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'''Greenland ice sheet:''' The Greenland ice sheet is a vast body of ice covering 1,710,000 square kilometres, roughly 79% of the surface of Greenland. It is the second largest ice body in the world, after the Antarctic ice sheet.
'''Greenland ice sheet:''' The Greenland ice sheet is a vast body of ice covering 1,710,000 square kilometers, roughly 79% of the surface of Greenland. It is the second largest ice body in the world, after the Antarctic ice sheet.
'''Greenhouse gases:''' The six greenhouse gases covered by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Kyoto Protocol are: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydroflurocarbons, perflurocarbons and sulphar hexafluoride.
'''Greenhouse gases:''' The six greenhouse gases covered by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Kyoto Protocol are: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydroflurocarbons, perflurocarbons and sulphar hexafluoride.
'''Indigenous people''': An official definition of “indigenous” has not been adopted by any UN-system body. According to common definition, however, indigenous people are the descendants of those who inhabited a country or a geographical region at the time when people of different cultures or ethnic origins arrived. The new arrivals later became dominant through conquest, occupation, settlement or other means. It is estimated that there are more than 370 million indigenous people spread across 70 countries worldwide<ref>[https://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/5session_factsheet1.pdf UN Who are Indigenous people?]</ref>.
'''Indigenous people''': An official definition of “indigenous” has not been adopted by any UN-system body. According to common definition, however, indigenous people are the descendants of those who inhabited a country or a geographical region at the time when people of different cultures or ethnic origins arrived. The new arrivals later became dominant through conquest, occupation, settlement or other means. It is estimated that there are more than 370 million indigenous people spread across 70 countries worldwide<ref>[https://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/5session_factsheet1.pdf UN Who are Indigenous people?]</ref>.
'''Industrial Revolution''': In modern history, the Industrial Revolution was the process of change from a farming and handcraft based economy, to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing, during the 18th and 19th centuries
'''Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)''': An intergovernmental body of the United Nations that provides objective scientific information on human-induced climate change, its natural, political, and economic impacts and risks, and possible response options.
'''Low carbon''': Causing or resulting in only a relatively small net release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
'''Mitigation''': The action of reducing the severity, seriousness, or painfulness of something.
'''Nationally determined contributions (NDC)''': Nationally determined contributions (INDC) are intended reductions in greenhouse gas emissions under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
'''Negative emissions''': Negative emissions is one of the terms used for activities that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
'''Paris Agreement''': The Paris Agreement is a legally binding international treaty on climate change, adopted in 2015.
'''Pollution''': The presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance which has harmful or poisonous effects. Pollution can be created by human activity, for example rubbish in the oceans or chemical run-off from agriculture.
'''Scientific Revolution''': A change in thought that took place during the 16th and 17th centuries. During this time, science became its own discipline, distinct from philosophy and technology.
By the end of this period, science had replaced Christianity as the focal point of European civilization.
'''Temperature translations: Degrees Celsius (°C) to Fahrenheit (°F)''':
1.0°C = 1.8°F
1.2°C = 2.6°F
1.5°C = 2.7°F
2°C = 3.6°F
2.5°C = 4.4°F
3°C = 5.4°F
3.5°C = 6.2°F
4°C = 7.2°F
4.5°C = 8.1°F
5°C = 8.8°F
6°C = 10.8°F