carbon budget

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carbon budget (plural carbon budgets)

  1. The maximum amount of cumulative anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions that result in limiting global warming to a given level with a given probability.
    Synonym: emissions budget
    • 2019 January 25, 4:09 from the start, in Our House is on Fire‎[1], spoken by Greta Thunberg, Davos, Graubünden, Switzerland: World Economic Forum:
      People are not aware that there is such a thing as a carbon budget, and just how incredible small that remaining carbon budget is.
    • 2022 August 22, Phoebe Weston, “England’s housing strategy would blow entire carbon budget, says study”, in The Guardian‎[2]:
      The building of new homes under a business as usual scenario, coupled with current trends on making existing homes more efficient, would mean the housing system would use up 104% of the country’s cumulative carbon budget by 2050.

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