Renewable energy

It is the energy derived from sources that do not use exhaustible fuels (for example, water – hydroelectric power, wind – wind energy, Sun – solar energy, tides, and geothermal sources). Some combustible materials, such as biomass, can also be considered renewable. Usually, renewable energy generation (with the exception of geothermal and hydroelectric) does not emit greenhouse gases.

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Carbon sinks

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...

Avoided deforestation

Avoided deforestation

It is the reduction in deforestation rate of an area, so that the resulting deforestation rate is lower than in a non-intervention scenario to decrease the forest conversion process.

PPCDAM

PPCDAM

The Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon (PPCDAm). Its fourth phase lasts until 2020.