Green Skills regional workshop yorks lancs BF model

Adaptation v mitigation?

• 21st century projections: global surface temperature to rise 1.5 to 1.9 °C (lowest emissions scenario) and 3.4 to 6.1 °C (highest emissions scenario) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change • Mitigation: reducing household, industrial (and commercial) and transport carbon emissions (energy resource management, shift to clean energy) • Adaptation: tackling rising workplace temperatures, new health and safety challenges, increased flooding and fire risks