Technology term
Avoided Emissions
Greenhouse gas emissions that do not occur because an intervention replaces or reduces a higher-emitting activity relative to a defined baseline. The estimate depends on what would realistically have happened without the intervention.
English
Avoided Emissions
Arabic
الانبعاثات المتجنبة
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