Glossary

Process or action of adjusting to different circumstances or conditions as a result of a changing climate.

Aid adaptation decision processes; evaluate the tool's effectiveness and efficiency, including which policy cycle stage it can be used in.

Share climate adaptation-specific knowledge increasingly through Web 2.0 functionality and user-generated content.

Assess broad mitigation options such as CO2 emissions reduction and renewable energy resource potentials such as wind energy.

Also known as green energy or renewable energy; comes from natural and sustainable resources, such as sunlight, wind, and geothermal heat.

Conventional map overlaid with colours representing climate zones; identifies prevailing weather patterns throughout the world or a specific region.

Tackles climatic uncertainties, enhances adaptive capacity and addresses poverty and vulnerability and their structural causes.

Estimated/projected costs to develop, manage and and maintain a project or programme.

Generally refers to the efforts of policymakers and communities to promote the standard of living and economic health in a specific area.

Includes all living organisms in an area as well as its physical environment functioning together as a unit

Facts, statistics or other information relating to various forms of energy, gathered through study and analysis.

To develop energy predictions and generate sectoral and regional projections on various energy scenarios.

Process of creating and manufacturing various types of energy, from sourcing to the sale of the end product.

Supply and demand of energy (both renewable and non-renewable) and the infrastructure needed to supply and use this energy.

Access to sufficient amounts of safe and nutritious food for normal growth and development and a healthy life.

Discharge of harmful gases into the atmosphere which are the main cause of the greenhouse effect.

Reducing the amount of harmful Green House Gas (GHG) emissions discharged into the earth's atmosphere.

Assessing the consequences of potential policy options.

To supply information and data to users, for example information about climate data or climate policy.

 Share specific knowledge with users

People’s capabilities, assets and income required to secure the necessities of life.

Use of low carbon energies such as solar power and wind power instead of high carbon energies (fossil fuels), such as petroleum and coal.

Plans/methods to effect measures that can help reduce emissions, and thereby mitigate climate change.

Human intervention to reduce the extent of climate change, including strategies to reduce greenhouse gas sources and emissions.

Represents the essential features of a (complex) problem.

 Harmful substance or product released into the environment or atmosphere.

To help policy makers and planners to go through and complete the required steps of a process.

Gather and analyse information to support a project that makes use of available resources, to achieve the expected results.

A mathematical model to forecast the weather, understand the climate, and project the likely climate change of a specific geographical region.

Systems and methods of producing renewable energy including hyro, solar, wind, geothermal power and biofuels.

Information, facts, and statistics relating to resources.

Analytical process of identifying possible risks involved, known as risk indicators.

Virtual/physical space for different stakeholders to come together to share information, needs, concerns and approaches to achieving an end goal.

Meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Survey to provide data to assess the need for technology in specific areas or regions.

A term used to describe something which is clear, easy to use, and requires little or no training.