Mitigation and Adapting to Climate Change

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Across
  1. 1. To change your behaviour, processes or infrastructure to suit the new conditions - benefit or to reduce costs
  2. 5. This type of hazard is increasing in frequency and severity due to climate change
  3. 6. Treating this is another form of adaption to reduced rainfall in an area
  4. 10. This city has adapted by putting 'green roofs' - gardens on their roof
  5. 11. This is one of the main changes to rainfall, where in Australia this has been decreasing since 1950s
  6. 12. This is occurring at a rate between 3.2-3.4mm per year
  7. 15. One form of adaptation to water shortages that removes minerals from water
  8. 20. This protocol was the first major climate change agreement from countries to mitigate climate change
  9. 21. This is a mitigation strategy that is all about planting trees
Down
  1. 2. This is one of the main changes to climate - seeing an increase of 0.8
  2. 3. This is the name of the latest agreement from countries to mitigate climate change
  3. 4. Wind, hydro, solar are all examples of this mitigation strategy
  4. 7. This type of greenhouse gas can be captured from rubbish tips to mitigate climate change
  5. 8. These type of barriers are used to adapt to sea level rise
  6. 9. By increasing and encouraging this in a city, this can decrease carbon monoxide and therefore climate change
  7. 13. To prevent or reduce greenhouse emissions in the atmosphere
  8. 14. This is the increase in degrees that all countries have agreed upon to not let temperature increase by
  9. 16. This city has built the Mose gate to protect from sea level rise
  10. 17. __________ shortages are caused by a decrease in rainfall or glacier runoffs
  11. 18. _________ capture can occur from factories to mitigate climate change
  12. 19. _________ stroke is a type of climate related illness caused from climate change