Adaption and Mitigation

Question 1

Give two strategies which Israel uses to Manage and conserve water?

Answer 1

.Smart irrigation
.Recycling sewage water for agricultural use
.Adopting stringent conservation techniques
.Managing demand by changing real value prices for water to reflect the cost of supply and ecosystem management

Question 2

How can resilient agricultural systems be used to reduce the impacts of climate change?

Answer 2

The development of more drought resistant crop and the generation of healthier soils

Question 3

How do farmers in Northern China try and combat climate change?

Answer 3

They use crops designed to withstand higher temperatures such as Maize

Question 4

What does Land use Planning involve?

Answer 4

This involves avoiding the development of areas vulnerable to flooding

Question 5

Is land use planning high or low cost?

Answer 5

It is a low cost soft engineering strategy

Question 6

Give three mitigation strategies which could be used to combat climate change and the increase of carbon in the atmosphere?

Answer 6

.Carbon taxation
.Renewable switching
.Energy efficiency
.Afforestation
.Carbon Capture strategy

Question 7

What was the first major international effort to encourage both long and short term climate change mitigation?

Answer 7

1997 Kyoto Protocol

Question 8

When did the Paris Agreement come into force?

Answer 8

4th November 2016