Sentence examples for paying for adaptations from inspiring English sources

The cost of the legs, purchasing a ground floor flat to replace her second floor property, paying for adaptations to her new home and her mother's house - where she will live initially - could run into hundreds of thousands of pounds.

This is an important advance on the idea that rich countries must help pay for adaptation and mitigation measures.

If the Maldives and other countries at risk are lucky, new finance mechanisms will help poor countries pay for adaptation initiatives.

Rich countries have failed to keep similar promises in the past - only £90m of a promised £600m to pay for adaptation measures had been delivered to a Global Environment Facility fund by the end of last year.

"It provides the scientific basis to say this is the bill, somebody has to pay, and with the scientific grounds it is relatively easier now to go to the climate negotiations in the UNFCCC United Nations Frameworkk Convention on Climate Change) and start making deals about who will pay for adaptation".

Developing countries insist on increased financing to pay for cleaner energy and to pay for adaptation.

An additional $10 per ton paid by the richer nations alone would provide sufficient funds on an international scale to pay for adaptation and compensation, although all nations should be required to pay something in catastrophic insurance premiums.

In the United States a $10 per ton of CO2 tax would raise about $60 billion annually, sufficient funds to pay for adaptation, mitigation and assistance for at least for the foreseeable future.

But the confluence of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy and the agreements at Cancun and Doha by richer nations to help pay for adaptation and mitigation as well as assist the victims of climate change has brought to the United States and the world the centrality of the question.

Underlying our analysis of adaptation is the assumption that the stimuli which lead to effects such as the tilt aftereffect and the motion aftereffect are in fact very rare in the natural environment – and the price the nervous system pays for adaptation under normal situations is thus very small.

While all the involved parties and also the government already invest specifically in knowledge development, the challenge is paying for the adaptation of the use of novel forms of biomass utilisation which are a result of the cascading chain.