Posts Tagged ‘climatic changes’

Due to uncertainties in projected climate changes and in how systems respond to those changes, adaptation options offer varying degrees of uncertainty,or risk if you will.

No-regret: Actions that make sense or are worthwhile regardless of additional or exacerbated impacts from climate change.

Opportunity: Actions that capitalize on observed or projected climatic changes. The proactive farmer who switches to a more adaptative crop, for example.

“Win-win”: Actions that provide adaptation benefits and meet other social, environmental, or economic objectives.

Low-regret: Measures with relatively low costs for which benefits under climate change scenarios are high, like factoring climate change into public land management policies.