Sentences with phrase «than a mitigation program»

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The communities will be eligible to share in more than $ 500 million of funding through a federal supplemental appropriation, and the state will award at least $ 250 million of New York's FEMA - funded Hazard Mitigation Grant Program to New York Rising Communities to implement eligible projects contained in their plans.

As of March, however, less than $ 300 million remains in the program and most of that is set aside specifically for seismic mitigation and charter school facilities, according to a legislative analysis on AB 2235.

Climate smart agriculture will be key to achieving both because investments in agriculture help the poor — 70 percent live in rural areas — more than any other program, and because agriculture is key to both mitigation and adaptation to climate change.

Roger replied that he favors incremental approaches to climate change (i.e., don't let failure to legislate adaptation stand in the way of getting started with mitigation) and does not support waiting for a grand comprehensive program, but that his testimony is simply a call to develop a larger vision with which to organize individual initiatives on sustainability («I am calling for a little bit broader vision than tuning the atmosphere to a specific ppm target.»)

* hope that the scientists forecasting low temperature rise are correct, * start mitigation programs (much of which are necessary anyway, such as preparation of the US East coast for rising sea levels (necessary anyway to prepare for normal hurricane impacts) * crash fund climate research — rather than the underfunded, uncoordinated work done today — to better predict and prepare, * crash fund energy research, * push use of alternatives (I don't expect much from this), * take steps to crash the global economy — the alarmists recommendation, which I reject.

More than 5.7 million modification arrangements were started between April 2009 and the end of January 2012 — including nearly 1.8 million trial modification starts through the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) and more than 1.2 million FHA loss mitigation and early delinquency interventions.

Nearly 1.3 million homeowner assistance actions have taken place through the Making Home Affordable Program, while the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) has offered more than 1.4 million loss mitigation and early delinquency interventions.