The ipcc defined adaptation as adjustment in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climatic stimuli or their effects, which moderate harm or exploits beneficial opportunities. Mitigation and adaptation solutions climate change. Approved during the 39th session of the council of ministers. Skinner2 1department of geography, university of guelph guelph, ontario, canada n1g 2w1 2department of geography, queens university kingston, ontario, canada k7l 3n6.
Pdf on jun 1, 2007, saleemul huq and others published mitigation and adaptation strategies for global change. Climate change threatens significant decreases in agricultural and animal production systems and deterioration of the ecosystems, with direct consequences on food security and income of the most vulnerable populations and on the livelihoods of future generations. However, despite this interest, few climate change policies have addressed this integration explicitly 7,12. Strategies for climate change adaptation and mitigation by professor juergen kropp potsdam institute for climate change impact research university of potsdam, germany friday, december 1, 2017 11. The terms adaptation and mitigation are two important terms that are fundamental in the climate change debate.
Climate change mitigation and adaptation policy global dca 01002012 rev 0124052012 n pol0012g public 1 of 2 purpose. United nations department of economic and social affairs. Mitigation and adaptation strategies for global change, volume. Outdoor and indoor air adaptation strategies for climate. The earths biosphere is being transformed by various anthropogenic activities. Mitigation has been treated as an issue for developed countries, which hold the greatest responsibility for climate change, while adaptation is seen as a priority for the south, where. Strategies for climate change adaptation and mitigation. The paris agreement of the united nations framework convention on climate change entered into force in 2016 with the objective of strengthening the global. Adapting to the climate change already in the pipeline adaptation. Mitigation and adaptation strategies for global change addresses a wide range of environmental topics and pressing issues including global climate change processes and effects, stratospheric ozone depletion, acid deposition, eutrophication of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, species. The integration of adaptation and mitigation is understood here as the development of policies and projects that aim to. Climate change adaptation integrated production and pest. They are illustrative and are presented to help communities consider possible ways to address anticipated current and future climate threats to contaminated site management. Feb 06, 2015 despite the growing consensus that mitigation and adaptation should be advanced simultaneously in a complementary framework to address environmental degradation ipcc 2014, approaches to climate change through the lens of the national security discourse has resulted in the normative privileging of adaptation strategies mcdonald 20.
The adaptation strategies below offer selected strategies and actions that have been identified within epa resources as having the potential to be used for climate adaptation. Public transportation and climate change adaptation. Droughts, floods, frostfreezes, and heatwaves stress both crops and livestock. Pdf 2 3 mitigation and adaptation strategies for global. The editor of mitigation and adaptation strategies for global change has not yet provided information for this page. All about climate change mitigation and adaptation iberdrola. The intergovernmental panel on climate change ipcc, the leading expert on climate change today, is charged with three general responsibilities. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. Mitigation and adaptation strategies for global change scirev. The most important opportunities to incorporate a biochar soil management tech nique are in i shifting cultivation. Further development of the methodology presented can be tested and used for developing mitigation and adaptation strategies in south asia and australia. Mitigation and adaptation strategies for global change addresses a wide. On another level, the certainty effect can also be helpful in the discussion on preferred strategies in coastal adaptation. Anthropogenic climate change is thus an exploitation of the global commons.
The citys climate change adaptation strategy details our work on preparing for those impacts. Strategies for global change vol 1 joe wisniewski, robert k. Adaptation and mitigation to global climate change. Because we are already committed to some level of climate change, responding to climate change involves a twopronged approach. A wide variety of adaptation options has been proposed as having thepotential to reduce vulnerability of agricultural systems to risks related toclimate change, often in an ad hoc fashion. Pdf mitigation and adaptation strategies for global. An intervention to reduce the causes of changes in climate, such as reduce greenhouse gas ghg emissions to the atmosphere. On another level, the certainty effect can also be helpful in the discussion on preferred strategies in. To establish the vale groups commitments towards managing risks and impacts for its business arising from climate change. Wetlands are considered to be vulnerable to climate change if adaptation options are limited andor the wetlands are sensitive to climate change. Mitigation and adaptation investments for desertification and climate change. A certain level of climate change is unavoidable, and whilst it is important that we reduce emissions to help limit the extent of climate change, we must also prepare for its expected impacts. Reducing emissions of and stabilizing the levels of heattrapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere mitigation. Climate change is a global phenomenon that affects biophysical systems and human wellbeing.
This climate change mitigation strategy sets out how city of london corporation plans to catalyse action to reduce. Climate change environmental management global change adaptation strategy. Mitigation and adaptation strategies for global change addresses a wide range of timely environment, economic and energy topics including global climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion, acid deposition, and aquatic ecosystems, species extinction and loss of biological diversity. Mitigation and adaptation strategies for global change 2006 11. Adaptation, mitigation and the securitization of climate. The national climate change adaptation and mitigation strategy enammc now published, represents a turning point in mozambiques response to the challenges of climate change, indica ting a clear set the strategic actions to be implemented so that mozambique is able to ensure a. Mitigation involves actions reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases. Adaptation is an important component of climate change impact and vulnerability assessment, and is one of the policy options in response to climate change im pacts fankhauser 1996. Climate change is the most challenging threat to modern civilizations. Adaptation measures3 could reduce some impacts, especially in the short term, and could also address some wetland degradation resulting from other pressures. Addressing climate change adaptation and mitigation in. Climate change mitigation and adaptation policy global. Responses to climate change fall into two main types.
Adaptation, mitigation and the securitization of climate change. Mitigation and adaptation strategies for global change addresses a wide range of timely environment, economic and energy topics including global climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion, acid deposition, eutrophication of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, species extinction and loss of biological diversity, deforestation and forest. Handbook climate chanege ivmvu vrije universiteit amsterdam. Pdf ecological restoration as a strategy for mitigating. Climate change mitigation, adaptation and sustainability. Mitigation and adaptation strategies for global change addresses a wide range of timely environment, economic and energy topics including global climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion, acid deposition, eutrophication of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, species extinction and loss of biological diversity, deforestation and forest degradation, desertification, soil resource degradation, landuse change, sea level rise, destruction of coastal zones, depletion of fresh water and marine. Mitigation and adaptation strategies for global change rg. Until recently, mitigation and adaptation have been considered separately in both climate change science and policy. Despite the growing consensus that mitigation and adaptation should be advanced simultaneously in a complementary framework to address environmental degradation ipcc 2014, approaches to climate change through the lens of the national security discourse has resulted in the normative privileging of adaptation strategies mcdonald 20. They are illustrative and are presented to help communities consider possible ways to address anticipated current and future climate threats to contaminated. This revised version was published online in july 2006 with corrections to the cover date. Transdisciplinary studies are needed to build a strong sciencebased approach that serves indonesias needs for. The gef7 climate change mitigation strategy aims to support developing countries to make transformational shifts towards lowemission development pathways compatible with the objectives of the united nations framework convention on climate change unfccc and the paris agreement.
Mitigation and adaptation strategies for global change addresses a wide range of environmental. Water utility adaptation strategies for climate change. Climate change is projected to have geographically diverse consequences on us rangelands polley et al. Integration of adaptation and mitigation in climate change. Mitigation and adaptation strategies for global change addresses a wide range of environmental topics and pressing issues including global climate change processes and effects, stratospheric ozone depletion, acid deposition, eutrophication of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, species extinction and loss of. Prospect theory, mitigation and adaptation to climate change.
A series of coherent and integrated development policies in the area of safeguarding food security and rural livelihoods, while implementing adaptation and mitigation. Impact of climate change on regional irrigation water demand in baojixia irrigation district of china pp. Autonomous that people do by themselves can be encouraged by public policy command and control tell you to do it incentives subsidies can be anticipatory or reactive adaptation is local. Adaptation and mitigation for combating climate change taylor. An international journal devoted to scientific, engineering, socioeconomic and policy. Climate change adaptation in the ski industry 2006 subsistence over symbolism. Estimated effects of climate change on flood vulnerability of u. This problem is taken up by commentators criticizing forestry offsets in contemporary markets. Of the greenhouse gas ghg mitigation options available from u. Preface find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. Pdf mitigation and adaptation strategies for global change. Mitigation and adaptation strategies for global change. In the twentyfirst century, adaptation actions have the same importance as mitigation in countering climate change. People tend to associate global climate change with just increasing temperatures, but much like your body goes through cycles of extreme hot and cold during a fever, the earth experiences.
Mitigation and adaptation strategies for global change 2009 doi 10. Synergies between climate mitigation and adaptation in. Adaptation options in agriculture to climate change. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. Adaptation to climate change has the potential to substantively reduce many of the adverse impacts of climate change and enhance beneficial impacts though. Mitigation and adaptation strategies for global change gcis. Mitigation and adaptation strategies for global change addresses a wide range of timely environment, economic and energy topics including global climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion, acid deposition, and aquatic ecosystems, species extinction and. Mitigation and adaptation strategies in coping with.
Global change research program, global climate change impacts in the united states, 2009. Climate change mitigation global environment facility. Within the evolving landscape of climate finance, the strategy. Assessment of climate change, impacts, and solutions in the northeast. Climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies already. A typology 2002 socioeconomic impacts of climate change on rural united states 2011. Its aim is to reduce future climate change by slowing the rate of increase in or even reducing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. Adaptation and risk management strategies emissions of greenhouse gases universally contribute to observed and anticipated climate change, but their benefits are experienced locally.
Outdoor and indoor air adaptation strategies for climate change the adaptation strategies provided below are intended to inform and assist communities in identifying potential alternatives. Linking climate change adaptation and mitigation mdpi. Mitigation and adaptation strategies for global change home. Adaptation in agriculture to climate change is important for impact andvulnerability assessment and for the development of climate change policy. Climate change adaptation and mitigation food and agriculture. Ecosystem protection strategies for climate change. Adaptation actions can be implemented reactively, after changes in climate occur, or proactively, to prepare for a changing climate. Journal info provided by editor the editor of mitigation and adaptation strategies for global change has not yet provided information for this page.
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