A high degree of strategic adaptability.

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A strong capacity to respond quickly to change.

This is bound to outstrip the ability of many societies and ecosystems to adapt.

Younger leaders are more likely to be able to cope with the chop and change of difficult times.

The Least Developed Countries Fund of the Global Environment Facility provides funds for the enhancement of those countries' adaptive capacity and the implementation of their national adaptation plans of action and grants for their environmental projects.

The Toronto summit will provide a first opportunity to assess the G 20 s ability to adapt to new conditions.

The available evidence suggests that the criminal groups involved in these activities are highly dynamic, adaptable and in some cases have moved from drug trafficking to smuggling of migrants, benefiting from the huge profits involved and the relatively low risk of detection and prosecution.

(iv) Field projects pilot projects to develop and test adaptation models and institutional arrangements for increasing dissemination of climate data and early warning systems to farmers to improve India's capacity for sustaining agricultural production through microlevel adaptations (2).

But the pace of change needs to be speeded up, ensuring that the IMF in particular is able to adapt to post crisis challenges.

But in spite of strains and adversity, the family has proved resilient and a source of strength and inspiration for their members.

Committing to massive cuts in carbon emissions will leave future generations poorer and less able to adapt to challenges.

The ability of nomads to adapt to the whims of nature and to live in harmony with it has produced different techniques and ways of protecting and using land in a sustained manner.

But it is already clear that the capacity of some communities to adapt will quickly be exceeded if climate change goes unmitigated.

What should be the CIA, open, analytical, open source should come over here.

With a long history of cataclysmic, often violent change, Chinese society is perhaps more adaptable than most.

They are better at adjusting to external economic shocks (such as terms of trade declines or sudden stops in capital inflows).

Though special, computer chess nevertheless offers both a window into silicon evolution and a barometer of how people might adapt to it.

Originally, it referred to the ability of manufacturing processes to produce a very high proportion of output within specification.

We're smarter, we're more flexible, we can learn more, we survive in more different environments, we migrated to cover the world and even go to outer space.

(i) The ability of UNICEF to recruit and retain high quality staff who will further its aims of effective partnerships and contributions to United Nations reform.

We do no such thing, because we recognize that the costs of high speed cars must be weighed against the benefits of a mobile society.

It took several years for trade union restraint to flower into robust competitiveness, but flower it did.

The dynamics of adjustment within the eurozone exacerbate the underlying imbalances Germany is becoming more competitive while the periphery remains uncompetitive.

The Marine Corps requested greater load carrying capability in high temperatures for the Cobra in the 1970s.

(g) Identifying, documenting, analysing, testing and disseminating good practices in poverty reduction in the region, and building the capacity of Governments at all levels and their partners in civil society to adapt and apply the lessons learned

He underscored also some factors that determine adaptive capacity of human systems, including the level of economic wealth, access to technology, information, knowledge and skills, and existence of institutions, infrastructure and social capital.

This appears to be one of those times. Labor markets have been knocked out of equilibrium as new technology and shifting global supply chains have caused demand in the labor market to change faster than supply can adjust.

The insurgents remain capable, adaptable and intent on carrying out attacks against Iraqi civilians, officials and security forces, with the goal of destabilizing and de legitimizing the Iraqi Government in order to pursue their own goals.

Asians constantly adapt and change.

In order to enhance Brazilian industry s export competitiveness, industrial policy must support a transition to high value products and services.

Prefabricated from the most traditional of materials, but that material because of the technology, the computing ability, the ability to prefabricate, make high performance components out of timber very much at the cutting edge.

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Table 2 presents the priorities and needs for adaptation in key vulnerable sectors in various developing regions.

In terms of strategic perspectives, the Review action plan pointed to the cotton and food processing sectors and the port of Cotonou as providing high potential investing opportunities.

The Age of Adaptation

The loss of resilience would be too great.

Adaptation measures should be focused on efficiency and conservation.

Recognizing also the need to continue to develop an understanding of, and to address, socio economic activities that exacerbate the vulnerability of societies to natural disasters and to build and further strengthen community capacity to cope with disaster risks,

Emerging economies ability to provide the growth lubrication that facilitates adjustment in industrial countries is also a function of the latter countries willingness to accommodate tectonic shifts in the operation and governance of the global economy.

Several small island developing States have made strides in developing their capacity to trade, but economic vulnerabilities remain high and special efforts should be made by the international community to strengthen the resilience of these countries.

They tend to be excessively trusting, have a high risk tolerance, and especially the more educated victims have a need to feel exclusive, or part of a special group.

The ability of tumor cells to adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions, including toxic chemicals, is similar to the evolutionary capacities demonstrated by crop pests and other invasive species. As in the case of the Diamondback moth, successful eradication of disseminated cancer cells is rare.

But such external shocks may also have indirect effects by aggravating the disparities between developed and developing countries and creating additional incentives for mass migration to rich, less affected, and more adaptable regions.

A denser network of institutions seems better adapted to a heterogeneous international community, and it is likely to provide better services and give a stronger voice to smaller countries.