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Question 5 The UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP), based in Oxford UK, provides scenarios that show how our climate might change and co-ordinates research on dealing with our future climate. Is UKCIP focused on climate change 'adaptation' or 'mitigation'?
Adaptation and mitigation are two important pieces of climate change terminology.  Mitigation activities reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to reduce future climate change.  However, some climate change is inevitable because of the emissions that have already been made.  Therefore, adaptation activities will take place to deal with this inevitable human-induced change. UKCIP is a climate change adaptation organisation.  Organisations in the UK focusing on climate change mitigation include the Energy Saving Trust.
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