Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

CLIMATE CHANGE Screenshot 2024-02-23 12.09.50 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - efforts to adjust to climate change and its effects to reduce harm to people, properties and environment
        
        structural:
        
        Seawalls: Constructing sea walls along the coast prevents the sea from advancing to the coast
        e.g. ECP in Singapore has seawalls that are constructed along the coast
        
        Polders: low lying land that is surrounded and protected by dykes, excess water pumped out from polder
        e.g. In the Netherlands, they have been constructing polders to protect communities from rivers and floods
        
        Water Storage Tanks: Stores excess stormwater during excessive rainfall to slow the water from rushing into canals and drains to prevent flooding in them
        
        limitations:
        
        technological:
        
        High Tech Vegetable Farms: monitored remotely in order
    - - efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enhance carbon sinks to slow down climate change.
        
        use of clean energy sources:
        
        changes in consumption patterns:
        
        use of low carbon technologies:
        
        international agreements and cooperation:
        
        The united nations framework convention on climate change:
        
        now signed by 197 parties
        
        to stabalise greenhouse gas emissions at a level that would prevent anthropogenic impacts and provide sufficient time for ecosystems to adapt/
        
        puts greater responsibilities on developed, industrialised countries to lead the way
        
        funds and technologies are directed to climate action in developing countries.
        
        monitoring the progress of climate change policies.
    - - mitigation strategies slow down climate change and prevent the impacts from worsening. without them, countries would have to implement more and more adaptation measures to limit the harm. adaptation measures are also required as the impacts of climate change are already happening, and is important to put in place measures to minimise the impacts.