Sentences with phrase «vulnerable communities prepare»

Almost 100 organizations Thursday launched a worldwide petition that calls for dramatically curbing greenhouse - gas emissions and helping vulnerable communities prepare for rising sea levels, more - frequent storms, longer droughts and other effects of global warming.

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But others point out that the code focuses on past transgressions, and doesn't refer to recent efforts to respect and involve communities, such as guidelines for genomics work on vulnerable populations prepared in 2014 by the Human Heredity and Health in Africa program.

Berkeley Principals Leadership Institute — The mission of the Principal Leadership Institute at Berkeley is to prepare, induct, and support a diverse community of equity focused school leaders who will improve education for vulnerable and historically underserved students in California's public schools in support of social justice.

Whether we're working to move animals out of the City shelter and into placement via our Wheels of Hope program, training New Yorkers to perform Trap - Neuter - Return (TNR) and care for community cats through our NYC Feral Cat Initiative, helping our community's most vulnerable pet owners keep their pets despite difficult circumstances via our Helping Pets and People in Crisis program, or preparing for our large - scale Adoptapalooza events, every day is different.

So, these vulnerable nations are urging all Parties to the UNFCCC to «consider and address the health, human rights and security implications of climate change, including the need to prepare communities for relocation, to protect persons displaced across borders due to climate change - related impacts, and the need to create a legal framework to protect the human rights of those left stateless as a result of climate change.»

We need to focus more on improving weather forecasting on longer time scales than the current 7 - 8 days so that vulnerable communities have more time to prepare for adversity.

Policymakers, planners, investors and vulnerable communities need information about future climate so that they can prepare for expected trends and changes.

Its goals are to promote «practices and economic growth that help both vulnerable communities and business adapt to the impacts of climate change; and... public policies that facilitate adaptation efforts to prepare for and respond to the consequences of a changing climate.»

Kim Knowlton focuses on the public - health impacts of climate change and advocates for strategies to prepare for — and prevent — these impacts, especially in vulnerable communities.

They were developed to build the capacity of the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) of the government of Bangladesh to interpret probabilistic climate and flood forecast information, translate these into location - specific impact outlooks, prepare locally relevant response options, and communicate these to vulnerable farming communities to reduce disaster risks in agriculture.The modules are intended for participants in the related training workshops, as well as for the self - study learner.

Among the steps needed to defend ourselves, we must act quickly to fortify emergency response capabilities worldwide, to shield or relocate vulnerable coastal communities and to prepare for increased migration flows by environmental refugees.

Regardless of what the IPCC assessment tells us, we need to prepare for the most intense effects of climate change, not only across the most vulnerable communities, but in all regions of the world.

Her work focuses on the health effects of climate change; advocating for strategies to prepare for and prevent these impacts, especially for our most vulnerable communities; and making health a more central feature of national, state and local climate change adaptation plans.

Despite laudable efforts initiated in 2013 by the Obama Administration to assist state and local leaders to better prepare for climate impacts, and to help communities increase their overall resilience, too many Americans are still too vulnerable.

We enable vulnerable people at home and overseas to prepare for and respond to emergencies in their own communities.