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Climate change
The phenomenon of climate's temperature and rainfall slowly changing year by year.
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Stern review
Natural environment; Climate change
A report on the economics of climate change led by Lord Nicholas Stern, a former World Bank economist. It was published on 30 October 2006 and argued that the cost of dealing with the consequences of ...
sports utility vehicle (SUV)
Natural environment; Climate change
An American term for what in the UK tends to be called a 4x4 or four-wheel drive, although in fact not all SUVs are actually four-wheel drive.
UK CO2 targets
Natural environment; Climate change
UK CO2 targets are this country's self-imposed goals for reducing carbon dioxide emissions, and go beyond the targets set out in the Kyoto protocol. The Climate Change Bill, which has been passed ...
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Natural environment; Climate change
One of a series of international agreements on global environmental issues adopted at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. The UNFCCC aims to prevent "dangerous" human interference with the ...
Waxman-Markey bill
Natural environment; Climate change
Another name for the Boxer-Kerry bill, which aims to reduce US greenhouse gas emissions. See Boxer-Kerry bill.
asteroid dust cloud
Natural environment; Climate change
Large amounts of interplanetary dust particles floating freely in space. Also called cosmic dust, the particles are created by collisions among asteroids or released by comets as they pass by the ...
mineral carbonation
Natural environment; Climate change
Also known as mineral sequestration, mineral carbonation aims at trapping carbon in the form of carbonate salts. The basic idea of mineral carbonation is to transform minerals (mostly calcium or ...
