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  2. Climate change adaptation - Wikipedia

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    Even if greenhouse gas emissions are stopped relatively soon, global warming and its effects will last many years. This is due to the inertia of the climate system. So both carbon neutrality ("net zero") and adaptation are necessary. [21] The Global Goal on Adaptation was also established under the Paris Agreement.

  3. Climatic adaptation - Wikipedia

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    Climatic adaptations limits to adaptations that have been established, characterizing species that live within the specific climate. It is different from climate change adaptations which refers to the ability to adapt to gradual changes of a climate. Once a climate has changed, the climate change adaptation that led to the survival of the ...

  4. Urdu Dictionary Board - Wikipedia

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    The Urdu Dictionary Board (Urdu: اردو لغت بورڈ, romanized: Urdu Lughat Board) is an academic and literary institution of Pakistan, administered by National History and Literary Heritage Division of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. Its objective is to edit and publish a comprehensive dictionary of the Urdu language.

  5. Climate change - Wikipedia

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    In the 1980s, the terms global warming and climate change became more common, often being used interchangeably. [29] [30] [31] Scientifically, global warming refers only to increased surface warming, while climate change describes both global warming and its effects on Earth's climate system, such as precipitation changes. [28]

  6. Glossary of climate change - Wikipedia

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    Also called global warming denial. climate change feedback A natural phenomenon that may increase or decrease the warming that eventually results from a change in radiative forcing. climate change mitigation approaches to limit global warming, primarily by the substitution of fossil fuels with low-carbon sources of energy climate commitment How much future warming is "committed", even if ...

  7. List of abbreviations relating to climate change - Wikipedia

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    MCC - Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Berlin; MPGCA - Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action; MoCC - Ministry of Climate Change (Pakistan) MoEFCC - Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (India) MOP1 - 1st Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (28 November - 9 December 2005)

  8. Climate change mitigation - Wikipedia

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    With 21% of global methane emissions, cattle are a major driver of global warming. [ 225 ] : 6 When rainforests are cut and the land is converted for grazing, the impact is even higher. In Brazil, producing 1 kg of beef can result in the emission of up to 335 kg CO 2 -eq. [ 226 ] Other livestock, manure management and rice cultivation also emit ...

  9. Ecosystem-based adaptation - Wikipedia

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    Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) describes a variety of approaches for adapting to climate change, all of which involve the management of ecosystems to reduce the vulnerability of human communities to the impacts of climate change such as storm and flood damage to physical assets, coastal erosion, salinisation of freshwater resources, and loss of agricultural productivity.