Coping with climate change

Question 1

Adaptive capacity

Answer 1

The extent to which a system can cope with climate change. In human systems it depends on available human, physical and financial resources

Question 2

Climate vulnerability

Answer 2

The degree to which a natural or human system lacks the ability to cope with climate change. Vulnerability is a result of the magnitude of the change, its speed of onset, the sensitivity of the system and its adaptive capacity

Question 3

Biofuels

Answer 3

Fuel such as ethanol extracted from plants