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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