The Hindu Editorial (Green over brown) – Dec 15, 2020

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Today’s word list-1 for The Hindu Editorial (Green over brown) – Dec 15, 2020:

on track (phrase) – on course, on target.
sustainable (adjective) – reasonable, sensible, well founded (without disturbing the balance of nature and then without exhausting all of natural resources).
assert (verb) – declare, announce, pronounce, state.
virtual (adjective) – performing a task with the use of computer, especially over a network.
summit (noun) – meeting, conference, conclave.
Climate Ambition Summit, 2020 (noun) – Co-convened by the United Nations, United Kingdom, and France, in partnership with Chile and Italy, the world’s most ambitious climate leaders met on 12th Dec 2020 (at the 5th Anniversary of the Paris Agreement in the build-up to 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow) to make new commitments to tackle climate change and deliver on the goals of the Paris Agreement.
co-convene (verb) – to arrange/organize jointly an official meeting for a group of people to come together for some public purpose.
mark (verb) – indicate, represent, signify, signalize.
Paris Agreement/Accord (noun) – The Paris Agreement builds upon the Convention (agreement) and for the first time brings all nations into a common cause to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change and adapt to its effects, with enhanced support to assist developing countries to do so. The Paris Agreement central aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
(well) on one’s way (phrase) – if you are on your way or well on your way to something, you have made so much progress that you are almost certain to achieve that thing.
pledge (noun) – promise, undertaking, oath, agreement, assurance.
outline (verb) – define, delineate; indicate, summarize.
rest on (phrasal verb) – be based on, depend on, be dependent on, rely on.
primarily (adverb) – basically, especially, particularly.
Gross domestic product (GDP) (noun) – a measure of economic activity in a country. It is the total value of a country’s annual output of goods and service.
renewable energy (noun) – clean energy, green energy; energy generated from the natural resources (such as water, wind & solar energy).
indeed (adverb) – in fact, actually, undeniably.
Emissions Gap Report 2020 (noun) – this report assesses the gap between estimated future global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions if countries implement their climate mitigation pledges and the global emission levels from least-cost pathways that are aligned with achieving the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement. This difference between “where we are likely to be and where we need to be” is known as the ‘emissions gap’.
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) (noun) – the UNEP is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system, and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment.
The Group of Twenty (G20) (noun) – The Group of Twenty (G20) is the premier international forum for global economic cooperation. The members of the G20 are: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, and the European Union. G20 members account for 85 per cent of the world economy, 75 per cent of global trade, and two-thirds of the world’s population, including more than half of the world’s poor.
unconditional (adjective) – unquestioning, unlimited, unrestricted; complete, total, obsolute, unequivocal, categorical (without limitations/conditions).
projection (noun) – forecast, prediction, calculation.
bloc (noun) – alliance, association, union.
as a whole (phrase) – as a group.
greenhouse gas (GHGs) (noun) – heat trapping gas; a gas (such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, etc.) in the atmosphere that absorbs and emits radiation, causing greenhouse effect and warming of Earth’s temperature. (Courtesy: VOA Learning English).
brief (adjective) – short, quick; temporary, impermanent.
bring about (phrase) – cause, produce, give rise to.
pandemic (noun) – the worldwide spread of a new disease; The illness spreads around the world and typically affects a large number of people across a wide area.
trajectory (noun) – track/course, route, path, direction, approach.
unprecedented (adjective) – not done or experienced before.
enable (verb) – allow, permit, facilitate.
deploy (verb) – use, utilize, employ.
extraordinary (adjective) – very great, considerable, tremendous, huge.
fiscal stimulus (noun) – Government measures, normally involving increased public spending and lower taxation, aimed at giving a positive jolt to economic activity.
rehabilitation (noun) – the action of bringing (someone or something) back to a normal.
green (adjective) – environmentally friendly, ecologically sound, energy-efficient.
possibility (noun) – feasibility, practicability, achievability; chance, option.
brown (adjective) – relating to fossil fuels (non-renewable resources such as coal, oil and natural gas).
align (verb) – join/unite, combine, team up.
fossil fuel (noun) – non renewable resources (or fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas are formed from the buried/deposited organic materials).
credit (noun) – praise, commendation, acclaim, acknowledgement.
carbon sink (noun) – also known as carbon sequestration; a natural environment (forest or reservoir) which absorbs and stores carbon (greenhouse gases) from the atmosphere and thereby maintain a balance. (carbon sequestration is the process by which the forest removes and stores carbon from the atmosphere).
given (preposition) – considering, taking into account, bearing in mind.
biodiversity (noun) – the existence of a number and variety of species (plants & animals) in a particular geographic region/environment.
influence (verb) – affect, have an effect on.
fraught with (adjective) – full of, filled with, loaded with.
uncertainty (noun) – unpredictability, unreliability, riskiness/precariousness.
veracity (noun) – truthfulness, accuracy, correctness.
afforestation (noun) – the effort to plant trees in barren (unproductive) lands so as to create a forest.
deem (verb) – regard as, consider; view as.
credible (adjective) – believable, acceptable, reasonable, convincing.
cohesive (adjective) – united, integrated, cooperated; adhering.
verifiable (adjective) – valid, correct; provable, confirmable, supportable, sustainable.
yield (verb) – give, provide, produce.
dividend (noun) – benefit, advantage, gain.
hang (over) (verb) – linger, remain static, be poised, hover.
steep (adjective) – sharp, sudden, rapid.
scale-up (noun) – increase.
unlock (noun as modifier) – a process of freeing something from restrictions.
pedestrianisation (noun) – it can be defined as to restrict vehicle access to a street or area for exclusive use of pedestrians.
climate change (noun) – a long-term change in the Earth’s climate, or of a region on Earth (Courtesy: NASA).