My primary job is to teach undergraduate - level
classes in climate mitigation, adaptation, and sustainability, and I've been thinking and teaching along similar lines for some years now.
And bear in mind too that the CDM itself is geared; one estimate suggests that each dollar of international carbon finance managed to leverage $ 10 of
investment in climate mitigation in the last three years.
It also became a member of the National Alliance of Latin America and Caribbean Communities (NAILACC), which promotes the need for nations to take
part in climate mitigation actions.
«To explore the role of renewable
energy in climate mitigation, this article provides a synthesis of the results from 162 recent medium - to long - term scenarios constructed using 15 large - scale, energy - economic and integrated assessment models.
The accurate monitoring and reporting of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases is essential for countries
participating in climate mitigation schemes, such as reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD +)-- a scheme that pays developing countries for the carbon stored in trees and soils.
But BECCS is also described as an
elephant in the climate mitigation room, criticized both as a false and unproven solution to reduce emissions and for the risks it poses to ecosystems, indigenous peoples and local communities through the potential for land grabbing and human rights abuses.
Rice cultivation regions show reduced warming as they are concentrated where monsoon rainfall is projected to intensify, although projections are influenced by Asian aerosol
loading in climate mitigation scenarios.
Miroslav Polzer, a scientist seeking to involve young entrepreneurs
worldwide in climate mitigation projects through blockchain, said the tool has been effective in microfinance development projects for «gathering young people on the ground in places like Ghana and China, where we otherwise would not be able to reach them.»
In other side events of note, a roundtable titled «The Role of Cleaner and More Efficient Fossil Fuels and Nuclear
Power in Climate Mitigation» organised by the US delegation drew hundreds of attendees.
Delays in climate mitigation «lead to higher utilization of... coal in particular, in the short run... To compensate... particularly oil and gas would need to be reduced much more strongly in the long run.»
They looked at what climate policy makers could learn from adaptive management techniques, to create an approach to mitigation that more fully accounts for the set of risks that governments care about, is less dependent on a globally binding mandate, and which could, therefore, be a better way to preserve
flexibility in climate mitigation.
«Given the anticipated role for
bioenergy in climate mitigation, climate - related policies should be reformed immediately to account for bioenergy impacts.»
These governments are using the revenue generated by carbon taxes in three general ways:
investing in climate mitigation programs, offsetting revenue to lower taxes in other areas, or as general government income.
The Role of
Ecosystems in Climate Mitigation recommends: Achim Steiner, Executive Director of UNEP says that the international community is overlooking a «tried and tested method» for storing carbon «that has been working for millennia.»
Kairo's study findings and his Gazi idea were recently corroborated by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) when it published its paper «Clarifying the role of coastal and marine
Systems in Climate Mitigation.
Maintaining and building momentum is key, now that the stalemate involving agriculture and its role
in climate mitigation has been broken.