Ways To Mitigate Climate Change

Question 1

What was the Paris Agreement of 2015?

Answer 1

Where countries tried to agree to limit their emissions, with policies expected to lead 2.8-3.2*C of warming by 2100, which is less than expected

Question 2

What are climate mitigation strategies designed to do?

Answer 2

Reduce the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases and, in doing so, minimising the causes and effects of climate change in the long-term

Question 3

Name ways to mitigate climate change.

Answer 3

Carbon capture and storage, planting trees, alternative energy production and international agreements

Question 4

What is Carbon Capture and Storage?

Answer 4

A company that captures CO2 before it is emitted into the atmosphere and transported underground for safe storage

Question 5

What was the Kyoto Protocol of 1997?

Answer 5

An agreement to cut nation’s emission targets. The UK cut emissions by 22% by 2012