Keywords
mitigation
human intervention
emissions reduction
climate change
public and private actions
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Abstract
The University of Manizales, through theCenter for Research on Environment andDevelopment (CIMAD) and the Masters inSustainable Development and Environment, develops and implements the research project“State and prospects of possibilities for adaptationand mitigation of the impact of climatechange in different regions of the country”. Thisproject proposes, among others, to explore theconditions mitigating the impacts of changethat may be present on vulnerable populationsand their willingness to prevention, and also todescribe the risk mitigation actions developedat the state and private sectors.In this article we present the mitigation conditionson the Colombian Atlantic Coast, and the publicand private actions that are being developed toachieve this goal, understanding mitigation ashuman intervention to reduce climate impacts onthe affected population by climatic events throughsource reduction strategies and emissions ofGreenhouse Gases (GHG) and promotion of sinks(forest conservation and restoration).This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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