Mitigation
Mitigation means making the impacts of climate change less severe by preventing or reducing the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Mitigation is achieved by:
• reducing the sources of these gases, for example by phasing our fossil fuels and increasing clean and renewable energy sources;
• enhancing the storage of greenhouse gases, for example by increasing the size of forests or through carbon capture.
In short, mitigation is a human intervention that reduces the sources of greenhouse gas emissions and/or enhances the sinks.