geog, climate 3.3: effectiveness of mitigation strategies in building community resilience to CC

What are mitigation and adaptation strategies?

Mitigation: to slow down climate change ⬇⬇,

Adaptation: to adjust to climate change 🫂🫂.

Why are mitigation strategies effective?

When climate change slows down,

communities can better resist, absorb, adapt to and recover from impacts of CC,

thus building community resilience.

What are the 4 mitigation strategies that reduce GHG emissions?

1. International agreements & cooperation 🤝🌍,

2. Use of low-carbon technologies 💨⬇,

3. Use of clean energy sources 🍃⚡️,

4. Changes in consumption patterns 👕☕.

STRATEGY: International agreements & cooperation 🤝🌍 - Examples?

Conference of Parties (COP):

Why?

• meet every year to review & make decisions on climate4 action,

• goal: to promote effective reduction of GHG emissions.

How?

• 2015: COP made Paris Agreement,

• legally binding international treaty on CC,

• signed by 191 parties in Paris, France,

• parties needed to create their own sets of goals and measures.

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC):

Who?

• international environment treaty to address CC,

• signed by 197 parties,

• goal: stabilise/neutralise GHG emissions to…

  • stop impacts to humans,

  • provide enough time for ecosystems to adapt naturally to CC.

How?

1. put more responsibility on developed countries to model the way,

   • since they contribute to most of GHG emissions → will be expected to cut the most emissions.

2. funds & tech are directed/targeted to climate action in developing countries,

   • developed countries agree to provide $$$ support and share tech.

3. monitoring progress of CC policies,

   • countries required to keep reporting on their CC policies & GHG emissions.

STRATEGY: International agreements & cooperation 🤝🌍 - Limitations?