Measurement instruments Allowing the identification of levels of the impact of tourism impact and to keep abreast of change

39. Technological change in telecommunications will have a profound impact on economies worldwide.

It cooperates with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, other conventions, and related organizations engaged in climate change impact assessment, systematic observation and mitigation of climate change.

Recognizing the impact of climate change on forests and sustainable forest management, as well as the contribution of forests to addressing climate change,

Our global world demands concerted global action to mitigate the adverse impact of climate change.

Recognizing the negative impact of environmental degradation, including climate change, desertification and loss of biodiversity, on human settlements,

2. Much of this change would directly or indirectly impact on the promotion and protection of human rights.

We know that people often change their behavior when they can see and understand the impact of their actions.

(h) Forest fires, pests, diseases and abiotic factors affecting forests, including storm damage and the impact of climate change

Thus, in most national communications climate change scenarios were presented in greater detail than the results of impact assessments.

This provides an indication of the relative impact different climate change action plans are having on absolute emission levels.

Cross sectoral dialogue and cooperation are needed to achieve best practices to combat climate change, as well as coordination and integration of sector policies having an impact on climate change.

When both governments and markets fail, impact investors can stimulate change. Microfinance its advent, rise, and recent crises shows how.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was planning its third assessment report, which would have a new focus on the regional impact of climate change directed in particular at policy makers.

Global scientific simulation models, which have become more robust during the last decade, have significantly increased our capacity to anticipate future risks related to the impact of climate change although they still remain insufficient as regards projections for specific regional and subregional patterns of climate change and their impact.

The data collection process underlying A 58 70 had addressed impact by asking the reporting offices to categorize measures as having their principal impact on efficiency, capacity building, knowledge enhancement or culture change.

CLIRUN is a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet based integrated water balance model developed for climate change impact assessment of river basin runoff.

His priority was to set up a quick impact programme aimed at bringing about tangible economic change for the Palestinian people.

Indeed, the long dreaded impact of climate change is already upon us. The current drought covering much of East Africa far more severe than past droughts has been directly associated with climate change.

For example, given that monsoons provide water to more than half of the global population, any change could have a dramatic impact.

Fisheries A few countries examined the impacts on fisheries as a part of their climate change and sea level rise impact assessments.

All of these are changing and interacting in new ways under the impact of globalization, technological change, cultural evolution and demographic revolution.

Others expressed their concerns about the impact of climate change and contamination of soil and water on natural resources that cause permanent damage.

Prominent among the emerging issues highlighted in 2006 are the farming of marine species, and the impact of climate change on food production.

We must keep on pressing for the development and adoption of strategies that mitigate, and build resilience to, the impact of climate change.

The special report includes quantitative estimates of the impact that the possible measures it describes would have on climate change if they were implemented.

Many Parties reported specific scientific research on the effect of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on their countries' climate, and the need to conduct detailed studies of the impact of climate change on vulnerable sectors using the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scenarios of climate change.

Thailand had also conducted a number of research projects related to climate change, which would help to increase scientific understanding of the potential change and its impact on the country apos s natural resources and life support systems.

Every effort must be made to agree on mitigating the impact of climate change during the third session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to be held in Kyoto.

The impact of UNODC programme activities, which seek to promote legislative change and international cooperation, can only be measured over an extended period of time.

The Agency initiated a survey to assess client preferences and the impact of the change on usage patterns and food security in special hardship households.

And you can have more impact on the environment just getting your neighborhood to change these things than by changing your vehicle. Thank you very much.

Furthermore, such change might also have an impact on the agenda of the Commission, the reduction through grouping of the number of documents and so on.

Like the Montreal Protocol, which designates the impact of each ozone depleting substance relative to CFC 11, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change designates the impact of the global warming potential of the gases it controls relative to carbon dioxide (CO2).

(k) production of a special edition of quot IMPACT quot , the newsletter of the Climate Africa Network, which elaborated on the linkages between climate change and desertification

Change, change.

There is broad consensus among scientists that the scientific understanding of the ongoing climate change is sufficient to warrant taking urgent action in order to mitigate the impact of future climate change, including both the environmental impacts and the socio economic consequences.

The roofs not only temper urban heat island impact but they save energy, and therefore money, the emissions that cause climate change, and they also reduce stormwater runoff.

3. Welcomes the change in the Unit's annual planning process, and notes with appreciation the positive impact that it has had on coordination with other United Nations oversight bodies

The threat of the impact of climate change, sea level rise and variability on the entire global environment continues to be a matter of serious security concern to all.

The impact of recent environmental calamities had shown that even the richest and most powerful country in the world was not immune to the devastating effects of climate change.

Because the impact of climate change is global, it is essential that the world as a whole take specific measures to adapt. But it is already clear that the capacity of some communities to adapt will quickly be exceeded if climate change goes unmitigated.

At the same time, the independent impact assessment concluded that there was a need for a change of business model in view of changing international trends in official development assistance.

Regrettably, it had failed to mention the single most important change in the methodology in terms of its impact on Member States' rates of assessment the reduction of the ceiling.

Building on what had been achieved, Parties should explore ways to strengthen tools, such as the CDM, and to take measures to adapt to climate change and soften its impact.