Any processes, activities or mechanisms, including biomass, and especially forests and oceans, which have the property of removing a greenhouse gas, aerosols or precursors of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.
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Secondary Forests
Secondary Forests
What are they? Secondary forests, or recovering forests, are those that were previously deforested and have grown back. The area of secondary forests in the Amazon is estimated to be 850 million hectares. This figure corresponds to areas deforested between 1988 and...
Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
Established by Article 12 of the Kyoto Protocol, evolved from a Brazilian proposal, and stipulated throughout the COP 3 negotiations, the clean development mechanism (CDM) is the only of the three mechanisms introduced by the Protocol that include developing...