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Climate-resilient pathways: adaptation, mitigation, and sustainable development

By: Yanna Aleksandrovich

Resilience:the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.

Sustainability:ability to continue a defined behavior indefinitely.

Adaptation:a change or the process of change by which an organism or species becomes better suited to its environment.

Mitigation:the action of reducing the severity, seriousness, or painfulness of something.

Transformation:a thorough or dramatic change in form or appearance.

some reasons why we would want policy changes....

  • Water and air quality standards
  • Management of hazardous materials
  • Changes in regulation (although some literature says that current institutional controls and linkages are counterproductive
  • Agricultural and industrial practices
  • Water and solid waste management
  • A movement toward greater efficiency in resource use including recycling.
  • An emphasis on energy efficiency, progressing toward renewable energy as an alternative to non-renewable fossil fuel resources (Frey and Linke, 2002).

climate-resilient pathways

Adaptation and Mitigation

• Actions to reduce human-induced climate change and its impacts, including both mitigation and adaptation toward achieving sustainable development

• Actions to ensure that effective institutions, strategies, and choices for risk management will be identified, implemented, and sustained as an integrated part of achieving sustainable development.

  • Adaptation and mitigation depend on one another, they can reduce climate risks but they do so at different time scales
  • Adaptation addresses current and committed climate change
  • Mitigation reduces future climate risks

Introduction

So what do we do?

  • In terms of “what to do” to address climate

change and threats to development now and

in the future, the chapter identifies and

discusses climate-resilient pathways.

  • Climate-resilient pathways are defined

in this chapter as development trajectories

  • that combine adaptation and mitigation with effective institutions to realize the goal of sustainable development.
  • This section integrates a variety of complex concepts in assessing climate-resilient pathways.
  • It takes sustainable development as the ultimate goal, and considers mitigation as a way to keep climate change moderate rather than extreme.
  • Adaptation is considered a response strategy to anticipate and cope with impacts that cannot be (or are not) avoided under different scenarios of climate change.

How we can transform sustainable development

  • To promote sustainable development in all countries within the context of climate change, climate resilient pathways may involve significant transformations.

What transformations?

  • Transformations in political, economic, and socio-technical systems can contribute to enhanced climate responses, both for mitigation and adaptation.

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