Sentence examples for urgent adaptation from inspiring English sources

Back in 2001, the LDCs were asked to develop National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) that identify urgent adaptation activities that industrialised nations would support through the LCDF.

"Investing in the green economy is not just a route out of recession, but a necessary and urgent adaptation to the economy and society we will need in the decades ahead," she said.

This could be explained by the enterprise diversification or risk reduction effect of non-farm income which may reduce the importance of urgent adaptation measures.

The National Adaptation Programmes of Action, while not classified here as policy documents, should be noted as providing a process for 'Least Developed Countries' to identify priority activities that are urgent adaptation responses to climate change; 47 countries have completed these to date [ 23].

We in Pakistan are actually living through the age of urgent climate adaptation," said Khan. "We are facing its full impacts, including the recent heatwave which turned the streets of Karachi into an oven and the spate of disastrous climate triggered mega-floods over the past few years.

Coastal communities in tropical environments are at increasing risk from both environmental degradation and climate change and require urgent local adaptation action.

Therefore, there is an urgent need to use adaptation techniques to support moving from one specification to another.

And so it is critically important that the public, the taxpayers, understand the facts and the urgent nature of the adaptation required--and its cost.

As ministers from more than 180 countries meet in Bali this week for perhaps the most crucial round of climate change talks, the discussions are pivoting on impacts, adaptation and the urgent need for a post-2012 regime to reduce emissions.

Thus, increased climate variability is likely to negatively impact the livelihoods of pastoral communities in semi-arid and arid environments (McCabe [1987]), and there is an urgent need to develop robust adaptation strategies in such regions (Sulieman and Elagib [2012]).

This allows for comparisons between regions and highlights areas that are in most urgent need for climate change adaptation action.