A Quick Guide to Climate Change Jargon
As a major U.N. climate conference gets underway, you’ll be hearing a lot of technical terms tossed around: mitigation, carbon neutral, sustainable development. The language can feel overwhelming.
“It sounds like you’re talking over people,” one person said of the terminology during a recent study colleagues and I conducted through the USC Dornsife Public Exchange.
Climate reports are often written at a scientific level. So we thought it would be helpful to clarify some of the most common terms.