Adaptation
Adaptation Eco-Fashion Encyclopedia. Adaptation initiatives and measures to reduce the vulnerability of natural and human systems against actual or expected climate change effects.
Carbon finance
Carbon finance is a term used to describe and explores the financial implications of living in a carbon-constrained world—a world in which emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases carry a price.
Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC)
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.
Sink
The sink is a term used on any process, activity or mechanism which removes a greenhouse gas, and aerosols or a precursor of greenhouse gas or aerosols from the atmosphere
Methane (CH4)
Methane (C4) has many sources, both natural and human-related, but just two major sinks: its destruction in the atmosphere, and its use by certain soil bacteria. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, each kg.
United Nations framework convention on climate change (UNFCCC)
United Nations framework convention on climate change (UNFCCC). 1992 at the Rio Summit over 159 countries signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Greenhouse Effect
Greenhouse Effect is heating of the planet due to the increased density of the trace greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. They have the effect of increasing absorption of sunlight by preventing the outward radiation of heat from the Earth.
Global warming
Global warming is the rise in the average temperature of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans since the late 19th century and its projected continuation. Since the early 20th century, Earth’s mean surface temperature has increased by about 0.8 °C
Creative Commons Licenses
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
