Ecosystem Services:
‘Ecosystem services are the benefits provided by ecosystems that contribute to making human life both possible and worth living. Examples of ecosystem services include products such as food and water, regulation of floods, soil erosion and disease outbreaks, and non-material benefits such as recreational and spiritual benefits in natural areas.’ see http://uknea.unep-wcmc.org/EcosystemAssessmentConcepts/EcosystemServices/tabid/103/Default.aspx
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change:
The United Nations body for assessing the science on Climate Change.
International Energy Agency:
Paris-based autonomous intergovernmental organisation established in the framework of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in 1974. Its role now includes recommending policies that enhance the reliability, affordability and sustainability of energy.
‘Ordinary People’:
People who don’t have exceptional access to political or economic power; people who are not in government and who aren’t so wealthy or so well-connected that they have the ear of government. (Article 1 ‘Living hopefully in 2022’).
‘Overwhelm’:
A panicky sense that ‘there’s nothing I can do about climate change: it’s just too big for me’.
(Article 1 ‘Living hopefully in 2022’).
Pre-industrial Levels:
The reference period 1850-1900 used by the IPCC to represent pre-industrial temperature.
UK National Ecosystem Assessment:
‘Was the first analysis of the UK’s natural environment in terms of the benefits it provides to society and continuing economic prosperity. Published June 2011 by UKNEA http://uknea.unep-wcmc.org/About/WhosInvolved/tabid/63/Default.aspx