Reference no: EM133627206
Questions:
1. What is the difference between climate mitigation and climate adaptation? Give 1 example of a climate mitigation strategy, policy, project or technology, and 1 example of a climate adaptation action, strategy, policy.
2. What are your thoughts on the Environmental Justice, Climate Justice, and Energy Justice provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022? Please discuss the Enviro & Climate Justice benefits and shortfalls of this important recent piece of legislation.
3. If climate change is a driver of inequity, because it tends to affect marginalized populations first and worst: Explain how and why an effective climate mitigation policy, project, or action can serve to exacerbate economic, social, environmental, health inequalities. Give an example of a climate mitigation project, policy, or strategy that serves to exacerbate existing social inequalities, or create new ones. Be specific about the nature of the climate mitigation policy/project, the type of inequality being created/exacerbated, and the mechanisms through which the climate policy you discuss is creating or worsening inequality
4. What are green industrial policies, how are they different from carbon pricing policies, and which of these two categories of climate policies tends to be more popular in the US + why?