Climate driver · Rationale

Greenhouse gas

Gaseous constituent of the atmosphere, both natural and anthropogenic, that absorbs and re-emits infrared radiation and thereby contributes to warming of the lower atmosphere; the principal agricultural gases are carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide.

Definition source: IPCC AR6 WGI

Synonyms

GHG

Broader

Top concept of the scheme

Narrower

Carbon dioxide, Methane, Nitrous oxide

Counts as adaptation

Not an adaptation term.

Mitigation

Mitigation-specific

Provenance

Lexicon consensus

Identifier

CDI_01 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/CDI_01
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/CDI_01)