Adapting to Climate Change

Existing firms often have a hard time adapting.

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

Most Paris residents are aware that adapting to the Parisian lifestyle can be a challenge.

After adapting to city life, they can no longer imagine themselves in a rural environment.

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

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

Finally, the EU needs to promote social cohesion while adapting Europe s social model to globalization s challenges.

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

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

But adapting to the changed environment and making efforts to prevent further change is sometimes easier said than done.

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

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

But, with their survival at stake, authoritarian regimes are good at spotting threats in the neighborhood and adapting to meet them.

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

Adapting the labor market to a world of increasingly automated workplaces will be one of the defining challenges of our era.

As a consequence, an increasing number of businesses are adapting their structures to domestic and foreign legal systems and taxation laws.

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

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

Democracy may be imperfect, but compared to other arrangements it remains the best instrument for adapting to the world with flexibility and efficiency.

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

In the important work of adapting educational institutions for the future, we must not lose sight of their core mission as articulated in the past.

NEW YORK In many of history s most successful economic reforms, clever countries have learned from the policy successes of others, adapting them to local conditions.

NEW YORK In many of history s most successful economic reforms, clever countries have learned from the policy successes of others, adapting them to local conditions.

Providing tools and opportunities that support the evolution of their respective roles is essential to creating a labor force capable of adapting to changing circumstances.

In adapting its mission to twenty first century needs, the World Bank should also take on the responsibility of providing development relevant global public goods.

Since its inception, Alianza has incorporated eco tourism and carbon capture projects, and has developed techniques for adapting agriculture to climate change, as Argüelles explains

Adapting the governance metric in a country of China s size to an economy that is green, inclusive, and equitable presents a novel challenge in human history.

Adapting to climate change and decreasing agriculture s environmental impact, while substantially increasing its productivity, are among the key challenges confronting us in the twenty first century.

And strategies for adapting forests to climate change must be coordinated with those of other sectors and integrated into national and regional development programmes and strategies.

Adapting to the latest horror, we conclude repeatedly, and despite all evidence to the contrary that we have at last seen all that there is to see.

The most important reason for this delay was the resistance of managers towards adapting the organization of labor in their firms to the new mode of production.

COPENHAGEN Striking the right balance between preventing global warming and adapting to its effects is one of the most important and most vexing policy questions of our age.

But once you get passed the initial hurdles of adapting, which exist in any big city where locals speak a foreign language, you can start enjoying the perks.

Adapting European standards to Russian conditions can now be viewed as a set of medium term strategic targets institutional objectives to be achieved within the next 10 15 years.

So we need to focus more on adapting to the effects of global warming for example, by stepping up efforts to cope with inland flooding and the urban heat island effect.

We spend our long infancy and childhood adapting to the widely varying and complex sociocultural environment that surrounds us. This allows us to interact and operate successfully within our environment throughout our lives.

Countries that actively select legal norms from elsewhere, adapting them to local conditions, are on a par with countries that develop their legal order internally when it comes to the effectiveness of legal institutions.

STOCKHOLM The Nordic countries economies are performing well, and a part of the reason is that they are gradually reforming their social model, adapting it to new realities in ways that respond to people s demands.

As we enter 2016, we must focus on adapting governance, in all of its economic and political dimensions, to the twenty first century, so that our resources and knowledge produce inclusive progress, not violent conflict.

It's clear that under the current non law based system there can be no reforming of the Interior Ministry other than adapting it to the growing need of those in authority to act with impunity.

The Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty review conference will begin the work of adapting the NPT to our rapidly changing world. Many policymakers hope that 2010 will bring clarity on the North Korean and Iranian nuclear programs.

There's nothing that frightens me more, as we give in inch by inch, than the fact that we are getting used to living with that fear, adapting ourselves to the size of the container in which we have been confined to live.

From the standpoint of their compatibility with modern liberal democracy, acceptance of pluralism, more than adherence to particular beliefs and practices, may be what most clearly distinguishes religions. Within Christianity, for well known historical reasons, Protestantism has had a comparative advantage in adapting to pluralism.

English language blog thespektator writes of the bizarre link between the Bakievs and English football club Blackpool F.C, while aidea manages to salvage some humour from a tragic situation, adapting an old soviet idiom and considering revolution as a rite of passage in the country