Glossary

Get to know the crucial terminology needed to understand ClimateOS and to follow the global climate discussion.

• Baseline Emissions and Inventory
• Baseline Emissions and Inventory (in ClimateView)
• Baseline Settings
• Bottom-up emissions calculation (in ClimateView)
• Carbon Neutrality
• Carbon Reporting
• CO2 - Carbon Dioxide
• CO2e - Carbon Dioxide Equivalent
• Cohorts
• Consumption-based emissions
• Desired future state (DFS)
• Electricity
• Emissions abatement
• Emissions budget
• Emission factors
• Emissions Trajectory
• Energy
• Energy intensities
• Greenhouse effect
• Greenhouse gases
• Greenhouse Gas Protocol (for cities)
• Increasing efficiency
• Kanban
• Linear extrapolation
• Mitigation
• Net-zero
• Estimated value
• Offsetting
• Operations
• Paris Agreement
• Polluter pays principle
• Reducing (Transition elements)
• Reference scenario
• Saved emissions
• Science based targets
• Shifting mechanism
• Shifting resource
• Target Stretch
• Transition element
• Transitioned emissions