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The new study focused on 14 measures with the greatest climate benefit. All 14 would curb the release of either black carbon or methane, pollutants that exacerbate climate change and damage human or plant health either directly or by leading to ozone formation.
Initially mitigation was hoping to prevent dangerous CC from happening, later the intention was to reduce the impacts of CC and when scientists discovered that it is too late to prevent or at least to reduce the impacts in short and middle term dimensions attention shifted to adaptation, meaning to find ways to live with climate change.