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单词 carbon budget
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carbon budget
carbon budget n. (a) (a record of) the inputs, outputs, and retention of carbon by an organism or ecosystem, forming part of the carbon cycle; (b) the maximum amount of carbon (typically expressed in terms of the equivalent in tons of carbon dioxide) that can be released into the atmosphere over a given period as a result of human activity without causing harmful changes to the climate.In sense (b), such upper limits may be agreed nationally or internationally.
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1950 Ecology 31 107/2 The sizes of populations which will be supported in a marine inshore area are dependent upon the quantities of organic detritus which may serve as food, either directly or by contributing to the total carbon budget.
1989 Independent (Nexis) 5 Aug. 36 Moves are afoot..to call an international conference in 1992 on carbon dioxide emissions and global warming similar to the recent meeting at Montreal on the ozone layer. That could result in each country being allocated a 'carbon budget'.
1997 Ecol. Applic. 7 461/1 In recent years, there has been considerable interest in evaluating the carbon budget of forest ecosystems, due to their important role as carbon sources and sinks.
2019 R. Chris in T. M. Letcher Managing Global Warming ii. 61 There is no combination of plausible policies that would avoid breaching the 1.5°C carbon budget.
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d. Originally: of or relating to carbon metabolism in organisms, and the cycling of carbon compounds in natural ecosystems, to which the photosynthetic fixation of carbon dioxide is central; (in later use also) of or relating to carbon compounds in the atmosphere as associated with climate change (cf. sense 1c); as carbon assimilation, carbon budget, carbon economy, carbon source, carbon storage, etc.
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1890 Polit. Sci. Q. 5 566 Man, the carbon-source, and the cabbage, the oxygen producer, typify two poles of an economic order.
1916 Sci. Monthly Sept. 294 With the simplest bacteria which live directly on the lifeless world we find that most of the fundamental chemical energies of the living world are already established, namely..the protein and carbon storage, the primary food supply of the living world.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1204 The discovery of the process of carbon assimilation (also called photosynthesis)..is an interesting chapter in the history of science.
1957 Bot. Gaz. 121 31/1 A consideration of the carbon economy for the highly efficient utilization of CO2 by these plants.
1967 Water Res. 1 147 The carbon budget concept: a quantitative measure of trophic state.
1989 S. H. Schneider Global Warming (1990) vi. 178 Spruce, fir, and hardwood forests would be replaced ‘by a stunted pine-oak forest of much lower carbon storage’.
1993 N.Y. Times 8 June c4/1 For years, scientists concerned about the environmental effects of burning fossil fuels have tried to balance the global carbon budget.
2002 Kew Winter 4/1 The invasive trees and shrubs that are encroaching onto many areas of natural grassland were thought to be a particularly important carbon sink, helping to balance the nation's ‘carbon budget’.
2002 BusinessWeek 4 Nov. 12/4 Energy and environment broker Natsource is building a carbon ‘bank’. Companies would deposit emissions cuts and get credit for them under various trading plans.
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