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- Global Warming Potential (GWP)search for term
- Every greenhouse gas has a Global Warming Potential (GWP), a measurement of the impact that particular gas has on 'radiative forcing'; that is, the additional heat/energy which is retained in the Earth's ecosystem through the addition of this gas to the atmosphere. The GWP of a given gas describes its effect on climate change relative to a similar amount of carbon dioxide and is divided into a three-part "time horizon" of twenty, one hundred, and five hundred years. As the base unit, carbon dioxide numeric is 1.0 across each time horizon. This allows the greenhouse gases regulated under the Kyoto Protocol to be converted to the common unit of CO2e. For instance, methane has a GWP of 21. This means that in 100 years, one ton of methane will have an effect on global warming that is 21 times greater than one ton of CO2.
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The MFDS is a form containing data regarding the sustainability of a particular substance. Similar to Material Safety Data Sheet, well established in the Environmental Health & Safety world.