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Additionality: Under the Kyoto Protocol, certificates will be awarded only to project-based activities where emission reductions are additional to those that would occur under the "business-as-usual" scenario. Further, "Financial Additionality" means that CDM projects which Annex I countries support within the framework of the Clean Developmnet Mechanism should not be financed by official development aid, but that additional funding is to be made available for such projects. Afforestation: Afforestation is the direct human-induced conversion of land that has not been forested for a period of at least 50 years, to forested land, through planting, seeding and/or the human-induced promotion of natural seed sources. Baseline: The baseline represents forecasted emissions under a business-as-usual (BAU) scenario, often referred to as the 'baseline scenario' i.e. expected emissions if the emission reduction activities were not implemented. Biotechnology: Biotechnology is the application of scientific and engineering principles to process living organisms to provide goods and services. Living organisms are biological agents such as bacteria, fungi, plant and animal cells, and parts of all the preceding e.g. enzymes. Products of biotechnology are encountered everywhere, examples being: cheese, yogurt, alcoholic beverages, antibiotics, vaccines, ethanol, acetone, animal feeds, nitrogen-fixing inoculants, tissue culture, water purification, and effluent treatment. Canada's Climate Change Action Plan: In 1998 the Government of Canada began to mobilize federal resources and expertise toward a national strategy to meet the climate change commitments it made in Kyoto in December 1997. This strategy has been developed in consultation with the provinces, business, industrial sectors and other stakeholders, and will be essential in ensuring that Canada meets its domestic and international commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In November 2002, Canada's Climate Change Action Plan was published and can be read at: http://www.climatechange.gc.ca/plan_for_canada/plan/pdf/full_version.pdf Carbon offset: A mechanism by which the impact of emitting a tonne of CO

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