A Glosssary of Climate Change & Forestry
There are 107 entries in this glossary.All
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| LULUCF |
Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry—see ‘ARD Activities’ and ‘Kyoto Lands’. |
| Market-based Incentives |
Measures intended to use price mechanisms (e.g., taxes and tradable permits) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. |
| Montreal Protocol |
International agreement under UNEP which entered into force in January 1989 to phase out the use of ozone-depleting compounds such as CFCs, halons, methyl chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, HCFCs and methyl bromide. |
| MOP |
Meeting of the Parties—a commonly used but incorrect name for the COP/MOP. See ‘Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties’. |
| National Action Plans |
Plans submitted to the Conference of the Parties (COP) by all Parties outlining the steps that they have adopted to limit their anthropogenic GHG emissions. Countries must submit these plans as a condition of participating in the Convention and, subsequently, must communicate their progress to the COP regularly. The National Action Plans form part of the National Communications which include the national inventory of greenhouse gas (GHG)sources and sinks. |
| National Adaptation Plan of Action, or N |
In 2001, COP-7 established the National Adaptation Plans of Action (NAPAs) program to provide a process for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to identify and prioritize their adaptation needs. |
| National Communication |
A document submitted in accordance with the Convention (and the Protocol) by which a Party informs other Parties of activities undertaken to address climate change. Most developed countries have now submitted their fourth national communications; most developing countries have completed their first national communication and are in the process of preparing their second. |
| National Registry |
Each Annex B Party to the Kyoto Protocol has to establish a national registry to account for the holding of allowances by the Party, as well as by any entities authorised by the Party to hold them. It also contains accounts for setting units aside for compliance purposes (retirement) and removing units from the system (cancellation). Transfers and acquisitions between account holders or between Parties will take place through these national registries. National registries are linked to the ITL which monitors the transfer of allowances between registries. |
| Natural Regeneration |
Growth or re-emergence of the native vegetation in a place after it has been destroyed of degraded, resulting form protection of area from biotic interference. Regeneration may proceed from stumps, cut, bushes, grazed, from root suckers or from seeds (Siyag, P.R., 1998) Natural succession of forest plantations on temporarily unstocked lands that are considered as forest (FAO, 2001) Renewal of trees by self-sown seeds or natural vegetative means (Ford-Robinson, cited in Wadsworth 1997) (ITTO, 2002) |
| Non-Governmental Organization, or NGO |
NGOs can include registered non-profit organizations and associations from business and industry, environmental groups, cities and municipalities, academics,and social and activist organizations. Under the UN, NGOs must be accredited to observe its activities and, to do so, they must meet certain qualifications. IPIECA has UN ECOSOC Category II Non-Governmental Organization consultative status. |
