carbon budget (English, noun)
expansion: carbon budget (plural carbon budgets)
Senses:
topics: climatology
natural-sciences
glosses: 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.
topics: management
qualifier: policy
glosses: 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.
glosses: A planning document detailing such caps and their trajectory (e.g., a university’s “2024–2028 carbon budget”).
tags: broadly
Forms:
form: carbon budgets
tags: plural