Climate change

Climate change

The phenomenon of climate's temperature and rainfall slowly changing year by year.

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Carbon capture and sequestration

Natural environment; Climate change

Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is a set of technologies that can greatly reduce carbon dioxide emissions from new and existing coal- and gas-fired power plants, industrial processes, and ...

Geosphere

Natural environment; Climate change

The soils, sediments, and rock layers of the Earth's crust, both continental and beneath the ocean floors.

All parts (reservoirs) and fluxes of carbon. The cycle is usually thought of as four main reservoirs of carbon interconnected by pathways of exchange. The reservoirs are the atmosphere, terrestrial ...

Hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs)

Natural environment; Climate change

Compounds containing hydrogen, fluorine, chlorine, and carbon atoms. Although ozone depleting substances, they are less potent at destroying stratospheric ozone than chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). They ...

Co-benefit

Natural environment; Climate change

The benefits of policies that are implemented for various reasons at the same time including climate change mitigation acknowledging that most policies designed to address greenhouse gas mitigation ...

Halocarbons

Natural environment; Climate change

Compounds containing either chlorine, bromine or fluorine and carbon. Such compounds can act as powerful greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The chlorine and bromine containing halocarbons are also ...