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Linking Directive
The EU Emissions Trading Directive 2003/87/EC and its amendment arrange the use of project approval processes and authorization to participate in the flexible mechanisms. They also contain additional provisions relating to the establishment of the national emissions inventory.
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Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF), see also articles on Afforestation and Reforestation Projects, Forest Management, Revegetation, and Grazing Land Management.
The lad-use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) sector was included under the Kyoto Protocol to take into consideration certain human-induced activities that remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, also known as carbon “sinks”. The following activities referred to in Article 3, paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Kyoto protocol, as defined in paragraph 1 of the Annex to decision 16/CMP1: afforestation, reforestation, deforestation (the direct human-induced conversion of forested land to non-forested land), revegetation, forest management, cropland management (the system of practices on land on which agricultural crops are grown and on land that is set aside or temporarily not being used for crop production) and grazing land management.
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Leakage
Decrease or increase of greenhouse gas-related benefits outside the boundaries set for defining a project - net greenhouse gas impacts that result from project activities.
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Letter of Approval (LoA)
The letter provides formal approval of the project as a JI or CDM project by the Parties involved.
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Letter of Endorsement (LoE)
The letter means confirmation to the project sponsor of the preparedness of the host country to endorse the further development of the project in question.
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Licensing Coordinator Entity
Entity from the central or regional administration of the Government with competence for coordinating activity licensing processes and authorizing the installation, changeover and development of that activity.
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Long-term Certified Emission Reductions (ICERs), see also Temporary Certified Emission reductions (tCERs).
Credits issued for an afforestation or reforestation project activity that expires at the end of its crediting period. ICERs are issued for the net anthropogenic greenhouse gas removals by sinks achieved by the project activity during each verification period.