Glossary of Carbon Farming Terms

The ETS uses many terms of its own: averaging age, carbon accounting area, cost containment reserve, look-up table, temporary adverse event suspension, land use capability class. This glossary defines them in plain words.

This guide lists the terms alphabetically, covers the difference between pre-1990 and post-1989 forest and between the two accounting methods, and ends with a quick reference to the acronyms that turn up in every ETS document.