Sentences with phrase «than mitigation»

But the truth is there are many ways other than mitigation to approach climate problems — whether or not it is changing, and whether or not we are causing change.

This is different than mitigation, which refers to our efforts to limit climate change by reducing greenhouse gases.

What if adaptation later ends up costing us more in the net than mitigation now?

The national program is more than a mitigation program.

They hide under rocks and make loud chirping noises that seem to come from every direction — to confuse predators (eagles and the like) and presumably also to rub in the fact that adaptation is better than mitigation.

Here's a slightly more difficult position to defend: We don't know whether adaptation will be cheaper or easier than mitigation, but, since it is the only one likely to be acceptable to voters in a democratic society, it is the only morally acceptable one.

However the science ends up, this Luke warmer thinks that adaptation is a more cost - effective public policy than mitigation.

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We estimate that the remaining emission quota to stay below two degrees Celsius requires China to reduce emissions at around 8 to 10 percent per year and this is, in many cases, greater than the mitigation challenge for the United States.

Emphasis should be placed on climate change adaptation, rather than mitigation as advocated by Mr. Savory, to support the well - being of millions of human inhabitants.

What's the basis for your assertion that adaption is wiser than mitigation?

Observers were surprised that it had turned up in this first major report — meant to assess physical science rather than mitigation strategies.

Someone's going to have to convince me that measuring and modelling is far more important than mitigation — and at this point you know, none of my leadership believe that.

The consequence of this strategy is that the doubt is used to close down the possibility of any approach to climate problems other than mitigation — we have to constantly mitigate against the worst imaginable scenario.

Uh... if you don't care about the science, what makes you think adaptation is a more cost - effective public policy than mitigation?

Adaptation has a cost, and a much greater overall cost than mitigation, but the point that Michaels and Cato miss is that the possibility that we may be able to adapt to a threat does not negate the existence of that threat - quite the contrary.

There is a «pause» — so we should now use massive government spending to fund «resilience» rather than mitigation.