List of abbreviations relating to climate change
This is a list of abbreviations relating to climate change causation, adaptation and mitigation.
A
- ADP - Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action
- AGN - African Group of Negotiators
- APA - Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement [1]
- APP - Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate
- AR4 - Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC (2007)
- AR5 - Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC (2014)
- AR5 SYR - Synthesis Report of AR5 [2]
- AR6 - Sixth Assessment Report of the IPCC (published on 9 August 2021)
- AWG-KP - Ad Hoc Working Group on further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol
- AWG-LCA - Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action
- AYCC - Australian Youth Climate Coalition
B
- BAP - Bali Action Plan
C
- C&C - Contraction & Convergence, a global CO2 emissions management model promoted by the Global Commons Institute
- CAIT - The World Resources Institute's Climate Data Explorer archive [3]
- CAPP - Climate Action Pacific Partnership [4]
- CAPP II - Climate Action Pacific Partnership (CAPP) Conference II – 2018
- CAPP III - Third meeting of the Climate Action Pacific Partnership Conference (29-30 April 2019)
- CCA - Climate Change Agreement (UK)
- CCAFS - Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Research Program [5]
- CCAF - Climate Change Action Fund (Australia)
- CCC - Committee on Climate Change (UK)
- CCCR - Canada's Changing Climate Report
- CCCS - Centre for Climate Change Studies, University of Dar es Salaam[6]
- CCF - The Scottish Government's Climate Challenge Fund
- CCIA - Climate Change in Australia
- CC:iNet - Climate Change Information Network [7]
- CCL - Climate Change Levy (UK)
- CCl2F2 - Dichlorodifluoromethane (greenhouse gas)
- CCLS - Cambridge Climate Lecture Series
- CCRA - Climate Change Risk Assessment [a]
- CCS - Carbon Capture and Storage
- CDM - Clean Development Mechanism
- CDP - Organisation formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project
- CDR - Carbon dioxide removal
- CER - Certified Emission Reduction
- CFC - Chlorofluorocarbon
- CFRF - Climate Financial Risk Forum (UK)
- CF4 - Carbon tetrafluoride or tetrafluoromethane (greenhouse gas)
- CGE - Consultative Group of Experts [9]
- CHClF2 - Chlorodifluoromethane (greenhouse gas)
- CH4 - Methane
- CINC - Interdepartmental Committee of Climate Negotiators
- CLP - Carbon Literacy Project
- CMA - Meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement
- CMA1 - First meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (7-18 November 2016)
- CMA1.2 - The second part of the first session of the Conference of the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (6-17 November 2017)
- CMA1.3 - The third part of the first session of the Conference of the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (2-14 December 2018)
- CMA2 - Second meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (2–13 December 2019)
- CMA3 - Third meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (postponed to 1–12 December 2021)
- CMA1 - First meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (7-18 November 2016)
- CNIP - Coupled Model Intercomparison Project
- CMIP5 - Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, Phase 5 [10]
- CMP - Conference of the Parties Serving as the Meeting of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol
- CMP9 - 9th meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (11-23 November 2013)
- CMP10 - 10th meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (1-12 December 2014)
- CMP11 - 11th meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (30 November-12 December 2015)
- CMP12 - 12th meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (7-18 November 2016)
- CMP13 - 13th meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (6-17 November 2017)
- CMP14 - 14th meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (2-15 December 2018)
- CMP15 - 15th meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (2–13 December 2019)
- CMP16 - 16th meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (postponed to 1–12 December 2021)
- CO2 - Carbon dioxide
- CO2-e - Carbon dioxide equivalent, also CO2-eq [11]
- CoM - Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (Europe) [12]
- COP - Conference of the Parties [to the UNFCCC]
- COP1 - First UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (28 March to 7 April 1995)
- COP2 - Second UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (8-18 July 1996)
- COP3 - Third UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (1-10 December 1997) [13]
- COP4 - Fourth UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (2-14 November 1998)
- COP5 - Fifth UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (25 October to 5 November 1999)
- COP6 - Sixth UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (13–25 November 2000)
- COP6-bis - Resumed Session of COP6 (16-27 July 2001) [14]
- COP7 - Seventh UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (29 October - 10 November 2001)
- COP8 - Eighth UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (23 October - 1 November 2002)
- COP9 - Ninth UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (1-12 December 2003)
- COP10 - Tenth UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (6-14 December 2004)
- COP11 - Eleventh UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (28 November - 9 December 2005)
- COP12 - Twelfth UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (6-17 November 2006)
- COP13 - 13th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (3-15 December 2007)
- COP14 - 14th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (1-12 December 2008)
- COP15 - 15th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (7-18 December 2009)
- COP16 - 16th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (29 November - 10 December 2010)
- COP17 - 17th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (28 November - 11 December 2011)
- COP18 - 18th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (26 November - 6 December 2012)
- COP19 - 19th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (11-23 November 2013)
- COP20 - 20th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (1-12 December 2014)
- COP21 - 21st UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (30 November-12 December 2015)
- COP22 - 22nd UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (7-18 November 2016)
- COP23 - 23rd UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (6-17 November 2017)
- COP24 - 24th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (2-15 December 2018)
- COP25 - 25th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (2-13 December 2019)
- COP26 - 26th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (1-12 November 2021)
- COP27 - 27th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (6-18 November 2022)
- COP28 - 28th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties, scheduled for November 2023 in the United Arab Emirates [15]
- COP29 - 29th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties, 2024, proposed venue is Australia [16]
- COP30 - anticipated 2025 UNFCCC Conference of the Parties [17]
- CORSIA - Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation
- CPA - Carbon Pricing Act (Singapore)
- CPRS - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Australia)
- CRC - CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, formerly Carbon Reduction Commitment (UK)
- CREWS - Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems [18]
- CRU - Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia
- CRU TS - Climatic Research Unit Time Series datasets [19]
- CSA - Climate-Smart Agriculture
- CVF - Climate Vulnerable Forum
D
- DECC - Department of Energy and Climate Change (UK), now Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
E
- ECI - Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford
- ETC - Energy Transition Council [17]
- ETS - Emissions Trading System
- ETSWAP - Emissions Trading Scheme Workflow Automation Project operated by the UK's Environment Agency
F
- FAR - First Assessment Report of the IPCC (1990)
- F-gas - Fluorinated gas
- FICER - Fund for Innovative Climate and Energy Research
- FOLU - Forestry and other land use
- FFF - Fridays for Future
G
- GCF - Green Climate Fund
- GCoM - Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy[12]
- GHG - Greenhouse gas
- GtC - Gigatonnes of carbon
- GWP - Global warming potential
H
- HadCM3 - Hadley Centre Coupled Model, version 3
- HadGEM - Hadley Centre Global Environmental Model
- HadGEM1 -
- HCFC - Hydrochlorofluorocarbon
- HFC - Hydrofluorocarbon
I
- ICLEI - International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives
- IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- IPCC-50 - the IPCC's 50th session (2019)
- IPCC-NGGIP - IPCC National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Programme
- ISO 1406x Series - ISO standards for climate change mitigation
- ISO 14090:2019 - ISO standard for adaptation to climate change — Principles, requirements and guidelines
- ISO/DIS 14091 - Adaptation to climate change — Guidelines on vulnerability, impacts and risk assessment
- ISO/TS 14092 - Adaptation to climate change — Requirements and guidance on adaptation planning for local governments and communities
J
- JI - Joint Implementation
K
- KLD - Ministry of Climate and Environment (Klima- og miljødepartementet), Norway [20]
L
- LCDI - Low Carbon Development Indonesia [21]
- LDCF - Least Developed Countries Fund [22]
- LECBP - Low Emission Capacity Building Programme [23]
- LEDS - Low-Emission Development Strategies
- LSCE - Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l'environnement, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- LULUCF - Land use, land-use change, and forestry
M
- MCC - Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Berlin
- MPGCA - Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action
- MoCC - Ministry of Climate Change (Pakistan)
- MoEFCC - Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (India)
- MOP1 - 1st Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (28 November - 9 December 2005)
- MOP2 - 2nd Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (6-17 November 2006)
- MOP3 - 3rd Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (3-15 December 2007)
- MOP4 - 4th Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (1-12 December 2008)
- MOP5 - 5th Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (7-18 December 2009)
- MWE/CCD - Climate Change Department of the Ministry of Water and Environment (Uganda)
N
- NAMA - Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions
- NAPA - National Adaptation Programme of Action
- NAZCA - Non-state Actor Zone for Climate Action
- NC - National Communication (under the Paris Agreement) [24]
- NDC - Nationally Determined Contributions
- NECIA - Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (USA) [25]
- N2O - Nitrous Oxide
- NRSP - National Reports Submission Portal [24]
O
- O3 - Ozone
P
- PATPA - Partnership on Transparency in the Paris Agreement
- P-CAN - Place-based Climate Action Networks, a UK-based partnership between university researchers and the public, private and third sectors in tackling climate change, aiming to accelerate and sustain the transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient society through the creation of local climate commissions.[26]
- PCD - Petersberg Climate Dialogue
- PCD X - Petersberg Climate Dialogue 10 (13-14 May 2019) [27]
- PCD XI - Petersberg Climate Dialogue (27-28 April 2020)
- PFC - Perfluorocarbon
- PIK - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (German: Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung)
S
- SAR - Second Assessment Report of the IPCC (1995)
- SB 52 - Fifty-second session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA 52) and the fifty-second session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI 52) (postponed to 2021) [28]
- SB 56 - the Bonn Climate Change Conference, 56th session of the subsidiary bodies, held on 6 to 16 June 2022 [29]
- SBI - Subsidiary Body for Implementation
- SBI 46 - Forth-sixth session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (8-18 May 2017)
- SBI 47 - Forty-seventh session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (6-15 November 2017)
- SBI 52 - Fifty-second session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (postponed to 2021) [28]
- SBSTA - Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice
- SBTi - Science Based Targets initiative [b]
- SCCF - Special Climate Change Fund [22]
- SDA - Sectoral Decarbonization Approach
- SDGs - Sustainable Development Goals
- SECR - Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting framework (UK)
- SF6 - Sulfur hexafluoride
- SRCCL - Special Report on Climate Change and Land of the IPCC
- SRES - Special Report on Emissions Scenarios of the IPCC
- SR15 - IPCC's Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C
- SSP - Shared Socioeconomic Pathway
T
- TACC - Territorial Approach to Climate Change
- TAR - Third Assessment Report of the IPCC (2001)
- TCCC - Tarawa Climate Change Conference
- TCFD - Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures [31]
- tCO2 - Tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent
- TD - Talanoa Dialogue
- TFI - Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories [32]
U
- UKCIP - Multi-disciplinary team formerly known as the UK Climate Impacts Programme, based at the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford
- UKCP - UK Climate Projections[33]
- UKCP09 - UK Climate Projections 2009
- UKCP18 - UK Climate Projections 2018 [34]
- UKHACC - UK Health Alliance on Climate Change
- UN CC:Learn - One UN Climate Change Learning Partnership
- UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme
- UNFCCC - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- USCAP - U.S. Climate Action Partnership
W
- WCI - Western Climate Initiative
- WCRP - World Climate Research Programme
- WGI - Working Group I of the IPCC, which assesses the physical science of climate change
- WGII - Working Group II of the IPCC, which assesses the vulnerability of socio-economic and natural systems to climate change
- WGIII - Working Group III of the IPCC, which "focuses on climate change mitigation, assessing methods for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere".
- WIM - Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage associated with Climate Change Impacts[35]
- WMO - World Meteorological Organization
- WRI - World Resources Institute
Numerical
- 4CMR - Former Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research
Notes
- ^ Under the 2008 Climate Change Act the UK Government must publish a UK-wide Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA) every five years.[8]
- ^ A target is "science-based" if it is in line with the scale of reductions needed to keep the global temperature increase below 2°C above pre-industrial temperatures.[30]
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