Carbon dioxide equivalent

Metric that expresses the warming effect of a quantity of greenhouse gas as the mass of carbon dioxide with the same global warming potential.

Definition source: IPCC

Synonyms: CO2e, CO2-equivalent
Broader: Top concept of the scheme
Narrower: none
Counts as adaptation: Not an adaptation term.
Mitigation: Mitigation-specific
Provenance: Lexicon consensus
Identifier: CCC_15 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/CCC_15
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/CCC_15)