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Definitions
Below is a directory of terms used in the debate about reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD). Most of the terms have been reproduced from the UN University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS), the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), and the Meridian Institute.
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Adaptation
Adjustment of natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climate change, or its effects, that lessens damage or exploits beneficial opportunities.
Additionality
Measurable, long-term greenhouse gas emissions reductions and/or removal enhancements that would not have occurred in the absence of a particular project, policy or activity.
Afforestation
Afforestation is defined under the Kyoto Protocol as the direct human-induced conversion of non-forest land to permanent forested land (for a period of at least 50 years).
AFOLU
AFOLU is the acronym for Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Uses recommended by the IPCC in 2006 as a new term covering LULUCF (Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry) and agriculture.
Annex I Parties
Industrialised countries that, as parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change, have pledged to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2000 to 1990 levels. Annex I Parties consist of countries belonging to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and countries designated as 'economies in transition'.
Annex II Parties
List established under the UNFCCC of industrialised countries, excluding economies in transition, that are to provide new and additional resources to help developing countries meet existing commitments under the UNFCCC.
Avoided deforestation
This occurs where land that would otherwise have been deforested is not because of a change in policy, funding, etc.
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