Climate change and resilience deal with two aspects – reduction of sources of non-renewable energy resources and reducing vulnerability of climate change aspects. The terms ‘mitigation’ and ‘adaptation’ are used to refer to these aspects, respectively. Which of the following assertions is best supported by the above information?
Climate change and resilience deal with two aspects – reduction of sources of non-renewable energy resources and reducing vulnerability of climate change aspects. The terms ‘mitigation’ and ‘adaptation’ are used to refer to these aspects, respectively. Which of the following assertions is best supported by the above information? Correct Answer Mitigation deals with actions taken to reduce the use of fossil fuels.
The correct answer is Option 3 i.e. Mitigation deals with actions taken to reduce the use of fossil fuels.
After reading the above paragraph one can easily comprehend that mitigation deals with the steps or action taken to reduce the consumption of non-renewable energy resources like fossil fuels whereas, Adaptation deals with reducing the vulnerability of climate change aspects, now let's go through each option one by one.
- Option 1 states that- "Mitigation deals with consequences of climate change.", this option is incorrect because it has already been mentioned in the passage that it deals with the steps or action taken to reduce the consumption of non-renewable energy resources like fossil fuels.
- Option 2 states that- "Adaptation deals with causes of climate change.", this option is incorrect, it has been clearly mentioned in the passage that adaptation deals with reducing the vulnerability of climate change aspect.
- Option 4 states that- "Adaptation deals with actions taken to combat green-house gas emissions.", adaptation specifically deals with the action taken to reduce vulnerability on climate change aspects, it has nothing to do with green-house gas emissions. Hence, this option is incorrect.