Sentences with phrase «strengthening adaptation efforts»

The Agreement creates a cycle of action for strengthening adaptation efforts regularly, similar to the mitigation cycle.

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«Difficult at best» Adaptation can include efforts to reduce stormwater runoff by expanding pervious surfaces, building defensive walls to protect critical sites, strengthening building standards, and expanding «green infrastructure» that can retain floodwater.

It also highlights that the United Nations system collectively offers a range of tools, services and expertise to assist vulnerable countries and communities to enable effective adaptation in their efforts to achieve sustainable socioeconomic development, through knowledge sharing, strengthening of technical and institutional capacities, and the provision of financial and technological support.

It also supports the sharing of experiences and lessons learned from this pilot project with other developing countries through the formulation of a set of draft legal provisions that could serve as a reference tool to policy makers and legal drafters of a larger number of countries, in their efforts to further strengthen existing legislation to support and facilitate adaptation.

Set a collective aim of reducing climate vulnerability and strengthening resilience; commit parties to implement adaptation efforts; and periodically assess adaptation progress (see Articles 7.1, 7.9, and 7.14).

These are key pieces to help the developing countries address their adaptation needs and strengthen their mitigation efforts and for them to move toward a sustainable development.

Practical adaptation options (e.g. strengthening buildings and coastal defences, expanding areas of coastal vegetation) and supporting international policies (e.g. cooperative efforts to regulate fisheries, managing shared river systems to avoid erosion) can minimize the risks and maximize the opportunities.