Sentence examples for reduction and adaptation from inspiring English sources

Although large-scale engineered interventions have been common for the purposes of risk reduction and adaptation in the past, emerging ecosystem-based approaches are gaining attention.

In complex injury patterns, such as bilateral edentulous mandible fractures, an external approach is often necessary to achieve adequate reduction and adaptation of a load-bearing reconstruction plate.

We thus call for increased research into the issue of complementary city citizen rights and responsibilities in risk reduction and adaptation planning.

Moreover, in a possible scenario of global climate change mixed-species forests have been put forward as important risk reduction and adaptation strategies for environmental stress conditions (Forrester et al. 2016).

While the existing literature on climate variability and climate change makes important theoretical contributions on development, vulnerability, and adaptation more broadly, with few exceptions it has not acknowledged that contradictions arise in addressing insecurities via the implementation of development, vulnerability reduction, and adaptation programs.

"Sea level rise is an extremely challenging problem that requires both greenhouse gas emissions reduction and adaptation measures to successfully protect vulnerable coastal areas," Princeton University professor Michael Oppenheimer, who contributed to the report, told The Huffington Post.

The middle part of the page is spent repeating the UK's pledge to put £500m a year (totally £2.9bn from the pledge in 2009-10 unthe thendnd of the spending review period in 2015) into an international kitty to fund carbon reductions and adaptation in other parts of the world.

But now the EU is proposing that an initial €1 per allowance (representing 1 tonne of carbon dioxide) be raised centrally, rising to €3 by 2020, to raise about €175bn a year to finance emissions reductions and adaptation to inevitable climate change.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg hosted a mayoral summit at Paris' Hôtel de Ville (City Hall) attended by leaders of many of the world's largest cities. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio (no COP is complete without celebrities) implored the mayors to take serious action on both emissions reductions and adaptation to forestall impending threats to their cities.

ONE of the gestures that saved the UN climate conference in Copenhagen last December from complete meltdown was American support for the idea that, by 2020, $100 billion should be flowing from the north to the south every year to pay for emissions reduction and climate adaptation.

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