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KEY TERMS USED IN CARBON101X

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Adaptation

Additionality

Afforestation

Allowances

Anthropogenic

Auction (emissions trading scheme)

Banking (emissions trading scheme)

Biodiesel

Biofuel

Business-as-usual (BAU)

Cap-and-trade

Carbon dioxide (CO2)

Carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e)

Carbon footprint

Carbon intensity

Carbon leakage

Carbon market

Carbon neutral

Carbon offset

Carbon pricing mechanism

Carbon tax

Certified Emissions Reductions Units (CERs)

Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)

Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC)

Climate change

Command-and-control

Deforestation

Direct climate finance

Direct emissions

Emissions abatement

Emissions cap

Emissions factor

Emissions intensity

Emissions trading scheme (ETS)

Energy efficiency

Externalities

Fossil fuel

Fugitive emissions

Future vintages

Global warming potential (GWP)

Green climate fund (GCF)

Greenhouse effect

Greenhouse gas (GHG)

Greenhouse gas emissions inventory

Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol)

Gross domestic product (GDP)

Hydrofluorcarbons (HCFCs)

Indirect emissions

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Kyoto Protocol

Marginal abatement cost

Marginal abatement cost curve (MACC)

Market failure

Methane (CH4)

Mitigation

Net present value (NPV)

Nitrous Oxide (N2O)

Offset

Operational control

Organisational boundary

Permits

Project appraisal

Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+)

Renewable energy

Safety valves

Scope

Scope 1 emissions

Scope 2 emissions

Scope 3 emissions

Secondary market

Sequester

Social cost of carbon

Surrender (emissions trading scheme)

The Paris Agreement

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)