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Mitigation and adaptation for climate change Flashcards

1
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What does it mean to mitigate?

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to prevent something i.e., rebalance the carbon cycle and reduce any impacts of climate change

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How might climate change be mitigated?

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Afforestation
Recycling
Renewables
CCS
Efficient tech
Carbon tax

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How does afforestation mitigate climate change?

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Increase the carbon store

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How does recycling mitigate climate change?

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Paper= fewer trees deforested
Cans= less mining/ reduced deforestation
Plastic= less oil used/ reduction in GHGs

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How will using renewables mitigate climate change?

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Reduction in GHGs

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How much carbon will be saved per year by reducing house temp by 1*C?

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1/3 of a tonne

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How does CCS prevent climate change?

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Prevents CO2 entering atmospheric store

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How can efficiency help mitigate climate change?

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efficient appliances reduces GHGs

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What is adaptation? (Climate change)

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passive, adopt new ways of doing things in order to live with the likely outcomes of climate change

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What does the IPCC say are the main 2 ways of dealing with climate change?

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Adaptation
Mitigation

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What are some adaptation examples?

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Land use planning
Solar radiation management
Water conservation and management
Resilient agricultural systems

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What are the players in mitigating climate change?

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Government
Business
Individual

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How are the government a player in mitigating climate change?

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Sign up to agreements
Join IGO’s
Make decisions (Trump and Bush pulled out of agreements)
Taxation on pollution (clean air zones)

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What is an example of a business mitigating its climate impact?

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Google

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How do google mitigate climate change?

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electric cars for staff (solar charged)
Biodiesel shuttles
Campus covered in 9200 panels of solar (30% of load)
Encourage cycling (charity credits)

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How can the individual help mitigate climate change?

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Vote for governments with greener policies
Lobby governments
Subscribe to charities (Donate)
Veto businesses who aren’t green

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What is the role of charities and environmental groups to mitigate climate chnage?

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Greenpeace
Lobby/ pressure government into making change
Not very powerful unless combined

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When was the Kyoto protocol signed?

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December 11th 1997

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What was the point of the Kyoto protocol?

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making industrialized countries and economies in transition to limit and reduce greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions in accordance with agreed individual targets.

20
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What was the main part of the Kyoto protocol?

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Carbon credits that developing to sell to developed nations so the developed nations could release more carbon

21
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How much carbon is one carbon credit worth?

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1 ton

22
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Was the Kyoto protocol successful?

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No developed nations were able to get around emissions by buying lots of carbon credits

23
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What was the main reason the Kyoto protocol wasn’t successful?

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China and India never signed
USA left in 2001these are the 3 biggest polluters

24
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What was the replacement for the Kyoto protocol?

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the Paris agreement 2016

25
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What was the aim of the Paris agreement?

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not to go above 1.5c pre-industrial average as anything above 2c rise is thought to be harmful
Net 0 emissions by 2065

26
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What is the rise in average temperature thought to be by 2100?

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2.1*c

27
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What was the reason for America leaving Paris agreement?

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Trump being a climate change denier

28
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How much did rich nations pledge to poor nations in the Paris agreement?

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US$ 100 billion

29
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Why is the Paris agreement not successful?

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No force to meet targets and reporting may be inaccurate
USA pulled out under trump

30
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What might make the most polluting countries more likely to follow the Paris agreement?

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Bottom-up internal pressures as the population is affect by climate change

31
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How much will it cost to take carbon out of the atmosphere in 2030?

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US$ 16.5 trillion

32
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What 2 types of adaptation strategies are there?

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Hard- using tech
Soft- legislation (building on flood plains)

33
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Which type of adaptation strategy is used by countries?

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varies between countries
Democracies may encounter more delays than authoritarian led countries (China) because of public debate and changed in policy following election

34
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Is adaptation a short or long term solution?

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Short term

35
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What is solar radiation mangement?

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managing intensity if solar radiation through geo-engineering

36
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What is an example of solar radiation management?

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Adding sulphur particles to the stratosphere: aerosol particles formed would reflect suns energy back into space

37
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What are the problems with using sulphur to manage solar radiation?

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May cause unpredictable weather changes (reduce evaporation)
May effect stability of the ozone layer
Increase acid rain risk over a large area

38
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What is an example of a river that requires water conservation and management?

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The Lower Mekong river basin ( Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam)

39
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How many people rely upon the lower Mekong?

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60 million for rice and fish

40
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What problem has the lower Mekong faced?

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In 2016 there were no transboundary agreements for its use and only 11% of national plans considered it

41
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What is a example of adaptation by resilient agriculture systems?

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North China plants crops early or late to match climate change (crops designed to withstand higher temps)

42
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How much could Chinas maize yield increase by 2050 due to resilient agriculture?

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15.2%

43
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How can land use planning be a climate adaptation strategy?

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Areas of increased risk from coastal or river flooding can be zoned through urban planning and laws so that people and valuable property are not in them

44
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What is an example of an area that is taking flood risk management very seriously?

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Australia

45
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What is Australia doing to manage its flood risk?

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Making all housing on flood plains more flood resilient with raised floors, stronger pile foundations and water resilient material
Where possible people relocated
Wetlands become overspill

46
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what are the problems with Australia’s flood management?

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High cost of relocation
Reduced property value in redzone areas
Locals contesting changes

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