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Discover Ludwig"baseline year" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the starting time of a period or sequence of events to which future occurrences will be compared. For example, "We're going to use 2011 as our baseline year and make comparisons to previous years."
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(This is against a baseline year of 2005).
Switzerland and Norway, however, have agreed to use a past baseline year.
This was significant because 1990 was the baseline year for calculating emissions targets.
As with any plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a crucial question is to establish a baseline year from which any rise or fall will be counted.
The negotiations are mainly about which groups of countries should cut their emissions, by how much, how fast, and relative to which baseline year.
"We need to know whether the emissions are for just CO2 or CO2 equivalent (all six leading greenhouse gases); what the baseline year is (1990? 2000? 2005?), since emissions have been going up each year and a later baseline year implies less stringent cuts; and what the business-as-usual emissions would have been in the absence of cuts".
The GDP chart is interesting, as you normally see this comparison made with a later date as the baseline year.
It cannot be expected to know that 1998, the baseline year for IPCC data, was unusually warm.
The baseline year is 2009.
Year 2010 is used as the baseline year.
In Melbourne, car trip share declined in all scenarios compared to baseline year 2030.
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