Sentences with phrase «take adaptation measures»

This work takes future socio - economic developments based on SSP5 (O'Neill et al. 2014), consistent with high mitigation challenges due to high - end warming and willingness to take adaptation measures against climate impacts.

While many cities are taking adaptation measures as well as reducing carbon emissions, their jurisdiction stops at the city limits.

Not exact matches

Mass Audubon supports the passage of An Act establishing a comprehensive adaptation management plan in response to climate change, which prepares Massachusetts for the impacts of climate change by identifying where we are most vulnerable and taking measures to protect public health, public safety and the economy.

One adaptation to this fortunate reality is that rather than using overall survival (OS) as the measure of a drug's success, many clinical trials now use a kind of midpoint, namely progression - free survival (PFS)-- the time that it takes for a tumor controlled by the trial's medicine to restart its growth.

A route - map approach is taken, identifying adaptation measures to span the plausible range of extreme water levels and creating timetables for investment and...

Target groups then take effective measures of mitigation and adaptation.

- Make informed decisions on practical adaptation actions and measures to respond to climate change on a sound scientific, technical and socio - economic basis, taking into account current and future climate change and variability.

It should also continue to stand in solidarity with the most vulnerable countries and peoples, ensuring concrete steps for finance for adaptation and loss and damage are taken, and that concrete climate measures do not undermine their livelihoods and rights.

This analytical report presents the concerted action taken by the UN system to assist people and communities in developing countries to adapt to climate change through: (i) risks, impacts and vulnerability assessment; (ii) adaptation planning, including creating an enabling environment; (iii) the implementation of adaptation measures, which includes UNISDR's work on climate change related disaster risk reduction and risk sharing; (iv) awareness raising; and (v) knowledge sharing and facilitate learning.

Policies - In UNFCCC parlance, policies are taken and / or mandated by a government - often in conjunction with business and industry within its own country, or with other countries - to accelerate mitigation and adaptation measures.

This workshop aims to strengthen the capacity of policy makers, transport planners and transport infrastructure managers in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to understand climate change impacts on coastal transport infrastructure and take appropriate adaptation response measures.

We look to President Obama to speak not only of the urgent need for greenhouse gas mitigation, but also of the measures that must be taken domestically and internationally to prepare for the impacts of climate disruption — including how the US intends to aid the most vulnerable nations in adaptation.

President Obama should speak not only of the urgent need for greenhouse gas mitigation, but also of the measures that must be taken domestically and internationally to prepare for the impacts of climate disruption — including how the US intends to aid the most vulnerable nations in adaptation.

Consequently, Europe must take more serious steps to cut back its own emissions, but also it must act according to the principle that the polluter must pay and must finance adaptation measures and disaster relief in regions like in Latin America and the Caribbean.»

He said: «We want to clean our air, our water, our environment, so we are addressing a challenge which takes care of our climate change mitigation and adaptation measures as well.

It is pertinent that policies emphasise on measures that are conducive to mitigating Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions and to facilitating adaptation to changes that are likely to take place.

Farther south, New York City has taken numerous steps to implement PlaNYC, a far - reaching sustainability plan for the city, including amending the construction code and the zoning laws and the implementation of measures focused on developing adaptation strategies to protect the City's public and private infrastructure from the effects of climate change; 26 some major investments in protection have even been conceptualized.

Adaptation: Adaptation measures taken thus far in Nigeria have centered around educational initiatives, but the country still lacks a federal oversight body for the purpose of coordinating research and policy.

Consequently, their failure to take action to reduce the threat of climate change makes them responsible for climate change harms and therefore responsible for funding reasonable adaptation measures of developed nations needed to prevent harm.

This will be a panel with important stakeholders from aviation sector, with a main goal to discuss and assess the climate change adaptation and mitigation measures taken at airports.

This report, published in advance of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009, examines those vulnerabilities and identifies the adaptation measures that can be taken to benefit children.

With assumed global warming, it is slow enough to allow counter measures and adaptation to take place.

Timely adaptation measures will enable communities to take charge of their future and increase resilience.

You kept mentioning adaptation throughout your presentation as an urgent measure to be taken by «developing» countries.

These include, for instance, the institution of early warning systems and general awareness about the nature of impacts and adaptation measures to be taken in hand.

The second is adaptation, the measures we take to reduce the harm that results from climate change that we do not avoid, and the third option is suffering.

If the education and training in the migrant's home state for a particular profession differs substantially from that in the host state, the host state may impose compensation measures and require the migrant to take either an aptitude test or to undergo an adaptation period.

Compensation measures can take the form of either an aptitude test or a period of supervised practice (a.k.a. an adaptation period) in which you should cover any elements of professional competence not covered in your «home» country qualification.