Health Sciences 3290A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Climate Change Mitigation, Climate Change Adaptation, Cook Stove

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3290A/B
• Professor: Jeannie Samuel

Document Summary

Photo community in north america that is the first to choose to relocate their community due to climate change. In south pacific as sea levels rise, if you live on a little island they can flood. Over the years many of the islands are finding themselves more effected by climate change. The salt is also affecting the food supply and contaminating the fresh water. Country karabati example of one of the south pacific countries that have been vocal and creative in raising attention on their situation. He was negotiating with the government of fiji for a big plot of land that the whole country would relocate to one day. Climate change occurs when long term weather patterns are altered. Global warming is a subset of climate change. Climate change mitigation all of those things we do to try to prevent or reduce emissions.