Sentences with phrase «special climate change»

In addition to providing guidance to the GEF, Parties have established four special funds: the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF), the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF), both managed by the GEF, and the GCF under the Convention; and the Adaptation Fund (AF) under the Kyoto Protocol.

There are currently three international financing sources for adaptation, all administered by the GEF: the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF), the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF), and the Piloting an Operational Approach to Adaptation (SPA) under the GEF trust fund.

allocation of funding and setting the agenda for UNFCCC negotiations and funds (e.g., the Special Climate Change Fund);

If you read our many other posts on this site, you will see that our argument is that the fact (or otherwise) of climate change isn't a good basis for special climate change politics, and special political institutions, and for the reorganisation of global society according to the demands of environmentalists.

Through Sweden's Special Climate Change Initiative, 1.2 billion USD has been made available for climate change activities through both bilateral and multilateral channels.

There are now special climate change «ethics», that occupy the minds of philosophers.

Only 2.7 percent has been channelled through United Nations climate funds such as the Adaptation Fund, the Least Developed Countries Fund, and the Special Climate Change Fund.

This activity report provides an overview of country - led efforts on climate change adaptation supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) partnership with financing from the GEF - managed Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF), Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) and Strategic Priority on Adaptation (SPA) funds.

The GEF has invested over $ 1.3 billion to help communities in the developing world adapt to climate change, notably through the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) and the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF).

WAMC Northeast Public Radio and The New York State Writers Institute present a special Climate Change Roundtable Panel at Page Hall at UAlbany's Downtown Campus featuring the following experts:

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Mashable's Senior Editor for Science and Special Projects, Kevin Freedman, in «No, New York Mag: Climate change won't make the Earth uninhabitable by 2100» contrasts the story's gloom against hope and optimism, but mostly analyses the science behind it.

The ceremony itself received praise for pulling off a dazzling spectacle on a budget and for a show which highlighted Brazilian history and culture, the urgency of climate change, and even a special appearance from Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen, wife of New England Patriots superstar Tom Brady.

As the Climate Science Special Report states, the magnitude of future climate change depends significantly on «remaining uncertainty in the sensitivity of Earth's climate to [greenhouse gas] emissions,»» White House spokesperson Raj Shah said Friday in a staClimate Science Special Report states, the magnitude of future climate change depends significantly on «remaining uncertainty in the sensitivity of Earth's climate to [greenhouse gas] emissions,»» White House spokesperson Raj Shah said Friday in a staclimate change depends significantly on «remaining uncertainty in the sensitivity of Earth's climate to [greenhouse gas] emissions,»» White House spokesperson Raj Shah said Friday in a staclimate to [greenhouse gas] emissions,»» White House spokesperson Raj Shah said Friday in a statement.

Northampton has an advertisement for a special day soon on «Climate Change».

Water challenge Diouf noted the special challenge posed by water as climate change would make rainfall increasingly unreliable.

Also speaking at the event — Global Warming and Food Policy: Less Meat = Less Heat — held in the iconic Hemicycle in the Brussels Parliament, will be Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the nobel - prize - winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and Olivier de Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur for the right to food.

Through the work of four playwrights, Matt Charman, Moira Buffini, Penelope Skinner and Jack Thorne, the play follows several intertwining stories: a couple in a therapy session discuss the impact that the strong environmental beliefs of one, and the indifference of the other, is having on their relationship, a young woman, against her parents» advice, drops out of university to become a climate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate Confclimate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate ConfClimate Conference.

The UK also convened a security seminar in 2014 and contributed to two special projects on the Importance of Road Maintenance and on an International Climate Change Adaptation Framework for Road Infrastructure.

Professor Sir David King is the Foreign & Commonwealth Office's Special Representative for Climate Change.

A new «politics driven» diplomatic approach is required to tackle global warming, the Foreign Office's special representative for climate change said yesterday.

When asked, local advocates tend to name California as the most progressive state in both environment and clean energy standards; its governor, Jerry Brown, was named special envoy to the states for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in mid-June.

«By seeking to repeal the Clean Power Plan — especially without any credible commitment to replacing it — the Trump Administration's campaign of climate change denial continues, once again putting industry special interests ahead of New Yorkers» and all Americans» safety, health, and the environment,» Schneiderman said in a statement.

Reflecting the growing concern about the target's absence from the Bill, on 16 May the former Special Representative for Climate Change, John Ashton CBE, said «it is vital that the target be restored.

During the UN summit, which he is attending as the UN Special Envoy on Climate Change, President Kufuor will participate in the «Climate Dialogue,» which is part of deliberations towards next December's Climate Change summit in Paris, France, where governments around the world are expected to make legally binding declarations towards reduction of gaseous emissions into the atmosphere to limit world temperatures to below two degrees by 2030 of pre-industrial levels.

The President made this known on Tuesday in his statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, at the 22nd Session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change taking place in Marrakech, Morocco.

According to a statement on Thursday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, the President spoke on Thursday in a meeting he had with the United States Secretary of State, John Kerry, on the of conference on climate change, COP22, in Marrakech, Morocco.

Chris Huhne, at Energy and Climate Change, has started to lobby for special treatment by announcing the discovery of a # 4bn black hole in his budget for the cost of decommissioning nuclear power stations.

«I can't imagine a scenario where U.S. companies are not in that game,» echoed U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Jonathan Pershing.

U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern said in a statement to ClimateWire: «At the upcoming meeting of their presidents, the United States and Brazil will address the broad range of bilateral issues that engage them.

Deese's agenda includes meetings with Executive Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli and Xie Zhenhua, special representative for climate change, according to the White House.

That has meant steadily breaking down what U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern has called the «firewall» between developed and developing countries.

The analysis, released as the latest round of U.N. climate talks began in Doha, Qatar, recommends that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change undertake a special report on permafrost and its role in climate climate talks began in Doha, Qatar, recommends that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change undertake a special report on permafrost and its role in climate Climate Change undertake a special report on permafrost and its role in climate cChange undertake a special report on permafrost and its role in climate climate changechange.

This special section of Science focuses on the current state of knowledge about the effects of climate change on natural systems, with particular emphasis on how knowledge of the past is helping us to understand potential biological impacts and improve predictive power.

In December, a special edition of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society included a selection of studies investigating the influence of climate change on a variety of recent extreme weather and climate events, including marine heat waves.

Kerry will speak at the conference and author a summary document capturing its «key outcomes,» according to Karen Florini, deputy special envoy for climate change at the U.S. State Department.

Anticipating the future under the influence of climate change is one of the most important challenges of our time, and the topic of the special section in this issue of Science (see p. 472).

«But mayors, as we know, have never waited for Washington to act here in the United States,» said Bloomberg, who is also the United Nations» special envoy for cities and climate change.

The 2017 Climate Science Special Report, which lays out the current state of scientific knowledge on climate change, will be rolled into the fourth National Climate Assessment, set to be released in latClimate Science Special Report, which lays out the current state of scientific knowledge on climate change, will be rolled into the fourth National Climate Assessment, set to be released in latclimate change, will be rolled into the fourth National Climate Assessment, set to be released in latClimate Assessment, set to be released in late 2018.

Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume I. U.S. Global Change Research Program.

That was the message from James Steinberg, the United States's new deputy secretary of state, and Shyam Saran, the Indian Prime Minister's Special Envoy for Nuclear Issues and Climate Change, at an event at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., today.

Nick Sundt of WWF says if turning down White House lights wasn't possible for security reasons, the Administration could highlight climate change impacts around the country in a special event, promote energy - efficiency measures, or generally rally Americans to participate in an event that began with 2.2 million people in Sydney in 2007 and involved millions more last year in 35 countries.

Most recently, he reported on the diversity of oceanic viral communities in a special issue of the journal Science featuring the Tara Oceans Expedition, a global study of the impact of climate change on the world's oceans.

This work is particularly timely given the work this year of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to develop a Special Report on the Impacts of global warming of 1.5 oC above pre-industrial levels.

Brown, who is now the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change's special envoy for states, will host a summit on subnational action next year in San Francisco to be co-chaired by UNFCCC chief Patricia Espinosa.

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.

«Parties understood exactly what was going on in the discussions in Durban about this new legal agreement,» said Todd Stern, the United States» special envoy for climate change.

The Obama administration will host a high - level meeting to discuss ways to mobilize hundreds of billions of dollars in annual international global warming assistance, State Department Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern said in a recent speech.

That's when the first internal conversations began between U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern's office and the White House, allowing Stern to say publicly in Warsaw that a post-2020 process was underway and lobby, successfully, for countries to formally unveil their targets during the first quarter of 2015 (ClimateWire, Nov. 18, 2013).

Obama also is planning to speak Tuesday at the United Nations during a special summit on climate change as diplomats look to kick - start talks that U.N. Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon said this week are stalled.

«We have a special responsibility to lead the world effort to combat global climate change,» Obama said.