Arquivos: Glossário

A direct reduction in taxes. For example, a $200 income tax credit will reduce someone’s income taxes by $200.

Number used to assess ownership and the corporate structure of any legal entities involved in a given project.

A process whereby taxes may be shifted into (1) lower values of land or other assets, (2) higher output prices, (3) lower rates of return, or (4) a combination of these directions.

See Species richness.

Any identifiable group of taxonomically related organisms.

The TCFD, or Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures, is an organization established by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) to develop a set of recommendations for voluntary climate-related financial disclosures. These recommendations are intended to help companies provide consistent and transparent information to investors, lenders, insurers, and other stakeholders about the financial risks and opportunities […]

Tonelada de dióxido de carbono equivalente (tCO2e): medida de conversão métrica de emissões ou remoções de todos os gases de efeito estufa em termos de equivalência de potencial de aquecimento global, expressos em dióxido de carbono e medidos conforme os relatórios do Painel Intergovernamental sobre Mudanças Climáticas (IPCC, na sigla em inglês).

Total carbon price

Improvement in technology that allows for more output created by the same amount of inputs.

The exchange of knowledge, hardware and associated software, money and goods among stakeholders, which leads to the spread of technology for adaptation or mitigation. The term encompasses both diffusion of technologies and technological cooperation across and within countries.