Sentences with phrase «wide adaptation strategy»

They include joint impact and vulnerability assessment and the development of a basin - wide adaptation strategy.

This guidance document collects a vast range of experiences in order to illustrate the different steps in developing a basin - wide adaptation strategy with concrete examples and thereby to distil some recommendations to take into account in similar efforts in the future.

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It also stresses that adaptation strategies need to be wide ranging covering issues such as urban planning, improved water storage networks and improved water efficiency in sectors such as agriculture.

At the policy level (e.g., portfolios, funding, strategies), the same M → A and A → M issues apply, but the wider potential for cross-sectoral linkages makes simultaneous consideration of adaptation and mitigation, A ∩ M, more important.

On the basis of well - established evidence from the past 20 years, there is now wide consensus among scientific organizations and approximately 97 % of climatologists that human - generated greenhouse gas emissions are the cause of climate change.1 — 4 Although the effects of climate change are already being felt across the world, the magnitude of the effects of future changes depends on our ability to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions and implement adaptation strategies within the ensuing decades.5 Thus, it remains possible to protect children, families, and communities from the worst potential effects of climate change.

This activity report aims to develop a programme for funding projects in the strategy and action plan for an initiative «Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation in the CARICOM and Wider Caribbean Region.»