Section 2

“adaptation and mitigation plan” means a plan prepared under section 40;

“approved standards” means any standard used in carbon activity or greenhouse gas emission reporting as may be approved by the Minister;

“budget period” means the period specified in a carbon budget;

“carbon activity” means any activity, project or group of activities that results in the reduction or removal of greenhouse gas emissions which is verified in accordance with an approved standard;

“carbon budget” means the carbon budget prepared by the Council under section 35;

“carbon credit” means a tradeable instrument, that results from a carbon activity, which is issued by a government or an independent certification body;

“carbon rights” means the legal right to the quantified reduction, removal, sequestration or storage of greenhouse gas emissions derived from carbon activities within Sabah, as recognised or registered under this Enactment;

“carbon sinks” means any natural or artificial reservoir that absorbs or removes greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, and in its natural form, carbon sinks are made up of the oceans, wetlands, forests, rocks and soil;

“carbon stock” means the quantity of carbon stored in biomass, soil, dead organic matter or other carbon sinks at a given time;

“Centre” means the Climate Registry and Inventory Centre established under section 15;

“Council” means the Sabah Climate Change Action Council established under section 4;

“Director” means the Director of the Climate Registry and Inventory Centre;

“feasibility study” means any study to determine the viability or potential of carrying out a carbon activity for the purposes of section 24;

“Fund” means the Sabah Climate Fund established under section 21;

“greenhouse gas” means any carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydroflurocarbon, perfluorocarbon, sulphur hexafluoride and any other substance recognised as greenhouse gas by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change;

“greenhouse gas emission” means the release of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere;

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“Inventory” means the Sabah Climate Inventory kept and maintained under section 19;

“land” has the same meaning assigned to it under section 4 of the Land Ordinance [Cap. 68];

“Minister” means the Minister charged with the responsibility for matters relating to natural resources;

“owner” has the same meaning assigned to it under section 4 of the Land Ordinance;

“premises” includes any house, building, hut, shed, structure, platform, plant, warehouse, container, conveyance and land whether or not enclosed or built upon;

“Register” means the Sabah Climate Register kept and maintained under section 18; and

“this Enactment” includes any subsidiary legislation made under this Enactment.