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Projected risks due to climate change
• Melting Of Polar Ice
Caps
Rise in Sea Levels
Throw global ecosystems
out of balance
Will endanger several
species of animals
• Other fallouts include
Spread of disease
Economic consequences
Loss of Biodiversity
Destruction of Ecosystems
• Mitigation of global
warming involves taking
actions to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions
and to enhance sinks
aimed at reducing the
extent of global warming.
This is in distinction to
adaptation to global
warming which involves
taking action to minimize
the effects of global
warming.
Energy efficiency and
conservation
Urban Planning
Building Design
Use of passive solar building
design, low-energy building, or
zero-energy building techniques,
using renewable heat sources
Transport
plug-in hybrid electric vehicles
A shift from air transport and
truck transport to electric rail
transport
Increased use of biofuels
Carbon Capture And Storage
(CCS)
• Carbon capture and
storage (CCS) is a plan to
mitigate climate change
by capturing carbon
dioxide (CO2) from large
point sources such as
power plants and
subsequently storing it
away safely instead of
releasing it into the
atmosphere.
Carbon Sequestration
– Carbon sequestration
is a term that
describes processes
that remove carbon
from the atmosphere.
• Seeding oceans with
iron
• Solar shades
• Geoengineering
Seeding Oceans With Iron
• It is motivated by
evidence that seeding
the oceans with iron
will increase
phytoplankton
populations, and
thereby draw more
carbon dioxide from
the atmosphere.
Solar Shades