Climate Change Mitigation - Asilomar International Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies, Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change, Bio-Energy (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Asilomar International Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies, Avoiding dangerous climate change, Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage, Cap and Share, CarbonFix Standard, Carbon neutral fuel, Clean coal, Clean coal technology, Clean Development Mechanism, Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange, Climate change mitigation scenarios, Climit, Criegee biradical, EarthLab, Fossil-fuel phase-out, Greenhouse gas remediation, Low-carbon emission, Mootral, Negative carbon dioxide emission, Seawater greenhouse, Space mirror (geoengineering), Sustainable retreat, Sydney Declaration. Excerpt: Climate change mitigation are actions to limit the magnitude and/or rate of long-term climate change. Climate change mitigation generally involves reductions in human (anthropogenic) emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Mitigation may also be achieved by increasing the capacity of carbon sinks, e.g., through reforestation. By contrast, adaptation to global warming are actions taken to manage the eventual (or unavoidable) impacts of global warming, e.g., by building dikes in response to sea level rise. Examples of mitigation include switching to low-carbon energy sources, such as renewable and nuclear energy, and expanding forests and other "sinks" to remove greater amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Energy efficiency can also play a major role, for example, through improving the insulation of buildings. Another approach to climate change mitigation is geoengineering. Most geoengineering techniques can be organized into two categories. The first category is called solar radiation management, which involves either reducing incoming sunlight, or increasing the reflectivity (albedo) of the Earth's surface to sunlight. The second category is called carbon dioxide removal, which involves reducing the atmospheric...