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MITIGATION
MITIGATION
Climate change has already significantly impacted our lives and our world. However, through the process of mitigation, we hope to reduce these impacts and prevent future damage from being done. Mitigation, can include everything from using renewable energy to carbon sequestration as long as the goal is to reduce the risks associated with human-induced climate change.
Overview/Various
Overview/Various
United Nations Environmental Programme: general overview of mitigation with specifics on agriculture, forests,energy, manufacturing, transport, tourism, buildings, and waste
http://www.unep.org/climatechange/mitigation/
Project Drawn Down provides a list of 100 viable solutions with the goal of reaching drawdown (the point at which greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere are decreasing on a year-to-year basis)
(also: see attached file) (ATTACH FILE)
Market-Based Solutions
Market-Based Solutions
Story of Stuff: Cap & Trade
An engaging video that explains how cap and trade systems work to reduce negative environmental impacts.
http://storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-cap-and-trade/
What is Cap-and-Trade?
The link describes how the cap and trade works, how it affects the use of energy and why should it be considered. It also mentions where has cap-and-trade been used.
https://renergie.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/how-does-a-cap-and-trade-program-work/
About the European Union and their Cap-and-Trade program, the Emissions Trading System
The EU emissions trading system (EU ETS) is a cornerstone of the EU's policy to combat climate change and its key tool for reducing greenhouse gas emissions cost-effectively. It is the world's first major carbon market and remains the biggest one.
http://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/ets/index_en.htm
About China Cap-and Trade Program (Thought might be interesting to include - Rick)
This is a report drafted by the International Emissions Trading Association on China's Cap and Trade system. The report starts with some introduction of the carbon markets in a global scopes and draws connection to the Paris Climate Regime. It then introduces in detail the China ETS.
Everything you could possibly want to know about Carbon Tax
The website has both basic informations about Carbon Tax and in-depth articles on related topics.
Carbon Sequestration
Carbon Sequestration
What is it ? How does it work ?
Engineers are working on ways to capture and store excess carbon dioxide to prevent global warming.
http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/challenges/sequestration.aspx
No-till farming as a method of Carbon Sequestration
No-till agriculture offers vast sustainability benefits. So why do many organic farmers reject it?
Energy
Energy
The Federal Government and renewable energy/energy efficiency
Efficiency
Joint Global change Research Institute - Energy Efficiency and Mitigation
Energy decision making remains one of the greatest challenges in addressing climate change. Just as we can have a breakthrough in technology, we can have a breakthrough in approaches to energy decision making. Understanding what makes energy efficiency and mitigation policies and approaches effective is critical to our ability to reduce emissions globally.
http://www.globalchange.umd.edu/archived-research-areas/energy-efficiency-and-mitigation/
Renewable
IPCC - Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation Summary for Policy Makers and Technical Policies
This is a report drafted by IPCC (intergovernmental panel on climate change) on renewable energy sources and climate change mitigation. This provides a summary for policy makers that contains the basic information of renewable energy. It also have a detailed technical summary that provides information on technology, market status, integration into energy system, environment and social impacts, and future potentials on all kinds of renewable sources.
https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/special-reports/srren/SRREN_FD_SPM_final.pdf
About solar energy/how to make it economical
Solar energy provides less than 1% of the world's total energy, but it has the potential to provide much, much more.
http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/9082.aspx
Land Use
Land Use
Land Use as Climate Change Mitigation - Brian Stone Jr. - Environmental Science and Technology Viewpoint
Mitigating climate change could be better achieved by regulating land use change than emissions reductions alone.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/es902150g
Land use planning for cities-Beijing - Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Beijing has built a world-class subway system and high speed train. The city’s approach integrates many different best practices into their regional planning and economic development. Even with the long commutes, Beijing is an example of new urbanization in the 21st century – and Habitat III should take note.The New Urban Agenda and Habitat III - citiscope
https://environment.yale.edu/blog/2016/05/urban-land-use-planning-climate/
The page provides a general introduction on the New Urban Agenda. The article covers topics like what is the new agenda and how it's different from the old ones
http://citiscope.org/habitatIII/explainer/2015/06/what-new-urban-agenda
Bhutan (Bhutan for Life Project/Idea)...Keeping a Country Carbon Neutral...TED Talk
This is a Ted talk about how Bhutan was able to remain carbon neutral as a country (even carbon negative).
Transportation
Transportation
United Nations Environmental Programme - Transportation and how to keep it clean
Transport affects everyone, every day. The Transport sector is a major contributor to air pollution and climate emissions, impact set to increase with an expected tripling of the global car fleet. UNEP’s work is aimed at decoupling increased mobility from increased emissions.
http://www.unep.org/transport/
Advancing Public Transport - How utilizing public transportation is important in the fight against climate change
Public transport is a vital weapon in the fight against climate change.
http://www.uitp.org/pictures-public-transport-and-climate-change
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe - Climate Change and Sustainable Transport
This page provides a list of resources that talks about the importance of public transportation on addressing the climate change.
Adaptation / Climate Resilience
Adaptation / Climate Resilience
Due to climate change, it has become necessary to make changes to our government organizations and resources. Changes include adaptations within health care systems, agriculture and food supply, our coastlines and ecosystems, energy and water resources, and our own human health. The effects of climate change have proven themselves to be detrimental -- this is how we are adapting.
America's plan to educate citizens on climate change on a local level:
A training developed with the assistance of EPA's Local Government Advisory Committee to help local government climate adaptation.
https://www.epa.gov/communityhealth/local-government-climate-adaptation-training
Climate Change Adaptation and Resources Guidance
Many resources are available to help public officials and community members with climate change adaptation planning.
https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/climatechange/climate-adaptation-resources-and-guidance_.html
Overview of adaptation measures in the US
Many governments and organizations across the United States and the world are already adapting to climate change. This is important because we are already seeing the impacts of climate change – including sea level rise, changing precipitation patterns, and more frequent incidences of heat waves and other extreme weather events. Many impacts are expected to grow in geographic scale, rate, or intensity as global temperatures continue to increase.
https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/climatechange/adaptation-overview_.html
Health Care - how climate change has caused changing health care protocols and systems
A toolkit was developed for health care facility officials to assess the resiliency of their facility to climate change impacts. The toolkit helps health care facility officials identify gaps in climate change preparedness, direct allocation of adaptation resources and inform strategic planning to increase resiliency to climate change.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25590098
Agriculture and Food Supply - how climate change has produced changing crops and farm animal products
In light of scientific evidence of extreme and unpredictable climate change, prudent policy requires consideration of what to do if markets and people fail to anticipate these changes, or are constrained in their ability to react. This issue brief is one in a series that results from the second phase of a domestic adaptation research project conducted by Resources for the Future.
http://www.esa.org/ecoSource/archives/319
Coasts - how we are protecting our coasts from the harmful effects of climate change
Today's coasts face an unprecedented challenge, struggling to cope and adapt in the midst of a changing climate. In coastal areas, the consequences of climate change are already evident, with global sea-level rising 10 to 25 cm over the last century. By 2100, this number is expected to increase anywhere from 0.5 to 1.4 meters above the 1990 level.
Climate Adaptation Index - measuring an area's susceptibility to harmful effects of climate change
An interacting map to find out the urgency for adaptation to climate change and other global forces through private and public investments for vulnerable communities.
Energy - how we are educating and reforming the way we use energy based off of the changing climate
The energy sectors of developing countries may be sensitive to the effects of climate change, such as reduced rainfall, sea level rise, and increased frequency and/or severity of natural disasters. ESMAP’s work on adaptation seeks to develop and test processes to mainstream climate risk management into energy sector planning and operations and to support awareness raising and knowledge transfer.
http://www.esmap.org/Climate_Change_Adaptatio
100 Resilient cities - an effort to protect cities from rising economic and climate related issues.
100 Resilient Cities—Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation (100RC) is dedicated to helping cities around the world become more resilient to the physical, social and economic challenges that are a growing part of the 21st century.
http://www.100resilientcities.org/#/-_/
Water Resources - why our water resources are becoming more secure and precious because of climate change
A changing climate is directly felt in the water sector; consequently, much work on adaptation and building resilience needs to be done through the water sector.
Human Health - how we are protecting human health from climate change
A project to ' implement a range of strategies, policies, and measures that will decrease health vulnerability to current climate variability and future climate change' in a range of countries with different health risks. The first global project that works directly with developing countries to design and implement practical measures to protect health under a rapidly changing climate.
http://www.who.int/globalchange/climate/gefproject/en/
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