Climate change refers to slow variations in climatic characteristics at a given location over time: warming or cooling. Some forms of air pollution, resulting from human activities, threaten to significantly alter climates in the direction of global warming.
Reference: UN.
Between the forest of acronyms and the technical terms, it is sometimes difficult to understand the vocabulary on the mechanisms and consequences of global warming as well as the means to fight it. To understand the debates that take place on the subject, there are some concepts to know.