Glossary beginning with L
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- LA NINA (ISDR)
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(in revision) Is the opposite of an El Ni–o pattern, during which waters in the west Pacific are warmer than normal and trade winds are stronger
- Land Degradation
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Deterioration of land quality or land forms resulting from natural phenomena or human activity.
- Land Use Planning
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Branch of planning that determines the options for land use, with the effects on the community.
- Land use, land-use change, and forestry (LULUCF)
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A greenhouse gas inventory sector that covers emissions and removals of greenhouse gases resulting from direct human-induced land use, land-use change and forestry activities.
- Landslide
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Downhill movement of natural soil and rock.
- Leakage
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That portion of cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions by developed countries -- countries trying to meet mandatory limits under the Kyoto Protocol -- that may reappear in other countries not bound by such limits. For example, multinational corporations may shift factories from developed countries to developing countries to escape restrictions on emissions.
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
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The worldÕs poorest countries. The criteria currently used by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) for designation as an LDC include low income, human resource weakness and economic vulnerability . Currently 48 countries have been designated by the UN General Assembly as LDCs.
- Least Developed Countries Expert Group (LEG)
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A panel of 13 experts which provides advice to LDCs on the preparation and implementation of national adaptation programmes of action (NAPAs) -- plans for addressing the urgent and immediate needs of those countries to adapt to climate change .
- Least Developed Country Fund
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A fund managed by the Global Environment Facility that supports Least Developed Countries in the preparation and implementation of their national adaptation programmes of action (NAPAs) .
- Least Developed Country Fund (LDCF)
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The LDCF is a fund established to support a work programme to assist Least Developed Country Parties to carry out, inter alia, the preparation and implementation of national adaptation programmes of action (NAPAs) . The Global Environment Facility , as the entity that operates the financial mechanism of the Convention, has been entrusted to operate this fund. More information here.
- Legislation
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Acts and other legal instruments established at various levels of governments.
- Livestock
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Farm animals regarded as an asset
- Logistics
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The supply, handling, transportation and distribution of resources. It includes all aspects of ordering, receiving, packing, moving, storing and delivering.