Greenhouse gases
Gases that trap heat in the atmosphere
What are greenhouse gasses?
Adopted in 2015, the agreement covers climate change mitigation, adaptation, and finance. It was negotiated by 196 parties at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference
What is the Paris Agreement?
This Act is responsible for the creation of the Climate Change Commission.
What is the Climate Change Act of 2009?
Refers to the balance between the amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) that's produced and the amount that's removed from the atmosphere.
What is Net Zero?
She rose to fame at a very young age and is known for her passionate and combative fight against climate change.
Who is Greta Thunberg?
The primary greenhouse gas emitted through human activities. It is naturally present in the atmosphere as part of the Earth's carbon cycle.
What is Carbon dioxide (CO2)?
UN-organized international conference held in 1992 was the first time the issues of economy, climate, and international development were considered together.
What is the Rio Earth Summit?
This government agency is the lead policy-making body of the government, which shall be tasked to coordinate, monitor and evaluate the programs and action plans of the government
What is the Climate Change Commission?
It is a group of standards that are the most common in GHG accounting.
What is the Greenhouse Gas Protocol?
The architect of Paris Agreement
Who is Christiana Figueres?
Produced naturally through decomposition and the second most abundant anthropogenic GHG after carbon dioxide (CO2).
What is Methane (CH4)?
The first agreement between nations to mandate the reduction of greenhouse gases.
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
A document that provides for ambitious plans, policies and targets on renewable energy, natural gas, alternative fuels, and energy efficient technologies
What is the Philippine Energy Plan?
It aims to help mitigate climate change by removing carbon dioxide pollution directly from the atmosphere
What is carbon dioxide removal?
The Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Who is Simon Emmanuel Kervin Stiell?
Commonly known as laughing gas, nitrous, nitro, or nos. The impact of 1 pound of this gas on warming the atmosphere is 265 times that of 1 pound of carbon dioxide.
What is nitrous oxide (N2O)?
A document with an aspirational goal of limiting global temperature increase to below 2.0 °C (3.6 °F).
What is the Copenhagen Accord?
A national process that aims to build a roadmap that will serve as the basis for a national program on climate change.
What is the National Framework Strategy on Climate Change 2010-2022?
It captures emissions at the source — like from a power plant or a cement producer — and prevents those emissions from entering the atmosphere in the first place.
What is carbon capture and storage (CCS)?
The geoscientist who coined the term 'global warming'.
Who is Wallace Broecker?
Very powerful greenhouse gases found in everyday products such as refrigerators or air conditioning and are sometimes referred to as high-GWP gases because, for a given amount of mass, they trap substantially more heat than CO2.
What are fluorinated gases? (Hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, sulfur hexafluoride, and nitrogen trifluoride)
Defines a roadmap with targets for over 20 key economic sectors to get to net-zero carbon emissions and slow the pace of climate change.
What is the 'Race-to-Zero Breakthroughs'?
A document that outlines the country's commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 75%, of which 2.71% is unconditional, for the period 2020 to 2030.
What is the Philippine Nationally Determined Contribution?
The first country to set a net-zero target in 2015.
Why is Bhutan significant?
In 1938, a steam engineer discovered that global temperatures had risen 0.3°C over the previous 50 years and argued that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from industry were responsible for global warming.
Who is Guy Callendar?