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Unit 4: Earth hazards and climate change
Quick questions on Climate impacts, mitigation and adaptation: WACE Year 12 Earth and Environmental Science
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What is mitigation?Show answer
Mitigation reduces greenhouse gas concentrations.
What is adaptation?Show answer
Adaptation reduces the harm from changes we cannot prevent.
What are evaluating the responses?Show answer
A balanced evaluation concludes that mitigation and adaptation are complementary, not alternatives. Without mitigation, the changes adaptation must cope with grow ever larger and eventually exceed our ability to adapt. Without adaptation, communities suffer from the warming already locked in by past emissions. Effective responses therefore combine ambitious mitigation to limit future change with adaptation to manage the change already underway.
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