Carbon leakage

The allowable threat objects passing through a BMD system expressed as a percentage of the threat. To ensure overall system performance, permitted leakage is “budgeted” among ...

leakage

Energy; Hydro dam; Dam safety

Uncontrolled loss of water by flow through a hole or crack.

leakage

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

The act of radiation leaving the machine unintentionally cf. "leakage radiation", which is the radiation itself that is leaving the machine as described above.

leakage

Consumer electronics; Television

Undesired signal emissions from a cable broadband system (often from cable cracks or poor connections) into the air.

Annex I countries

Natural environment; Climate change

The industrialised countries (and countries in transition to a market economy) which took on obligations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. Their ...

Annex II

Natural environment; Climate change

Countries which have a special obligation under the Kyoto Protocol to provide financial resources and transfer technology to developing countries. This group is a sub-section of ...

Aosis

Natural environment; Climate change

The Alliance of Small Island States comprises 42 island and coastal states mostly in the Pacific and Caribbean. Members of Aosis are some of the countries likely to be hit hardest ...

The Fourth Assessment Report (AR4)

Natural environment; Climate change

The Fourth Assessment Report produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published in 2007. The report assessed and summarised the climate change situation ...

Bali action plan

Natural environment; Climate change

A plan drawn up at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, in December 2007, forming part of the Bali roadmap. The action plan established a working group to define a long-term ...

Bali roadmap

Natural environment; Climate change

A plan drawn up at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, in December 2007, to pave the way for an agreement at Copenhagen in 2009 on further efforts to reduce greenhouse gas ...