Dear Sarthak:

To keep it simple,

Adaptation: to go along with the changing climate with more resilience

Mitigation: to restrict and limit the changing climate.

In most cities, the two strategies are considered at the same time.

Regards,

Jon

I think more efforts should be taken for mitigation...... adaptation sometime may be natural.... If we gave more importance to adaptation this means we are neglecting the causes of climate change. And everyone's capacity of adapting is different than those who can not able to adapt with change what is the solution? can we leave them to die or suffer?

The main reason for targeting both, mitigation of and adaptation to climate change is time: Mitigation reduces the anthropogenic influence on climate, which will however need several decades before the complex climate system will resond to. That's the reason why adaptation makes sense in the meantime as some vulnerable communities can't wait that long.