Climate driver · Rationale

Carbon dioxide

Greenhouse gas released by respiration, combustion of carbon-bearing fuels, and land-use change, and the reference gas against which the warming effect of other gases is measured.

Definition source: IPCC AR6 WGI

Synonyms

CO₂

Broader

Greenhouse gas

Narrower

none

Counts as adaptation

Not an adaptation term.

Mitigation

Mitigation-specific

Provenance

Lexicon consensus

Identifier

CDI_02 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/CDI_02
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/CDI_02)