Adapting to Climate Change

Adapting to the circumstance.

While there was no discussion of specific mechanisms to fund a secretariat, this could be achieved by adapting an existing trust fund.

But adapting this Western legacy for the contemporary Arab world, while recovering Arabs own medieval heritage of tolerance and scientific excellence, will be difficult.

While this applies to many non tradable services, it may also be relevant for manufactured goods that need adapting to local conditions (UNCTAD 2005 9 10).

(b) The consequences of not adapting to climate change

A key factor in adapting to these forces is investment.

2 Replication involves duplicating or adapting a UNIFEM supported initiative.

We could do much more good if we focused on allowing poor countries to use the benefits of extra CO2 fertilization while adapting to the problems caused by higher temperatures.

Methodologies for sharing and adapting innovations in governance and public administration

With international collaboration and sound policies, we can achieve that success by launching a new era of low carbon economic growth while adapting to the climate change that is on the way.

Europe s scientific institutions are already evolving and adapting to new global challenges.

The knowledge factor in adapting a successful practice is also quite important.

(d) Understanding, assessing, predicting, mitigating and adapting to climate variability and change

Neither Russia nor the Islamic world is, thus far, adapting well to globalization.

Adapting Islam to modern conditions was the purpose of the first generation of reformers.

Few Parties considered reducing water pollution as an option for adapting to climate change.

(i) Adapting internationally agreed standards, norms and principles to regional, national and local contexts

In some companies, adapting and improving processes could actually be impeded by the quality system.

Indeed, the Chinese Internet is evolving and adapting in ways that shore up the regime s legitimacy.

It is a question of transferring the technologies and adapting them to local conditions and needs.

Yet many of the highest costs of adapting to changing weather patterns will fall on them.

By adapting its services, UNRWA has been working to meet the growing needs of these communities.

They may well be adapting to new economic, political, and technological realities, not hiding from the future.

Within Christianity, for well known historical reasons, Protestantism has had a comparative advantage in adapting to pluralism.

In adapting the Security Council to the new international realities, we must avoid strengthening its anachronistic aspects.

In recent years, the systemically important countries have established an impressive track record of adapting pragmatically and flexibly.

At last count, 24 states have begun adapting their unemployment insurance systems to take advantage of the measure.

Burger has said that he is working on adapting The Big Knockover, a short story by Dashiell Hammett.

Non governmental organizations are adapting to the post conflict reconstruction reality, where the Government sets the overall directives.

The Treaty had suffered a number of violations and the withdrawal of one of its parties, generating a climate of mistrust. The true challenge, however, was how to preserve the multilateral approach to non proliferation and disarmament, while adapting it to current conditions.

The idea of reforming or adapting the old system without decisive change must be rejected before the process begins.

The Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty review conference will begin the work of adapting the NPT to our rapidly changing world.

The second wave began in the 1970s, and was primarily directed towards adapting specific new products to particular local markets.

Consultation cannot consist of simply informing others of what has already been decided, not adapting policies, and yet still expecting support.

They might take the route of adapting the Maastricht rules to allow for more inter temporal flexibility at the national level.

On the contrary, those bodies continue to fulfil their goals and mandates by adapting themselves to new political and economic realities.

Adapting the alternatives to the specific cropping environment and local conditions of particular Article 5(1) countries is essential to success.

In amending or adapting its laws on violence, the Government should take into consideration general recommendation 19 with respect to violence.

Welcoming Economic and Social Council decision 2006 206 of 10 February 2006, entitled Adapting the work of the Economic and Social Council ,

A half century of working together, plus a decade and a half of adapting to new threats and demands, is paying off.

Reforming the Security Council is an important aspect of adapting the United Nations to face the challenges of the twenty first century.

The handbook needs to take a broader approach to assessment that addresses all the issues of adapting to impacts of climate change.

Farmers and agriculture as key to mitigating and adapting to climate change farmers driven initiatives as offering new opportunities to expedite implementation

For that reason, while we understand the reasons given for reconsidering some of the aspects of the regime as set out in the Convention, including adapting the Convention to current economic and political realities, Tunisia stresses the interest of developing countries to preserve the spirit of the Convention.