I am meeting twice weekly with members of my senior team to discuss "Brexit mitigation".
"They really view it as risk mitigation," Chris Davis, the senior program director at the sustainability consultancy Ceres, told me.
"We're welcoming a focus on more of a balance on adaptation versus mitigation," said a senior American negotiator in New Delhi.
"It's all about risk mitigation," said Tom Sepanski, senior director at branding firm Landor Associates, New York.
"It's really clear that because of the frequency of extreme weather that climate change is creating, farmers are going to need an increased level of risk mitigation," said Julia Olmstead, senior program associate at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.
"Our biggest hurdle is reaching out and talking to people," said Margery A. Rotundo, Ocwen's senior vice president for residential loss mitigation.
"But in my view none of these factors provides real mitigation for the sustained failure by senior supervisory officers to give this investigation the priority it required and to get a grip on what was plainly a long-standing pattern of terrifying offences committed within a single borough".
A senior Thai rescue officer, Kobchai Boonarana of the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation department, told reporters Thursday that it was up to the rescue team who were supporting the boys with food, water, foil blankets and medical assistance inside the chamber to assess if and when they were up to attempting the journey out.
Bangladesh hosts Asian Conference on arsenic mitigation Dhaka, April 5, 2009 : Today fifty-three experts and senior Government officials from 12 Asian countries are meeting in Bangladesh to discuss ways of mitigating the impact of arsenic contaminated water which put people at risk of poisoning.
In 1998, America's National Judicial Conference endorsed a report by a senior judge stating that all capital defence teams should include a mitigation specialist: this, it said, was nothing less than a "minimum standard of care".
In finance, I heard a senior EU minister complain that governments tend to ask for major mitigation projects like airports, dams or forest preservations, but that women and NGOs ask for things closer to people like cookstoves.
