are not the same and depend on the type of exercise.

That report is scheduled to be released in April, followed in May by another group's report on options for adaptation and mitigation.

A single generation of adaptation to the hatchery resulted in observable changes at the DNA level that were passed on to offspring, scientists reported.

First there was your report on how Petr Horava's adaptation of Einstein's equations can...

Dr Jochen Hinkel from Global Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.»

They have contributed to a stack of books on the issue that could fill a library: all five of the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the 2012 Global Energy Assessment, countless journal articles, and special reports on issues such as adaptation, renewable energy, and more.

• Editor and Lead Author, «The Regional Impacts of Climate Change: An Assessment of Vulnerability», IPCC Special Report on the Regional Impacts of Climate Change (1998) • Lead Author of IPCC Technical Paper No. 3, «Stabilization of Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases: Physical, Biological and Socio - Economic Implications,» (1997) • Editor, Working Group II Contribution to the Second Assessment Report Climate Change 1995: Impacts, Adaptations, and Mitigation (Scientific and Technical Analyses), (1996).

James J. Dooley • Expert Reviewer, «Carbon Dioxide Transport, Injection and Geological Storage,» IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (2006) • Lead Author, «Economics of Carbon Capture and Disposal,» IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (2006) • Cross-Cutting Chairman for «Market Deployment,» IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (2006) • Lead Author, «Technical Summary,» IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (2006) • Expert Reviewer, Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.

Climate change may be perceived most through the impacts of extremes, although these are to a large degree dependent on the system under consideration, including its vulnerability, resiliency and capacity for adaptation and mitigation; see the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.

Network partners are trained to implement Kessler Foundation's spatial neglect assessment and treatment protocols — the Kessler Foundation Neglect Assessment Process (KF - NAP ™), and the Kessler Foundation Prism Adaptation Treatment (KF - PAT ™)-- at 12 rehabilitation centers across the U.S. Therapy teams at each center will report on the use of these tools.

For papers identifying locally adapted loci from SNP data in wild populations, the proportion of SNPs tested that were local adaptation candidates based on either (a) FST outlier status or (b) significant genotype - environment associations, in comparison to the log - scaled number of individuals sampled in the reported dataset.

Heat Vision reported on Wednesday that he plans on directing an adaptation of the TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. For those unable to watch it when it aired between 1964 and 1968, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. follows two secret agents — one American and one Russian — as they work for U.N.C.L.E. (the United Network Command for Law Enforcement) against the evil organization THRUSH (Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity).

Deadline Hollywood reports some doubleplusgood news — Paul Greengrass is set to direct an adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty - Four (also known as 1984, or Pyramid - Eyeball - Bootheel - Oceana Flag for proles raised on Emoji newspeak).

Valiant Entertainment has found a director for its big screen supernatural superhero project Shadowman, with THR reporting that Reginald Hudlin (Marshall) has signed on to helm the adaptation, while Adam Simon (showrunner on WGN America's Salem) is set to rewrite the original script by J. Michael Straczynski.

The Wrap is reporting that Jeremy Saulnier, director of Murder Party, Blue Ruin and Green Room, will work again with producer A24 and his Blue Ruin star Macon Blair on an adaptation of William Gilradi's novel Hold the Dark.

Just yesterday we reported that filming is set to begin this coming September on Don't Breathe director Fede Alvarez's adaptation of The...

After news reports surfaced last week that Sofia Coppola is in talks to direct a live - action adaptation of «The Little Mermaid,» media outlets and fans quickly began speculating that Emma Watson, who worked with Coppola on «The Bling Ring,» would be an ideal candidate for the title role.

After news reports surfaced last week that Sofia Coppola is in talks to direct a live - action adaptation of «The Little Mermaid,» media outlets and fans quickly began speculating that Emma Watson, who worked with Coppola on «The Bling Ring,» would be an...

Earlier this month it was revealed that Tom Hiddleston will SING FOR US in the biopic I Saw the Light, and now ComingSoon reports Chris Hemsworth will also be getting in on the Hank Williams action in I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive, an adaptation of Steve Earle's book about Williams» ghost.

Last January, we reported that Syriana director Stephen Gaghan had signed on to direct The Division, an adaptation of the Ubisoft video game about special military operatives sent in to a plague - ravaged Manhattan to execute gang members and troll other human players with high - tech gadgets and various different - colored...

THR is reporting that Diane Kruger has signed on to star alongside Steve Carell in Robert Zemeckis» upcoming feature film adaptation of Jeff Malmberg's acclaimed 2010 documentary Marwencol.

Whether Trank has lost interest in Shadow of the Colossus or whether his full schedule is simple making it impossible to commit to it is unclear, but THR reports that Sony has now moved on - and has tapped Andres Muschietti (Mama) to direct the adaptation.

While we still (patiently) wait on localization for the electric mouse's deductive debut on 3DS, Omega Underground has reported Detective Pikachu's big screen adaptation is set to start production in London, UK on January 15th, 2018.

Variety reports that Scarlett Johannsen has signed on to play the lead role in DreamWorks» live - action adaptation of the popular manga / anime Ghost In The Shell by Masamune Shirow.

After its success of their adaptation of Big Little Lies, the network will work on another adaptation, this time on the 1998 novel I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb, Deadline reports.

We've been reporting on the film adaptation of The Great Gatsby since fall of 2010; the film will finally open in just a couple of weeks.

THR reports that Taylor Swift has signed on to the Lois Lowry adaptation,...

That includes TV showrunner Marti Noxon's cable adaptation of Gillian Flynn's 2006 novel «Sharp Objects» (2017, HBO), to be directed by Jean - Marc Vallee, in which Adams plays an emotionally fragile reporter who returns to her hometown to report on the murders of two teenage girls.

Deadline reports that New Regency, through its distribution deal with 20th Century Fox, is in final talks to become the latest co-financier on the project, an adaptation of the 1853 memoir by Solomon Northup.

The great Stephen King revival is upon us and next on the list is The Talisman, which has enlisted Fault in Our Stars and New Mutants director Josh Boone to write the Amblin Entertainment's adaptation, Variety reports.

Now The Guardian reports, in an item with a fantastic headline («Schrader to direct death camp clown tale» — sounds like a great name for a Northwest band) that Paul Schrader will direct Jeff Goldblum in an adaptation of Israeli writer Yoram Kaniuk's novel «Adam Resurrected,» about a clown who entertains Jews on their way to the gas chambers.

Whatever force — depression, weather, online review aggregators — that's been taking a bite out of this summer's box office receipts appears to have been repelled by the power of scary clowns; Deadline reports that Andy Muschietti's Stephen King adaptation It is on track to have one of the most successful opening weekends...

As we previously reported, the BBC's Radio 4 broadcast a radio adaptation of «War and Peace» on New Year's Day in the UK.

Back in the day (2006, to be exact) we reported on Peter Weir signing up to direct the film with a William Broyles Jr script, and we guessed it would step before the cameras long before Weir's other planned project at the time, an adaptation of William Gibson's Pattern Recognition.

Fan outcry arose over the weekend when it was reported Crawford was being released from the TV adaptation of the popular buddy - cop franchise for his on - set behavior while producers scrambled for a replacement.

According to a report from THR, Jessica Chastain is in talks to co-star opposite Gyllenhaal in the adaptation, which is based on Ubisoft's fastest - selling game in history.

In 2015, news about HBO working on a TV series for Watchmen began to surface with early reports saying Snyder will be the director of the TV adaptation as well.

With Universal Pictures moving forward on a new adaptation of «Van Helsing», Twitch reports that «Snow White and The Huntsman» director Rupert Sanders has been approached to direct the film.