Sentences with phrase «spend on adaptation»

So, you have a choice: how much money to spend on mitigation that wont have a benefit for 30 years versus spending on adaptation to do the best we can over the next 30 years.

Steven Mosher: So, you have a choice: how much money to spend on mitigation that wont have a benefit for 30 years versus spending on adaptation to do the best we can over the next 30 years.

Friends of Science Society says trillions of dollars are being diverted to climate change initiatives, such as wind and solar farms, when that money would be better spent on adaptation, flood mitigation, and reserve funds set - up for post-hurricane restoration programs.

Every euro and dollar spent on adaptation and mitigation is being systematically undercut by even more money spent on the fossil fuel industry.

Not exact matches

But crucially, the authors found that in all the fathers, it was time spent on direct childcare that led to this adaptation.

To avoid facing up to $ 1 trillion in annual flood - related damages for the period 2005 - 2050, the governments of the most at - risk regions would need to spend a collective $ 50 billion on structural adaptations, complex systems of adjustable dykes, gates and levies that they would be able to raise and lower according to the location and nature of the risk.

«We haven't convinced voters that mitigation is important and we're going to spend billions on adaptation?»

Well, if we're really committed to not mitigating and to spending $ $ kazillions on adaptation, which is looks like we are, then where's the money going to come from?

I am so happy to hear that you are interested in different pose adaptations because I decided to spend a lot of time on those this year.

This film adaptation of Terrence McNally's Tony Award winning play focuses on eight gay men as they spend three summer holiday weekends together at a rural country house.

Emma Donoghue's best - selling, award - winning novel and Lenny Abrahamson's big - screen adaptation both spend as much time on the «what happens next» as the «what happened.»

Maybe it's because I finished reading Stephen King's massive novel right before the first trailer was released, but I spent much of last year getting hyped for Andy Muschietti's adaptation (technically a half - adaptation, since It: Chapter 2 is coming out in 2019) and he delivered on my excitement in the best way.

Helmed by Tony Gilroy (who had a hand in writing all three prior adaptations), Universal sadly spent $ 125 million on this quasi-sequel.

Noel's Take: When Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining was released in 1980, it baffled many film buffs, who couldn't figure out why the man who'd made some of the most challenging, brainy, and beautiful movies of the previous 20 years would spend his precious time and talent on a hammy, heavy B - horror flick.

Kyle Patrick Alvarez directs this David Sedaris adaptation, focusing on David, an eager young man who decides to spend his summer working in an apple factory.

An adaptation of the best - selling novel by Marcus Zusak (it spent over 280 weeks on the New York Times» bestseller list), the film stars Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson and «Monsieur Lazhar» youngster Sophie Nelisse, in the tale of a young girl, living outside Munich during WWII with her foster parents, who has to help hide a Jewish refugee in their home.

When his best friend bails on him, a grad student spends his summer alone working odd jobs and encountering a series of questionable mentors in this adaptation of a David Sedaris essay.

By minutes spent on screen, Jacob Tremblay is the real star of Room, the acclaimed film adaptation of Emma Donoghue's novel.

The silver lining here might be that the film so clearly lays bare the problems inherent in eliminating the controller from the video game equation that Hollywood might finally think twice about spending $ 100 million plus on thinly - written adaptations of thinly - written games.

In this faithful adaptation of Carol Shields's final novel, a Toronto couple (Catherine Keener and Matt Craven) learns that their university - aged daughter, Norah, has removed herself from the world, choosing to spend her days on the sidewalk outside Honest Ed's, holding a sign that says «Goodness.»

This departure from the regular superhero comic book (okay, graphic novel, if you will) adaptation takes a dark and gritty turn (think «Deadpool» without the laughs or language) almost immediately with Jackman («Eddie the Eagle») playing a bitter, down - on - his - luck limousine driver in the year 2029 who spends his time drinking, brooding, beating up Mexican car thieves and caring for the aging and seemingly addled Dr. Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart, «X-Men: Days of Future Past») in a vacated south of the border industrial plant.

He didn't fare well with this summer's «Bel Ami,» but he's on firmer ground with «Cosmopolis,» writer - director David Cronenberg's unsettling adaptation of Don DeLillo's 2003 novel, which concerns hotshot billionaire Eric Packer (Pattinson) spending his day drifting through Manhattan in his souped - up limo.

The drama, an adaptation of Haruki Murakami's short story «Barn Burning,» focuses on the mysterious experiences of a working class man (Ah - in Yoo) who obsesses over a seductive woman (Jeon Jong Seo) while resenting the confidant man (Steven Yeung) she spends her time around.

Parents should be encouraged to be less involved with the child's actual homework task and more involved in communicating with the teacher — writing notes when students don't complete work, asking for adaptations, or documenting how much time the child spent on the task.

After both a musical album and film adaptation, the book was expanded into three sequels and spent 165 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller List.

Kevin Tancharoen directed two feature - length webseries based on the Mortal Kombat saga for Warner Bros. (2011's Mortal Kombat: Legacy and 2013's Mortal Kombat: Legacy II), but the studio has also spent the last five years trying to produce a third theatrical adaptation of the fighting franchise.

We then show how we could spend that same money much smarter by fixing climate smartly, on adaptation and on fixing most of the other ills of the world.

Will you see climate adaptation money spent on family planning?

While international negotiations have focused on mitigation and adaptation, relatively little time has been spent discussing the appropriate role for CDR in international GHG abatement programs.

The United States had promised $ 800 million a year to help finance climate adaptation for the least developed nations, and that money is unlikely to come through in a Trump presidency — although Congress has the final say on how money is spent.

(Thomson Reuters Foundation)-- Bangladesh plans to cut spending from its own budget on climate change adaptation and rely more in the future on funds from donors, government officials said.

Before any further dollars are spent on climate change adaptation and / or mitigation, the world needs to upgrade their global weather / climate reporting network to the USCRN standard so that policymakers have correct temperature change mesurements to base their decisions on.

Ever since I started to comment here years ago I have CONSISTENTLY stated that we should spend our money on more R&D and adaptation.

Some of the gaps in Chapter 3 on ethical issues raised by climate change policy - making include: (1) ethics of decision - making in the face of scientific uncertainty, (2) whether action or non-action of other nations affects a nation's responsibility for climate change, (3) how to spend limited funds on climate change adaptation, (4) when politicians may rely on their own uninformed opinion about climate change science, and (5) who is responsible to for climate refugees and what are their responsibilities.

Countries are spending countless billions of dollars annually on faulty to fraudulent IPCC climate models and studies that purport to link every adverse event or problem to manmade climate change; subsidized renewable energy programs that displace food crops and kill wildlife; adaptation and mitigation measures against future disasters that exist only in «scenarios» generated by the IPCC's GIGO computer models; and welfare, food stamp and energy assistance programs for the newly unemployed and impoverished.

Unless Congress decides to spend most — and possibly all — carbon tax revenues on adaptation, a federal carbon tax does not even begin to solve the problems that are the subject of these lawsuits (nor, obviously, would EPA regulation).

Whenever possible, they'd rather wait with spending big money on adaptation projects until there is more certainty about the things to come.»

Well, if we're really committed to not mitigating and to spending $ $ kazillions on adaptation, which is looks like we are, then where's the money going to come from?

The accord stops short, however, of determining the ratio of funds that will be spent on mitigation and adaptation, respectively, and of identifying any specific mechanisms or sources of finance other than «public and private, bilateral and multilateral, including alternative sources.»

Travers «spent the rest of her life maligning what she saw as the maudlin mess her Mary Poppins had become on the big screen», and when she agreed to a stage an adaptation in the 1990s, she insisted, right there in her last will and testament, that no Americans, and certainly no one who had been involved in that dreadful Disney film, would be allowed to participate.»)