United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change or the Climate Change Convention

The word ‘biome’ – ‘bios’ (from Ancient Greek βίο, meaning ‘life’) and ‘ome’ (a variation of ōma, from Ancient Greek ωμα, meaning ‘mass’ or ‘group’) – was first used in 1943 by the American botanist Frederic Edward Clements, to define a biological unit or...

Refer to the countries that are part of a convention. These can be individual countries or economic blocs, such as the European Union.

See leakage.