Coping With Climate Change
- Created by: FraserHarold
- Created on: 10-05-14 16:56
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- Coping with Climate Change
- Mitigation
- Reducing occurrence of climate change
- Reducing GHG emissions, increasing GHG sinks
- Examples
- Carbon Tax
- CO2 producers are taxed to discourage
- Energy Conservation
- Switching off electrical appliances
- Waste Strategies
- Increased recycling, reducing methane from landfill
- Tree Planting
- Creates more CO2 sinks
- Carbon Tax
- Reducing occurrence of climate change
- Adaption
- Reducing the impacts of climate change, not stopping it
- Changing lifestyles to cope
- Examples
- Community Awareness
- Educating locals on impacts
- Risk Assessment
- Looking at likelihood of damage
- Community Awareness
- Reducing the impacts of climate change, not stopping it
- Scales
- Individual
- Lifestyle choices, eg. Consumption
- Local
- Local government eg. recycling, transport
- National
- Government policies eg. taxing
- Global
- International agreements
- Individual
- The Kyoto Protocol
- Example of an international agreement
- 180 countries agreed to monitor/cut GHG emissions
- Developed countries cut
- Developing countries monitor
- Based on a carbon credit market
- Countries given maximum emissions
- Produce less, sell credits, produce more, buy credits
- Countries given maximum emissions
- Mitigation
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