When a major UN climate conference starts October 31st 2021, you will actually hear a lot of technical terms: Climate Change, CO2 neutral and sustainable development.
“It sounds like you’re talking over people,” said one person about the terminology of a study colleagues and I recently performed at USC Dornsife.
Climate reports are often put at the science stage.
We therefore believe that there is a need to clarify some of the most commonly used terms.
The next text sums it up.
Definition for “transition”: change from one state to another within a period of years by which an individual changes to another state.
Translation: there is no net carbon dioxide released into the air.
This involves lowering both the amount of carbon dioxide which is added to the air and removing carbon dioxide in order to remove carbon dioxide from the air.
United Nations Day is an annual commemorative day, reflecting the official creation of the United Nations on 24 October 1945. In 1947, the United Nations General Assembly declared 24 October, (wikipedia)
Climate change includes both human-induced global warming and its large-scale impacts on weather patterns. There have been previous periods of climate change, (wikipedia)
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations responsible for advancing knowledge on human-induced climate change. (wikipedia)
The effects of climate change span the physical environment, ecosystems and human societies. They also include the economic and social changes which stem from living in a warmer world. (wikipedia)
The 2020 presidential campaign of Jay Inslee began on March 1, 2019, when Inslee – the incumbent Governor of Washington – announced that he would be running for the Democratic nomination. (wikipedia)
Jay Robert Inslee is an American politician and retired attorney who has served as the 23rd governor of Washington since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a member of the U.S. (wikipedia)
The Fifth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the fifth in a series of such reports and was completed in 2014. As had been the case in the past, (wikipedia)
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