A coastal city implements a plan to build sea walls and elevate buildings in response to rising sea levels. This action primarily falls under which category of climate change response?
Climate Change Adaptation.
Climate responses are grouped into two broad categories:
Mitigation — reducing greenhouse-gas emissions or enhancing sinks (e.g., renewable energy, afforestation).
Adaptation — adjusting systems to minimise damage from climate impacts that are already occurring (e.g., sea walls, elevated buildings, drought-resistant crops).
Sea walls and elevating buildings do not reduce emissions; they reduce the damage from sea-level rise — clearly an adaptation measure.
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