The phrase "a responsibility to mitigate" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing obligations or duties related to reducing or alleviating negative impacts, risks, or issues.
Example: "As a corporation, we have a responsibility to mitigate the environmental effects of our operations."
Alternatives: "an obligation to reduce" or "a duty to lessen".
We share a collective responsibility to mitigate the social impact of the crisis and to assure that all parts of the globe participate in the recovery.
We have a huge responsibility to mitigate and adapt for our own sake and the sake of our children, because a world of extreme climate change is grim for us all.
It is not a woman's responsibility to mitigate a man's sexual desire or prevent -- or even anticipate -- his tendency toward violence.
Their communiqué stated that they recognized "the current (global economic) crisis has a disproportionate impact on the vulnerable in the poorest countries and our collective responsibility to mitigate the social impact of the crisis to minimise long-lasting damage to global potential".
The responsibility to mitigate climate change, however, does not fall solely to the Copenhagen delegation.
China, the largest emitter in the world, should first take the responsibility to mitigate its huge domestic PM2.5 emission.
China, the world's largest emitter, should first take the responsibility to mitigate its huge domestic PM2.5 emission.
The unique structure of Canada's health care system makes it particularly difficult to determine where ultimate responsibility to mitigate the health costs incurred by the flow of health professionals from sub-Saharan Africa to Canada lies.
This exercise did not resolve the critical issue of income protection for those in quarantine but did identify the lack of this protection as a potential impediment to voluntary compliance with quarantine, highlight its importance for further discussion, and force participants to craft appeals to the residents' sense of civic responsibility to mitigate concerns of income loss.
But we have a duty to mitigate that risk.
