Mitigation
What Mitigation means in Geography GCSE, as defined for AQA, OCR, Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: AQA
Strategies that reduce the impacts of extreme weather, lowering economic loss and protecting lives.
Action taken to reduce or eliminate the long-term risk and hazards of climate change, primarily by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Actions taken to reduce or eliminate the long-term risk and hazards of climate change (e.g., switching to renewable energy).
Action taken to reduce or prevent the causes of a problem. In climate change, this means reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Topics that use Mitigation
- Weather hazards (AQA GCSE)
- Climate change has consequences. (OCR GCSE)
- Global climate is now changing as a result of human activity (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- The UK's climate change challenges (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Adaptation
- Extreme weather
- Thermal Expansion
- Albedo Effect
- Atmospheric circulation
- Carbon Sink
- Case study application
- Coriolis Effect
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