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5.2 Adaptation

Adaptation through climate impact planning and resilience. Adaptation will help to reduce the damage
associated with climate change and will also help to deal with existing threats from current weather
trends, natural and human-made disasters. Adaptation has limitations and disadvantages. Some climate
impacts may be too large to be addressed through adaptation.

Implementation of adaptation policies requires consideration of location-specific factors, as the effects of
climate change may vary from one geographical location to another. As a result, centralised policy action
may be somewhat more limited for adaptation than for mitigation or geoengineering.

5.3 Geoengineering

Geoengineering is deliberate manipulation of the climate system. The purpose of geoengineering is to
counteract the effects of greenhouse gas emissions by humans or their effects. Geoengineering has the
potential to help reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, to counteract the
physical impact of an increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases, to counteract specific effects of
climate change or to offer strategies when sudden, catastrophic or otherwise unacceptable effects of
climate change become evident.