Sentences with phrase «such as adaptation»

In addition, this «forcing» view of what science says usually ignores 1) the uncertainty and 2) alternatives such as adaptation or the resilience benefits of additional economic growth.

If NDCs are to become the long - term instrument for international cooperation, negotiation, and ratcheting up of ambitions to address climate change, then they need to become more transparent and comparable, both with respect to mitigation goals, and to issues such as adaptation, finance, and the way in which NDCs are aligned with national policies.

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.

Like other developed countries, it has not committed to action beyond this in areas such as adaptation and finance.

But the EU, US, Japan and other developed countries insist that INDCs were always envisaged to focus on mitigation (ie cutting emissions) and that other issues such as adaptation, finance and technology transfer should be covered separately in any agreement.

or Malaria, gain sophisticated understanding of concepts such as adaptation, gene flow, and light propagation,» Linn told Education World.

Some mitochondrial SNPs have been associated with various characteristics, such as adaptation to cold weather or high altitude environments and have been implicated in susceptibility to diabetes and various inflammatory diseases.

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.

Not exact matches

Unlike productive assets such as businesses or farmland, gold is «purchased in the buyer's hope that someone else... will pay more for them in the future,» declares Warren Buffett in an adaptation from his latest shareholder newsletter.

Similarly, many ventures are based around business methods and concepts that have been successful in developed countries, but with adaptations made to reflect local conditions, such as «Careem,» the Uber of Pakistan.

Research conducted by groups such as Ogilvy Renault LLP and SiG@MaRS have led to the the adaptation of the B Corp structure to the Canadian Social Business landscape.

When adaptation in industries and markets occur, patterns begin to emerge as we have seen during the past three years - such as in how buyers search for information.

The term macroevolution, by contrast, refers to the origin of new species and divisions of the taxonomic hierarchy above the species level, and also to the origin of complex adaptations, such as the vertebrate eye.

Its utterances will necessarily either be in danger of being contradicted by obstinate «old believers» (such as happened also in Montanism, Novatianism, Donatism down reactionary Jansenism and Integralism) or of being falsified by a mentality which betrays the spirit of Christ, the folly of the cross and the courage to contradict a world lying in the Evil One by cheap «adaptation».

However, although religion did not originally emerge as a biological adaptation, it can play a role in both facilitating and stabilizing cooperation within groups, and as such, could be the target of cultural selection.»

A man who is utterly self - contained and whose chief ambition is to be «self - existent» and hence to exist without dependence upon relationships of any sort, is a man whom we regard as an unpleasant if not vicious specimen of the race; and it is odd that deity has been regarded, and this even in Christian circles, as more like such a self - contained human being rather than as like a man who in every area of his life is open to relationships and whose very existence is rich in the possibility of endless adaptations to new circumstances.

In one of the world's longest psychological carom shots, the authors offer as an example of such antagonism the Ayatollah Khomeini, whose violent reaction to Salman Rushdie masked his fear of adaptations that were moving Iran «mildly in the direction of species consciousness.»

This means you will have to deal with jargon such as «the progression - adaptation - plenitude side of tension» and «the Ordinary Sign Enthymeme».

These are part of metamodels of language, such as the Thesaurus model which has a mathematical structure, but this is different from bare language awareness, which is an adaptation to hearing in time.

Furthermore, UTZ works on the landscape - based adaptation planning project with Malawian tea smallholder farmers which will not only address the effects of climate change on tea, but also tackle such environmental impacts as land degradation, deforestation and availability of clean water.

As evidenced by the unheralded emergence and blossoming of youngsters like Rashford — who has scored four goals in his first two senior games — and the successful adaptation and upgrading of squad members such as Fellaini, Ashley Young and Chris Smalling, there have been individual improvements, especially with regards to players ready to work for the system over themselveAs evidenced by the unheralded emergence and blossoming of youngsters like Rashford — who has scored four goals in his first two senior games — and the successful adaptation and upgrading of squad members such as Fellaini, Ashley Young and Chris Smalling, there have been individual improvements, especially with regards to players ready to work for the system over themselveas Fellaini, Ashley Young and Chris Smalling, there have been individual improvements, especially with regards to players ready to work for the system over themselves.

To avoid making a purchase that you may regret, it's best to think about the features you have seen such as adjustable handlebars, handlebar swivel control, and car seat adaptation.

Through a variety of fun, age appropriate, educational hands - on activities, stories, live animal encounters, and adventures on Zoo grounds, Toddler Totes takes you and your child on an investigative exploration of the Zoo's animal collection examining animal body parts and adaptations, such as noses on koalas or tails on tigers.

These products, including such brands as Nestlé's Lactogen and SMA (Synthetic Milk Adaptation), as well as the several brands of evaporated milk that were popular breast milk substitutes, were regarded by most physicians and dietitians as acceptable breast milk substitutes.

Historically, while technological progress such as mechanisation and automation threatened upending existing modes of production and employment in the past, they also created new opportunities and jobs after some adaptations.

A Natural England report commissioned from organisations including the RSPB, has suggested pest control such as the «killing of foxes» as one of several «key adaptation actions» to assist «priority species».

He explains that when we «like» an experience, especially a conspicuously affective one such as a taste or smell, it seems to emerge from cross talk among cognition and emotion, expectation and adaptation.

And various efforts such as the Millennium Villages in East Africa may speed adaptation.

The advent of the nucleus — which differentiates eukaryotes (organisms whose cells contain a true nucleus), including humans, from prokaryotes, such as bacteria — can not be satisfactorily explained solely by the gradual adaptation of prokaryotic cells until they became eukaryotic.

The researchers found that Pseudomonas aeruginosa adapts while in the nasopharynx, and following this adaptation process travels to infect areas such as the lungs, which people with lung conditions find hard to prevent.

The hunter - gatherers also had a high frequency of genetic variants linked to reduced skin pigmentation — a known adaptation to environments with low UV radiation, such as those at high latitude.

«We are researching the evolution of today's diseases such as malaria to explain why the human body becomes sick at all and how adaptations occur.»

«The historical long - term perspective reveals that we are at a watershed moment in human history right now: adaptation — to climate change or increasing / stronger extreme events such as hurricanes — has turned from a contingent and drawn out historical process into an imperative, a prescriptive policy, almost,» said Prof. Rohland.

The longer - lived animals are also the smarter ones, or the bigger ones, or the ones like birds and bats that evolved adaptations such as wings to make their lives safer.

Yet Busidima shows few of the adaptations thought to contribute to a runner's body, such as a tall stature and a narrow pelvis.

The current research suggests that pancreatic cancer cells that spread to organs that receive a blood supply rich in glucose and other nutrients, such as the liver and lungs, acquire metabolic adaptations to use these «natural resources» to increase their tumorigenic fitness.

The primitive birds, without flight adaptations such as the muscle pulley system, wouldn't have been capable of the full range of flapping motion birds today use.

Preston studies how adaptation efforts can reduce risk from climate change, especially at the state and city level (such as impacts to critical energy, water and transportation systems).

Respondents then rated the companies that they had chosen on 23 driving characteristics, such as financial strength, easy adaptation to change, and a research - driven environment.

Next year's school, «Adaptation and Mitigation: Responses to Climate Change,» will explore topics such as greenhouse gas emission scenarios, the economics of climate change, adaptation and mitigation measures, and climateAdaptation and Mitigation: Responses to Climate Change,» will explore topics such as greenhouse gas emission scenarios, the economics of climate change, adaptation and mitigation measures, and climateadaptation and mitigation measures, and climate policies.

Such adaptation will be a key cultural challenge of the next century — as will fostering the kind of global communication that can connect with the local concerns of individuals and communities to reduce climate risk.

This climate assessment is significantly longer than the previous one and includes a number of new chapters, such as two on adaptation and mitigation options.

At the other end are adaptations so simple you can hardly call them «technologies,» such as the pencil U.S. Department of Agriculture engineer Marshall Begel keeps tucked into a splint on his hand so he can type with it.

In October 2006 the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) endorsed video games as a potential means for teaching «higher - order thinking skills, such as strategic thinking, interpretive analysis, problem solving, plan formulation and execution, and adaptation to rapid change.»

The contributors explore such issues as the nature of species, how species are counted, limits on diversity, mechanisms of speciation and adaptation, and speciation rates.

Despite rainfall decreasing by about 7 inches annually in the grain belt located in Western Australia since the 1970s, wheat production has increased, and Eckard said that's because farmers have employed adaptations such as planting species with shorter growing seasons, dry sowing seeds and tilling fields less often.

Hedonic adaptation helps to explain why even changes in major life circumstances — such as income, marriage, physical health and where we live — do so little to boost our overall happiness.

A new study from The Auk: Ornithological Advances explores how Poland's cavity - nesting Marsh Tits deal with predator attacks and finds that while tactics such as small entrances and solid walls do help, adaptations like this can only take the birds so far.

The researchers say follow - up studies could explore questions such as what extent demographic changes — especially a larger population of older adults — will have on heat - related mortality, and the effect of specific interventions related to adaptation and greenhouse gas reductions.

They lost their anatomical adaptations for climbing trees, such as opposable thumbs, and gained new ones to suit life on the plains, such as a fore - stomach to help them digest grass.