Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Financed Research and
R 385
"mitigation"
in relation to—
(a) | a disaster or disaster risk, means the lessening of the potential adverse impacts of physical hazards, including those that are human-induced, through actions that reduce hazard, exposure and vulnerability; or |
(b) | climate change, means a human intervention to reduce the sources or enhance the sinks of greenhouse gases; |
[Definition substituted by section 1(g) of Act No. 16 of 2015]