- Industry: Broadcasting & receiving
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The largest broadcasting organisation in the world.
The government agency responsible for regulating the energy market in the UK. It describes its purpose as "protecting consumers... by promoting competition... and regulating the monopoly companies which run the gas and electricity networks". Its aims also include curbing climate change by helping energy providers meet environmental goals. There is also a non-governmental equivalent, the consumer watchdog Energywatch.
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A concept that would provide developing countries with a financial incentive to preserve forests. The Copenhagen conference is expected to finalise an international finance mechanism for the post-2012 global climate change framework.
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The Stern report - or the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change - is a 700-page report, written by economist Sir Nicholas Stern for the UK government, and published in October 2006. It discusses the effect of climate change and global warming on the world economy and concludes that global warming could shrink the global economy by 20%, but that immediate action to combat it effectively would cost just 1% of global gross domestic product.
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A report on the economics of climate change led by Lord Nicholas Stern, a former World Bank economist. It was published on 30 October 2006 and argued that the cost of dealing with the consequences of climate change in the future would be higher than taking action to mitigate the problem now.
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An American term for what in the UK tends to be called a 4x4 or four-wheel drive, although in fact not all SUVs are actually four-wheel drive.
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UK CO2 targets are this country's self-imposed goals for reducing carbon dioxide emissions, and go beyond the targets set out in the Kyoto protocol. The Climate Change Bill, which has been passed with amendments by the House of Lords but, as of summer 2008, is not yet law, stipulates a 60% reduction in emissions of CO2 by 2050 and an interim reduction of 26-32% by 2020. The figures are compared to a 1990 baseline. Once the Climate Change Bill is enacted, those targets (or any amendments to them) will become legally binding.
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One of a series of international agreements on global environmental issues adopted at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. The UNFCCC aims to prevent "dangerous" human interference with the climate system. It entered into force on 21 March 1994 and has been ratified by 192 countries.
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Another name for the Boxer-Kerry bill, which aims to reduce US greenhouse gas emissions. See Boxer-Kerry bill.
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The industrialised countries (and countries in transition to a market economy) which took on obligations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. Their combined emissions, averaged out during the 2008-2012 period, should be 5.2% below 1990 levels.
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Countries which have a special obligation under the Kyoto Protocol to provide financial resources and transfer technology to developing countries. This group is a sub-section of the Annex I countries, excluding those that, in 1992, were in transition from centrally planned to a free market economy.
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