Climate change adaptation is a term used in environmental planning to refer to actions that are taken to reduce the negative impacts of climate change and take advantage of any potential new opportunities. Climate change adaptation is different from mitigation, which involves reducing greenhouse gas emissions to try and limit the amount of future climate …
COP26 is the 26th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and was held in Glasgow, Scotland, from October 31 to 12 November 2021. The conference will bring together world leaders, climate experts and campaigners to agree on a plan of action to tackle climate change.
The Kyoto Protocol was an international treaty which extended the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The terms “global warming” and “climate change” are often used interchangeably, but they actually refer to two different things.
Global warming potential (GWP) is a way of measuring the heat absorbed by any greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, as a multiple of the heat that would be absorbed by the same mass of carbon dioxide. GWP is 1 for CO₂.
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