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Common Terms: MN Climate Action Framework <br />• Sustainability: Creating and maintaining the conditions under which humans and nature can exist in <br />productive harmony to support present and future generations. <br />• Resilience (to climate change): The capacity of individuals, communities, businesses, buildings, <br />infrastructure or the natural environment to prevent, withstand, respond to, and recover from disruptive <br />events and continue to perform despite persistent stresses imposed by climate change. Both mitigation and <br />adaptation are necessary for long-term resilience. <br />• Adaptation: Taking action to prepare for and adjust to both the current and projected impacts from climate <br />change. For both natural and built systems, humans may intervene to help adjustment. <br />• Mitigation (of climate change): A human intervention to reduce emissions or enhance the removal of a <br />greenhouse gas from the atmosphere (e.g., through carbon sequestration in plants) <br />• Renewable energy: collected from resources that are naturally replenished on a human timescale. <br />Examples include wind, wood, solar, hydropower, and geothermal energy. <br />• Equity: The proactive reinforcement of policies, practices, attitudes and actions that produce fairness in <br />power, access, opportunities, treatment, impacts and outcomes for all. <br />