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