Sentences with phrase «than mitigation strategies»

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By all indications, the Conservative party is about to once again go on a federal campaign with little more than a fig leaf in lieu of a serious climate change mitigation strategy.

Many questions demand answering but one thing is clear: the provincial government, together with the municipalities, needs to take much more serious steps than it has in the past to implement both flood minimization and flood damage mitigation strategies.

This gas has a heating potential 300 times higher than CO2, this is the reason why it is essential to develop mitigation strategies.

But Irwin Shapiro, an astrophysicist at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., who chaired the 2010 Committee to Review Near - Earth - Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies for the U.S. National Research Council, says that ground - based observatories such as the planned Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) on Cerro Pachón in Chile are better value for money than space telescopes, because they last longer and are less expensive.

A well - run convertible bond strategy could be expected to achieve lower positive returns than equities, but with some downside mitigation.

Similarly, a uniform risk mitigation strategy (e.g., import bans and interstate movement) is rarely appropriate considering the complexity of environments and species across the U.S.. By using the results of risk assessment as the starting point rather than the final decision, managers and engaged stakeholders can collaborate to develop a balanced course of action to reduce the risk of harm from non-native species.

The trouble is that the science doesn't actually say that mitigation is a better strategy than adaptation, let alone whether an 80 % reduction in CO2 emissions by 2050 is better than a 60 % reduction.

Climate experts see solar geoengineering in a completely different light than they do climate mitigation strategies.

It is also an area where mitigation is not the only potentially useful strategy, because it should be possible to create new strains of important food crops better suited to a changed climate than current varieties.

You're talking about 20 years out — but isn't it possible that technological developments in those 20 years might produce mitigation strategies / options that would result in an exponentially greater difference 50 or 100 years out than what is represented by 510 - 480 ppm?

But now that we're here anything less than a rigorous assessment of just what mitigation strategy is commensurate with the predicament would be simply futile.

Or those fires could have been exacerbated by vegetation, that grew much more than normal, due to healthy amounts of rainfall last Spring and was never mitigated, due to lax fire mitigation strategies or kooky «environmental concerns.»

The mitigation CBAs you may be aware of that ultimately argue for adaption focused strategies forecast long lead times to much lower temperature anomalies than three degrees, (and not to mention typically feature high growth, low damages and no handling of uncertainty).

The truth is there is simply no other comparable near - term strategy for greenhouse gas mitigation than a phase down of HFCs under the Montreal Protocol.

In a study to be published in Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, Fearnside estimates that in 1990 the greenhouse effect of emissions from the Curuá - Una dam in Pará, Brazil, was more than three - and - a-half times what would have been produced by generating the same amount of electricity from oil.

While it has long been known that cost - effective energy efficiency measures are beneficial to economic welfare and therefore worth pursuing on grounds other than climate change mitigation, the magnitude of rebound effects and their implications for the utility of energy efficiency as a climate change mitigation strategy remain contested.

Turn Down the Heat: Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts, and the Case for Resilience (Read it in Issuu, Scribd, Open Knowledge Repository) takes the climate discussion to the next level, building on a 2012 World Bank report that concluded from a global perspective that without a clear mitigation strategy and effort, the world is headed for average temperatures 4 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial times by the end of this century.