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Climate change
The phenomenon of climate's temperature and rainfall slowly changing year by year.
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Emission trading scheme (ETS)
Natural environment; Climate change
A scheme set up to allow the trading of emissions permits between business and/or countries as part of a cap and trade approach to limiting greenhouse gas emissions. The best-developed example is the ...
EU burden-sharing agreement
Natural environment; Climate change
A political agreement that was reached to help the EU reach its emission reduction targets under the Kyoto Protocol (a reduction of 8% during the period 2008-2012, on average, compared with 1990 ...
Global warming potential (GWP)
Natural environment; Climate change
A measure of a greenhouse gas's ability to absorb heat and warm the atmosphere over a given time period. It is measured relative to a similar mass of carbon dioxide, which has a GWP of 1.0. So, for ...
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 by global warming. ...
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 worldwide. It ...
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 global goal for ...
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 emissions after the ...
