The first step is to build awareness in the organization about climate change and adaptation.
This event will bring forward the work of the UN Task Team on the Social Dimensions of Climate Change and in general discuss the need to focus on the social impacts of climate change and appropriate adaptation policies supported by social science research.
In developing the thematic area, UNESCO is a leader in the areas of: transboundary surface and groundwater, water quality, integrated water resource management and climate change adaptation and water.
Collaborative initiatives such as these, which bring together indigenous and scientific knowledge, make an important contribution to climate change monitoring and adaptation.
The panel on Indigenous Knowledge noted the expanding recognition of indigenous and traditional knowledge as an essential building block for global sustainability in numerous domains such as biodiversity conservation and management, food security, natural disaster preparedness, climate change assessment and adaptation, amongst others.
The exhibit will present the UNESCO Climate Change Initiative and UNESCO's actions on climate change mitigation, adaptation, climate knowledge, research and monitoring, education and public awareness.
Traditional knowledge for climate change assessment and adaptation (pdf, en anglais).
The overall effect is to undermine the resilience of marine and coastal ecosystems, affecting in turn their ability to support coastal livelihoods such as fishing and tourism and their potential role in climate change adaptation and mitigation.
This event provides a unique opportunity for the natural resource and agriculture community to share solutions for climate change adaptation and mitigation in agricultural landscapes.
Key themes of SD in the region include among other things poverty alleviation, citizenship, peace, ethics, responsibility in local and global contexts, democracy and governance, justice, security, human rights, health, gender equity, cultural diversity, rural and urban development, economy, production and consumption patterns, corporate social responsibility, environmental protection, climate change, prevention and adaptation, natural resource management, biological and landscape diversity.
The UNDAF incorporates UNESCO concerns, including education, science and technology for climate change adaptation, culture and communications for development, gender equality and peace building.
This unique resource draws attention to a rapidly growing scientific literature on the contribution of indigenous and traditional knowledge to understanding climate change vulnerability, resilience and adaptation.
By adding climate change adaptation and fish and wildlife benefits to their highway projects, local and state agencies can stretch their highway budgets further by tapping into federal wildlife funds, said Corrie Miller, executive director of the Ausable River Association in the northeastern Adirondacks.
Using a holistic approach, pedagogical approaches and techniques in their own school environment, teachers can develop the capacities to facilitate climate change mitigation, adaptation and disaster risk reduction learning.
This conference and the workshops intent to provide solutions for effective and efficient global disaster and risk management and for climate change adaptation, which needs the involvement of all stakeholders of the public and the private sector.
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This discussion will be followed by a comparative analysis of the German and French public adaptation policies to climate change and finally by a dialogue between researchers and research program officers on disasters and sustainable development.
Oceans Day at Durban will draw high-level attention to ocean issues during the COP17 climate talks, highlighting the direct link between climate change, the health of the oceans, and human well-being, as well as the need for sufficient funding to support bold mitigation and adaptation measures that will minimize climate change impacts on coastal communities and ocean ecosystems and resources.
Adaptation to climate change and its mitigation is one key objective of this biosphere reserve, with many research and activities underway.
The time is ripe to build on the work we did at our 7th Ordinary Session in Doha, Qatar last fall, where we formulated and adopted a Framework of Ethical Principles and Responsibilities on Climate Change Adaptation.
With support from the Government of Denmark, a new edition of the Sandwatch Manual was published in 2010, integrating new content on climate change adaptation as well as networking and information sharing.
While the environmental transformations engendered by climate change are expected to be unprecedented, existing in-depth indigenous knowledge on strategies for coping with change may also provide a crucial foundation for new adaptation measures and sustainable development in the face of climate change.
Establish and test strategies for adaptation to climate change.
Adaptation is recognizing that climate change is coming and is going to cause different sorts of issues for different people in different places.
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The final, and largely overlooked, outcome of the conference may yet prove its most important: delegates agreed to promote carbon capture and sequestration technologies, and to get serious about adaptation to climate change.
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We welcome the President's commitment to a major program for promotion of renewable energy, and I drew his attention to India's own ambitious national action plan on climate change, which has eight national missions covering both mitigation and adaptation.
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Emerging countries want governments in the rich world to pay huge sums from their coffers for adaptation to, and mitigation of, climate change.
This co-produced knowledge that derives from synergies between both systems of knowledge may point the way forward to promising and productive ways to address the complexities of climate change adaptation.
In 2009, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) initiated the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force, which includes representatives from more than 20 Federal Agencies.
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