Abatement
Adaptation
Australian Community
Climate and Earth System
Simulator (ACCESS)
Air source heat pump
Australian carbon credit
units (ACCUS)
Basal melting
Black system event
Broadacre cropping
Carbon dioxide (CO)
Carbon dioxide equivalent
(CO-e)
Carbon Neutral
Carbon sink
Carryover
Emissions reductions as a result of an action. For example the adoption of a
policy or measure.
Climate models
An adjustment in natural or human social or economic systems in response
to actual or expected climate change. The adjustment aims to reduce the
harmful impacts or seek beneficial opportunities of climate change.
A weather and climate modelling system. It provides short term and seasonal
forecasts and climate projections. Developed in Australia by the Bureau
of Meteorology, CSIRO and universities it builds on other forecast models
including the United Kingdom Met Office Unified Model.
Carbon capture and storage A technology to capture and store greenhouse gas emissions from energy
production or industrial processes. Captured greenhouse gases have the
potential to be stored in a variety of geological sites.
An energy efficient heating and cooling system which transfers heat from
outside to inside a building, or vice versa.
Units issued by the Clean Energy Regulator representing one tonne of
carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO-e) stored or avoided by Emissions Reduction
Fund projects.
Basal melting of ice shelves is a natural process where heat from ocean water
melts the underside of the ice shelf.
Extreme events that disrupt the electricity system and result in a significant
part of the electricity grid suffering a total shutdown.
Used in Australia to describe farms or industries engaged in the production
of grains, oilseeds and other crops (especially wheat, barley, peas, sorghum,
maize, hemp, safflower and sunflower) on a large scale.
A naturally occurring gas and a by-product of burning fossil fuels and
biomass, as well as land-use changes and other industrial processes. It is
the principal anthropogenic greenhouse gas responsible for increasing the
earth's temperature.
A standard measure to take account of the different global warming potential
of different greenhouse gases and expresses the cumulative effect in a
common unit.
Reducing emissions