Optimists look to mitigation in the form of new exploitable fields or rapid moves to non-oil energy.
First, to seek that all countries, especially major economies, commit to mitigation efforts that are nationally determined but also meet minimum-quality criteria for mitigation.
"We are really at least a decade behind in thinking in detail about adaptation, compared to mitigation," says Rosina Bierbaum of the University of Michigan.
"Right now, something like eighty per cent of the world's climate finance goes to mitigation," Andrew Deutz, the director of international government relations for the Nature Conservancy and a collaborator with several L.D.C. and island-nation delegations, told me.
I was wrong — not wrong that deniers would propose adaptation as an alternative to mitigation, but wrong in not immediately grasping the moral imperative of pursuing both policies simultaneously, in spite of the difficulty that poses".
"We suggest that with regard to mitigation of sales displacement by piracy, a national anti-piracy policy combined with educational efforts is much more effective in the longer term than a small number of high-profile lawsuits," the researchers wrote.
Adaptation issues included are those that relate to mitigation actions.
For many years, adaptation has been seen as subsidiary to "mitigation" (reducing greenhouse gas emissions).
"However, the tribunal accepted that the stress that Mr Troicki was under at the time entitled him to mitigation".
Finally, the measurements with respect to mitigation of GHG emissions were analyzed and described.
A government's DRR investment options are not limited to mitigation or prevention measures.
