Glossary

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GWP

Global Warming Potential
For a greenhouse gas, the value in a relative scale that estimates how much a given mass of such a gas contributes to global warning as compared with the same mass of carbon dioxide, calculated over 100 years. The values of GWP are provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Assessment Report (2001).