mitigate and adapt to climate change

• mitigation strategies

  • deal with the cause of climate change
  • they reduce or prevent greenhouse gases that cause climate change and protect carbon sinks
• adaptation strategies

  • are local, rather then global and respond to the localised impacts of climate change
• alternative energy production;

  • where different methods of creating energy are used, such as renewable energy sources like wind and solar power
  • reduces the amount of greenhouse gases emitted
  • emits less greenhouse gases then fossil fuels
• carbon capture and storage

  • remove carbon dioxide particles from the atmosphere through scientific methods
  • store carbon dioxide underground
  • excess carbon stored safely underground - helps maintains carbon cycle equilibrium
  • expensive - scientific - equipment
  • small scale
• planting tree's - afforestation

  • reverses deforestation
  • tree's decrease the amount of Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by photosynthesis
  • reduces the severity of climate change
• international agreements

  • agreements on global scale between multiple nations
  • aim to reach a combined target
  • Paris agreement - USA refused to sign - 170 countries