This organization provides authoritative scientific assessments on climate change.
What is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
This mechanism encourages countries to increase their climate commitments every five years.
(Paris agreement) What is the ratchet-up mechanism
This country hosted COP25 in 2019 after Chile’s withdrawal.
What is Spain
This term describes climate impacts that cannot be prevented or adapted to
What is loss and damage
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Paris agreement
The IPCC’s First Assessment Report contributed to the creation of this global framework
What is the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
These country-specific plans form the backbone of the Paris Agreement.
What are Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)
COP25 addressed this contentious issue about carrying over credits from the Kyoto Protocol.
What is carbon credit carryover
This international climate conference agreed to establish a fund for loss and damage in 2022
What is COP27
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The IPCC co-won this prestigious award in 2007 alongside Al Gore
What is the Nobel Peace Prize
This was the predicted temperature increase range under initial Paris Agreement pledges.
What is 2.6°C to 3.1°C
This principle-based framework from COP25 aimed to ensure integrity in carbon markets.
What are the San Jose Principles
This coalition of small island nations introduced the concept of loss and damage in the 1990s.
What is the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)
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Climate Justice
Critics argue the IPCC underrepresents contributions from these regions and fields of study.
What are developing countries and social sciences
This key demand by developing nations was only partially addressed in the Paris Agreement, and still lacks a stable definition
What is loss and damage
COP25 extended this roadmap, promoting gender equality in climate action.
What is the Gender Action Plan
Non-economic losses from climate change include these irreplaceable elements.
What are cultural heritage and biodiversity
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This criticism highlights the IPCC’s cautious approach, avoiding more urgent recommendations.
What is conservatism or overly cautious consensus
The Agreement's legitimacy partly hinged on the participation of this major global emitter.
What is the United States
Critics describe COP25's failure to produce ambitious outcomes with this metaphor.
What is fiddling while the planet burns
This 2015 framework under the UNFCCC reaffirms approaches to address loss and damage
What is the Cancun Adaptation Framework
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