How would you describe poverty?
What is poverty? Is it having little or no money? Is it living in a place with poor access to electricity, education, food etc? 

What causes poverty? Environment? Poor transportation network? Poor infrastructures? 

Welcome to this course where we equip you with the knowledge of how environmental impacts and poverty are interrelated. The discussions on how poverty creates challenges in overcoming environmental impacts should be interesting and we hope you will enjoy this course!


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Poverty causes people to be unable to react to environmental impacts. The various aspects of poverty means that people are impacted differently from different environmental impacts. Poverty includes having little skills and knowledge and this impedes the ability of people to adapt and react.

How mitigation and adaptation to climate change affects poverty? This section explores what climate change mitigation and adaptation is, and the relationship between them.
Mitigation is more about reducing the effects of climate change; the different things we do, to lessen climate change's impacts. 
Adaptation is about coping and living with conditions imposed, and often how innovatively we can do it.  

Mitigation and adaptation are not mutually exclusive; they can be, and often are, complementary. 




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