Impact · Impact

Avoided emissions

Higher-order mitigation effect consisting of greenhouse gas emissions prevented relative to a baseline or counterfactual.

Definition source: IPCC; NCASI

Synonyms

Scope 4 emissions

Broader

Top concept of the scheme

Narrower

Avoided land-use-change emissions

Counts as adaptation

Not an adaptation term.

Mitigation

Mitigation-specific

Provenance

Lexicon consensus

Identifier

IMP_004 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/IMP_004
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/IMP_004)