Sentences with phrase «vulnerability assessments in»

While at WWF, he coordinated reviews of climate impacts on U.S. national parks, marine ecosystems, and migratory birds, in addition to climate vulnerability assessments in southern Africa and China.

Finally, it discusses questions of needs and vulnerability assessment in relation to climate change and financial support in Africa.

«The City completed a sea level rise vulnerability assessment in September 2016.

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Do a security assessment at least once a year to find out you if you have any vulnerabilities in your system.»

In its last assessment, S&P said that Portugal's outlook was stable, «balancing our expectation of further budgetary consolidation and likely receding banking sector risks over the next two years against the risks of a weakening external growth environment and vulnerabilities related to high private - and public - sector debt.»

The firm, a Manassas, Va. - based company founded in 2002, had apparently sent a team to pitch its flagship product, a vulnerability assessment tool called CyFIR.

The alert noted that in a recent SEC Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations study of 75 financial firms, 5 percent of broker - dealers and 26 percent of advisors and investment funds did not conduct periodic risk assessments of critical systems to uncover vulnerabilities, potential business consequences and other cybersecurity threats.

Early in her tenure, in a leadership - derailment assessment, which measures a leader's vulnerabilities when under stress, Jung tested as a «pleaser.»

Nestlé's bottling plant was shown in an environmental impact assessment to have been built in the area of «maximum vulnerability» in the water park over the aquifer.

Now, faced with rising waters, the county is starting pilot restoration projects and vulnerability assessments of bay - and oceanside towns in earnest.

The assessment describes effects of climate change that have already been observed; projected changes in the climate and the landscape; and forest vulnerabilities in a 23.5 - million - acre region of forest in northeastern Minnesota.

«There are so many variables that will affect the future of forests in northern Minnesota, forest managers will probably always have to deal with some amount of uncertainty,» said Stephen Handler, lead author of the vulnerability assessment and a climate change specialist with the Northern Institute for Applied Climate Science (NIACS).

The IPCC has taken a crack at that, identifying 26 «key vulnerabilities» in its most recent assessment, ranging from declines in agricultural productivity to the melting of ice sheets and polar ice cover as well as determining how to judge if they are spiraling out of control.

«National drought policies with effective early warning systems would be crucial in promoting vulnerability assessment and risk mitigation measures, particularly in light of the devastating droughts witnessed in Africa this year that have left more than 20 million people on the verge of starvation,» she added.

«Determination of the return periods of extreme weather events should be the starting point for all risk assessment related to weather events, because in addition to exposure and vulnerability, it also it determines the need for society to prepare», says FMI researcher Karoliina Pilli - Sihvola.

The resulting assessments identify the species with greatest relative vulnerability to climate change and the geographic areas in which they are concentrated, including the Amazon basin for amphibians and birds, and the central Indo - west Pacific (Coral Triangle) for corals.

His research interests include artificial intelligence approaches, automation in a variety of computer languages, network intrusion detection and response, and vulnerability and risk assessment.

It is a legal requirement to have a suitable and sufficient fire safety risk assessment in place which has recorded areas of vulnerability and any significant findings; this should be complimented with staff training.

Also in 2010 in Philadelphia (which educates 50 percent of all Pennsylvania charter - school students), the Office of the Controller performed a «fraud vulnerability assessment» of the city's oversight of charter schools and reported that the Charter School Office... made the city's more than $ 290 million paid to charter schools «extremely vulnerable to fraud, waste, and abuse.»

In this lesson, students will be creating actual useful climate change vulnerability assessment...

In this lesson, students will be creating actual useful climate change vulnerability assessment tools.

The latest report Climate change, impacts and vulnerability in Europe 2016 from the European Environment Agency (EEA) also includes an assessment of hail, a weather phenomenon that is often associated with lightening (a previous report from EASAC from 2013 also covers hail).

Active participation in the Nairobi Work Programme (NWP) on impacts, vulnerability and assessment is one of them.

It is grounded in an assessment of the diverse climatic profile and vulnerabilities of the region, including identified knowledge gaps, expected impacts, work already under way by countries and partners, and key actions to be taken over time.

The WGI contribution is the first in the series of four reports with the WGII assessment on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability scheduled for finalization in March 2014; the WGIII contribution on options for mitigating climate change to be finalized in April 2014, and the AR5 Synthesis Report to be completed in October 2014.

This technical document measures the impact of climate change on freshwater resources through an integrated assessment, in order to identify the related underlying causes of socioeconomic and environmental vulnerability in the Arab region.

The other three are the WGII assessment on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability (scheduled for endorsement in March 2014), the WGIII contribution on options for mitigating climate change (April 2014), and the Synthesis Report (October 2014).

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.

The findings of this vulnerability assessment can be used to develop Integrated Urban Water Management planning in the country.

Evaluating such scenarios may be worthwhile, but the fact that worst case scenarios in the study produce largely negative results is not in and of itself a meaningful assessment of grid vulnerability.

Assessments of China's vulnerability to climate - induced impacts suggest that due to extremes in temperature and precipitation, the nation's agricultural sector faces large impacts from Read the full story

The assistence of higher resolution projections to the vulnerability assessment of Amsterdam may lie in the analysis of consequences of an assumed sea level change on the probability that a major storm or inland precipitation event (or a combination of these) lead to water levels that are disruptive for the city.

To broaden the approach of estimating plausible changes in climate conditions in the framing of future risk, we recommend a bottom - up, resource - based vulnerability assessment for the key resources of water, food, energy, human health and ecosystem function for the Netherlands.

In this paper, af - ter a brief tutorial on the basics of climate nonlinearity, we provide a number of illustrative examples and highlight key mechanisms that give rise to nonlinear behavior, address scale and methodological issues, suggest a robust alternative to prediction that is based on using integrated assessments within the framework of vulnerability studies and, lastly, recommend a number of research priorities and the establishment of education programs in Earth Systems SciencIn this paper, af - ter a brief tutorial on the basics of climate nonlinearity, we provide a number of illustrative examples and highlight key mechanisms that give rise to nonlinear behavior, address scale and methodological issues, suggest a robust alternative to prediction that is based on using integrated assessments within the framework of vulnerability studies and, lastly, recommend a number of research priorities and the establishment of education programs in Earth Systems Sciencin Earth Systems Science.

Similarly, for the Pacific Islands, the Pacific Catastrophe Risk Facility was set up in 2013 to provide disaster risk assessment tools and practical technical and financial applications to reduce and mitigate countries» vulnerability to natural disasters.

«Determination of the return periods of extreme weather events should be the starting point for all risk assessment related to weather events, because in addition to exposure and vulnerability, it also it determines the need for society to prepare», says FMI researcher Karoliina Pilli - Sihvola.

In a general sense, the earlier assessments are still valid, but the assessments have become much more complete over time, evolving from making very simple, general statements about sectoral impacts, through greater concern with regions regarding observed and projected impacts and associated vulnerabilities, through to an enhanced emphasis on sustainability and equity, with a deeper examination of adaptation options.

The UNFCCC Compendium on methods and tools to evaluate impacts of, and vulnerability and adaptation to, climate change is designed to assist Parties and other potential users in selecting the most appropriate methodology for assessments of impacts and vulnerability, and preparing for adaptation to climate change.

Our results show that half of climate risk and vulnerability assessments include future changes in either socio - economic (vulnerability) or geographic (exposure) components of climate risks.

Dr Mélinda Noblet, Climate Impact and Adaptation Expert Mélinda is based in Dakar, Senegal and works on climate vulnerability assessments for Senegal and the wider region as part of the Science - based adaptation planning in Sub-Saharan Africa project.

Zemtsov, Stepan and Baburin, Vyacheslav and Koltermann, Klaus and Krylenko, Inna and Yumina, Natalia and Vladimir, Litvinov (2014): Social risk and vulnerability assessment of the hazardous hydrological phenomena in Russia.

«The Earth's climate system is highly nonlinear: inputs and outputs are not proportional, change is often episodic and abrupt, rather than slow and gradual, and multiple equilibria are the norm... there is a relatively poor understanding of the different types of nonlinearities, how they manifest under various conditions, and whether they reflect a climate system driven by astronomical forcings, by internal feedbacks, or by a combination of both... [We] suggest a robust alternative to prediction that is based on using integrated assessments within the framework of vulnerability studies... It is imperative that the Earth's climate system research community embraces this nonlinear paradigm if we are to move forward in the assessment of the human influence on climate.»

Progress report on the work of the Consultative Group of Experts on National Communications from Parties not included in Annex I to the Convention: report on the regional training workshops on vulnerability and adaptation assessment.

This manual is aimed at non-Annex I Parties that are engaged in the process of preparing vulnerability and adaptation (V&A) assessments for their national communications under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Smith, who is the convening lead author of the second working group report on vulnerability to climate change, says: «The new assessment has increased our confidence that the effects for climate change are beginning to be seen, in terms of rise in temperature, sea levels and heavy precipitation events».

The network comprising of external organisations, urban local bodies and NGOs, has conducted vulnerability assessments, and also developed city resilience strategies in a number of cities.

In particular, we focus on adaptation policy and finance under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, vulnerability assessments, capacity building and community - based adaptation.

Positive impacts on a system are addressed when reported in the literature and where relevant to the assessment of key vulnerabilities.

We conduct in - depth economic assessments of the value of terrestrial and marine ecosystem services, renewable energy investments, the impact of climate vulnerability for communities and their livelihoods and more.

This manual collects useful exercises concerning the training on capacity strengthening in climate change vulnerability and adaptation strategy assessments.