Adaptation actions
- Improving integrated water management through water conservation practices, wetlands restoration, water storage, rainwater harvesting, and efficient water use reduces pressure on water resources.
Source: Photo taken in the field by the authors.
- Constructing radical and progressive terraces is among the best practices for dealing with soil erosion, landslides, and runoff. These practices need to be accompanied by agricultural inputs such as organic fertilizers; better seeds, pesticides, and insecticides; and post-harvest processing and storage, to improve agricultural outputs.
Source: Photo taken in the field by the authors.
- Green buildings, by efficiently using water and energy, employing renewable energy sources, and utilising eco-friendly materials, help to reduce the negative impacts of climate change on the natural environment.
- The Climate-Smart Mining Initiative aids resource-rich developing nations in capitalising on rising mineral demand while managing the mining sector to reduce environmental and climate impacts. It promotes sustainable mineral extraction for clean energy technologies, aiming to minimise social, environmental, and climate footprints across the value chain through increased technical assistance and investments.
- Climate change awareness can be enhanced through regular training and improving the critical analysis of the local people on what is happening in their environment.
Activity
Activity 1.3. Among the following actions, some are for adaptation to climate change and others are not. Select “true” for adaptation actions and “false” for those that are not. The first answer is provided as an example.
