ABSTRACT
Climate change mitigation involves strategies to reduce the long-term risks and hazards to natural and human systems, which may be the result of climate change. Mitigation is focused on reducing and/or eliminating the causes behind climate change, whereas adaptation to climate change involves the adjustment of natural and/or human systems to the moderate harms caused by climate change, and/or exploits opportunities provided by the changing climate. Mitigation and adaptation have the same strategic framework, but mitigation involves anthropogenic interventions to reduce the sources or enhance the sinks of greenhouse gases (GHG) (IPCC 2007) for limiting the increase of radiative forcing and the potential global warming.
