GCSE Managing Climate Change
Mitigation
Action taken to reduce or eliminate the long-term risk to human life and property from natural hazards, such as building earthquake - proof buildings or making international agreements about carbon reduction targets.
Adaptation
Actions taken to adjust to natural events such as climate change, to reduce potential damage, limit the impacts, take advantage of opportunities, or cope with the consequences.
Paris Protocol
Aims to limit climate change to well below 2 degrees celcius increase
Renewable energy production
Energy that can be produced again and again using wind, solar or hydro
Afforestation
Planting seeds or trees to make a forest on land that has not been a forest recently to capture Carbon
International agreements
can make countries reduce their polluting activities
Managing water supply
needed to mitigate the impacts of climate change on drinking water
Carbon capture
the technique of capturing CO2 from coal or oil fired power plants and burying it deep underground, to keep it out of the atmosphere
Managing the coastline
will help people cope with rising sea levels