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Land use
The total of arrangements, activities, and inputs undertaken in a certain land-cover
type (a set of human actions). The social and economic purposes for which land
is managed (e.g., grazing, timber extraction, and conservation).
Leakage
The part of emissions reductions in Annex B countries
that may be offset by an increase of the emission in the non-constrained countries
above their baseline levels. This can occur through (1) relocation
of energy-intensive production in non-constrained regions; (2) increased consumption
of fossil fuels in these regions through decline in the international
price of oil and gas triggered by lower demand for these energies; and (3) changes
in incomes (and thus in energy demand) because of better terms of trade. Leakage
also refers to the situation in which a carbon sequestration activity
(e.g., tree planting) on one piece of land inadvertently, directly or indirectly,
triggers an activity, which in whole or part, counteracts the carbon effects
of the initial activity.
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