Climate Policy

Climate policy encompasses efforts to create and use information or services that help society manage risks and realize opportunities relating to weather and climate. This includes efforts to understand and respond to routine and extreme weather and climate events. Climate policy also refers to decision‐making with respect to climate change. Climate change risk management approaches generally fall into four broad categories: (i) mitigation – efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; (ii) adaptation – increasing society's capacity to cope with changes in climate; (iii) geoengineering or climate engineering – additional, deliberate manipulation of the Earth system that is intended to counteract at least some of the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions; and (iv) knowledgebase expansion – efforts to learn and understand more about the climate system, which can help support proactive risk management. Comprehensive climate change risk management almost certainly includes a combination of policy responses.

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