carbon budget en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈkɑː.bən ˈbʌdʒɪt/ (UK)
- (US) audio
- /ˈkɑɹ.bən ˈbʌdʒɪt/ (US)
Etymology
From carbon + budget; widely used in climate science (e.g., IPCC) for the cumulative amount of CO₂ compatible with a given warming limit.
Meanings
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The maximum cumulative amount of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions compatible with a given global-warming target (e.g., 1.5 °C), for a stated probability and from a stated baseline date.
People are not aware that there is such a thing as a carbon budget, and just how incredibly small that remaining carbon budget is.
2019 January 25, 4:09 from the start, in Our House is on Fire, spoken by Greta Thunberg, Davos, Graubünden, Switzerland: World Economic Forum:
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(qualifier:policy) An emissions cap or allocation set for a period (year, multi-year, etc.) for a country, organisation, sector, or project so as to follow a target trajectory.
The building of new homes under a business-as-usual scenario … would mean the housing system would use up 104% of the country’s cumulative carbon budget by 2050.
2022 August 22, Phoebe Weston, “England’s housing strategy would blow entire carbon budget, says study”, in The Guardian:
- (broadly) A planning document detailing such caps and their trajectory (e.g., a university’s “2024–2028 carbon budget”).
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| carbon budgets | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
national carbon budget · remaining carbon budget · personal carbon budget · sectoral carbon budget
Relateds
budget carbone · Carbon budget
Synonyms
emissions budget · emissions cap
Translations (7)
fr budget carbone (cumulative emissions compatible with a target) · de Kohlenstoffbudget (cumulative emissions compatible with a target) · it bilancio del carbonio (cumulative emissions compatible with a target) · pt orçamento de carbono (cumulative emissions compatible with a target) · de CO₂-Budget (cumulative emissions compatible with a target) · nl koolstofbudget (cumulative emissions compatible with a target) · es presupuesto de carbono (cumulative emissions compatible with a target)