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Climate change mitigation consists of actions to limit global warming and its related effects. Climate change is mostly caused by the greenhouse gases that are released when burning coal, oil, and gas. Fossil fuel use can be reduced through energy conservation and by switching to clean energy sources. Wind power and solar photovoltaics (PV) are increasingly becoming cheaper than fossil fuels, though these require energy storage and improved electrical grids. As low-emission energy is deployed at large scale, transport and heating can shift to these mostly electric sources.

Climate change may also be mitigated by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, forest-management (by reforestation and preservation), waste management, buildings, and industrial systems. Methane emissions, which have a high short-term impact, can be targeted by reductions in dairy products and meat consumption. In addition to reducing emissions, expensive technologies can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, climate engineering may be needed to reduce heating of the atmosphere, and adaptation will be needed to adjust to climate change.

Almost all countries are parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The ultimate objective of the UNFCCC is to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of GHGs at a level that would prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system. In 2010, parties to the UNFCCC agreed that future global warming should be limited to below 2 C-change relative to the pre-industrial level. With the Paris Agreement of 2015, this was confirmed.

Current policies are estimated to produce global warming of about 2.7 °C by 2100, well above the 2 °C goal. Political and economic responses to date include forms of carbon pricing by carbon taxes and carbon emission trading, reductions of fossil fuel subsidies, making national promises and laws, clean energy subsidies, simplified regulations for the integration of low-carbon energy, and divestment from fossil fuel finance. Clayoquot (talk &#124; contribs) 00:19, 10 November 2022 (UTC)