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A Glosssary of Climate Change & Forestry
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| Emissions Cap | A mandated restraint, in a scheduled time frame, that puts a ‘ceiling’ on the total amount of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that can be released into the atmosphere. The Kyoto Protocol mandates caps on the GHG emissions released by developed countries listed in Annex B. |
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| Emissions Permit | The phrase emissions permit is sometimes used to refer to the non-transferable or tradable entitlement bestowed by an administrative authority (intergovernmental organization, central or local government agency) to a regional (country, sub-national) or a sectoral (an individual firm) entity to emit a pollutant within specified constraints. In some settings, an emissions permit is required for activities that create emissions, and the operator responsible for emissions must acquire and surrender emissions allowances in amount equal to actual emissions. |
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| Emissions Reduction Unit, or ERU | An ERU represents one tonne of CO2-equivalent greenhouse gas emissions reductions 2achieved through a Joint Implementation project. It can be used to meet an Annex B Party’s emission commitment or as the unit of trade in greenhouse gas emissions trading systems. |
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| Emissions Scenarios | A plausible representation of the future development of emissions of substances that are radiatively active (e.g.greenhouse gases, aerosols), based on a coherent and internally consistent set of assumptions about driving forces (such as demographic and socio-economic development, technological change) and their key relationships. Concentration scenarios, derived from emissions scenarios, are used as input into a climate models to compute climate projections. |
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| Forest | Key to the identification of Kyoto lands is a definition of forest that is consistent for all Parties. This definition is critical to the accounting of sources and sinks under the Kyoto Protocol (Articles 3.3 and 3.4). There are many definitions of forest, based on land-use status (administrative/cultural records) or a minimum threshold of canopy cover and/or tree height. None, however, were specifically designed for carbon accounting as required under the Protocol. This definition and the implications of using different definitions are addressed in detail in Chapter 3 of the IPCC Special Report on LULUCF. The IPCC 2006 Guidelines for National GHG Inventories provide a broad, non-prescriptive definition of forest lands, but leave it to individual countries to decide which of their lands they will designate as forest. |
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| Forest Management | Forest management is the application of biological, physical, quantitative, managerial, social and policy principles to the regeneration, tending, utilization and conversion of forests to meet specified goals and objectives while maintaining forest productivity. Management intensity spans the range from wilderness set-asides toshort-rotation woody cropping systems. Forest management encompasses the full cycle of regeneration, tending, protection, harvest, utilization and access. (From IPCC Special Report on LULUCF.) |
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| Fossil Fuels | Carbon-based fuels that have accumulated in geological deposits over very long periods, including coal, oil and natural gas. |
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| Global Climate Observing System, or GCOS | An international system established in 1992 to ensure that the observations and information needed to address climate change issues are obtained and made available to all users. |
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| Global Environment Facility, or GEF | A jointly funded programme established by developed countries at the time of the Rio Summit to meet their obligations under various international environmental treaties. GEF serves as the interim financial mechanism for the UNFCCC, in particular to cover the cost of reporting by non-Annex I countries. It provides funds to complement traditional development assistance by covering the additional or ‘agreed incremental costs’incurred by non-Annex I countries, when a national,regional or global development project also targets global environmental objectives such as those which address biodiversity. |
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| Global Warming | The increase in the Earth’s temperature, in part due to emissions of greenhouse gases associated with human activities such as burning fossil fuels, biomass burning,cement manufacture, cow and sheep rearing, deforestation and other land-use changes.
Suggested alternate definition: The observed increase in global average surface temperature, whether attributable to natural or human-induced causes. |
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