carbon budget

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɑː.bən ˈbʌdʒɪt/    美 /ˈkɑɹ.bən ˈbʌdʒɪt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. A planning document detailing such caps and their trajectory (e.g., a university’s “2024–2028 carbon budget”). broadly

词形变化

carbon budgets plural

词源

From carbon + budget; widely used in climate science (e.g., IPCC) for the cumulative amount of CO₂ compatible with a given warming limit.
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