Arquivos: Glossário

Improvement in technology that allows for more output created by the same amount of inputs.

The exchange of knowledge, hardware and associated software, money and goods among stakeholders, which leads to the spread of technology for adaptation or mitigation. The term encompasses both diffusion of technologies and technological cooperation across and within countries.

Movement of the Earth’s crust resulting in the formation of ocean basins, continents, plateaus, and mountain ranges.

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. See also Overshoot pathways and Non-overshoot pathways (both under Pathways).

An appliction to appropriate or change water which, if approved, is good for one year.

A form of co-ownership of property by two or more persons in undivided interest.

See Lyocell.

Tenement is a unit in an aging apartment complex or building, also a legal term for a property or fixed asset.

Costs that can and should be anticipated during the production periods prior to closure of an operating asset.

The end moraine extending across a glacial plain or valley as an arcuate or crescent ridge that marks the farthest advance or maximum extent of a glacier.