Sentences with phrase «synergy between climate»

Thomas» work focuses primarily on the synergies between climate change mitigation and the development agenda.

Like ExxonMobil, Chevron also emphasizes potential conflicts rather than synergies between climate solutions and other societal goals: «As we work to address climate change, we must create solutions that balance environmental objectives with global economic growth and our aspirations for a better quality of life for people across the world.»

Not exact matches

Ultimately we need integrated strategies, which maximize synergies and avoid trade - offs between the water and climate change and other energy - related objectives,» says Keywan Riahi, Director of the Energy Program at IIASA.

However, the existing technical assistance facilities are sector - specific and do not leverage the synergies between land, climate and biodiversity.

Synergies are strongly encouraged between the three so - called Rio conventions - the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD)- to widen the impact of measures undertaken.

We believe that negative synergies between deforestation, climate change, and widespread use of fire indicate a tipping point for the Amazon system to flip to non-forest ecosystems in eastern, southern and central Amazonia at 20 - 25 % deforestation.

Some international groups are helping to foster synergies, including the World Health Organization's recent conference on Climate and Health, the Convention on Biological Diversity's initiative on Health and Biodiversity, the Lancet - Rockefeller Commission on Planetary Health, and the DIVERSITAS - Future Earth ecoHEALTH project, which brings together public and animal health, development, ecology, economics, and other sectors to investigate connections between health and environmental change to generate science and policy outputs that can inform sustainability solutions.

This study draws attention to new «hotspots» that could emerge from the synergies between different sectors and the interplay of economic activity with political and social developments in the context of climate change and cumulative environmental impacts.

Forest Trends (co-convener; AGWA lead convener) discuss how global climate policy is reshaping technical and political cooperation, synergies, and tensions between governance levels, sectors, and countries.

This brochure stresses that the Rio Conventions - the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)- acknowledge the important contribution of forests to the achievement of their respective objectives and provides a snapshot of the synergies and linkages with respect to forests between combating climate change and desertification and the conservation and sustainable use of biodivClimate Change (UNFCCC)- acknowledge the important contribution of forests to the achievement of their respective objectives and provides a snapshot of the synergies and linkages with respect to forests between combating climate change and desertification and the conservation and sustainable use of biodivclimate change and desertification and the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.

Additionally, potential synergies between food security, adaptation and mitigation opportunities, as well as costs, can differ substantially across different agro-ecological zones, climate regimes, and historical land use patterns.

The workshop brought together policy makers, practitioners and researchers from the fields of social protection, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction and had two core objectives: to understand better how social protection can be used to strengthen the poor's resilience to climate and natural disaster risk in developing countries; to create a forum for cross-regional learning about good practice for realizing the potential synergies between social protection, disaster risk reduction, and climate change adaptation.

This report categorises and assesses a diverse array of Sustainable Land Management (SLM) practices and identifies their potential to create synergies between combating Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought (DLDD), and achieving climate change mitigation and adaptation goals.

A «Skill - sharing session on monitoring of gender - responsive climate policy» brought forth research on possible synergies or tradeoffs between gender equality and other objectives for climate policy, while a panel discussion with the same partners looked at «Gender equality in climate policy: Translating global commitments to national policy».

Announcing the publication of a Special Issue of Environmental Science and Policy (Volume 35, January 2014) titled: Climate change and deforestation: The evolution of an intersecting policy domain.The Special Issue contains 13 papers that address potential synergies and policy conflicts between forest conservation and restoration and climate change mitiClimate change and deforestation: The evolution of an intersecting policy domain.The Special Issue contains 13 papers that address potential synergies and policy conflicts between forest conservation and restoration and climate change miticlimate change mitigation.

This brought together «state - of - the - art disciplinary models on air pollution and climate change to assess technical and market based policies that maximize synergies and benefits between these policy areas.»

I'm all for supplanting simulation by theory wherever possible, and for bringing into climate science the traditional synergy between theory and experiment: either outdoors experiments or experiments with focused laboratory analogs.

While the impact of climate change on health was not explicitly raised in the session summaries, Mark Butler talked about the «often enormous synergies» between good health policy and climate change / urban planning policies when he co-chaired the session on health inequalities and whole of government challenges.