Emissions

The release of greenhouse gases and/or their precursors into the atmosphere at a specific area and over a specified period.

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Forest

It is a land area of at least 0.05-1.0 hectare with tree crown cover (or equivalent level of stock) with more than 10-30% of trees having the potential to reach the minimum height of 2-5 meters in in situ maturity. A forest may consist of closed forest...

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change or the Climate Change Convention

See UNFCCC.

Annex I parties or Annex I countries

The Annex I to the Climate Change Convention is composed of parties to the convention and the industrialized countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The division between Annex I parties and non-Annex I parties separates the countries according to...