Carbon Glossary

What is Article 6 of the Paris Agreement?

What is the Article 6.4 mechanism?

What is the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)?

What are ITMOs?

What is a corresponding adjustment?

What is a host country letter of authorization (LoA)?

What is a cap-and-trade system?

What is a carbon tax?

What is the EU ETS?

What are EUAs?

What is the difference between a carbon credit and an EUA?

What is Allowance?

What is Emission Trading System (ETS)?

What are carbon credits?

What is carbon offsetting?

What is carbon dioxide removal (CDR)?

What are carbon removals?

What are avoidance credits?

What is climate contribution vs. offsetting?

What is Removal Credit?

What is Reduction Credit?

What is Forward Contract (Carbon)?

What is Issuance?

What is Serial Number?

What is a carbon registry?

How do carbon credits get verified?

What is a carbon credit retirement?

What is a monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) system?

What is a carbon project baseline?

What is project stacking in carbon markets?

What are cookstove carbon credits?

What are co-benefits in carbon projects?

What is Verified Carbon Standard (VCS)?

What is Climate Action Reserve (CAR)?

What is American Carbon Registry (ACR)?

What is Puro.earth?

What is Validation?

What is Methodology?

What are carbon markets?

What is the voluntary carbon market (VCM)?

What are compliance-grade carbon credits?

What is the carbon market's role in net-zero?

What is carbon market liquidity?

What is Compliance Market?

What is Voluntary Market?

What is Spot Market?

What is Biochar?

What is Direct Air Capture (DAC)?

What is Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)?

What is BECCS?

What is Decarbonization Pathway?

What is GHG Protocol?

What is Value Chain?

What is additionality in carbon projects?

What is permanence in carbon offsets?

What is permanence risk in nature-based credits?

What is leakage in carbon markets?

What is double counting in carbon markets?

What is buffer pooling in carbon projects?

What is buffer pool capitalization?

What are carbon credit ratings?

What is vintage mismatch in offsetting?

What is a vintage in carbon credits?

What is the carbon removal hierarchy?

What is Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions?

What are residual emissions?

What is lifecycle emissions accounting?

What is Carbon Accounting?

What is Direct Emissions?

What is Indirect Emissions?

What is Emission Factor?

What is Carbon Intensity?

What is Corporate Carbon Footprint?

What is Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)?

What is the Global Stocktake?

What is the UNFCCC?

What is the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF)?

What is Carbon Dioxide (CO₂)?

What is Carbon Dioxide Equivalent (CO₂e)?

What is Greenhouse Gas (GHG)?

What is Methane (CH₄)?

What is Nitrous Oxide (N₂O)?

What is Global Warming Potential (GWP)?

What is Metric Tonne?

What are Energy Attribute Certificates (EACs)?

What are RECs, GOs, and I-RECs?

What is insetting?

What is a carbon market intermediary?

What is over-the-counter (OTC) carbon trading?

What is credit aggregation?

What is Carbon Project Developer?

What are nature-based solutions (NbS)?

What is regenerative agriculture?

What is community-based carbon project design?

What is Afforestation?

What is Reforestation?

What is Agroforestry?

What is REDD+?

What is Blue Carbon?

What is Carbon Sequestration?

What is Carbon Farming?

What is Soil Carbon?

What is Soil Health?

What is Conservation Tillage?

What is Cover Crops?

What is Crop Rotation?

What is No-Till Farming?

What is Nutrient Management?

What is Crop Residue?

What is Organic Matter?

What is Chernozem?

What is VM0042?

What is Crediting Period?

What is the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM)?

What are the Core Carbon Principles (CCPs)?

What is the Voluntary Carbon Market Integrity Initiative (VCMI)?

Who are Verra and Gold Standard?

What is Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)?

What is CORSIA?