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title: Climate Change
date: 2024-03-27T13:20:34Z
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## Definition

**Climate Change** means a change in the state of the climate that can be identified and that persists for an extended period of time and where the change is caused directly or indirectly by:

\[\[(a)\] human activity \[(including but not limited to the burning of fossil fuels)\] that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability\[; or

(b) natural processes, including from volcanic eruptions and changes of solar cycles\]

\[including feedback loops between human activities and natural processes.\]

**Climate Change** means a change in the state of the climate that can be identified and that persists for \[an extended period of time\] and where changes in the composition of the global atmosphere are caused directly or indirectly by an accumulated increase in [Scope 1, 2 and 3](https://chancerylaneproject.org/glossary/scope-1-2-and-3-emissions/) anthropogenic [Greenhouse Gas Emissions](https://chancerylaneproject.org/glossary/greenhouse-gas-emissions/), which is in addition to natural climate variability.