Some Parties have included adaptation measures in their national action plans and or national environmental action plans as a first step towards implementation of adaptation, and others have reported that some legislative changes would help facilitate incorporation of climate change adaptation in the future.

With its remarkable ability to adapt, China is making strides to accommodate the rising power of its markets and people.

This is particularly true with respect to French companies, which have remarkably adapted to the demands of international competition.

The Age of Adaptation

Today, the world s overwhelming strategic problem is to adjust to a new economic and political geography, in which the weight of the global economy is shifting eastwards and southwards.

Adjusting to globalization

Producers in Jiangsu, for example, were forced to adapt constantly to fickle product safety and environmental standards in export markets.

All these measures together could raise about 50 billion annually in net public funding to help developing countries adapt to climate change.

Adapting to Climate Change

Adapting to the circumstance.

of the Kyoto Protocol (FCCC KP CMP 2005 3 Add.2)

Because fundamental equality is granted in this way, the British system manages to cope better than others do with a greater expression of distinctive identities.

Why China Can t Adjust

(d) Stimulating adaptation research and technology

Failure to adapt amounts to regression.

In conjunction with its regular meetings, the LEG has conducted interactive sessions with national NAPA teams of host countries.

He mentioned plans for an online database of adaptation options to share local knowledge and endogenous adaptation techniques.

Fortunately, a growing arsenal of solutions is available through local innovations that are increasingly well adapted to Africa s unique needs.

The document is the first result of numerous actions included in the European Commission White Paper Adapting to climate change Towards a European framework for action .

Asians constantly adapt and change.

(d) Supply side adjustments.

The Adaptation Fund Purpose The Adaptation Fund was created to assist developing country parties that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change to meet the costs of adaptation.

Other countries, such as Greece, needed to have a full blown crisis in order to prompt such adjustment measures, whereas Britain was acting prudently and preemptively.

A high degree of strategic adaptability.

I wondered. Can I really call this land a second home? My thoughts were interrupted by the taxi driver s voice.

This process of structural adjustment is still going on.

Climate change impacts, adaptation measures and response strategies

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

Needs for technologies for adaptation to climate change

(b) The consequences of not adapting to climate change

There was an urgent need for adaptation.

So, even as some northern countries begin to question the austerity prescription, their southern counterparts (including southern European countries) are increasingly adopting fiscal adjustment measures.

The EGTT could contribute directly to the programme of work on adaptation in the area of technologies for adaptation and in related subject areas.

The costs of adapting to climate change are also high an estimated 45 50 billion per year by the 2040s, and 350 billion per year by the 2070s.

Latin America s Adaptive Gangsters

However, we need to adapt to this situation.

The loss of resilience would be too great.

Financing the transfer of technologies for adaptation to climate change

Identification and evaluation of technologies for adaptation to climate change

Financing the transfer of technologies for adaptation to climate change

Adaptation measures should be focused on efficiency and conservation.

Adjustment, support to trade and trade related shocks

The Adaptation Fund of the Kyoto Protocol The Adaptation Fund of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC or Climate Convention) is a distinct trust fund of the UNFCCC financial mechanism.

But it also must include a shift to a policy framework that accurately reflects the non cyclical nature of the longer term structural adaptations that will be required to restore growth and employment.

This guidance may address issues relating to incorporating adaptation concerns in the project's cost benefit analysis and mainstreaming adaptation projects in the national development agenda.