Global stocktake, the Glossary
The Global Stocktake is a fundamental component of the Paris Agreement which is used to monitor its implementation and evaluate the collective progress made in achieving the agreed goals.[1]
Table of Contents
19 relations: Civil society, Climate change, Climate change adaptation, Climate change mitigation, Climate finance, Company, Conference of the parties, Country, Enhanced Transparency Framework, Environmental law, Greenhouse gas emissions, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Municipal council, Nationally determined contribution, Non-governmental organization, Paris Agreement, Pledge and review, Project stakeholder, 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference.
- 21st-century treaties
- Economics and climate change
- Politics of climate change
Civil society
Civil society can be understood as the "third sector" of society, distinct from government and business, and including the family and the private sphere.
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Climate change
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.
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Climate change adaptation
Climate change adaptation is the process of adjusting to the effects of climate change.
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Climate change mitigation
Climate change mitigation (or decarbonisation) is action to limit the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that cause climate change.
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Climate finance
Climate finance is an umbrella term for financial resources such as loans, grants, or domestic budget allocations for climate change mitigation, adaptation or resiliency.
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Company
A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity representing an association of legal people, whether natural, juridical or a mixture of both, with a specific objective.
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Conference of the parties
A conference of the parties (COP; Conférence des Parties, CP) is the supreme governing body of an international convention (treaty, written agreement between actors in international law).
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Country
A country is a distinct part of the world, such as a state, nation, or other political entity.
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Enhanced Transparency Framework
The Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) specifies how parties to the Paris Agreement, which includes almost every country in the world, report on their progress in limiting and adapting to climate change.
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Environmental law
Environmental laws are laws that protect the environment. Global stocktake and Environmental law are Environmental social science.
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Greenhouse gas emissions
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from human activities intensify the greenhouse effect.
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations.
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Municipal council
A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area.
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Nationally determined contribution
The nationally determined contributions (NDCs) are commitments that countries make to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions as part of climate change mitigation.
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Non-governmental organization
A non-governmental organization (NGO) (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government.
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Paris Agreement
The Paris Agreement (or Paris Accords, Paris Climate Accords) is an international treaty on climate change that was signed in 2016.
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Pledge and review
Pledge and review is a method for facilitating international action against climate change. Global stocktake and Pledge and review are Economics and climate change, Environmental social science, Environmental terminology, political economy and Politics of climate change.
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Project stakeholder
Project stakeholders are persons or entities who have an interest in a given project.
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2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference
The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, more commonly known as COP28, was the 28th United Nations Climate Change conference, held from 30 November to 13 December at Expo City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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See also
21st-century treaties
- Abraham Accords
- Association Trio
- Global stocktake
Economics and climate change
- Biofuel
- Cap and dividend
- Carbon fee and dividend
- Carbon lock-in
- Carbon-neutral fuel
- Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy
- Climate Capitalism
- Climate Disclosure Standards Board
- Climate Investment Funds
- Climate change and insurance in the United States
- Climate change scenario
- Climate reparations
- Dorjee Sun
- ECOCITIES (software)
- Ecoflation
- Economic analysis of climate change
- Economics of climate change mitigation
- Economists' Statement on Carbon Dividends
- Economists' Statement on Climate Change
- Emissions reduction currency systems
- Emissions trading
- Environmental effects of bitcoin
- European Climate Change Programme
- Fossil fuel divestment
- Global stocktake
- Green New Deal
- High Level Advisory Group on Climate Financing
- Loss and damage (climate change)
- Low-carbon economy
- Marginal abatement cost
- Mesoamerican Society for Ecological Economics
- Pledge and review
- Politics of climate change
- Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal
- Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth
- Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation
- Social metabolism
- Stern Review
- The Green Paradox
- The Hartwell Paper
- Waste valorization
Politics of climate change
- 2019 Oregon Senate Republican walkouts
- 2021 Leaders Summit on Climate
- Alliance of Small Island States
- Attorney General of Virginia's climate science investigation
- BASIC countries
- Break Through (book)
- Climate 200
- Climate Change Accountability Act (Bill C-224)
- Climate Defiance
- Climate Hawks Vote
- Climate Vulnerable Forum
- Climate change denial
- Climate change policy
- Climate security
- East Asia Climate Partnership
- Ecogovernmentality
- Forum of Small States
- Fossil fuels lobby
- Freedom of Information requests to the Climatic Research Unit
- Global stocktake
- Great March for Climate Action
- High Ambition Coalition
- High Council on Climate
- History of climate change policy and politics
- I'm not a scientist
- Individual action on climate change
- Majuro Declaration
- Ministry of Climate Change (Pakistan)
- Pledge and review
- Politics of climate change
- Power Shift (conference)
- Small Island Developing States
- Sunrise Movement
- Talanoa Dialogue
- Teal independents
- Teitiota v Chief Executive Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment
- The Climate Mobilization
- The New Climate War
- The Standing March
- The Vulnerable Twenty Group
- Timeline of international climate politics
- Tipping points in the climate system
- Tobacco industry playbook
- Transatlantic voyages of Greta Thunberg
- Trump administration political interference with science agencies
- Tuvalu and the United Nations
- United Nations Special Envoy on Climate Change
- White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy