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

National Plan on Climate Change (Plano Nacional sobre Mudança do Clima, PNMC, in Portuguese) is the Brazilian official voluntary commitment with the UNFCCC to achieve greenhouse gases cut between 36.1% and 38.9% of the 2020 projected emissions. It has established...

Negotiable credit in the international carbon market originated from clean development mechanism (CDM) projects.

Any process or activity that releases greenhouse gases, aerosols or a precursor of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.