Climate change mitigation
What Climate change mitigation means in Geography GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Actions taken to reduce or eliminate the long-term risk and hazards of climate change, usually by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, tackling the root causes of climate change.
Topics that use Climate change mitigation
- Climate change (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Afforestation
- Climate change adaptation
- Deforestation
- Enhanced greenhouse effect
- Ice cores
- International agreements
- Long-term versus short-term changes
- Milankovitch cycles
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