Adaption and Mitigation
Choosing ways to reduce the risk of damage from climate change
by acting now to adapt to climate change are in this section.
Areas of concern faced by Ontario resources include water, natural
ecosystems and "built"ecosystems.
Issues dealing with human settlement, energy usage, industry,
human health and disaster insurance are also included.
This section
looks at the Ontario government in the context of ways to reduce
risks and exposure to the impacts of climate change.
7.2.1 deals with Ontario Adaptation
7.2.2. deals with Ontario Mitigation
The 3 international commitments are described in global sections 7.1.2.
Ontario should take pride in the 1988 Toronto World
Conference Participants' Statement:
" Humanity is conducting an unintended, uncontrolled,
globally pervasive experiment whose ultimate consequences could
be second only to a global nuclear
war."
Source: Proceedings of the World Conference
on the Changing Atmosphere: Implications for Global Security, WMO report #
710, P292 (1988).
7.2.1. ADAPTATION - Vulnerability Reduction
Strategies
7.2.2. MITIGATION - Emission
Reduction Strategies
   
Content Updated Sept 2005
Check Success Stories and What You Can Do on the menu
bar. These all help us to adapt to or begin to reduce the effects of climate
change now.
Ontario's latest policy changes are emerging now and can be found
in the daily news. Check for issues of conservation ' We Conserve' program,
and the press releases and stories on - alternative and nuclear energy programs.
Activities are listed in individual sub-sections.
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