It is the clearing of forests from the ground. It should be noted that forests are a significant sink for carbon dioxide.
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Time at which carbon stored by sequestration remains in a carbon pool without being rereleased. Only permanent carbon pools are acceptable for climate policy purposes.
These are all of the Climate Convention parties not listed in Annex I, basically developing contries, including Brazil.
It is the conversion, directly induced by the humans, of land that has not been forested – for a period of at least 50 years – into forested land through planting, sowing, and/or human-induced promotion of natural sources of seeds. This definition is used for...