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Embracing Transparency and Accountability: The State of Net Zero
Authored by: Rebecca Berg, Policy Associate, The Climate Registry This is Part 1 of a 2-part series that will dive into the importance of embracing transparency and accountability in the race to achieve net zero. This first piece will cover the current policy landscape and organizations that are leading the way, and Part 2 will […]
Net Zero Conference
The Net Zero Conference is back and better than ever! TCR is proud to partner with Verdical Group for their 10th annual conference and expo, which brings together experts in carbon, climate, equity, ESG, net zero, and resilience. Hosted at the Los Angeles Convention Center on 9/13 – 9/14, 2023, this event will include insightful […]
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Temperature Overshoot
The temporary exceedance of a specified level of global warming, such as 1.5°C. Overshoot implies a peak followed by a decline in global warming, achieved through anthropogenic removal of CO2 exceeding remaining CO2 emissions globally.
Science based
Targets are considered ‘science-based’ if they are in line with what the latest climate science deems necessary to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement – limiting global warming to well-below 2°C above pre industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C, with no or low overshoot.
Reforestation
Planting of forests on lands that have previously contained forests but that have been converted to some other use. For a discussion of the term forest and related terms such as afforestation, reforestation and deforestation, see the IPCC Special Report on Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry (IPCC, 2000), information provided by the United Nations […]
Paris-aligned
Targets are considered ‘Paris-aligned’ if they are in line with what the latest climate science deems necessary to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement – limiting global warming to well-below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C, with no or low overshoot. Refers to mitigation targets of the Paris […]
Like For Like
When a source of emissions and an emissions sink correspond in terms of their warming impact, and in terms of the timescale and durability of carbon storage. For example, fossil carbon is stable in the lithosphere over millennia if it is not extracted and burned, therefore mitigating measures (e.g. offsets) that aim to neutralize the […]
Greenhouse gas/ GHG
Greenhouse gases are those gaseous constituents of the atmosphere, both natural and anthropogenic, that absorb and emit radiation at specific wavelengths within the spectrum of infrared radiation emitted by the Earth’s surface, the atmosphere, and clouds. This property causes the greenhouse effect. Water vapor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2 ), nitrous oxide (N2O), methane (CH4 ), […]
