Throughout his tenure, Ban has worked to support unstable countries with UN peacekeeping efforts, promote sustainable development to lessen climate change and poverty, and empower women worldwide.
However, if radical mitigation policies had been pursued, that not only would have lessened climate change but would also have changed the course of history in many ways.
Therefore, in addition to efforts to lessen climate impacts, it will also be necessary to take steps to adapt to some amount of climate change.
In 1992, the Kyoto Protocol promoted the idea that protecting tropical forests from deforestation could help to slow the release of CO2 into the atmosphere and thus lessen predicted climate warming (Hulme 2017).
With a view to lessening risks from climate hazards, adaptation is increasingly considered a core activity over mitigation (Füssel 2007).
Thus, present-day investment in the maintenance and expansion of vegetation appears likely to not only improve global rates of CCS, but may also provide additional future rewards by lessening impacts of climate change.
Such actions include improving the capacity of the ecosystems to return to desired conditions after disturbance, facilitating the transition of ecosystems from current to new conditions, and lessening impacts on climate (Millar et al. 2007).
Nicklen ended his lecture by encouraging people to commit themselves to lessening the impact of climate change.
But the political climate has soured further, lessening the chances of reforms or more prudent fiscal policy.
But concerns are growing that the situation is already beginning to change thanks to an increasing number of tourists, scientists and adventurers visiting those regions, as well as the lessening extremity of those environments, because of climate change.
