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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Assimilated law updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 31 December 2020 - onwards
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Article 2 Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:

(1) "environmentally sustainable investment" means an investment in one or several economic activities that qualify as environmentally sustainable under this Regulation;

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(5) "climate change mitigation" means the process of holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1,5 °C above pre-industrial levels, as laid down in the Paris Agreement;

(6) "climate change adaptation" means the process of adjustment to actual and expected climate change and its impacts ;

(7) "greenhouse gas" has the meaning given in section 92 of the Climate Change Act 2008 [2008 c. 27.];