The role of language and dialogue have a great role to play in our collective climate action journey; in telling powerful stories and sustaining interest in such an important topic. Our subject matter experts at the UAE Independent Climate Change Accelerators have developed the following ‘Arabic Climate Change Glossary’ to assist in bridging gaps and collaborating to overcome language barriers.
The issues which fall under the umbrella of climate change are vast and can often be highly complex; through knowledge sharing, our objectives are to support in translating these complex topics to make them available to broad audiences, to demystify the science and articulate definitions that may be lost in translation. To drive inclusivity, our Glossary is a tool to enable a diversity-driven dialogue.
This document will be continually updated as the best practice around this topic evolves, and through close collaboration with our Arabic-speaking audiences, we will continually enhance and improve definitions as necessary.