Climate Compatible Development Thesaurus
Explore climate compatible development terms including mapped links to synonyms and related terms, in five languages and across a range of sectors relevant for climate compatible development. More info on the Thesaurus is available at: https://www.climatetagger.net/climate-thesaurus
- AA1000
- AA1000SES
- abatement costs
- abatement technologies
- absorbent glass mat batteriesElectrolytes are absorbed by a mat. It is an uncomplicated way to transport electrolytes.
- absorption
- absorption air conditioningAbsorption air conditioning is a kind of solar air conditioning.
- absorption refrigeratorsAbsorption refrigerators use heat instead of electricity as a source of energy.
- absorption storage
- abuse of dominanceThe action of a company to take advantage of a position of market strength so that it cannot be effectively challenged though competition. This relates to monopolisation and acts to reduce welfare within the market, driving up costs to the consumer.
- access to funding for energy efficiency
- access to low interest finance
- access to water
- accessing climate change information
- accountabilityAccountability is the responsibility for the use of resources and the decisions made, as well as the obligation to demonstrate that work has been done in compliance with agreed-upon rules and standards and to report fairly and accurately on performance results vis-a-vis mandated roles and/or ...
- accounting for REDD
- accumulators
- acoustic televiewers
- action-oriented methods
- active conditioning systems
- active cooling
- active networksDistribution networks traditionally are passively managed. Active management enables generators and customers to connect more easily; allow greater interaction between utilities and customers and provide incentives to consumers and generators to act more efficiently both in the short and ...
- active solar energiesActive solar energy technologies convert sunlight into space heating, hot water or electricity by utilizing an energy transfer fluid such as water or air.
- active solar heating
- activity schedule
- adaptability of clean technology
- adaptation actors
- adaptation analysis
- adaptation co-benefitsCo-benefits that come along with climate change adaptation projects.
- adaptation costsCosts of planning, preparing for, facilitating, and implementing adaptation measures, including transition costs (UNFCCC, 2014)
- adaptation decision making
- adaptation financeFinancial assistance given to a country, community or individual for an explicit climate adaptation project.
- adaptation for food securityA situation that exists when people have secure access to sufficient amounts
of safe and nutritious food for normal growth, development and an active
and healthy life. Food insecurity may be caused by the unavailability of
food, insufficient purchasing power, inappropriate distribution, or ...
- Adaptation Framework
- adaptation fund
- adaptation measures
- adaptation monitoring and evaluationIn the context of adaptation to climate change, effectiveness, equity and efficiency of adaptation interventions is of great importance. M&E is essential to ensure that the prospective benefits of interventions are being released and to help improve the design of future interventions.
- adaptation options
- adaptation practitioners
- adaptation projectsDifferent projects are implemented to adapt to anthropogenic climate change.
- adaptation to droughtA period of abnormally dry weather long enough to cause a serious hydrological imbalance. Drought is a relative term, therefore any discussion in terms of precipitation deficit must refer to the particular precipitation-related activity that is under discussion. For example, shortage of ...
- adaptation to floodssee flooding
- adaptation to variability
- adaptation to vulnerability
- adaptation wizardAdaptation Wizard takes you through a process to determine your vulnerability to climate change, identify your key climate risks, and develop a climate change adaptation strategy. It is also a guide to all of UKCIP's information, tools and resources. (UKCIP)
- adaptations
- adaptations taken
- adaptive capacityInherent capacity of a system or population to adjust to climate climate impacts or climate change, to moderate potential damages, exploit opportunities, and cope with the consequences. (UKCIP)The combination of the strengths, attributes, and resources available to
an individual, community, ...
- adaptive deep discharge protection
- adaptive protectionThe use of adjustable protective relay settings (e.g., current, voltage, feeders, and equipment) that can change in real time based on signals from local sensors or a central control system. This is particularly useful for feeder transfers and two-way power flow issues associated with high ...
- adaptive social protectionASP includes measures to strengthen resilience of the poorest and most vulnerable people to climate change with elements of social protection, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in programs and projects. (Eldis)
- ADB Draft Risk Screening ToolThe Project Risk Screening Tool is a user-friendly, desk-top (web- and paper-based) risk screening tool pilot. Through reliance on pre-determined impacts, risk factors (tables), and assumptions, this checklist alerts project officers and mission leaders to potential climate-induced and ...
- additionalityAdditionality refers to the near-impossibility of predicting what might have happened in the absence of the REDD project. (redd-monitor.org)
- adjacent balancing authority
- adjustments in capital stocks
- adopting community-based forest management
- adoption of mitigation measures
- adsorption
- advanced interrupting switches
- advanced metering infrastructure
- advanced transmission applications
- advice in implementation
- advisory capacity building
- aerobic digestionAerobic gasification is a process performed by microorganisms under the influence of oxygen.
- aerogels
- aerosolsA collection of airborne solid or liquid particles, with a typical size between 0.01 and 10 micrometer (a millionth of a meter) that reside in the atmosphere for at least several hours. Aerosols may be of either natural or anthropogenic origin. Aerosols may influence climate in several ways: ...
- afforestationThe establishment of a forest by artificial methods, by planting or seeding on land where trees have not historically grown (at least not for 50 years). Planting of new forests on lands that have not contained forests before, originally for hunting.
- AFOLU
- agenda 21
- aggregated indicators
- agricultural adaptation options
- agricultural biomassBiomass originating from agricultural activities, either as energy crops or by-products.
- agricultural economic models
- agricultural GDP losses
- agricultural policies
- agricultural production losses
- agricultural trade
- agricultural waste
- agricultureCultivation of the ground and harvesting of crops and handling of livestock, the primary function is the provision of food and feed.
- agriculture capital stock
- agro-commodity markets
- agro-processing sub-sectors
- agronomic dataData concerned with the application of the various soil and plant sciences to soil management and crop production
- aid in implementation
- air collectors
- air conditioningair conditioning/cooling is the process of altering the properties of air (primarily temperature and humidity) to more comfortable conditions, typically with the aim of distributing the conditioned air to an occupied space to improve thermal comfort and indoor air quality.
- air density
- air oxygen ratio
- air pollution
- air preheatersAn air-preheater is a device designed to heat air before another process in order to increase thermal efficiency.
They are often found in large boilers in thermal power stations producing electric power.
- air pressure difference tests
- air temperature
- air temperature in boilers
- air turbines
- air-heating
- air-source
- air-water evaporatorsThe evaporator is the device where the working fluid of a heat cycle is vaporized before giving off its energy.
- air-water heat pumpsAir-water heat pumps absorb heat from the (exhaust-) air and transmits this energy to the water in the cycle.
- aircraftThe principal determinant of fuel consumption in aircraft is drag.
- albedo feedbackClimate feedback involving changes in the Earth’s albedo. It usually refers to changes in the cryosphere which has an albedo much larger (~0.8) than the average planetary albedo (~0.3). In a warming climate, it is anticipated that the cryosphere would shrink, the Earth’s overall albedo ...
- alcoholic fermentation
- aldehydesA component of the noxious mixture of air pollutants in photochemical smog.
- alkaline fuel cells
- Alliance of Small Island StatesAn ad hoc coalition of low-lying and island countries. These nations are particularly vulnerable to rising sea levels and share common positions on climate change. The 43 members and observers are American Samoa, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cape Verde, Comoros, Cook Islands, ...
- allocation of allowancesonce allowances are set, they are allocated according to the rules of the trading system being operated within - examples of allocation include EU's allocation via 'free allocation' and auctioning
- allocation of emissions creditsTo start the emission trading system emission credits were given away as an allocation.
- alternative fuelsMaterials or substances other than conventional fossil fuels or nuclear materials which may be burned in order to generate energy.
- aluminiumAluminium is extracted from bauxite ore with considerable deployment of electricity.
- aluminum industry
- amenity values
- ammonia
- amorphous cellsAmorphous cells are semi-conductors with an irregular lattice structure.
- amount of adaptation
- anaerobic digestionAnaerobic gasification is a process performed by microorganisms in the absence of oxygen.
- analysis of adaptation options
- ancillary serviceA range of services necessary to the efficient running of the electricity system which are outside the basic needs of energy, generating capacity, and power delivery. Some of these (such as regulation and reactive power) are required during normal operations to maintain the necessary balance ...
- ancillary services revenue
- anemometers
- angle ironA length of steel or iron bent at a right angle along its long dimension, used as a support or structural framework.
- animal remains
- annual emissions increase
- annual fuel utilization efficiency
- annual reports
- annual work-plan
- antarctic ecosystem
- anthropogenic climate changeHuman activities are adding greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, to the atmosphere, which are enhancing the natural greenhouse effect. While the natural greenhouse effect is keeping average temperature on earth at about +15°C, this enhanced greenhouse effect ...
- anthropogenic climate change causesMost climate scientists agree the main cause of the current global warming trend is human expansion of the 'greenhouse effect' - warming that results when the atmosphere traps heat radiating from Earth toward space. Certain gases in the atmosphere block heat from escaping. Long-lived gases, ...
- anthropogenic emissionsEmissions of greenhouse gases, greenhouse gas precursors, and aerosols
associated with human activities. These activities include the burning of
fossil fuels, deforestation, land use changes, livestock, fertilization, etc.,
that result in a net increase in emissions. (IPCC-SREX, 2014)
- anti-freeze protection
- anticipatory adaptationAnticipatory adaptation takes place before impacts of climate change are observed. (UKCIP)
- API methane inventoryGHG emissions per unit of activity data (WRI, 2013)
- appraisal toolsThe process of examining options (and the tools used to do so in an evaulation environment) and assessing their relative merits. It is normally used to describe analysis prior to mplementation. See evaluation. (UKCIP, 2013)
- appropriate technology
- aquatic foods
- aquifer storage tanks
- arable land
- arch damsArch dams are a construction type of dams where stability is obtained by a combination of arch and gravity action.
- archimedes screws
- arctic ecosystem
- ashAsh is the incombustible part of the fuel that remains after combustion.
- Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development
- asphalt-concrete core damsThis type of embankment dam is built with asphalt concrete core. The majority of such dams are built with rock and/or gravel as the main fill material. Almost 100 dams of this design have now been built worldwide since the first such dam was completed in 1962. All asphalt-concrete core dams ...
- assessment of the status quobaseline, monetary indicators
- assessment using climate change expertise
- assessments
- Assigned Amount UnitAn Assigned Amount Unit (AAU) is a tradable 'Kyoto unit' or 'carbon credit' representing an allowance to emit greenhouse gases comprising one metric tonne of carbon dioxide equivalents calculated using their Global Warming Potential. Assigned Amount Units are issued up to the level of initial ...
- assigned amount units
- assumptionsAssumptions are hypotheses about factors or risks which could affect the progress or success of an intervention. Intervention results depend on whether or not the assumptions made, prove to be correct. (Glossary Monitoring and Evaluation Terms; MERG Monitoring & Evaluation Reference Group and ...
- asynchronous generatorsA three-phase winding is integrated into the fixed stator which induces a voltage in the rotary rotor. This can be performed either without electronic ports (short-circuited rotor) or with electronic ports (slip-ring rotor).
- atmosphere ocean general circulation models
- atmospheric general circulation models
- attributable processes
- attributionsAttribution is the ascription of a causal link between observed changes and a specific intervention. (Glossary Monitoring and Evaluation Terms; MERG Monitoring & Evaluation Reference Group and UNAIDS)
- auditingAn audit is an independent, objective quality assurance activity designed to add value and improve an organization’s operations. It helps an organization accomplish its objectives by bringing a systematic, disciplined approach to assess and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control ...
- automated capacitors
- automated distribution circuit switches
- automated feeder and line switching
- automated islanding and reconnection
- automated voltage and var control
- automated voltage regulators
- automatic active solar trackersAn automatically active solar tracker uses a sensor to collimate the station towards the optimum power point with help of a sun path diagram and the collimation towards the brightest point on the sky.
- automatic ventsAn opening permitting the escape of fumes, a liquid, a gas, or steam.
- autonomous adaptationAutonomous adaptation is triggered by changes in natural systems, and by market or welfare changes in human systems. (UKCIP)
- availability of low interest creditA rate/fee at which a borrower pays for the use of money that they borrowed from a lender which is a low rate (UNFCCC, 2014)
- average electricity tariffsThe average price paid by consumers over the course of one year. It is significant in that it will often be the base for the setting of tariffs paid under Tariff Mechanisms. SERN, 2010
- average solar radiationThe yearly average at a certain place over a certain period of time, for example in Central Europe the average radiation is 1000 W per square meter.
- avoided deforestation
- awareness creation
- axial turbines
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