This results from the combination of high greenhouse gas emissions in the baseline (no climate mitigation policy) scenario and low mitigative capacity.
Thus, with the mitigation policy in place, Laura might not be better off and might actually never have been born.
Culling has been the primary shark mitigation policy of the New South Wales Government for over 60 years, through the use of "shark" nets.
One argument goes that if the media can wield its influence to campaign for both stronger mitigation policy and personal and community sustainability, then it is increasingly possible people will rise to the challenge of ameliorating climate change.
Nowhere is the politics of measurement more fraught, and often mind-bendingly complicated, than around climate change mitigation policy, where Australia's leading institution for measuring, monitoring and trading carbon emission permits is on the verge of being systematically dismantled.
Consider two points of departure for climate change mitigation policy: one centred on reducing emissions from the electricity sector and another around the bio-carbon (carbon locked up in soil, tree trunks and roots).
Lord Nicholas Stern, who wrote the UK government's 2006 Stern review into the economics of climate change, has said that carbon markets are an essential element of climate change mitigation policy.
He hopes policy-makers will take note: "The carbon-storage question is important as there is growing political interest in using forests as a part of climate mitigation policy..
Mitigation policy has little effect on estimated flow magnitudes in 2030.
Furthermore, among environmental policy programs, climate change (mitigation) policy had become the most frequently used option.
This dispersion of responsibilities created further complexity in the organization of national climate change mitigation policy.
