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Climate change mitigation
Climate change mitigation is action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and limit global warming, through carbon pricing, clean energy deployment, emissions cuts by sector, and carbon removal.
Climate Change Response Act
The Climate Change Response Act 2002 is New Zealand's principal climate change statute, establishing the emissions trading scheme, the Climate Change Commission, and the legislated 2050 emissions reduction target.
Climate club
A climate club is a coalition of countries that coordinate climate policy and apply benefits or trade penalties, making membership more attractive than free-riding on others' emission reductions.
Climate debt
Climate debt is the claim that countries that have emitted more than a fair per-capita share of greenhouse gases owe compensation to those harmed by climate change.
Climate finance
Climate finance is local, national, or transnational financing from public, private, and alternative sources supporting climate mitigation and adaptation; under the UNFCCC, developed countries are expected to assist developing ones.
Climate Investment Funds
The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) are multilateral trust funds, the Clean Technology Fund and the Strategic Climate Fund, established in 2008 to finance low-carbon, climate-resilient development in developing countries.
Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act
The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act is New York's 2019 climate law, requiring 85 percent emissions cuts by 2050 and a zero-emission grid by 2040.
Climate refugee
A climate refugee is a person forced from home by climate harms like sea-level rise or drought; the term is widely used but has no basis in international law.
Climate reparations
Climate reparations are compensation claimed from states and fossil fuel companies for climate loss and damage in countries that contributed little to emissions, first proposed by Vanuatu in 1991.
Climate Vulnerable Forum
The Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF), working alongside its Vulnerable Twenty (V20) finance ministers, is a coalition of about 70 climate-vulnerable developing countries founded in the Maldives in 2009.
Copenhagen Accord
The Copenhagen Accord, also called the Copenhagen climate treaty, is a 2009 political agreement recognizing a goal of keeping global warming below 2 degrees Celsius.
Decarbonization
Decarbonization is the reduction of the carbon intensity of an economy, or CO2 emissions per unit of GDP or energy, through electrification, renewables, efficiency, and carbon removal aimed at net zero.
Dual carbon goals
The dual carbon goals (双碳目标) are China's climate commitments, announced by Xi Jinping in 2020, to peak carbon emissions before 2030 and reach carbon neutrality before 2060.
Durban Platform
The Durban Platform for Enhanced Action is a UNFCCC decision adopted at COP 17 in Durban, South Africa, in December 2011, launching negotiations that produced the Paris Agreement.
Emissions Gap Report
The Emissions Gap Report is an annual assessment by the United Nations Environment Programme, published since 2010, that measures the gap between countries' climate pledges and Paris Agreement goals.
Environment America
Environment America is a federation of state-based environmental advocacy organizations in the United States, founded in 2007 out of the state PIRG network and headquartered in Denver.
EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program
The EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program is a mandatory US system under which large emitters and fossil fuel suppliers report greenhouse gas data annually, established in 2009.
European Green Deal
The European Green Deal, also called the EU Green Deal, is the European Union's climate and growth strategy, launched in December 2019 to make the EU climate-neutral by 2050.
European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register
The European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) is the European Union's public electronic database of pollutant releases and waste transfers from large industrial facilities, established in 2006.
Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP)
The Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) is an international project, started in 2010, that runs standardized climate model experiments to study solar geoengineering's effects and impacts.
German Climate Protection Act
The German Climate Protection Act (Bundes-Klimaschutzgesetz, KSG) is Germany's central federal climate law, first adopted in December 2019, setting targets of 65% emissions cuts by 2030 and neutrality by 2045.
GHG Protocol
The GHG Protocol is the most widely used standard for measuring greenhouse gas emissions, established in 1998 by WRI and WBCSD and known for its three-scope framework.
Glasgow Climate Pact
The Glasgow Climate Pact is the decision adopted at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow on 13 November 2021, the first COP decision to mention fossil fuels.
Global Methane Pledge
The Global Methane Pledge is a voluntary commitment launched at COP26 in 2021 to cut global methane emissions at least 30% from 2020 levels by 2030.
Global Stocktake
The global stocktake is a Paris Agreement process under Article 14, held every five years, in which countries assess collective progress toward the Agreement's climate goals.
Great Green Wall
The Great Green Wall is an African Union initiative launched in 2007 to combat desertification in the Sahel, now an 8,000 km restoration mosaic across Africa.
Green Climate Fund
The Green Climate Fund is a multilateral climate fund created in 2010 under the UNFCCC and headquartered in Songdo, South Korea, to fund low-emission, climate-resilient development in developing countries.
Green New Deal
The Green New Deal is a family of policy proposals combining deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions with job creation, best known from a 2019 US congressional resolution.
Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act
The Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act is a 2018 Canadian federal statute establishing the federal carbon pricing backstop, upheld by the Supreme Court of Canada in 2021.
ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability
ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability is a global network of more than 2,500 local and regional governments working on sustainable urban development, climate action, and biodiversity.