Climate change may require mitigation and adaptation. Explain how these mechanisms could deal with climate change
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Explanation:
Currently, mitigation and adaptation measures are handled separately, due to differences in priorities for the measures and segregated planning and implementation policies at international and national levels. There is a growing argument that synergistic approaches to adaptation and mitigation could bring substantial benefits at multiple scales in the land use sector. Nonetheless, efforts to implement synergies between adaptation and mitigation measures are rare due to the weak conceptual framing of the approach and constraining policy issues. In this paper, we explore the attributes of synergy and the necessary enabling conditions and discuss, as an example, experience with the Ngitili system in Tanzania that serves both adaptation and mitigation functions. An in-depth look into the current practices suggests that more emphasis is laid on complementarity—i.e., mitigation projects providing adaptation co-benefits and vice versa rather than on synergy. Unlike complementarity, synergy should emphasize functionally sustainable landscape systems in which adaptation and mitigation are optimized as part of multiple functions. We argue that the current practice of seeking co-benefits (complementarity) is a necessary but insufficient step toward addressing synergy. Moving forward from complementarity will require a paradigm shift from current compartmentalization between mitigation and adaptation to systems thinking at landscape scale. However, enabling policy, institutional, and investment conditions need to be developed at global, national, and local levels to achieve synergistic goals.
Climate change can be defined as change in global or regional climate pattern, apparent from the late 20th century onwards and attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil fuels. and other human activities.
Mitigation or reducing can help climate change which
- involves reducing the emission of heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, either by reducing its use,( example, the burning of fossil fuels for electricity, heat or transport and use alternative ) or by enhancing the sinks that accumulate, absorb and store these gases. Example Trees and forest act as carbon sink source as they absorb carbon and use in photosynthesis.
Adaptation - People need to be encourage to adapt and survive in the changing condition by adopting preventing measures and inventing new ideas. for eg: improving the quality of road surfaces so that it withstand hotter temperatures or behavioural change such as individuals using water sustainably , change in crop pattern by farmers or by buy floof insurance.