Climate crisis is a term describing global warming and climate change, and their consequences.

Climate drawdown is the point at which greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere level off and begin to decline on a year-to-year basis.

A climate emergency declaration or declaring a climate emergency is an action taken by governments and scientists to acknowledge humanity is in a climate emergency.

Climate forcings are changes that cause temperatures to rise or fall, disrupting the energy balance, these include natural and man-made forcings..

The term stranded assets has gained significant prominence in environmental and climate change discourse, where the focus has been on how environment-related factors (such as climate change policy) could strand assets in different sectors.

One of the world’s most advanced oceanic research ships was christened the “MARIA S. MERIAN” on 26 July 2005, honoring the German woman who is recognized as the world’s first entomologist

Climate sensitivity is a measure of how much the Earth's climate will cool or warm after a change in the climate system.

Oil remaining on pipe walls or on the internal surfaces of tanks after the bulk of the oil has been removed.

Clipping is a form of distortion that limits a signal once it exceeds a threshold.

A display unit fitted to a filter to indicate the condition or degree of cleanliness.

Hard-piped drains from process components, such as pressure vessels, piping, liquid relief valves, etc., to a closed drain tank without any break to atmosphere, (ABS).

The nuclear fuel cycle is referred to as an open fuel cycle if spent fuel is reprocessed.

A cooling system that does not rely on a constant supply of cooling medium to operate. Closed loop systems have a fixed volume of fluid that requires none or infrequent topping up to maintain its cooling efficiency.

A system constructed and equipped so that during fuel oil bunkering the allowable design pressure of the storage tanks cannot be exceeded.

A closed system, being enclosed by selective walls through which energy can pass as heat or work, but not matter.

Vehicle spaces, which are neither open vehicle spaces nor weather decks, (SOLAS).

In a closed-loop control system, the control action from the controller is dependent on the desired and actual process variable.

The shortest target vessel – own vessel calculated distance that will occur in case of no change in course and speed data.

A survey where the details of structural components are within the close visual inspection range of the surveyor i.e. preferably within reach of hand.

Any cover or other item functioning as a cover for an opening in the shell, deck or bulkhead.