Pathways for Coastal Adaptation in Metro Vancouver, Alexandra Heather RUTLEDGEGlobal Risk Forum GRFDavos
6th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2016 Integrative Risk Management - Towards Resilient Cities. 28 August - 01 September 2016 in Davos, Switzerland
Managed Retreat for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction A C...Global Risk Forum GRFDavos
6th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2016 Integrative Risk Management - Towards Resilient Cities. 28 August - 01 September 2016 in Davos, Switzerland
Biodiversity loss and nature-based solutions: A view from re/insuranceCesar Henrique Arrais
Presentation by Oliver Schelske, Swiss Re Institute, Director, Natural Assets & ESG Research Lead, as part of the webinar "Nature-Based Solutions as a Catalyst for Achieving Mutual Benefits for People, Nature, and Climate: Lessons learned from China and globally."
Pathways for Coastal Adaptation in Metro Vancouver, Alexandra Heather RUTLEDGEGlobal Risk Forum GRFDavos
6th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2016 Integrative Risk Management - Towards Resilient Cities. 28 August - 01 September 2016 in Davos, Switzerland
Managed Retreat for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction A C...Global Risk Forum GRFDavos
6th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2016 Integrative Risk Management - Towards Resilient Cities. 28 August - 01 September 2016 in Davos, Switzerland
Biodiversity loss and nature-based solutions: A view from re/insuranceCesar Henrique Arrais
Presentation by Oliver Schelske, Swiss Re Institute, Director, Natural Assets & ESG Research Lead, as part of the webinar "Nature-Based Solutions as a Catalyst for Achieving Mutual Benefits for People, Nature, and Climate: Lessons learned from China and globally."
Background to the GIZ/SADC supported SADC TFCA CCA Training ProgrammePriya Vallabh Goburdhan
This presentation provides an overview of the rationale for the SADC Climate Change Adaptation Training Programme for Trans-frontier Conservation Managers.
A presentation about Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change in Southern Africa. Presented during the SADC Climate Change Course for Trans-frontier Conservation Areas in 2014.
Mamadou Diakhite of NEPAD/TerrAfrica discusses what is needed in African policy to scale up and strengthen integrated landscape management. From the opening session of the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature in Africa Conference. (Photos in this presentation are courtesy of Neil Palmer, CIAT.)
The Ocean Watch open data platform delivers science to policy makers developing sustainable ocean economies and operationalizing integrated ocean management.
Learn more: https://oceanwatchdata.org
On November 10, 2010 the Bay Area Open Space Council convened a workshop at the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation to discuss climate change and its impacts on land conservation.
Read more about the event here: http://openspacecouncil.org/blog/by-guest-blogger-kelly-cash-on-the-morning-of-the-day-that-the-san-francisco-giants-would-win-the-world-series-in-the-evenin/
See photos from the event here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/openspacecouncil/sets/72157625226473375/
A presentation on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, with particular relevance to Africa and Trans-frontier Conservation Areas within Southern Africa
Presented by Terry Sunderland, CIFOR Principal Scientist and Team Leader, Sustainable Landscapes and Food Systems, on 8 December 2016 at a CGIAR-CBD Linkages side event at CBD COP13, Cancun, Mexico.
This presentation shares Costa Rica's vision on and approach to biodiversity, explaining the policy and legal framework established to protect and sustainably use biodiversity.
Background to the GIZ/SADC supported SADC TFCA CCA Training ProgrammePriya Vallabh Goburdhan
This presentation provides an overview of the rationale for the SADC Climate Change Adaptation Training Programme for Trans-frontier Conservation Managers.
A presentation about Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change in Southern Africa. Presented during the SADC Climate Change Course for Trans-frontier Conservation Areas in 2014.
Mamadou Diakhite of NEPAD/TerrAfrica discusses what is needed in African policy to scale up and strengthen integrated landscape management. From the opening session of the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature in Africa Conference. (Photos in this presentation are courtesy of Neil Palmer, CIAT.)
The Ocean Watch open data platform delivers science to policy makers developing sustainable ocean economies and operationalizing integrated ocean management.
Learn more: https://oceanwatchdata.org
On November 10, 2010 the Bay Area Open Space Council convened a workshop at the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation to discuss climate change and its impacts on land conservation.
Read more about the event here: http://openspacecouncil.org/blog/by-guest-blogger-kelly-cash-on-the-morning-of-the-day-that-the-san-francisco-giants-would-win-the-world-series-in-the-evenin/
See photos from the event here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/openspacecouncil/sets/72157625226473375/
A presentation on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, with particular relevance to Africa and Trans-frontier Conservation Areas within Southern Africa
Presented by Terry Sunderland, CIFOR Principal Scientist and Team Leader, Sustainable Landscapes and Food Systems, on 8 December 2016 at a CGIAR-CBD Linkages side event at CBD COP13, Cancun, Mexico.
This presentation shares Costa Rica's vision on and approach to biodiversity, explaining the policy and legal framework established to protect and sustainably use biodiversity.
Facilitated by SNV, this event was held on April 24 to coincide with the Asia Pacific Forestry Week (APFW), which occured over April 21-26. The event featured a special Guest speaker - David Huberman - who was visiting Hanoi for the APFW - and focussed on REDD, the forestry mechanism proposed for the post-2012 UNFCCC protocol. Click on the link below to read his presentation.
Presentation by David Huberman
Creating landscapes with healthy, functioning
ecosystems is not only key to making progress towards
the environmental targets embedded in the Sustainable
Development Goals, but also to addressing multiple
social and economic targets that depend partly or wholly
on the benefits that ecosystems provide to people.
GreenATP ucla anderson business school mp totten 06 11Michael P Totten
Slides from seminar. See article for details: http://www.scribd.com/mtotten6756
Summary:
Humanity’s unceasing ingenuity is generating vast economic gain for billions of people with goods unavailable to even kings and queens throughout most of history. Unfortunately, this economic growth has triggered unprecedented se- curity challenges of global and historical magnitude: more absolute poor than any time in human history, the sixth largest extinction spasm of life on earth, climate destabilization with mega-catastrophic consequences, and multi-trillion dollar wars over access to energy. These multiple, inextricably interwoven chal- lenges have low probability of being solved if decision makers maintain the strong propensity to think and act as if life is linear, has no carrying capacity limits, uncertainty is controllable, the future free of surprises, planning is predictable and compartmentalized into silos, and Gaussian distributions are taken as the norm while fat-tail futures are ignored. Although the future holds irreducible uncertainties, it is not fated. The emergence of Internet availability to one-third of humanity and access by most of humanity within a decade has spawned the Web analogue of a ‘Cambrian explosion’ of speciation in knowledge applica- tions. Among the most prodigious have been collaboration innovation networks (COINs) reflecting a diversity of ‘genome’ types, facilitating a myriad of collective intelligence crowd-swarming phenomena (Malone T, Laubacher R, Dellarocas C. The Collective Intelligence Genome. MIT Sloan Management Review, Spring; 2010, Vol. 51). COINs are essential tools for accelerating and scaling transformational solutions (positive tipping points) to the wicked problems confronting humanity. Web COINs enable acceleration of multiple-benefit innovations and solutions to these problems that permeate the nested clusters of linked nonlinear complex adaptive systems comprising the global biosphere and socioeconomy [Raford N. How to build a collective intelligence platform to crowdsource almost anything. Available at: http:news.noahraford.com.
5th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2014 Integrative Risk Management - The role of science, technology & practice 24-28 August 2014 in Davos, Switzerland
Delivered by Vic Adamowicz, Research Director, Alberta Land Institute and Professor, Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, University of Alberta
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Personal development courses are widely available today, with each one promising life-changing outcomes. Tim Han’s Life Mastery Achievers (LMA) Course has drawn a lot of interest. In addition to offering my frank assessment of Success Insider’s LMA Course, this piece examines the course’s effects via a variety of Tim Han LMA course reviews and Success Insider comments.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
Acetabularia Information For Class 9 .docxvaibhavrinwa19
Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
7. Despite the widely
acknowledged
challenges in achieving
a full recovery of the
structure, functioning
and composition of
damaged ecosystems,
policies that permit the
compensated loss of
natural habitat -“biodiversity offsets” -have multiplied
internationally over the
past decade
8.
9. Conventional
Justification
Applicable
Mitigation
for a bad development project
in all circumstances
Comprehensive
A
Panacea
environmental protection
12. Biodiversity
gains are comparable to losses
from residual effects
Biodiversity
gains are additional to
outcomes that would have resulted in the
absence of the project
Biodiversity
gains are lasting and protected
against risk of failure
Sufficient
ecological information
13. Currency
Metrics for measuring biodiversity
Baseline
Standard against which to measure no net loss
Equivalence
Trading like for like
Longevity
How long will they endure, especially in a
dynamic environment
Time lag
Temporal gap between development impacts
occurring and the benefits of offsetting
Uncertainty
Will the scheme work
Reversibility
Whether or not impacts can be reversed
Thresholds
Defining point beyond which offsets are not
acceptable
18. Understanding
of probable negative
ecological and social impacts in a
regional context
Adequate baseline information is
required
Regional-scale assessment of risk
and impact, analysis of cumulative
impacts
Integration of risk with other
elements of feasibility
Consideration of biodiversity offsets
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Since the discovery in 2007 of world-class chromite-nickel-coppergold deposits, there are currently at least 35 mineral exploration and
mining companies with active claims in the Ring of Fire.
32. A biodiversity offset should be designed and
implemented in a landscape context to achieve the
expected measurable conservation outcomes
taking into account available information on the full
range of biological, social and cultural values of
biodiversity and supporting an ecosystem
approach.
33.
34.
35.
36.
Biodiversity is a complex, difficult-to-measure,
and non-interchangeable resource, which
challenges offsetting: scientific evidence for
success is unfavourable
Canada is generally absent framework(s) that
enable best practices offsetting principles
This can and will promote BAU by another name
Ultimately, the value of any offset guidance
depends on its integration with higher-level
biodiversity policies/plans that clarify
assumptions, specify conservation goals, address
cumulative impacts, and are carefully monitored.
