Transcript Mitigation & Adaptation1 - Cal State LA

CLIMATE CHANGE
MITIGATION AND
ADAPTATION
USDA National Program 204: Global
Change Strategic Vision
Vision
A productive and profitable future for American
agriculture based on a research program that correctly
anticipates changes and provides the tools for producers
to adapt to them
Mission
Develop and provide adaptation, mitigation, and
management strategies to the individual farm, ranch,
and rural community, and to natural resource decisionmakers to allow them to derive optimal benefit from the
positive aspects of global change and deal effectively
with the detrimental effects.
Climate change is a significant and
emerging threat to public health, and
changes the way we must look at
protecting vulnerable populations.
The climate change and health workplan aims to:
support health systems in all countries, in particular low- and
middle-income States and small island States, in order to enhance
capacity for assessing and monitoring health vulnerability, risks
and impacts due to climate change;
identify strategies and actions to protect human health,
particularly of the most vulnerable groups; and
share knowledge and good practices.
The UNESCO Climate Change Adaptation Forum (UCCAF) should
contribute to improve adaptation and resilience to risks posed from
climate variability and change, amidst other stressors, by informing
public and private sector stakeholders (national policy makers,
vulnerable communities and women, the local media, social,
cultural and scientific networks and local, regional and
international scientific organisations) in agriculture, fisheries
(including aquaculture), forestry, alternative energy, fresh water,
oceanography, environmental sciences, and coastal services of the
longer-term climate projections and their potential impacts, as well
as strengthen capacity for appropriate response strategies.
http://ca.pbslearningmedia.org/content/ecb10.
sci.ess.watcyc.adaptation/
Video on adaptation and mitigation from
Wisconsin Educational Communications Board
Carbon capture using micro-organisms
http://ca.pbslearningmedia.org/content/biot09.bio
tech.car.drennan/
Or synthetic trees
http://ca.pbslearningmedia.org/content/biot09.bio
tech.car.drennan/
Where do you put the CO2?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/assets/swf/1/carb
on-sink/03-wdwpi.swf
Global Mitigation of Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases
(EPA Report 430-R-06-005)
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/economics/d
ownloads/GlobalMitigationFullReport.pdf
US energy consumption by fuel, sector 2009 (DOE)
Average annual residential electricity
usage by city, 2000-2005. Measured in
Kilowatt hours per customer.
Sustainable development has been defined as
balancing the fulfillment of human needs with the
protection of the natural environment so that these
needs can be met not only in the present, but in the
indefinite future.
The field of sustainable development can be conceptually
divided into four general dimensions: social, economic,
environmental and institutional. The first three dimensions
address key principles of sustainability, while the final
dimension addresses key institutional policy and capacity
issues.
IPCC 2007 Planned Adaptations by Sectors-Table 4.1
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/syr/en/m
ains4-2.html#table-4-1
IPCC 2007 Mitigation Technologies, Policies and Measures
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/syr/en/m
ains4-3.html