Sentence examples for climate adaptation activities from inspiring English sources

In the context of climate change, women are affected the most while they display knowledge and skills to orient themselves toward climate adaptation activities within their societies.

Bangladesh is another example where public health receives only a brief mention in its NAPA; a project on awareness-raising of the health effects of climate change, particularly focusing on communicable diseases, although health is mentioned as a sector for mainstreaming climate change adaptation activities and capacity building.

For the Fiji Red Cross, this concern was noted in an interview: "It takes time, it takes effort, and it is a very costly activity to do, that is why we have a lot of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation activities that are being implemented in Fiji communities" (Fiji Red Cross interviewee, personal communication, 29 October 2014, Suva, Fiji).

Conclusions: The current approach to EBPH can, with modifications, support climate change adaptation activities, but there is little evidence regarding interventions and knowledge translation, and guidelines for projecting health impacts are lacking.

16 The following summer, Edward Maibach, director of the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, and colleagues published a report of their survey of 133 directors of local public health departments on departmental climate change adaptation activities and attitudes.

The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of adaptation and its relevance to global health, and highlight the opportunities to improve health and reduce health inequities via the new and additional funding that is available for climate change adaptation activities.

Some of these issues are common to other types of modeling, so our discussion could be applied to similar concerns arising in the development of health impact assessments (European Centre for Health Policy 1999; Kemm 2007) and the modeling of certain climate change adaptation activities, which also have co-benefits and co-harms (Cheng and Berry 2013).

Nonetheless, it has been observed more recently that increasing climate change adaptation activity is being witnessed in cities (in common with other Western countries) [77].

I researched the eight participating Caribbean nations, focusing on climate change mitigation and adaptation activities that were relevant to areas of focus outlined in the project document.

In Cancun, countries should begin outlining an organizational structure to allow the Global Fund for Climate to facilitate and finance adaptation activities, with special care taken to facilitate adaptation activities for the most vulnerable countries and least developed countries. .

The key objectives are: 1) an early warning system for climate-sensitive disease; 2) improved health sector capacity to respond to climate-sensitive disease; and 3) health adaptation activities in areas of greater risk (30).