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Carbon Reduction: Human interventions to reduce the sources or enhance the sinks of
greenhouse gases.

Climate Change: A change in the state of the climate that is measured as changes in the mean
and/or variability of its properties, and that persists for an extended period.

Climate: What we experience as the day-to-day state of the atmosphere at a particular place and
time regarding heat, rain, wind, cloudiness, humidity etc. is the ‘weather’ and it is recorded at
hourly or daily timeframes. Climate is the weather of a particular place averaged over a period of
time, most often 30 years (though sometimes longer).

Global Warming: The estimated increase in global mean surface temperature averaged over a
30-year period, expressed relative to pre-industrial levels unless otherwise specified

Greenhouse Gas: Gases in the atmosphere, both natural and anthropogenic (human induced), that
radiation and trap the heat from the sun, contributing to the greenhouse effect (the warming of
absorb infrared
Earth’s surface and the air above it).

Resilience: The capacity of social, economic, and environmental systems to cope with a
hazardous event, trend, or disturbance by responding or reorganising in ways that maintain
their essential function, identity, and structure, while also maintaining the capacity for
adaptation, learning, and transformation.

Sea-level rise: The rise of global and local mean sea level caused by the expansion of the ocean
as it warms, and the transfer of water currently stored on land to the ocean, particularly from
melting glaciers and ice sheets. Sea levels are projected to rise disproportionally on a global scale
with regions closest to the equator seeing more rapid and extreme changes. Church et al., 2011a
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