This week's #ClimateDictionary term is 'Weather vs Climate'.
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💫🌡Starting this week, #AmcheMollem breaks down #ClimateChange to it's most basic terms with our #ClimateDictionary 💚📖
When reading about the climate, we come across words that we don't often understand.
This is CLIMATE CHANGE SIMPLIFIED 🌍
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In 2024, let's deepen our understanding of #ClimateChange together. The #ClimateDictionary is an essential resource for those ready to actively participate in the climate dialogue with authority and insight.
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This week's #ClimateDictionary term is 'Resilience'. Climate resilience is the capacity of a community or environment to anticipate and manage climate impacts, minimize their damage, and recover and transform as needed after the initial shock.
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This week's #ClimateDictionary term is 'Net Zero'.
Achieving net zero means balancing carbon dioxide emissions with removal efforts, like creating carbon sinks, to halt increases in greenhouse gas concentrations.
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This week's #ClimateDictionary term is the 'Paris Agreement'.
This legally binding international treaty, adopted at COP21 in Paris in 2015, aims to limit global warming to below 2° C, ideally 1.5° C, compared to pre-industrial levels.
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This week's #ClimateDictionary term is 'Tipping Point'. It defines a critical threshold in global warming and climate change, beyond which certain changes become irreversible, leading to abrupt and severe impacts.
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Our #ClimateDictionary term, 'Loss and Damage', underscores the unavoidable and often incalculable impacts of climate change, ranging from economic damages to cultural and environmental losses.
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This week's #ClimateDictionary term is 'Nationally Determined Contributions' (NDCs).
These are climate pledges and action plans that each country must develop in line with the #ParisAgreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5° C.
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This week's #ClimateDictionary focus is 'Climate Finance'.
It's the backbone of climate action, encompassing various financial means - public, private, national, and international - for large-scale investments in a low-carbon, resilient world.
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This week's #ClimateDictionary term is 'Mitigation'. It involves actions by governments, businesses, and individuals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enhance carbon sinks.
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This week, #ClimateDictionary spotlights Indigenous Knowledge. Indigenous Peoples’ ways of life are inherently low-carbon and emphasize balance between humans and the natural world.
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This week's #ClimateDictionary term is 'Renewable Energy'. It refers to energy from natural, constantly replenished sources like wind, sunlight, moving water, and geothermal heat.
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This week's #ClimateDictionary term is Greenhouse Gas Emissions. These emissions, primarily carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and fluorinated gases, trap heat in Earth's atmosphere, contributing to global warming.
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This week in the #ClimateDictionary , we're exploring 'Just Transition'. It's a framework that ensures a fair shift towards a low-carbon economy.
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This week's highlight in the #ClimateDictionary is 'Blue Economy'. This concept focuses on balancing economic growth and social inclusion with the environmental sustainability of oceans and coastal areas.
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