Climate Change Fundamentals
This term describes the long-term alteration of temperature and typical weather patterns in a place.
What is climate change?
Individuals who purchase and use goods and services.
Who are consumers?
This region is experiencing melting ice caps, leading to rising sea levels.
What is the Arctic?
This international agreement aims to limit global warming to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels.
What is the Paris Agreement?
Planting trees to absorb CO₂ is known as this.
What is reforestation?
These emissions are primarily responsible for the greenhouse effect and global warming.
What are greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions?
Organizations focused on advocating for the protection of the environment.
What are environmental organizations?
Low-lying island nations are particularly vulnerable to this consequence of climate change
What is sea-level rise?
A market-based approach allowing countries to trade emission allowances under the Kyoto Protocol.
What is emissions trading?
Transitioning from fossil fuels to these energy sources helps reduce GHG emissions.
What are renewable energy sources?
An international treaty adopted in 1997 aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
Indigenous groups with traditional knowledge and a vested interest in environmental conservation.
Who are Aboriginal Peoples?
Increased atmospheric CO₂ leads to this phenomenon, harming marine life.
What is ocean acidification?
This term refers to the deliberate avoidance of legal regulations, often seen in unreported economic activities.
What is the underground economy?
This practice involves reducing energy consumption through efficient technologies and behaviors.
What is energy conservation?
This term refers to the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
Entities that produce goods or services for sale.
What are companies?
This term describes prolonged periods of abnormally low rainfall, a consequence of climate change.
What is drought?
A person actively involved in preventing environmental damage, sometimes through direct action.
What is an ecowarrior?
Capturing and storing CO₂ emissions from industrial processes is known as this.
What is carbon capture and storage?
The average economic output per person, often used to compare the economic performance of different countries.
What is GDP per capita?
Individuals employed by companies, often directly affected by environmental policies.
Who are workers?
The loss of this leads to reduced biodiversity and disruption of ecosystems.
What is habitat destruction?
This principle involves using policy tools to influence environmental outcomes.
What is a lever?
This economic approach incorporates environmental costs into the pricing of goods and services.
What is environmental taxation?