4. Glossary – Definitions
Climate change
A sustained and statistically significant change over a given period in the parameters that describe the Earth's global climate. Temperature is one of the parameters most frequently described to illustrate climate change, with successive periods of cooling and warming of the Earth's middle atmosphere over geological and historical time. Currently, climate change evokes the global warming observed in the Earth's atmosphere since the industrial revolution and granted for the IPCC to the evolution of atmospheric CO 2 content.
Climatosceptic (Climate-sceptic)
Given the scientific consensus that the Earth's climate is currently warming, a climate skeptic is anyone who expresses doubts about the relationship between human activity and the observed warming. They...
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Websites
Cliwasec, European project cluster for the climate change/water/safety nexus http://www.cliwasec.eu/home/home.php
CORDEX, Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment for the World Climate Research Programme https://cordex.org/
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Events
COP21 (Conference of Parties 2015) of the United Nations : Paris Climat 2015, France officially named host country of the 21st climate conference in 2015 http://www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/Les-enjeux-de-la-conference- de.html
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European Water Framework Directive no. 2000-60 of December 20, 2000, establishing a framework for water management at the river basin scale.
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