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5 Strategies That Achieve Climate Mitigation & Adaptation Simultaneously

February 23rd, 2020 | by World Resources Institute

Climate actions have often fallen into one of two strategies: mitigation efforts to lower or remove greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere, and adaptation efforts to adjust systems and societies to withstand the impacts of climate change. The separation has led to the misinformed view that addressing climate change means pursuing either mitigation or adaptation