This is called "mitigation", in the jargon.
It may be the first significant step towards ambitious mitigation in the longer term in Australia.
For the tabloid, that was a useful mitigation in the court of public opinion, if not in law.
Optimists look to mitigation in the form of new exploitable fields or rapid moves to non-oil energy.
There should be mitigation in the system to protect school standards and ensure a loss of funding doesn't hamstring local areas.
There can be some mitigation in the failed attempts to buy Thomas Müller from Bayern Munich, Neymar from Barcelona and Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale from Real Madrid.
The good news is that the highest environmental standards and mitigation in the world are already applied to energy development in America's Arctic.
"Without Congressional intervention," he said, "we will be left with more pollution in the near term as well as a higher cost of mitigation in the long run".
The suicide scourge that has taken more than 600 Israeli lives, most of them civilian, creates cogent justification, or at least mitigation, in the minds of most Israelis, for many of the excesses committed in the name of security.
The Anglo-American law of murder recognizes no formal grounds of defense or mitigation in the fact that the accused killed to relieve someone of suffering from an apparently incurable disease.
Substantial emissions reductions over the next few decades can reduce climate risks in the 21st century and beyond, increase prospects for effective adaptation, reduce the costs and challenges of mitigation in the longer term, and contribute to climate-resilient pathways for sustainable development.
