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An aim to achieve a quantifiable outcome within a given time-frame, set by an institution such as a national government.

Policy instruments are techniques or tools used by governing authorities to promote certain policies in order to achieve predetermined goals. Put simply, instruments are how a government tries to achieve its goals, with this taxonomy being focused on national policy instruments.

Risk is the potential for adverse consequences resulting from the dynamic interplay between (climate-related) hazards, exposure, and vulnerability of affected human or ecological systems.

Groups  of people who are adversely affected by climate change or the response to it

A set of principles, processes, and practices that build economic and political power to shift from an extractive economy to a regenerative economy.

Renewable energy means all forms of energy produced from renewable sources in a sustainable manner.

Fossil fuel is a generic term for non-renewable energy sources such as coal, fossil gas, and oil (including crude oil, and petroleum products), that can be used for electricity and heat generation. Fossil fuels are hydrocarbons formed from pressurised and heated organic material buried over millions of years.

Molecules in the atmosphere that play a key role in the greenhouse effect by trapping heat radiating from Earth’s surface.

Area of the economy in which actors engage in identical or related activities.

In human systems, the process of adjustment to actual or expected climate change and its effects, in order to moderate harm, increase resilience or exploit beneficial opportunities. In natural systems, the process of adjustment to actual climate change and its effects; human intervention may facilitate adjustment to expected climate change and its effects.

The management and allocation of funds, assets and investments to meet various objectives

Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon

Aberdeenshire

Aberdeen City

Argyll and Bute

Isle of Anglesey [Sir Ynys Môn GB-YNM]

Ards and North Down

Antrim and Newtownabbey

Angus

Bath and North East Somerset

Blackburn with Darwen

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Bedford

Barking and Dagenham

Brent

Bexley

Belfast City

Bridgend [Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr GB-POG]

Blaenau Gwent

Birmingham

Buckinghamshire

Barnet

Brighton and Hove

Barnsley

Bolton

Blackpool

Bracknell Forest

Bradford

Bromley

Bristol, City of

Bury

Cambridgeshire

Caerphilly [Caerffili GB-CAF]

Central Bedfordshire

Causeway Coast and Glens

Ceredigion [Sir Ceredigion]

Cheshire East

Cheshire West and Chester

Calderdale

Clackmannanshire

Cumbria

Camden

Carmarthenshire [Sir Gaerfyrddin GB-GFY]

Cornwall

Coventry

Cardiff [Caerdydd GB-CRD]

Croydon

Conwy

Darlington

Derbyshire

Denbighshire [Sir Ddinbych GB-DDB]

Derby

Devon

Dumfries and Galloway

Doncaster

Dundee City

Dorset

Derry and Strabane

Dudley

Durham, County

Ealing

East Ayrshire

Edinburgh, City of

East Dunbartonshire

East Lothian

Eilean Siar

Enfield

England

East Renfrewshire

East Riding of Yorkshire

Essex

East Sussex

Falkirk

Fife

Flintshire [Sir y Fflint GB-FFL]

Fermanagh and Omagh

Gateshead

Glasgow City

Gloucestershire

Greenwich

Gwynedd

Halton

Hampshire

Havering

Hackney

Herefordshire

Hillingdon

Highland

Hammersmith and Fulham

Hounslow

Hartlepool

Hertfordshire

Harrow

Haringey

Isles of Scilly

Isle of Wight

Islington

Inverclyde

Kensington and Chelsea

Kent

Kingston upon Hull

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