A Glosssary of Climate Change & Forestry
There are 107 entries in this glossary.K
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Kyoto Basket |
Under the Kyoto Protocol, Parties have committed to control emissions of a ‘basket’ of six GHGs. This ‘basket’includes carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, HFCs,PFCs and SF6. The arrangement is meant to give the flexibility which would enable a Party to increase emissions of any gas in the ‘basket’ provided commensurate reductions were made in another gas in the ‘basket’. |
| Kyoto Lands |
The Kyoto Protocol describes land use, land-use change and forestry activities that require or allow the net GHG emissions from sinks to be accounted for by Parties in meeting their emission reduction commitments. The lands on which these activities take place are designated as Kyoto lands. |
| Kyoto Mechanisms |
(formerly known as Flexibility Mechanisms) Procedures that allow Annex 1 Parties to meet their commitments under the Kyoto Protocol based on actions outside their own borders. As potentially market-based mechanisms they have the potential to reduce the economic impacts of greenhouse gas emission reduction requirements. They include Joint Implementation(Article 6), the Clean Development Mechanisms(Article 12) and Emissions Trading (Article 17). |
| Kyoto Protocol |
The Protocol, drafted during the Berlin Mandate process,that requires countries listed in its Annex B (developed nations) to meet differentiated reduction targets for their emissions of a ‘basket’ of greenhouse gases (see ‘Kyoto Basket’) relative to 1990 levels by 2008–12. It was adopted by all Parties to the UNFCCC in Kyoto, Japan,in December 1997 and entered into force on 16 February 2005. |
