Translation of "afin d'intégrer l'adaptation " (French → English) :

In developing Growing Forward 2, it is our hope that stakeholders, including industry and organizations, will be given an opportunity to be part of policy development, that they will be given access to the new framework in time to adapt practices and programs, and that they will have an opportunity to be integrated into programs and initiatives using the established organizations and bodies capable of doing the work.

ACKNOWLEDGES that addressing the additional adaptation needs to prevent and alleviate the current and projected negative impacts of climate change will entail economic costs in the short run and require appropriate funding; UNDERLINES that delays in taking adequate adaptation action are likely to generate even higher costs and, negative impacts on sectoral outputs, on employment, health and infrastructure, with differential impacts at national and regional level; ACKNOWLEDGES the need to target the most cost effective adaptation mea ...[+++]sures, to increase climate resilience across the economy, based on consistent economic and vulnerability assessment frameworks; ACKNOWLEDGES that effective adaptation action should facilitate more climate resilient investments and more sustainable choices for investment – both private and public , and is expected to create new market opportunities for sustainable growth and job creation; RECALLS the Conclusions of the European Council on 7-8 February on the Multi-annual Financial Framework underlining the importance of further mainstreaming the climate action objectives in the future EU budget; UNDERLINES that within national public sector frameworks, further initiatives by the private sector action are needed, including by the insurance industry to managing climate risk, in order to complement public intervention on adaptation".

CNIB recommends that the federal government implement the following targeted initiatives for persons with disabilities through the Opportunities Fund and the labour market agreements: internship programs for Canadians who are partially blind and partially sighted in the private and public sector, and as part of this initiative, CNIB also recommends that an adaptive technology bank be created for employers providing internships to blind and partially sighted Canadians in order to ease the transition into the workplace; and pre-employment skills programs specifically tailored to Canadians who are blind or partially sighted, and such progr ...[+++]ams would include organization and communication skills training, orientation and mobility training, and adaptive technology training.

A similar bottom-up approach should also be taken for funding for adaptation, which calls for the gradual integration of adaptation of international development strategies and poverty eradication plans, regular coordination of support in country, regular reporting via national communications, and exchange of good practice.

The initiative would be backed by specific actions proposed under actions 5 and 6 on infrastructure and energy-efficiency; To increase the use of technology in manufacturing, "a factories of the future initiative": The objective is to help EU manufacturers across sectors, in particular SMEs, to adapt to global competitive pressures by increasing the technological base of EU manufacturing through the development and integration the enabling technologies of the future, such as engineering technologies for adaptable machines and industrial processes, ICT, and advanced materials.

However, since the Regulation will be incorporated into the EEA Agreement later than its entry into force in the EU, these transitional periods must be adjusted so as to ensure that undertakings established in the EFTA States benefit from the same adjustment period.