Sentence examples for adaptation programs from inspiring English sources

For example, some national governments are drafting and adopting adaptive strategies or plans such as national adaptation strategies, national adaptation programs of action (NAPAs), or strategic national action plans (SNAPs).

While current adaptation programs seek to reduce the exposure of communities and increase their adaptive capacity, these adaptation measures only cater for a certain range of climate change impacts.

Kiribati is now inextricably associated with rising sea levels in the global consciousness, thanks in part to its dancing weightlifter, and donor-funded adaptation programs are helping to reduce Kiribati's vulnerability.

This process should follow a framework that addresses a key set of shared national adaptation functions, and would be informed by lessons learned from the existing National Adaptation Programs of Action (NAPAs).

Among the study's recommendations are an increase in federal funds for climate adaptation programs on tribal lands; greater exploitation of renewable resources, including solar power, on Indian reservations; and stronger collaboration among tribes on natural resources and climate change programs.

Requirements will vary from country to country, but some common, key elements of good adaptation include: Integrated Approaches: To be most effective, climate adaptation programs and policies should be integrated with day to day economic development activities, such as water and forestry management and agricultural policy.

The bride, 34, and the bridegroom, 36, both work at the World Wildlife Fund in Washington, she as the deputy director for the coastal East Africa program, managing conservation projects in Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique, and he as a manager of projects in Asia for the organization's climate-change adaptation program, which seeks ways to help animals and plants adjust to global warming.

This is even more likely as the now dominant adaptation program - the Delta Program - will end in 2014.

As a consequence the Netherlands was left without a national, overarching climate change adaptation program with concrete measures for all sectors for which adaptation to climate change is basically required.

A study by Schilling et al. (2012) contended that violent conflicts in Turkana, if not managed, are likely to undermine the gains made so far in supporting the adaptation program in the area (see also Scheffran et al. 2014).

The public pronouncements of the Rotterdam climate adaptation program are decidedly upbeat and ambitious.