Carbon sinks

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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Igarapé

An igarapé is an Amazon watercourse of first or third order, constituted by a long arm of river or channel. It exists in a small number in the Amazon basin, characterized by little depth and running almost inside the forest. Most igarapés have dark waters similar...

Second commitment period

Refers to the 2012-2020 period, under the Kyoto Protocol.

Non-Annex I parties

These are all of the Climate Convention parties not listed in Annex I, basically developing contries, including Brazil.