Climate 3.3 Action Mindmap

Climate Climate Action Climate Change Climate Risks Stepped up efforts to combat climate change. - Mitigation Strategies (reduce and enhance) EG. using renewable energy instead of fossil fuels. - Adaptation Strategies (change) EG. use food technology like greenhouses to manage food insecurity Helps build community resilience and achieve sustainable development. Communities are better able to resist, absorb, recover and adapt to impacts of climate change. Investment < Lost incurred from climate change Strategies are complementary. Mitigation slows down worsening and adaptaion minimises harm. Without either, having sustainable development will be difficult Creates risks and benefits Employment opportunities or resource scarcity Climate change worsens threats to natural and human systems that may be primarily caused by other reasons. This means that places which are already struggling with the impacts of climate change will struggle more Disadvantaged communities: -Many live in unfortunate squatter houses which are vulnerable to weather elements. -Unable to afford higher food prices -More vulnerable to disease as they have limited ability to get medical attention, further affecting their work Developing countries: -Lack financial ability to put in place measure to reduce the impacts on climate change - Uneven impacts widens inequalities that hinders sustainable development Climate change contrains development paths as: -Limits the ability of current and future generations to meet their own needs - Erodes development gains achieved by countries, such as opoverty reduction - Slows down development progress as money meant for development of economy or education is channelled towards climate related issues The loss of lives and properties Climate-related hazard, vulnerability, exposure Short-term (cyclones, floods) - Forms and lasts over a short period of time which causes immediate climate risk. EG. Torrential Rains by tropical cyclone Seroja in 2021 brough flash floods in the Nusa Tenggara in Indonesia, causing 59 deaths and displacing over 563 Long-Term (sea-level rise, droughts) - Takes time to develop so the risks may be delayed - Communities have ample time to prepare and adapt but since change is small, they may go unnoticed before its too late EG. The Western region of the USA has been experiencing a multidecade drought since 2000 which 2 major resevoirs have shrunk and there has been an increase in forest fires in the past 20 years. Vulnerability -People in poverty may not be able to afford with the impacts of climate change -Lack of access to piped water causes communities with the issue to have no access to clean water, increasing the possibility of getting cholera Proximity to coastal environments - More exposed to hazards like storm surges and sea level rise Proximity to dry environments - More exposed to droughts Mitigation Strategies Adaptation Strategies International agreements and cooperation - Puts greater responsibilities on developed, indus