Correct Answer:
A. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
Correct answer: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Mitigation means reducing greenhouse gas emissions or increasing their removal from the atmosphere.
Background: Examples include renewable energy, energy efficiency, protecting forests and low-carbon transport.
- Providing disaster relief only: Disaster relief is a response to impacts, not a way of cutting emissions.
- Constructing emergency shelters: Emergency shelters respond to impacts and relate to adaptation.
- Increasing fossil fuel consumption: Burning more fossil fuels is the opposite of mitigation.
Did you know? Mitigation tackles the causes of climate change, while adaptation manages its effects.
Memory trick: Mitigation = Minimise emissions.