Indigenous Knowledge & Climate Change

Question 1

What is the difference between climate change adaptation and mitigation? What are some examples of these?

Answer 1

Climate Change Mitigation refers to efforts to reduce or prevent emission of greenhouse gases. Mitigation can mean using new technologies and renewable energies, making older equipment more energy efficient, or changing management practices
ex// changing hunting schedules to support the population more ?

Adaptation is a response to global warming and climate change, that seeks to reduce the vulnerability of social and biological systems to relatively sudden change and thus offset the effects of global warming.
ex// moving higher on the land , finding more resilient food systems

Question 2

What are some ways climate change is directly affecting Indigenous peoples?

Answer 2

higher sea levels

flooding

more storms

erosion

loss of intertidal sites - taking away history and evidence

Question 3

Why are Indigenous people extra susceptible to climate problems?

Answer 3

lack of infrastructure and planning

coastal peoples