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Contents:

     · Key mitigation initiatives

       ⇒ Carbon pricing: Taxes, markets & emissions trading systems

         ⇒ Carbon offsets

           ⇒ Geoengineering, climate engineering & climate intervention

             ⇒ Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) & carbon capture and storage (CCS)

Also see:

     · Renewable energy

       · Bioenergy & CCS (“BECCS”) @ Bioenergy

         · Climate science, reference & carbon accounting

           · Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) @ Nature-based solutions

             · Forests & climate change

Key mitigation websites

ACHIEVE Project

Deep Decarbonization Initiative @ IDDRI

Low Emission Development Strategies (LEDS) Global Partnership

McKinsey GHG abatement cost curves

Mitigation main AR5 page @ IPCC

Mitigation @ UNEP

Project Drawdown

     Solutions by rank and sector

     Drawdown Labs

    Climate Solutions 101

Stabilization wedges

     · Wikipedia page

     · Stabilization wedges @ Carbon Mitigation Initiative

Key concepts:

· At the most overarching level, climate change mitigation means addressing the causes of

  anthropogenic climate change. Yet one does not have to dig deep to find that mitigation is a

  surprisingly complex concept that defies simple definition. Consequently, most any simple

  definition of mitigation will come up against a contrasting, conflicting, or at least overlapping

  definition of mitigation.  

· While there are many ways to conceptualize mitigation, four broad categories include:

    (1) reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions

      (2) protecting carbon reservoirs

        (3) enhancing climate reservoirs

          (4) implementing various forms of “climate

               intervention” (also called

               “geoengineering”)

· Confusingly, many approaches to climate change—for example, ”climate change law” and

  “carbon offsets”—can apply across several of these categories. As such, mitigation is a highly

  wide-ranging topic with numerous subcategories, many of which overlap with other climate change

  topics (most notably, that of adaptation).

· Consequently, while key overarching mitigation initiatives are listed on this page and its subpages,

  particular topics under the rubric of “mitigation” are integrated into the Climate A>Z page (entries  

  relevant to mitigation are highlighted with “M”).