In this paper, we assess strategic climate adaptation actions in the cities of Durban South Africaa), Indore (India), and Medellin Colombiaand and examine different approaches to integrating emerging adaptation priorities into urban plans, programmes, or governance arrangements.
Thus, the integrated assessment of CO2-effects of the forest management and wood utilization based on the developed scenario analysis provides decision-making parameters for a strategic climate protection approach to forest management and wood usage at the regional and national levels.
On the 1 January 2016, its official birth date, more than 120 municipalities and their individual mayors will attempt to start building a coherent metropolitan identity, addressing issues such as strategic planning, climate change and sustainable development.
Restricted by disadvantageous strategic status, climate and traffic problems in regional economic development and water security system, numerous data-sparse and ungauged basins are found in many remote parts of the world and particularly in developing countries.
As Cameron and Quinn [12] state, changing organizational culture is a challenge, because it requires the identification and a long-term strategy for changing underlying attributes, including the management style, strategic plans, climate, reward system, means of bonding, leadership, and basic values of the organization.
Earlier this year, China and the United States forged a strategic collaboration on climate change, in recognition of the risks and opportunities that the world faces.
New Labour, meanwhile, has yet to hit upon a distinct and persuasive approach to the new, strategic problem of climate change or the more immediate one of mayhem in the global economy.
"BHP, to be fair to them, is doing more than most but when I look around the boardrooms of Australia, the UK or US I see absolutely no recognition of the strategic implications of climate change.
Monbiot accuses us of "jingoistic and xenophobic sentiments" because we argued that the government was, de facto, handing over future strategic energy and climate decision-making to the French government.
"The majority of FTSE 100 companies did have strategic treatment of climate change issues; but worryingly found that this was likely to foster long-term "blind faith" in regulation, rather than being led by the physical manifestation of climate change itself.
This National Action Plan includes eight specific objectives, including a "National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Eco-systems" and a "National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change".
