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  {
    "id": "cop",
    "term": "COP",
    "plain": "The yearly UN climate summit. Short for Conference of the Parties.",
    "expert": "Supreme body of the UNFCCC (1992). Meets annually with the CMP and CMA.",
    "source_id": "unfccc-cop31",
    "accessed": null,
    "verified": false
  },
  {
    "id": "paris-agreement",
    "term": "Paris Agreement",
    "plain": "The 2015 deal where every country agreed to limit warming and to write its own plan for doing so.",
    "expert": "Treaty adopted at COP21, in force since 2016. Long-term goal: well below 2°C, pursuing 1.5°C. Bottom-up NDCs with a five-year ambition cycle.",
    "source_id": "unfccc-cop31",
    "accessed": null,
    "verified": false
  },
  {
    "id": "ndc",
    "term": "NDC",
    "plain": "A country’s own climate plan and emissions target. Renewed every five years.",
    "expert": "Nationally determined contribution under Article 4. The current round sets 2035 targets.",
    "source_id": "unfccc-cop31",
    "accessed": null,
    "verified": false
  },
  {
    "id": "brackets",
    "term": "Brackets",
    "plain": "Square brackets around words in a draft mean countries have not agreed on them.",
    "expert": "Unagreed text. Nested or alternative brackets mark competing options.",
    "source_id": "unfccc-cop31",
    "accessed": null,
    "verified": false
  },
  {
    "id": "global-stocktake",
    "term": "Global stocktake",
    "plain": "A five-yearly check on whether the world is on course. The first one, in 2023, said no.",
    "expert": "Article 14 process. GST1 concluded at COP28; GST2 concludes in 2028.",
    "source_id": "unfccc-cop31",
    "accessed": null,
    "verified": false
  },
  {
    "id": "adaptation",
    "term": "Adaptation",
    "plain": "Preparing for climate impacts: sea walls, heat plans, drought-proof crops.",
    "expert": "Article 7. Tracked through the Global Goal on Adaptation and its 59 indicators.",
    "source_id": "unfccc-cop31",
    "accessed": null,
    "verified": false
  },
  {
    "id": "mitigation",
    "term": "Mitigation",
    "plain": "Cutting the emissions that cause warming.",
    "expert": "Reducing sources or enhancing sinks of greenhouse gases.",
    "source_id": "unfccc-cop31",
    "accessed": null,
    "verified": false
  },
  {
    "id": "loss-and-damage",
    "term": "Loss and damage",
    "plain": "Harm from climate change that can no longer be prevented or prepared for.",
    "expert": "Article 8. Covered by the Warsaw Mechanism and the Fund for responding to Loss and Damage.",
    "source_id": "unfccc-cop31",
    "accessed": null,
    "verified": false
  },
  {
    "id": "ncqg",
    "term": "NCQG",
    "plain": "The new climate finance target: $300bn a year by 2035.",
    "expert": "New Collective Quantified Goal, decided at COP29. Successor to the $100bn goal.",
    "source_id": "unfccc-cop31",
    "accessed": null,
    "verified": false
  },
  {
    "id": "action-agenda",
    "term": "Action Agenda",
    "plain": "Voluntary pledges announced at a COP. Nobody votes on them and nobody is bound by them.",
    "expert": "Presidency-led initiatives outside the negotiated outcome. Türkiye leads it this year.",
    "source_id": "unfccc-cop31",
    "accessed": null,
    "verified": false
  },
  {
    "id": "mutirao",
    "term": "Mutirão",
    "plain": "The name of last year’s main decision. A Brazilian word for a community working together.",
    "expert": "The Global Mutirão decision, the Belém headline text. The presidency said it was not a formal cover decision.",
    "source_id": "unfccc-cop31",
    "accessed": null,
    "verified": false
  },
  {
    "id": "subsidiary-bodies",
    "term": "Subsidiary bodies",
    "plain": "The two technical committees that do the detailed work in week one.",
    "expert": "SBSTA (science and technology) and SBI (implementation), at their 65th sessions.",
    "source_id": "unfccc-cop31",
    "accessed": null,
    "verified": false
  }
]