Aerosols The aerosol is a term used to describe a collection of airborne solid or liquid particles with a typical size between 0.01 and 10 μm that reside in the atmosphere from periods of hours to days or months. They may be natural or anthropogenic in origin. Examples of aerosols include pollutants, smoke, haze. These [...]

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which was signed in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, is primarily concerned with the following actions for the future.. read more..

arbon tax is a term used to describe a tax on greenhouse-gas emission. In reality, carbon tax is an important instrument used to curb the greenhouse-gas emissions, particular for those emitters and installations that are not covered by emissions trading for CO2. Read more..

Climate Justice Programme comprises a collaboration of lawyers and campaigners around the world encouraging, supporting and tracking enforcement of the law to combat climate change. Read more.

Copenhagen fashion summit Copenhagen Fashion Summit is the world’s most important event on sustainability in the fashion industry. The summit was funded in conjunction with the UN Climate-Change  Conference, COP15 in 2009. The first event drew attention from all over the world and speakers such as. Now, Copenhagen fashion summit is regarded the place where [...]

Fashion Futures 2025 is a project run by wherein they created four scenarios to explore how climate change, resource shortages, population growth and other factors will shape the world of 2025 and the future of the fashion industry within it. Read more..

The Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), which became effective in 1994, is a voluntary and nonbinding declaration of standards, goals, and objectives that represents international cooperation to reduce human-made greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change (known also as “anthropogenic emissions”) Read more..

Geo-engineering is artificial modification of earth systems to counteract climate-change effects, such as increasing carbon dioxide uptake by fertilizing ocean surface waters or screening out sunlight with orbiting mirrors. Read more..

Can trend-setters inspire mainstream acceptance of sustainable consumption? Global Cool aims to inspire and enable a mass audience to adopt low-carbon lifestyles by marketing or selling green lifestyle choices to trend setters through consumer-facing campaigns. Read more..

Human-environment framework is a research framework for environmental, sustainability based on an interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological approach for investigating structures, regulatory mechanisms, and decision processes on hierarchical levels, including individuals (such as consumer behavior), organizations (such as companies), institutions (such as state agencies), and society (such as socioeconomic impacts of climate change). Read more..

North is a word also used to describe and represent developed, industrialized countries with high carbon emissions per capita. They are responsible for most of the activities that have caused existing anthropogenic climate change. Read more..

OECD, founded in 1961, is a consortium of 30 countries of the world’s most industrialized countries that share a commitment to democratic government and market economy. The OECD provides a forum for its members where they mainly discuss and find common solutions on economic, social and environmental policy concerns as one of its strategic priorities. Read more..

Secondary materials that have been manufactured and used at least once and are to be used again secondary standards national ambient air quality standards designed to protect welfare, including effects on soils, water, crops, vegetation, synthetic (anthropogenic) materials, animals, wildlife, weather, visibility, and climate; damage to property. Read more..

South or southern country is a term used to represent developing countries with comparatively low levels of industrialization and with low-carbon emissions per capita. In addition, in also in many cases these countries are as well most vulnerable to the effects of climate change than those countries in the North. Read more..

In 2007, UK Treasury published a document by the principal author economist and banker Sir Nicholas Stern named The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, shorthand for the Stern Review. Read more

Sustainability Gap is a measure of the decrease in consumption (or the increase in material and economic efficiency) required to eliminate the ecological deficit. Read more.

1992 at the Rio Summit over 159 countries signed United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC); it lay out an overall framework for an intergovernmental crusade to tackle actions posed by climate change. Read more..

Vulnerability is the term used to describe the degree to which a system is unable or susceptible to, cope with, contrary effects of climate change, including variability and extreme weather. Read more..

The WRI is an independent Centre for knowledge on global environmental and development issues established in 1982 by James Gustav Speth. It has an international staff of 125, who work with advisors, collaborators, and partner institutions in more than 50 countries. Read more..