Sentences with phrase «year on climate adaptation»

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The IPCC wants world leaders to err on the side of caution in preparing their citizens for extreme weather events that will likely become more frequent; earlier this year they released a report entitled «Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation» to help policymakers do just that.

This year's extreme storms and forest fires force officials to get serious on climate adaptation

New data show that extreme weather events have become more frequent over the past 36 years, with a significant uptick in floods and other hydrological events compared even with five years ago, according to a new publication, «Extreme weather events in Europe: Preparing for climate change adaptation: an update on EASAC's 2013 study» by the European Academies» Science Advisory Council (EASAC), a body made up of 27 national science academies in the European Union, Norway, and Switzerland.

Data from its first national climate change adaptation strategy issued last year show that extreme weather events have killed more than 2,000 people each year on average since the 1990s.

According to a 2013 study from the Climate Group, a London - headquartered nongovernmental organization, China will need at least $ 24 billion per year for adaptation actions by 2020; by contrast, the nation's estimated budget is only $ 13.5 billion based on its current expenditures.

In recent years, S&T Fellows have helped to set up a digital library for Iraqi scientists, provided key data to support the Endangered Species Act, contributed to a federal task force on global climate change adaptation, and worked on recovery and reconstruction projects in Haiti just weeks after the country's devastating January 2010 earthquake.

Released on April 6 from Brussels, Belgium, Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability presents years of research by IPCC Working Group II.

Shot over four years, from 2013 to 2017, the film follows former Kiribati president Anote Tong on his world tour — with stops at the UN and multiple climate change conferences — to educate foreigners about the situation in Kiribati and to encourage climate change adaptation funding.

Last year President Obama called on the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force to draft a report to the president offering federal recommendations toward a national climate change adaptation stClimate Change Adaptation Task Force to draft a report to the president offering federal recommendations toward a national climate change adaptationAdaptation Task Force to draft a report to the president offering federal recommendations toward a national climate change adaptation stclimate change adaptationadaptation strategy.

When I wrote with James Kanter last year about the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on impacts from global warming, I made sure we noted how the consequences for humans change significantly when adaptation is taken into account (boldface added):

As for resilience in the face of rising seas and storm surges, you gave a creditable speech on climate change adaptation in your final year in office, but it had a classic «no retreat» theme, centering on this line:

The United States had promised $ 800 million a year to help finance climate adaptation for the least developed nations, and that money is unlikely to come through in a Trump presidency — although Congress has the final say on how money is spent.

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It focuses on UNISDR's work with partners to deliver results and measures achievement against the strategic objectives for these two years, including 1) disaster risk reduction accepted and applied for climate change adaptation; 2) measurable increases in investment in disaster risk reduction; 3) disaster - resilient cities, schools and hospitals; and 4) strengthened international system for disaster risk reduction.

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(Sec. 478) Requires each federal agency represented on the Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Panel to complete a Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Plan within a year after enactment of this Act.

Before joining CGD, Sara lived in Morocco for two and a half years as a Peace Corps volunteer where she worked on a variety of community development goals, including water access, climate change adaptation and youth development.

The goal laid out in Adaptation for a High - Energy Planet is simple and can be supported regardless of views about global climate risk: reduce the number of deaths caused as a result of extreme weather and disasters every year, while still accelerating modernization and low - carbon growth on an increasingly high - energy planet.

-- In order to be eligible for funds under section 480, not later than 1 year after the development of a Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Strategy required under section 476 each State shall prepare a State natural resources adaptation plan detailing the State's current and projected efforts to address the potential impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources and coastal areas within the State's jurisdClimate Change Adaptation Strategy required under section 476 each State shall prepare a State natural resources adaptation plan detailing the State's current and projected efforts to address the potential impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources and coastal areas within the State's jurAdaptation Strategy required under section 476 each State shall prepare a State natural resources adaptation plan detailing the State's current and projected efforts to address the potential impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources and coastal areas within the State's juradaptation plan detailing the State's current and projected efforts to address the potential impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources and coastal areas within the State's jurisdclimate change and ocean acidification on natural resources and coastal areas within the State's jurisdiction.

At the end of last year, nations had submitted nine National Adaptation Plans under the UNFCCC, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

-- Not later than 1 year after the date of the development of a Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Strategy under section 476, each department or agency that has a representative on the Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Panel established under section 475 shall --

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Without the IPCC report, a cacophony of national assessments would compete for relevance in debates about climate change, said Victor, an editor on next year's IPCC climate change mitigation and adaptation report.

The intense and constructive discussions on and off the negotiating floor on inter alia, the adaptation fund, a new green / climate fund, funding the avoidance of deforestation and forest degradation, the climate - related budgets of development banks, and the need for government assistance to more effectively bring private sector on board, will all be for naught if previous experience with development financing is any indication how climate funding promises pan out over the coming years.

Activities for the year ranged from climate change adaptation to a new global convention on mercury and beyond.

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[note] The data for the chart was gathered crudely by counting the results of searches on Google Scholar, by year, for the terms «climate + mitigation»; «climate + adaptation»; and (summed) «geoengineering OR geo - engineering» and «climate engineering».

Richard Wright, the past chair of the American Society of Civil Engineers» Committee on Adaptation to a Changing Climate, has been working with the federal advisory panel to convey the importance of detailed climate projections in next year's asseClimate, has been working with the federal advisory panel to convey the importance of detailed climate projections in next year's asseclimate projections in next year's assessment.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) provides publishes the statistics of ODA every year, and since the focus on FSF has published a «comprehensive» report on climate finance, providing data for ODA flows labeled as mitigation and adaptation climate finance to developing countries.

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 changOn 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 changon 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 policy document presents the full results of a three - year European collaborative project on climate change and adaptation strategies for human health (cCASHh).

Building on the Green Environmental Facility's (GEF) solid experience in financing climate change adaptation, the Strategy presents the programming priorities for the next four years.

This guidance document reviews and synthesizes the first five years of implementation (2008 — 2013) of projects on health adaptation to climate variability and change in low - and middle income countries worldwide.

After years of being relegated to the sidelines or talked about only in hushed tones the idea of adaptation strategies for climate change is increasingly being talked about on equal footing with the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Justice for the poor can be delivered by funding climate adaptation and mitigation activities in developing nations with at least US$ 160 billion per year, by a commitment to reduce overconsumption, wherever it exists, to equitable, sustainable levels and by eliminating developed countries» subsidies on fossil fuels and shifting them to renewable energy.

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Therefore, knowledge on the Time of Emergence (ToE), or the years that the human contributions to climate change will become more important than natural variability in causing heat waves, is crucial for better mitigation and adaptation efforts.

«It is remarkable that for 25 years the European Union has led the way globally on climate change policy, be it in mitigation or adaptation, the legal structures of international agreements, or financing actions in developing countries.