{"id":3140,"date":"2023-05-18T16:38:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T14:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=3140"},"modified":"2023-05-17T16:38:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T14:38:45","slug":"what-is-greenhouse-gas-ghg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/05\/18\/what-is-greenhouse-gas-ghg\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Greenhouse Gas (GHG)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Greenhouse gases<\/b>\u00a0they form a group of gases that contribute to global warming and climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Kyoto\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #0651c1; text-decoration: none; font-family: open_sansregular, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Kyoto_Protocol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">protocol<\/a>\u00a0, the environmental agreement adopted by many of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1997 to limit global warming, currently covers seven\u00a0<b>greenhouse gases<\/b>\u00a0:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>non-fluorinated gases:\n<ul>\n<li>carbon dioxide (CO\u00a0<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0)<\/li>\n<li>methane (CH\u00a0<sub>4<\/sub>\u00a0)<\/li>\n<li>nitrous oxide (\u00a0<sub>N2O<\/sub>\u00a0)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>fluorinated gases:\n<ul>\n<li>hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)<\/li>\n<li>perfluorocarbons (PFCs)<\/li>\n<li>sulfur fluoride (SF\u00a0<sub>6<\/sub>\u00a0)<\/li>\n<li>nitrogen fluoride (NF\u00a0<sub>3<\/sub>\u00a0)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Their conversion to\u00a0<b>equivalents\u00a0<\/b><b>carbon dioxide (or CO\u00a0<sub>2<\/sub><\/b>\u00a0) allows their comparison and determination of their individual and overall contribution to global warming.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenhouse gases are a group of gases that contribute to global warming and climate change. The Kyoto Protocol, an environmental agreement adopted by many parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1997 to limit global warming, currently covers seven greenhouse gases: non-fluorinated gases: carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) methane (CH 4 ) nitrous oxide ( N2O ) fluorinated gases: hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) perfluorocarbons [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}