Statistical Terms Glossary

Road vehicle not intended for the carriage of passengers and/or goods and designed to be hauled by passenger car.

A process in which a relatively pure stream of carbon dioxide (CO2) from industrial and energy-related sources is separated (captured), conditioned, compressed and transported to a storage location for longterm isolation from the atmosphere.

Carbon dioxide is a colourless gas formed during the combustion of any material containing carbon and an important greenhouse gas.

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a colourless, odourless and non-poisonous gas formed by combustion of carbon and in the respiration of living organisms and is considered a greenhouse gas. Emissions means the release of greenhouse gases and/or their precursors into the atmosphere over a specified area and period of time.

Carbon dioxide equivalent is a measure used to compare the emissions from various greenhouse gases based upon their global warming potential. For example, the global warming potential for methane over 100 years is 21. This means that emissions of one million metric tons of methane is equivalent to emissions of 21 million metric tons of carbon dioxide.

A popular (but misleading) term for a trading system through which countries may buy or sell units of greenhouse-gas emissions in an effort to meet their national limits on emissions, either under the Kyoto Protocol or under other agreements, such as that among member states of the European Union. The term comes from the fact that carbon dioxide is the predominant greenhouse gas, and other gases are measured in units called carbon-dioxide equivalents.

Biological carbon sequestration (carbon sink) is a biochemical process by which atmospheric carbon is absorbed by living organisms, including trees, soil micro-organisms, and crops, and involving the storage of carbon in soils, with the potential to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.

Forest area primarily designated or managed for carbon storage or sequestration.

A carbon tax is an instrument of environmental cost internationalisation. It is an excise tax on the producers of raw fossil fuels based on the relative carbon content of those fuels

The provision of what is necessary for the health, welfare, maintenance, and protection of someone or something.

Is the sum of all forms of care work. It therefore comprises both unpaid carers and care workers.

Moral perspectives that tend to be gendered and are characteristic of class and ethnic social divisions.

Work of looking after the physical, psychological, emotional and developmental needs of one or more other people.

See: Average earnings scheme

Important mechanism in terms of enabling reconciliation of work, private and family life.

Merchant ship designed for the carriage of goods and/or public transport of passengers.

A sea journey involving the movement of cargo, between a place of loading or embarkation and a port of unloading or disembarkation.

A UNDP project sponsored by IFC, with IFC as executing agency. Its services are available to countries which become signatories to the related UNDP project document. Its purpose is to promote small- and medium-scale private enterprises in the Caribbean. It is hoped to expand its services into Central America.

Opposite of hegemonic masculinity; based on men taking care-giving roles (as involved fathers) instead of provider roles (as breadwinners).

An elementary price index defined as the simple, or unweighted, arithmetic average of the current- to base period price relatives.

An international customs document for the temporary duty-free admission of goods under certain international conventions.

Part of the road intended for the movement of road motor vehicles; the parts of the road which form a shoulder for the lower or upper layers of the road surface are not part of the roadway, nor are those parts of the road intended for the circulation of road vehicles which are not self-propelled or for the parking of vehicles even if, in case of danger, they may occasionally be used for the passage of motor vehicles.

Carry is defined as the difference between return on securities held and financing costs, and "carry trade" refers to institutions and businesses taking advantage of this differential.
A positive/negative carry occurs when the financing cost is less/more than the yield on securities that are being financed

When an exporting country utilizes the previous year’s unutilized quota.

See: Carry

The maximum sustainable size of a resident population in a given ecosystem.

Maximum authorised weight of goods, expressed in tonnes, which a vessel may carry.