LULUCF

It means “land use, land-use change and forestry”. The LULUCF activities eligible under the clean development mechanism are those that promote the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, i.e., afforestation and reforestation.

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Carbon pools

A component of the climate system in which the so-called greenhouse gases –or a precursor of greenhouse gas – are stored.

Climate system

The totality of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and geosphere and their interactions.

Climate change

Changes that are directly or indirectly attributed to human activity and alter the composition of the world's atmosphere and that is added to that caused by the natural climatic variability observed over comparable periods.