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Carbon credit

Tradable instrument representing one tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent reduced, avoided, or removed, used to compensate for emissions produced elsewhere.

Definition source: ISO 14064; Conservation International

Synonyms

emission-reduction credit

Broader

Top concept of the scheme

Narrower

Certified emission reduction, Carbon offset

Relations

measured-by Carbon accounting methodology

Counts as adaptation

Not an adaptation term.

Mitigation

Mitigation-specific

Provenance

Lexicon consensus

Identifier

OUT_107 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/OUT_107
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/OUT_107)