IPCC:AR6/Acronyms

IPCC AR6 Acronyms

This is a comprehensive list of acronyms from the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6).

μ

μatm

Definition: Microatmospheres

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1

1.5DS

Definition: 1.5 Degree Scenario

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2

2DS

Definition: 2 Degree Scenario

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A

ACCESS

Definition: Australian Community Climate and Earth-System Simulator

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ACCMIP

Definition: Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Model Intercomparison Project

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ACCRN

Definition: The Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network

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ACOLA

Definition: Australian Council of Learned Academies

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ACs

Definition: Air Conditioners

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ADB

Definition: Asian Development Bank

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ADVANCE

Definition: Advanced Model Development and Validation for the Improved Analysis of Costs and Impacts of Mitigation Policies

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AEZ

Definition: Agro-Ecological Zone

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AfDB

Definition: African Development Bank

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AFOLU

Definition: Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land-Use

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AGCM

Definition: Atmospheric General Circulation Model

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AI

Definition: Artificial Intelligence

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AIM

Definition: Asia-Pacific Integrated Model

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ALA

Definition: Alaska/Northwest Canada

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AMAP

Definition: Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme

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AMOC

Definition: Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

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AMP

Definition: Adjusting Mitigation Pathway

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AMZ

Definition: Amazon

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ANT

Definition: Antarctica

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APEX

Definition: Air Pollutants Exposure Model

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AR

Definition: Afforestation and Reforestation

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AR4

Definition: IPCC Fourth Assessment Report

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AR5

Definition: IPCC Fifth Assessment Report

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AR6

Definition: IPCC Sixth Assessment Report

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ARC

Definition: Arctic

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ASEAN

Definition: Association of Southeast Asian Nations

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ASIA

Definition: Non-OECD Asia

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AUD

Definition: Australian Dollar

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B

B2DS

Definition: Beyond 2 Degrees Scenario

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BASIC

Definition: Brazil, South Africa, India, China

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BC

Definition: Black Carbon

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BCC-CSM

Definition: Beijing Climate Center Climate System Model

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BCM

Definition: Bergen Climate Model

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BECCS

Definition: Bioenergy with Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage

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BET

Definition: Basic Energy systems, Economy, Environment, and End-use Technology Model

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BEV

Definition: Battery Electric Vehicle

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BNEF

Definition: Bloomberg New Energy Finance

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BNU

Definition: Beijing Normal University

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BRT

Definition: Bus Rapid Transit

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C

cm

Definition: Centimetres

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C

Definition: Carbon

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CA

Definition: Conservation Agriculture

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CAF

Definition: Corporacion Andina de Fomento (Development Bank of Latin America)

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CAM

Definition: Central America/Mexico or Community Atmosphere Model

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CAMx

Definition: Comprehensive Air Quality Model with Extensions

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CanESM

Definition: Canadian Earth System Model

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CanRCM

Definition: Canadian Regional Climate Model

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CAR

Definition: Small Islands Regions Caribbean

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CAS

Definition: Central Asia

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Cat-HM

Definition: Catchment-scale Hydrological Models

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CbA

Definition: Community-based Adaptation

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CBA

Definition: Cost-Benefit Analysis

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CBD

Definition: Convention on Biological Diversity

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CBDR-RC

Definition: Common But Differentiated Responsibilities and Respective Capabilities

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CBS & GNH

Definition: Centre for Bhutan Studies and Gross National Happiness Research

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CC

Definition: Carbon Capture

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CCAM

Definition: Conformal Cubic Atmospheric Model

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CCC

Definition: Constant Composition Commitment

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CCCma

Definition: Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis

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CCRIF

Definition: Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility

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CCS

Definition: Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage

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CCSM

Definition: Community Climate System Model

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CCT

Definition: Cirrus Cloud Thinning

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CCU

Definition: Carbon dioxide Capture and Utilisation

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CCUS

Definition: Carbon dioxide Capture, Utilisation and Storage

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CDD

Definition: Consecutive Dry Days

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CD-LINKS

Definition: Linking Climate and Development Policies – Leveraging International Networks and Knowledge Sharing

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CDM

Definition: Clean Development Mechanism

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CDP

Definition: Carbon Disclosure Project

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CDR

Definition: Carbon Dioxide Removal

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CEA

Definition: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

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CEC

Definition: Clean Energy Council

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CEDS

Definition: Community Emissions Data System

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CEMICS

Definition: Contextualizing Climate Engineering and Mitigation: Illusion, Complement or Substitute?

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CES

Definition: Constant Elasticity of Substitution

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CESM

Definition: Community Earth System Model

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CEU

Definition: Central Europe

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CFCs

Definition: Chlorofluorocarbons

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CGCM

Definition: Coupled Global Climate Model

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CGE

Definition: Computable General Equilibrium

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CGI

Definition: Canada/Greenland/Iceland

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CGIAR

Definition: Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research

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CH4

Definition: Methane

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CHP

Definition: Combined Heat and Power

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CI

Definition: Confidence Interval

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CIRED

Definition: Centre International de Recherche sur l'Environnement et le Développement

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CISL

Definition: Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership

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CLM

Definition: Climate Limited-area Modelling

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CMAQ

Definition: Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System

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CMIP3

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 3

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CMIP5

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5

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CMIP6

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6

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CNA

Definition: Central North America

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CNRM

Definition: Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques

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CO

Definition: Carbon monoxide

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CO2

Definition: Carbon dioxide

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CO2e

Definition: Carbon dioxide equivalent

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CO2eq

Definition: Carbon dioxide equivalent

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CoM

Definition: Covenant of Mayors

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COP

Definition: Conference of the Parties

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COPPE-COFFEE

Definition: Programa de Planejamento Energético – COmputable Framework For Energy and the Environment

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CORDEX

Definition: Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment

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COSMO

Definition: Consortium for Small-scale Modeling

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CRCM

Definition: Canadian Regional Climate Model

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CRDPs

Definition: Climate-Resilient Development Pathways

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CRIEPI

Definition: Institut Central de Recherche des Industries Électriques

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CRISPR

Definition: Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats

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C-ROADS

Definition: Climate Rapid Overview And Decision-support Simulator

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CRU

Definition: Climatic Research Unit

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CSA

Definition: Climate-Smart Agriculture

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CSC

Definition: Climate Service Center Germany

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CSDI

Definition: Cold Spell Duration Index

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CSIRO

Definition: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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CSP

Definition: Concentrated Solar Power

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CSR

Definition: Corporate Social Responsibility

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CTC

Definition: Covenant Territorial Coordinator

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CWD

Definition: Consecutive Wet Days

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D

DACCS

Definition: Direct Air Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage

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DACS

Definition: Direct Air Capture and Storage

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DALY

Definition: Disability Adjusted Life Year

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DICE

Definition: Dynamic Integrated Climate-Economy model

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DJF

Definition: December, January, February

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DM8H

Definition: Daily Maximum 8-Hour exposure

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DNE21+

Definition: Dynamic New Earth 21 model

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DOE

Definition: Department of Energy (USA)

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DRI

Definition: Direct Reduced Iron

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DRM

Definition: Disaster Risk Management

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DTU

Definition: Technical University of Denmark

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E

E

Definition: Equilibrium, Evaporation or Evapotranspiration

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EAF

Definition: East Africa

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EAIS

Definition: East Antarctic Ice Sheet

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EAS

Definition: East Asia

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EbA

Definition: Ecosystems-based Adaptation

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EC

Definition: European Commission

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ECF

Definition: European Climate Foundation

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ECMWF

Definition: European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

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ECS

Definition: Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity

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EDGAR

Definition: Emission Database for Global Atmospheric Research

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EEA

Definition: European Environment Agency

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EGMAM

Definition: ECHO-G Middle Atmosphere Model

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E-HYPE

Definition: European Hydrological Predictions for the Environment

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EJ

Definition: Exajoules

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EMEP

Definition: European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme

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EMF

Definition: Energy Modeling Forum

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EMIC

Definition: Earth-system Model of Intermediate Complexity

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ENA

Definition: East North America

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ENSO

Definition: El Niño-Southern Oscillation

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EOR

Definition: Enhanced Oil Recovery

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EPA

Definition: Environmental Protection Agency (USA)

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EPIs

Definition: Energy-Intensive Processing Industries

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ERA

Definition: ECMWF ReAnalysis

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ERF

Definition: Effective Radiative Forcing

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ERFaci

Definition: Effective Radiative Forcing from aerosol-cloud interactions

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ERFari

Definition: Effective Radiative Forcing from aerosol-radiation interactions

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ESCOs

Definition: Energy Service Companies

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ESL

Definition: Extreme Sea Level

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ESM

Definition: Earth System Model

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ESR

Definition: Empirical Scaling Relationship

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ESRB ASC

Definition: European Systemic Risk Board Advisory Scientific Committee

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ESRL

Definition: NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory

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Eta-CPTEC

Definition: Eta Centro de Previsão do Tempo e Estudos Climáticos

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ETP

Definition: Pacific Islands region [3] or Energy Technology Perspectives model

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ETS

Definition: Emission Trading Scheme

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EU

Definition: European Union

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EU-FP6

Definition: European Union Sixth Framework Programme

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EUG4

Definition: France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom

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EURO-CORDEX

Definition: European branch of the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment

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EV

Definition: Electric Vehicle

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EW

Definition: Enhanced Weathering

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F

FAIR

Definition: Finite Amplitude Impulse Response model

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FAO

Definition: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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FAOSTAT

Definition: Database Collection of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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FAQ

Definition: Frequently Asked Questions

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FARM

Definition: Future Agricultural Resources Model

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Fe

Definition: Iron

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FE

Definition: Final Energy

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FEMA

Definition: Federal Emergency Management Agency (USA)

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FF

Definition: Fossil Fuel

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FF&I

Definition: Fossil-Fuel combustion and Industrial processes

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F-gas

Definition: Fluorinated gases

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FGOALS

Definition: Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System model

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FIO

Definition: First Institute of Oceanography

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FMNR

Definition: Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration

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FUND

Definition: Climate Framework for Uncertainty, Negotiation, and Distribution model

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FUSSR

Definition: Former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

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G

g

Definition: Grams

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GAMS

Definition: General Algebraic Modeling System

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GBAM

Definition: Ground-Based Albedo Modification

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GCAM

Definition: Global Change Assessment Model

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GCC

Definition: Gulf Cooperative Council

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GCEC

Definition: Global Commission on the Economy and Climate

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GCM

Definition: General Circulation Model or Global Climate Model

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GCP

Definition: Global Carbon Project

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GDP

Definition: Gross Domestic Product

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GE

Definition: General Equilibrium

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GEA

Definition: Global Energy Assessment

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GEM-E3

Definition: General Equilibrium Model for Economy - Energy - Environment

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GENeSYS-MOD

Definition: Global Energy System Model

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GeSI

Definition: Global e-Sustainability Initiative

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GFCF

Definition: Gross Fixed Capital Formation

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GFDL

Definition: Geophysical Fluid Dynamic Laboratory

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GFR

Definition: Grid Flexibility Resources

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Gha

Definition: Gigahectares

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GHCNDEX

Definition: Global Historical Climatology Network – Daily climate Extremes

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GHGs

Definition: Greenhouse Gases

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GHM

Definition: Global Hydrological Models

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GIS

Definition: Greenland Ice Sheet

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GISS

Definition: Goddard Institute for Space Studies

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GISTEMP

Definition: Goddard Institute for Space Studies Surface Temperature Analysis

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GJ

Definition: Gigajoules

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GLEAM

Definition: Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model

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Glob-HM

Definition: Global Hydrological Model

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GLOBIOM

Definition: GLObal BIOsphere Management model

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GLOFs

Definition: Glacial Lake Outburst Floods

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GM

Definition: Genetically Modified

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GMO

Definition: Genetically Modified Organism

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GMSL

Definition: Global Mean Sea Level

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GMST

Definition: Global Mean Surface Temperature

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GMT

Definition: Global Mean Temperature

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GNHI

Definition: Gross National Happiness Index

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GPP

Definition: Gross Primary Productivity

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GPT

Definition: General Purpose Technologies

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GRAPE

Definition: Global Relationship Assessment to Protect the Environment model

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GSAT

Definition: Global mean Surface Air Temperature

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Gt

Definition: Gigatonne

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GTP

Definition: Global Temperature-change Potential

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GWA

Definition: Government of Western Australia

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GWP

Definition: Global Warming Potential or Gross World Product

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H

ha

Definition: Hectares

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H2

Definition: Hydrogen

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HadCM

Definition: Hadley Centre Coupled Model

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HadCRUT

Definition: Hadley Centre Climatic Research Unit Gridded Surface Temperature Data Set

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HadEX

Definition: Hadley Centre Global Climate Extremes index

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HadGEM

Definition: Hadley Centre Global Environmental Model

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HadRM

Definition: Hadley Centre Regional Model

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HAPPI

Definition: Half a degree Additional warming, Prognosis and Projected Impacts

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HDV

Definition: Heavy-Duty Vehicle

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HEV

Definition: Hybrid Electric Vehicle

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HFCs

Definition: Hydrofluorocarbons

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HLCCP

Definition: High-Level Commission on Carbon Prices

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HLPE

Definition: High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition

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HSRTF

Definition: Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force

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HTM

Definition: Holocene Thermal Maximum

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HYMOD

Definition: HYdrological MODel

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I

IAEA

Definition: International Atomic Energy Agency

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IAMC

Definition: Integrated Assessment Modelling Consortium

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IAMs

Definition: Integrated Assessment Models

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IBA

Definition: International Bar Association

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IBI

Definition: International Biochar Initiative

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ICAMS

Definition: Integrated Climate and Air Quality Modeling System

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ICEM

Definition: International Centre for Environmental Management

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ICLEI

Definition: International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives

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ICPDR

Definition: International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River

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ICSU

Definition: International Council for Science

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ICT

Definition: Information and Communication Technology

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IEA

Definition: International Energy Agency

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IEAGHG

Definition: IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme

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IFAD

Definition: International Fund for Agricultural Development

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IFPRI

Definition: International Food Policy Research Institute

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IGCC

Definition: Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle

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IIASA

Definition: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

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IIF

Definition: Institute of International Finance

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iLUC

Definition: Indirect Land-Use Change

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IMACLIM-NLU

Definition: IMpact Assessment of CLIMate policies model – Nexus Land-Use model

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IMAGE

Definition: Integrated Model to Assess the Global Environment

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IMF

Definition: International Monetary Fund

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IMO

Definition: International Maritime Organization

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IMPACT2C

Definition: Quantifying Projected Impacts under 2°C Warming

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INDCs

Definition: Intended Nationally Determined Contributions

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INM

Definition: Russian Institute for Numerical Mathematics

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IOM

Definition: International Organization for Migration

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IoT

Definition: Internet of Things

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IPCC

Definition: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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IPSL

Definition: Institute Pierre Simon Laplace

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IRENA

Definition: International Renewable Energy Agency

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ISIMIP

Definition: Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project

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ISO

Definition: International Standards Organisation

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ISSC

Definition: International Social Science Council

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ITF

Definition: International Transport Forum

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IUCN

Definition: International Union for Conservation of Nature

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IWG

Definition: Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases

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IWRM

Definition: Integrated Water Resources Management

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J

JeDi

Definition: Jena Diversity-Dynamic Global Vegetation Model

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JJA

Definition: June, July, August

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JMA

Definition: Japan Meteorological Agency

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JRA-55

Definition: Japanese 55-year Reanalysis

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JRC

Definition: European Commission – Joint Research Centre

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JULES

Definition: Joint United Kingdom Land Environment Simulator

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K

kcal cap-1 day-1

Definition: Kilocalories per capita per day

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km

Definition: Kilometres

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kt

Definition: Kilotonnes

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kWh

Definition: Kilowatt hours

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KNMI

Definition: Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute)

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L

L

Definition: Litres

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L&D

Definition: Loss and Damage

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LAM

Definition: Latin America and Caribbean

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LDCs

Definition: Least Developed Countries

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LDMz-INCA

Definition: Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique – INteractions between Chemistry and Aerosols

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LDV

Definition: Light-Duty Vehicle

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LE

Definition: Limited Evidence

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LED

Definition: Low Energy Demand or Light Emitting Diode

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LGM

Definition: Last Glacial Maximum

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LIG

Definition: Last Interglacial

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LLCFs

Definition: Long-Lived Climate Forcers

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LNG

Definition: Liquefied Natural Gas

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LPG

Definition: Liquefied Petroleum Gas

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LPJmL

Definition: Lund-Potsdam-Jena managed Land model

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LTA

Definition: Land Transport Authority of Singapore

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LTGG

Definition: Long-Term Global Goal

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LUC

Definition: Land-Use Change

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LULUCF

Definition: Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry

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M

m

Definition: Metres

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m3 cap-1 yr-1

Definition: Cubic metres per capita per year

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mg

Definition: Milligrams

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mL

Definition: Millilitres

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mm

Definition: Millimetres

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M&E

Definition: Monitoring and Evaluation

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Ma

Definition: Million years ago

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MAC

Definition: Marginal Abatement Cost

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MacPDM

Definition: Macro-scale – Probability-Distributed Moisture Model

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MAGICC

Definition: Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Induced Climate Change

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MAgPIE

Definition: Model of Agricultural Production and its Impact on the Environment

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MAM

Definition: March, April, May

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MCB

Definition: Marine Cloud Brightening

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MCCA

Definition: Mercado Común Centroamericano

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MDB

Definition: Group of Multilateral Development Banks

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MDGs

Definition: Millennium Development Goals

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MEA

Definition: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

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MED

Definition: South Europe/Mediterranean

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MEPS

Definition: Minimum Energy Performance Standards

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MER

Definition: Market Exchange Rates

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MERET

Definition: Managing Environmental Resources to Enable Transitions

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MERGE-ETL

Definition: Model for Evaluating Regional and Global Effects of greenhouse gas reduction policies – Endogenous Technology Learning

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MESSAGE

Definition: Model for Energy Supply Systems And their General Environmental impact

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Mha

Definition: Megahectare

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MIROC

Definition: Model for Interdisciplinary Research on Climate

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MISI

Definition: Marine Ice Sheet Instability

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MIT IGSM

Definition: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Integrated Global System Model

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MJ

Definition: Megajoules

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MoCC

Definition: Ministry of Climate Change and Adaptation (Government of Vanuatu)

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MOHC

Definition: Met Office Hadley Centre

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MOPEX

Definition: Model Parameter Estimation Experiment

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MPAs

Definition: Marine Protected Areas

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MPI

Definition: Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology)

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MPWP

Definition: Mid Pliocene Warm Period

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MRFCJ

Definition: Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice

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MRI

Definition: Meteorological Research Institute of Japan Meteorological Agency

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MRV

Definition: Measurement, Reporting and Verification

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MSR

Definition: Multi-Sector Risk score

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Mt

Definition: Megatonnes

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N

N

Definition: Nitrogen

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N2O

Definition: Nitrous oxide

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NAP

Definition: National Adaptation Plan

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NAS

Definition: North Asia

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NASA

Definition: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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NASEM

Definition: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

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NAU

Definition: North Australia

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NCAR

Definition: National Center for Atmospheric Research

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NCCARF

Definition: National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility

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NCE

Definition: New Climate Economy

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NDCs

Definition: Nationally Determined Contributions

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NEA

Definition: Nuclear Energy Agency

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NEB

Definition: North-East Brazil

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NEC

Definition: National Environment Commission (Royal Government of Bhutan)

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NETL

Definition: National Energy Technology Laboratory (US Department of Energy)

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NEU

Definition: North Europe

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NF3

Definition: Nitrogen trifluoride

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NGO

Definition: Non-Governmental Organization

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NH3

Definition: Ammonia

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NHD

Definition: Number of Hot Days

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NITI Aayog

Definition: National Institution for Transforming India

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NMVOC

Definition: Non-Methane Volatile Organic Compounds

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NOAA

Definition: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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NorESM

Definition: Norwegian Earth System Model

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NOx

Definition: Nitrogen oxides

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NPCC

Definition: New York City Panel on Climate Change

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NPP

Definition: Net Primary Productivity

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NPV

Definition: Net Present Value

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NRC

Definition: National Research Council

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NSR

Definition: Northern Sea Route

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NTP

Definition: Pacific Islands region [2]

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NYC

Definition: New York City

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NZAGRC

Definition: New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Center

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O

O2

Definition: Oxygen

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O3

Definition: Ozone

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OA

Definition: Ocean Acidification or Ocean Alkalinization

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OC

Definition: Organic Carbon

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OECD

Definition: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

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OGCC

Definition: Optimal Gasification Combined Cycle

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OHCHR

Definition: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

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OIF

Definition: Ocean Iron Fertilisation

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ORCHIDEE

Definition: ORganising Carbon and Hydrology In Dynamic EcosystEms model

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ORR

Definition: NYC Mayor's Office of Recovery & Resiliency

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OS

Definition: Overshoot

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P

pp

Definition: People

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ppb

Definition: Parts per billion

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ppm

Definition: Parts per million

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ppt

Definition: Parts per thousand

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P

Definition: Precipitation or Phosphorous

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PAGE

Definition: Policy Analysis of the Greenhouse Effect model

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PAHO

Definition: Pan American Health Organization

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PCM

Definition: Parallel Climate Model

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PDSI

Definition: Palmer Drought Severity Index

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PE

Definition: Primary Energy or Partial Equilibrium

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PET

Definition: Physiologically Equivalent Temperature or Potential Evapo-Transpiration

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PFCs

Definition: Perfluorocarbons

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Pg

Definition: Petagrams

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PHEV

Definition: Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle

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PIK

Definition: Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)

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PM10

Definition: Particulate Matter with Aerodynamic Diameter <10 μm

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PM2.5

Definition: Particulate Matter with Aerodynamic Diameter <2.5 μm

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POLES

Definition: Prospective Outlook on Long-term Energy Systems model

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PPP

Definition: Purchasing Power Parity

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PR

Definition: Probability Ratio

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PV

Definition: Photovoltaics

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R

R&D

Definition: Research and Development

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RCA

Definition: Rossby Centre Regional Atmospheric Model

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RCI

Definition: Rotterdam Climate Initiative

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RCM

Definition: Regional Climate Model

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RCPs

Definition: Representative Concentration Pathways

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REDD+

Definition: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation; and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries

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ReEDS-IPM

Definition: Regional Electricity Deployment System model – Integrated Planning Model

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RegCM

Definition: Regional Climate Model system

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REMIND

Definition: REgional Model of INvestments and Development

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REN21

Definition: Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century

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RF

Definition: Radiative Forcing

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RFC

Definition: Reason for Concern

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RGoB

Definition: Royal Government of Bhutan

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RMI

Definition: Rocky Mountain Institute

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RNCFC

Definition: Reference Non-CO2 Forcing Contribution

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RNCTC

Definition: Reference Non-CO2 Temperature Contribution

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Rx1day

Definition: Annual maximum 1-day precipitation

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Rx5day

Definition: Annual maximum 5-day precipitation

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S

SAF

Definition: Southern Africa

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SAH

Definition: Sahara

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SAI

Definition: Stratospheric Aerosol Injection

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SAMS

Definition: South American Monsoon System

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SAR

Definition: IPCC Second Assessment Report

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SAS

Definition: South Asia

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SAT

Definition: Surface Air Temperature

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SAU

Definition: South Australia/New Zealand

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SBSTA

Definition: Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (UNFCCC)

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SCC

Definition: Social Cost of Carbon

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SCS

Definition: Soil Carbon Sequestration

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SD

Definition: Sustainable Development

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SDGs

Definition: Sustainable Development Goals

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SDGVM

Definition: Sheffield Dynamic Global Vegetation Model

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SDII

Definition: Simple Daily Intensity Index

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SDSN

Definition: Sustainable Development Solutions Network

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SEA

Definition: Southeast Asia

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SEAPs

Definition: Sustainable Energy Action Plans

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SED

Definition: Structured Expert Dialogue

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SEM

Definition: Semi-Empirical Model

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SF6

Definition: Sulphur hexafluoride

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SFM

Definition: Sustainable Forest Management

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SIDS

Definition: Small Island Developing States

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SIFMA

Definition: Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association

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SLCFs

Definition: Short-Lived Climate Forcers

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SLCPs

Definition: Short-Lived Climate Pollutants

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SLR

Definition: Sea Level Rise

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SM

Definition: Supplementary Material

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SMA

Definition: Soil Moisture Anomalies

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SMHI

Definition: Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

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SO2

Definition: Sulphur dioxide

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SOLARIS HEPPA

Definition: SOLARIS High Energy Particle Precipitation in the Atmosphere

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SON

Definition: September, October, November

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SOx

Definition: Sulphur oxides

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SPAs

Definition: Shared climate Policy Assumptions

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SPC

Definition: Secretariat of the Pacific Community

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SPEI

Definition: Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index

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SPI

Definition: Standardised Precipitation Index

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SPM

Definition: Summary for Policymakers

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SR1.5

Definition: IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C

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SRCCL

Definition: IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land

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SRES

Definition: IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios

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SREX

Definition: IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation

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SRM

Definition: Solar Radiation Modification

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SROCC

Definition: IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate

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SSA

Definition: Southeastern South America

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SSPs

Definition: Shared Socioeconomic Pathways

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SST

Definition: Sea Surface Temperature

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STP

Definition: Southern Tropical Pacific

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SWAT

Definition: Soil & Water Assessment Tool

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SWF

Definition: Social Welfare Function

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SYR

Definition: IPCC Synthesis Report

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T

t

Definition: Tonnes

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tDM

Definition: Tonnes Dry Matter

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tril$

Definition: Trillion dollars

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T

Definition: Temperature or Transient

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T&D

Definition: Transmission and Distribution

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TCR

Definition: Transient Climate Response

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TCRE

Definition: Transient Climate Response to cumulative CO2 Emissions

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TEAP

Definition: Technology and Economic Assessment Panel

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TFE

Definition: Thematic Focus Element

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TFP

Definition: Total Factor Productivity

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Tg

Definition: Teragrams

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TIB

Definition: Tibetan Plateau

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TNn

Definition: Coldest night-time temperature of the year

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TOD

Definition: Transit Oriented Development

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TS

Definition: Technical Summary

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Tt

Definition: Teratonnes

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TTs

Definition: Transition Towns

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TXx

Definition: Hottest daytime temperature of the year

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U

UCCRN

Definition: Urban Climate Change Research Network

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UHI

Definition: Urban Heat Islands

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UITP

Definition: Union Internationale des Transports Publics (International Association of Public Transport)

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UKCP

Definition: United Kingdom Climate Projections

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UN

Definition: United Nations

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UN DESA

Definition: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs

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UNCBD

Definition: United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity

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UNDP

Definition: United Nations Development Programme

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UNEP

Definition: UN Environment

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UNEP-WCMC

Definition: UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre

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UNESCO

Definition: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

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UNFCCC

Definition: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

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UNGA

Definition: United Nations General Assembly

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UNICEF

Definition: United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund

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UNISDR

Definition: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

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UN-OHRLLS

Definition: Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States

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UNRISD

Definition: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development

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UNSCEAR

Definition: United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation

Report: SR1.5

UNU

Definition: United Nations University

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UNU-EHS

Definition: United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security

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USD

Definition: United States Dollars

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UV

Definition: Ultraviolet

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V

VISIT

Definition: Vegetation Integrative Simulator for Trace Gases

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VKT

Definition: Vehicle Kilometres of Travel

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VOCs

Definition: Volatile Organic Compounds

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W

w/

Definition: With

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w/o

Definition: Without

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w.r.t.

Definition: With respect to

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W

Definition: Watts

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WAF

Definition: West Africa

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WAIS

Definition: West Antarctic Ice Sheet

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WAS

Definition: West Asia

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WBCSD

Definition: World Business Council for Sustainable Development

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WBGU

Definition: Wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen (German Advisory Council on Global Change)

Report: SR1.5

WBM

Definition: Water Balance Model

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WCED

Definition: World Commission on Environment and Development

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WCRP

Definition: World Climate Research Programme

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WEC

Definition: World Energy Council

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WEF

Definition: Water-Energy-Food or World Economic Forum

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WEM

Definition: World Energy Model

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WEO

Definition: World Energy Outlook

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WFP

Definition: World Food Programme

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WGI

Definition: IPCC Working Group I

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WGII

Definition: IPCC Working Group II

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WGIII

Definition: IPCC Working Group III

Report: SR1.5

WHO

Definition: World Health Organization

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WIM

Definition: Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage

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WIO

Definition: West Indian Ocean

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WITCH

Definition: World Induced Technical Change Hybrid Model

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WMGHGs

Definition: Well-Mixed Greenhouse Gases

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WMO

Definition: World Meteorological Organization

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WNA

Definition: West North America

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WRF

Definition: Weather Research and Forecasting

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WSA

Definition: West Coast South America

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WSDI

Definition: Warm Spell Duration Index

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WTO

Definition: World Trade Organization

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Y

yr

Definition: Year

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Z

ZEC

Definition: Zero Emissions Commitment

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3

3-NOP

Definition: 3-Nitrooxypropanol

Report: SRCCL

A

A/F

Definition: Afforestation/Reforestation

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ABC

Definition: Low Carbon Agriculture Plan

Report: SRCCL

ABM

Definition: Agent-Based Model

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ADB

Definition: Asian Development Bank

Report: SRCCL

AerChemMIP

Definition: Aerosol Chemistry Model Intercomparison Project

Report: SRCCL

AFOLU

Definition: Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use

Report: SRCCL

AgMIP

Definition: Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project

Report: SRCCL

AGRA

Definition: Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa

Report: SRCCL

AI

Definition: Aridity Index

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AMO

Definition: Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation

Report: SRCCL

AR

Definition: Afforestation and Reforestation

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AR5

Definition: Fifth Assessment Report

Report: SRCCL

ARC

Definition: Africa Risk Capacity

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ARM

Definition: Adaptive Risk Management

Report: SRCCL

ASF

Definition: Animal Sourced Foods

Report: SRCCL

AVHRR

Definition: Advanced High Resolution Radiometer

Report: SRCCL

AWD

Definition: Alternate Wetting and Drying

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B

BAPEN

Definition: British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition

Report: SRCCL

BAU

Definition: Business as Usual

Report: SRCCL

BC

Definition: Biochar / Black Carbon

Report: SRCCL

BCR

Definition: Benefit Cost Ratio

Report: SRCCL

BE

Definition: Bioenergy

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BECCS

Definition: Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage

Report: SRCCL

BEFM

Definition: Bio-Economic Farm Model

Report: SRCCL

BEST

Definition: Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature

Report: SRCCL

BPE

Definition: Biomass Production Efficiency

Report: SRCCL

BrC

Definition: Brown Carbon

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BTV

Definition: Blue-Tongue Virus

Report: SRCCL

BUR

Definition: Biannual Update Report

Report: SRCCL

BVOC

Definition: Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds

Report: SRCCL

C

C

Definition: Carbon

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CA

Definition: Conservation Agriculture

Report: SRCCL

CABI

Definition: Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International

Report: SRCCL

CACILM

Definition: Central Asian Countries Initiative for Land Management

Report: SRCCL

CAFO

Definition: Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations

Report: SRCCL

CAMPA

Definition: Compensatory Afforestation Management and Planning Authority

Report: SRCCL

CATDDO

Definition: Catastrophe Risk Deferred Drawdown Option

Report: SRCCL

CBA

Definition: Community-based Adaptation/Cost Benefit Analysis

Report: SRCCL

CBD

Definition: United Nations Convention on Biodiversity

Report: SRCCL

CC

Definition: Carbon Capture

Report: SRCCL

CCS

Definition: Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage / Carbon Capture and Storage

Report: SRCCL

CCA

Definition: Climate Change Adaptation

Report: SRCCL

CCAFS

Definition: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

Report: SRCCL

CCN

Definition: Cloud Condensation Nuclei

Report: SRCCL

CCRIF

Definition: Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility

Report: SRCCL

CCU

Definition: Carbon Capture and Usage

Report: SRCCL

CDM

Definition: Clean Development Mechanism

Report: SRCCL

CDP

Definition: Carbon Disclosure Project

Report: SRCCL

CDR

Definition: Carbon Dioxide Removal

Report: SRCCL

CEA

Definition: Cost Effectiveness Analysis

Report: SRCCL

CEC

Definition: Commission of the European Communities

Report: SRCCL

Ç

ÇEMGM

Definition: Conservation Reserve Program

Report: SRCCL

C

CEN-SAD

Definition: The Community of Sahel-Saharan States

Report: SRCCL

CFS

Definition: Committee on World Food Security

Report: SRCCL

CGIAR-

Definition: Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research

Report: SRCCL

CGRA

Definition: Coordinated Global and Regional Assessment

Report: SRCCL

CH4

Definition: Methane

Report: SRCCL

CHP

Definition: Combined Heat and Power

Report: SRCCL

CHIRPS

Definition: Climate Hazards Group Infrared Precipitation with Station

Report: SRCCL

CHMI

Definition: Czech Hydrometeorological Institute

Report: SRCCL

CI

Definition: Confidence Interval

Report: SRCCL

CIAT

Definition: International Centre for Tropical Agriculture

Report: SRCCL

CIPHET

Definition: Central Institute of Post-Harvest Engineering and Technology

Report: SRCCL

CIREN

Definition: Centro de Información de Recursos Naturales

Report: SRCCL

CM

Definition: Cultured Meat

Report: SRCCL

CMIE

Definition: Centre of Monitoring the Indian Economy

Report: SRCCL

CMIP5

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5

Report: SRCCL

CMIP6

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6

Report: SRCCL

CO

Definition: Carbon monoxide

Report: SRCCL

CO2

Definition: Carbon dioxide

Report: SRCCL

CO2e

Definition: Carbon dioxide equivalent

Report: SRCCL

CO2eq

Definition: Carbon dioxide equivalent

Report: SRCCL

COP

Definition: Conference of the Parties

Report: SRCCL

CRCM

Definition: Canadian Regional Climate Model

Report: SRCCL

CRISPR

Definition: Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats

Report: SRCCL

CRP

Definition: Conservation Reserve Program

Report: SRCCL

CRU

Definition: Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia

Report: SRCCL

CRUTEM

Definition: Dataset of the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia

Report: SRCCL

CRV

Definition: Climate Resilient Villages

Report: SRCCL

CSA

Definition: Climate Smart Agriculture

Report: SRCCL

CSO

Definition: Civil Society Organisation

Report: SRCCL

CSV

Definition: Climate Smart Village

Report: SRCCL

D

DALY

Definition: Disability-Adjusted Life-Year

Report: SRCCL

DERM

Definition: Department of Environment and Resource Management, India

Report: SRCCL

DESIRE

Definition: Desertification Mitigation and Remediation of Land

Report: SRCCL

DGVM

Definition: Dynamic Global Vegetation Model

Report: SRCCL

DJF

Definition: December-January-February

Report: SRCCL

DMP

Definition: Dust Mass Path

Report: SRCCL

DRM

Definition: Disaster Risk Management

Report: SRCCL

DOD

Definition: Dust Optical Depth

Report: SRCCL

DRR

Definition: Disaster Risk Reduction

Report: SRCCL

E

EBA

Definition: Ecosystem Based Adaptation

Report: SRCCL

EC

Definition: Elemental Carbon or European Commission

Report: SRCCL

ECA

Definition: European Court of Auditors

Report: SRCCL

EDGAR

Definition: Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research

Report: SRCCL

EEA

Definition: European Environment Agency

Report: SRCCL

EF

Definition: Emission Factor

Report: SRCCL

EFSA

Definition: European Food Safety Authority

Report: SRCCL

EFT

Definition: Ecological Fiscal Transfer

Report: SRCCL

ELD

Definition: Economics of Land Degradation or Economics of Land Degradation Initiative

Report: SRCCL

EM-DAT

Definition: International Disaster Database

Report: SRCCL

ENSO

Definition: El Niño/Southern Oscillation

Report: SRCCL

EPA

Definition: UN Environmental Protection Agency

Report: SRCCL

ES

Definition: Ecosystem Service

Report: SRCCL

ESM

Definition: Earth System Models

Report: SRCCL

ESL

Definition: Extreme Sea Level

Report: SRCCL

ETS

Definition: Emissions Trading Scheme

Report: SRCCL

EU

Definition: European Union

Report: SRCCL

EU-RED

Definition: European Union Renewable Energy Directive

Report: SRCCL

EVI

Definition: Enhanced Vegetation Index

Report: SRCCL

EW/EA

Definition: Early Warning and Early Action

Report: SRCCL

EWS

Definition: Early Warning Systems

Report: SRCCL

F

FACE

Definition: Free-Air Carbon dioxide Enrichment

Report: SRCCL

FAO

Definition: United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation

Report: SRCCL

FAO-FRA

Definition: FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment

Report: SRCCL

FAOSTAT

Definition: FAO Database

Report: SRCCL

FAQ

Definition: Frequently Asked Questions

Report: SRCCL

Fe

Definition: Iron

Report: SRCCL

FF

Definition: Fossil Fuel

Report: SRCCL

FIES

Definition: Food Insecurity Experience Scale

Report: SRCCL

fNRB

Definition: fraction of Non-Renewable Biomass

Report: SRCCL

FRA

Definition: Forest Rights Act (India)

Report: SRCCL

FSC

Definition: Forest Stewardship Council

Report: SRCCL

FWL

Definition: Food Waste and Loss

Report: SRCCL

G

GATT

Definition: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

Report: SRCCL

GBEP

Definition: Global Bioenergy Partnership

Report: SRCCL

GCF

Definition: Green Climate Fund

Report: SRCCL

GCM

Definition: Global Climate Model or General Circulation Model

Report: SRCCL

GCP

Definition: Global Carbon Project

Report: SRCCL

GDEWS

Definition: Global Drought Early Warning System

Report: SRCCL

GDP

Definition: Gross Domestic Product

Report: SRCCL

GE

Definition: Government Effectiveness or General Equilibrium

Report: SRCCL

GEF

Definition: Global Environmental Facility

Report: SRCCL

GFCS

Definition: Global Framework for Climate Services

Report: SRCCL

GFED

Definition: Global Fire Emissions Database

Report: SRCCL

GFGP

Definition: Conversion of Cropland to Forests and Grasslands Program (Grain for Green Programme)

Report: SRCCL

GGCM

Definition: Global Gridded Crop Models

Report: SRCCL

Gha

Definition: Gigahectares

Report: SRCCL

GHCN

Definition: Global Historical Climatology Network

Report: SRCCL

GHG

Definition: Greenhouse Gas

Report: SRCCL

GHGE

Definition: Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Report: SRCCL

GHGI

Definition: Greenhouse Gas Inventory

Report: SRCCL

GIAHS

Definition: Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Site

Report: SRCCL

GIEWS

Definition: FAO Global Information and Early Warning System

Report: SRCCL

GIMMS3g

Definition: Global Inventory Modelling and Mapping Studies

Report: SRCCL

GISTEMP

Definition: Goddard's Global Surface Temperature Analysis

Report: SRCCL

GIZ

Definition: German Society for International Cooperation

Report: SRCCL

GJ

Definition: Gigajoules

Report: SRCCL

GLASOD

Definition: Global Assessment of Human-Induced Soil Degradation

Report: SRCCL

GLASS

Definition: Global Land Atmosphere System Study

Report: SRCCL

GLOBIOM

Definition: GLObal BIOsphere Management model

Report: SRCCL

GLOF

Definition: Glacial Lake Outburst Floods

Report: SRCCL

GLOMAP

Definition: Global Model of Aerosol Processes

Report: SRCCL

GM

Definition: Genetically Modified

Report: SRCCL

GMO

Definition: Genetically Modified Organism

Report: SRCCL

GMSL

Definition: Global Mean Sea Level

Report: SRCCL

GMST

Definition: Global Mean Surface Temperature

Report: SRCCL

GMT

Definition: Global Mean Temperature

Report: SRCCL

GNR

Definition: Global Nutrition Report

Report: SRCCL

GPP

Definition: Gross Primary Productivity/Gross Primary Production

Report: SRCCL

GWP

Definition: Global Warming Potential

Report: SRCCL

H

Ha

Definition: Hectares

Report: SRCCL

H2

Definition: Hydrogen

Report: SRCCL

HadCM3

Definition: Hadley Centre Coupled Model, version 3

Report: SRCCL

HANPP

Definition: Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production

Report: SRCCL

HAPPI

Definition: Half a degree Additional warming, Projections, Prognosis and Impacts

Report: SRCCL

HDI

Definition: Human Development Index

Report: SRCCL

HEI

Definition: Healthcare Environment Inspectorate

Report: SRCCL

HHP

Definition: High Hydrostatic Pressure

Report: SRCCL

HKH

Definition: Hindu-Kush Himalayan

Report: SRCCL

HLPE

Definition: High Level Panel of Experts

Report: SRCCL

HYDE

Definition: History Database of the Global Environment

Report: SRCCL

I

IAM

Definition: Integrated Assessment Model

Report: SRCCL

ICARDA

Definition: International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas

Report: SRCCL

ICCC

Definition: International Conference on Climate Change

Report: SRCCL

ICOS

Definition: Integrated Carbon Observation System

Report: SRCCL

ICPAC

Definition: IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre

Report: SRCCL

ICSU

Definition: International Council for Science

Report: SRCCL

ICT

Definition: Information and Communication Technology

Report: SRCCL

ICTP

Definition: International Centre for Theoretical Physics

Report: SRCCL

IEA

Definition: International Energy Agency

Report: SRCCL

IFAD

Definition: International Fund for Agricultural Development

Report: SRCCL

IFPRI

Definition: International Food Policy Research Institute

Report: SRCCL

IGAD

Definition: Intergovernmental Authority on Development

Report: SRCCL

IHME

Definition: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Report: SRCCL

IK

Definition: Indigenous Knowledge

Report: SRCCL

ILK

Definition: Indigenous and Local Knowledge

Report: SRCCL

iLUC

Definition: indirect Land Use Change

Report: SRCCL

IMAGE

Definition: Integrated Model to Assess Global Environment

Report: SRCCL

INDC

Definition: Intended Nationally Determined Contribution

Report: SRCCL

INPE

Definition: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (National Institute for Space Research)

Report: SRCCL

IOD

Definition: Indian Ocean Dipole

Report: SRCCL

IPBES

Definition: Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Report: SRCCL

IPCC

Definition: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Report: SRCCL

IPO

Definition: Inter-decadal Pacific Oscillation

Report: SRCCL

IQR

Definition: Interquartile Range

Report: SRCCL

IRD

Definition: Integrated Rural Development

Report: SRCCL

ISEAL

Definition: ISEAL Alliance (International Social and Environmental Accreditation and Labelling Alliance)

Report: SRCCL

ISO

Definition: International Organization for Standardization

Report: SRCCL

ITPS

Definition: Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils

Report: SRCCL

ITRDB

Definition: International Tree Ring Data Bank

Report: SRCCL

IUCN

Definition: International Union for Conservation of Nature

Report: SRCCL

IWAI

Definition: Inland Waterways Authority of India

Report: SRCCL

IWM

Definition: Integrated Watershed Management

Report: SRCCL

J

JJA

Definition: June-July-August

Report: SRCCL

K

K

Definition: Potassium

Report: SRCCL

km

Definition: Kilometres

Report: SRCCL

kt

Definition: Kilotonnes

Report: SRCCL

kWh

Definition: Kilowatt hours

Report: SRCCL

L

L

Definition: Litres

Report: SRCCL

LADA

Definition: Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands

Report: SRCCL

LAI

Definition: Leaf Area Index

Report: SRCCL

LAPA

Definition: Local Adaptation Plan of Action

Report: SRCCL

LCA

Definition: Lifecycle Analysis/Life-Cycle Assessment

Report: SRCCL

LCC

Definition: Land-Cover Conversions

Report: SRCCL

LCCS

Definition: Land Cover Classification System

Report: SRCCL

LDC

Definition: Least Developed Countries

Report: SRCCL

LDN

Definition: Land Degradation Neutrality

Report: SRCCL

LED

Definition: Low Energy Demand

Report: SRCCL

LGP

Definition: Length of Growing Period

Report: SRCCL

LiDAR

Definition: Light Detection and Ranging

Report: SRCCL

LIMCOM

Definition: Limpopo Watercourse Commission

Report: SRCCL

LK

Definition: Local Knowledge

Report: SRCCL

LM

Definition: Land Management

Report: SRCCL

LMIC

Definition: Low- and Middle-Income Country

Report: SRCCL

LPG

Definition: Liquified Petroleum Gas

Report: SRCCL

LSAT

Definition: Land Surface Air Temperature

Report: SRCCL

LSLA

Definition: Large-Scale Land Acquisition

Report: SRCCL

LTKA

Definition: Local and Traditional Knowledge in Agriculture

Report: SRCCL

LUC

Definition: Land Use Change

Report: SRCCL

LUH2

Definition: Harmonised Land Use Change Data

Report: SRCCL

LULCC

Definition: Land Use Land Cover Change

Report: SRCCL

LULUCF

Definition: Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry

Report: SRCCL

M

MA

Definition: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

Report: SRCCL

MAC

Definition: Marginal Abatement Cost

Report: SRCCL

MACC

Definition: Marginal Abatement Cost Curve

Report: SRCCL

MAgPIE

Definition: Model of Agricultural Production and its Impact on the Environment

Report: SRCCL

MAM

Definition: March-April-May

Report: SRCCL

MAR

Definition: Managed Aquifer Recharge

Report: SRCCL

MCF

Definition: Methyl Chloroform

Report: SRCCL

MCS

Definition: Mesoscale Convective Systems

Report: SRCCL

MEA

Definition: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

Report: SRCCL

MED

Definition: Middle Eastern Dust Storms

Report: SRCCL

MERIS

Definition: Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer

Report: SRCCL

MESSAGE

Definition: Model for Energy Supply Systems And their General Environmental impact

Report: SRCCL

MFS

Definition: Microfinance Services

Report: SRCCL

Mha

Definition: Megahectare

Report: SRCCL

MIRWH

Definition: Mechanized Micro Rainwater Harvesting

Report: SRCCL

MJ

Definition: Megajoules

Report: SRCCL

MND

Definition: Micro Nutrient Deficiency

Report: SRCCL

MODIS

Definition: Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer

Report: SRCCL

MOFPI

Definition: Ministry of Food Processing Industries

Report: SRCCL

MRV

Definition: Monitoring, Reporting and Verification

Report: SRCCL

MSA

Definition: Mean Species Abundance

Report: SRCCL

Mt

Definition: Megatonnes

Report: SRCCL

MTOE

Definition: Million Tonnes of Oil Equivalent

Report: SRCCL

N

N

Definition: Nitrogen

Report: SRCCL

N2O

Definition: Nitrous Oxide

Report: SRCCL

NAMA

Definition: Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action

Report: SRCCL

NAP

Definition: National Adaptation Plan

Report: SRCCL

NAPA

Definition: National Adaptation Program of Action

Report: SRCCL

NARC

Definition: Nepal Agricultural Research Council

Report: SRCCL

NASA/GISS

Definition: US National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Report: SRCCL

NBS

Definition: Nature Based Solutions

Report: SRCCL

NCE

Definition: New Climate Economy

Report: SRCCL

NCD

Definition: Non-Communicable Diseases

Report: SRCCL

NCP

Definition: Nature's Contributions to People

Report: SRCCL

NDC

Definition: Nationally Determined Contribution

Report: SRCCL

NDVI

Definition: Normalised Difference Vegetation Index

Report: SRCCL

NENA

Definition: Near East and North Africa

Report: SRCCL

NEON

Definition: National Science Foundation's National Ecological Observatory Network

Report: SRCCL

NEP

Definition: National Energy Programme

Report: SRCCL

NET

Definition: Negative Emission Technology

Report: SRCCL

NFPP

Definition: National Forest Protection Program

Report: SRCCL

NGO

Definition: Non-Governmental Organisation

Report: SRCCL

NH3

Definition: Ammonia

Report: SRCCL

NIAB

Definition: National Institute of Agricultural Botany

Report: SRCCL

NOAA

Definition: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Report: SRCCL

NOAA AVHRR

Definition: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

Report: SRCCL

NOAA ESRL

Definition: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Earth System Research Laboratory

Report: SRCCL

NPP

Definition: Net Primary Production/Net Primary Productivity

Report: SRCCL

NPV

Definition: Net Present Value

Report: SRCCL

NRC

Definition: National Research Council

Report: SRCCL

NRDC

Definition: Natural Resources Defence Council

Report: SRCCL

NTFP

Definition: Non-Timber Forest Product

Report: SRCCL

NUS

Definition: Neglected and Underutilised Species

Report: SRCCL

O

O2

Definition: Oxygen

Report: SRCCL

O3

Definition: Ozone

Report: SRCCL

OC

Definition: Organic Carbon

Report: SRCCL

OECD

Definition: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Report: SRCCL

OH

Definition: Hydroxyl Radical

Report: SRCCL

ORCHIDEE

Definition: Organising Carbon and Hydrology In Dynamic Ecosystems

Report: SRCCL

OSS

Definition: Sahara and Sahel Observatory

Report: SRCCL

P

P

Definition: Precipitation or Phosphorus

Report: SRCCL

PAF

Definition: Pilot Auction Facility

Report: SRCCL

PAGGW

Definition: Pan-African Agency of the Great Green Wall

Report: SRCCL

PAH

Definition: Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon

Report: SRCCL

PAYT

Definition: Pay As You Throw

Report: SRCCL

PBAP

Definition: Primary Biological Aerosol Particles

Report: SRCCL

PCP

Definition: Precipitation

Report: SRCCL

PCRAFI

Definition: Pacific Catastrophe Risk Assessment and Financing Initiative

Report: SRCCL

PEFC

Definition: Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification

Report: SRCCL

PES

Definition: Payment for Environmental Services/Payment for Ecosystem Services

Report: SRCCL

PET

Definition: Potential Evapotranspiration

Report: SRCCL

PHL

Definition: Post Harvest Losses

Report: SRCCL

PICS

Definition: Purdue Improved Crop Storage

Report: SRCCL

PM

Definition: Particulate Matter

Report: SRCCL

PM2.5

Definition: Particulate matter with size less than 2.5 µm

Report: SRCCL

PoU

Definition: Prevalence of Undernourishment

Report: SRCCL

PPA

Definition: Power Purchase Agreements

Report: SRCCL

PPCDAm

Definition: Interministerial Plan of Action for Prevention and Control of Deforestation of the Legal Amazon

Report: SRCCL

PPI

Definition: Plant Phenology Index

Report: SRCCL

PRIMAP

Definition: Potsdam Real-time Integrated Model for the probabilistic Assessment of emission Paths

Report: SRCCL

R

RAP

Definition: Representative Agricultural Pathways

Report: SRCCL

RCM

Definition: Regional Climate Models

Report: SRCCL

RCP

Definition: Representative Concentration Pathway

Report: SRCCL

REDD

Definition: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation

Report: SRCCL

REDD+

Definition: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries

Report: SRCCL

RegCM

Definition: Regional Climate Model

Report: SRCCL

REMIND

Definition: REgional Model of INvestments and Development

Report: SRCCL

REN21

Definition: Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century

Report: SRCCL

RF

Definition: Radiative Forcing

Report: SRCCL

RESTREND

Definition: Residual Trends

Report: SRCCL

RIL

Definition: Reduced Impact Logging

Report: SRCCL

ROSCA

Definition: Rotating Saving and Credit Association

Report: SRCCL

RPDS

Definition: Research Program on Dryland Systems

Report: SRCCL

RUE

Definition: Rain Use Efficiency

Report: SRCCL

RUSLE

Definition: Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation

Report: SRCCL

RVI

Definition: Reconstructed Vegetation Index

Report: SRCCL

RWH

Definition: Rainwater Harvesting

Report: SRCCL

RX1day

Definition: Annual Maximum 1-day Precipitation

Report: SRCCL

S

SAH

Definition: Sahara

Report: SRCCL

SAS

Definition: South Asia

Report: SRCCL

SAT

Definition: Surface Air Temperature

Report: SRCCL

SCC

Definition: Social Cost of Carbon

Report: SRCCL

SD

Definition: Standard Deviation or Sustainable Development

Report: SRCCL

SDG

Definition: Sustainable Development Goal

Report: SRCCL

SDS-WAS

Definition: Sand and Dust Storm Warning Advisory and Assessment System

Report: SRCCL

SERFOR

Definition: National Forest Service and Wildlife Authority

Report: SRCCL

SES

Definition: Socio-Ecological Systems

Report: SRCCL

SFM

Definition: Sustainable Forest Management

Report: SRCCL

SFSC

Definition: Shortening Food Supply Chain

Report: SRCCL

SI

Definition: Sustainable Intensification

Report: SRCCL

SIB

Definition: State Investment Bank

Report: SRCCL

SICAR

Definition: National Land Registry System

Report: SRCCL

SIDS

Definition: Small Island Developing States

Report: SRCCL

SLCF

Definition: Short-Lived Climate Forcer

Report: SRCCL

SLCP

Definition: Short Lived Climate Pollutant

Report: SRCCL

SLM

Definition: Sustainable Land Management

Report: SRCCL

SM

Definition: Supplementary Materials

Report: SRCCL

SO2

Definition: Sulfur dioxide

Report: SRCCL

SOA

Definition: Secondary Organic Aerosols

Report: SRCCL

SOC

Definition: Soil Organic Carbon

Report: SRCCL

SOFI

Definition: The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World

Report: SRCCL

SOM

Definition: Soil Organic Matter

Report: SRCCL

SON

Definition: September-October-November

Report: SRCCL

SPOT VGT

Definition: Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre Vegetation (Satellite for the Observation of the Earth Vegetation)

Report: SRCCL

SR15

Definition: IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C

Report: SRCCL

SRCCL

Definition: IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land

Report: SRCCL

SRES

Definition: IPCC Special Report on Emission Scenarios

Report: SRCCL

SREX

Definition: IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation

Report: SRCCL

SR-LULUCF

Definition: IPCC Special Report on Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry

Report: SRCCL

SROCC

Definition: IPCC Special Report on the Ocean Cryosphere and Climate Change

Report: SRCCL

SSP

Definition: Shared Socio-economic Pathways

Report: SRCCL

SSSA

Definition: Soil Science Society of America

Report: SRCCL

SST

Definition: Sea Surface Temperature

Report: SRCCL

SWAT

Definition: Soil and Water Assessment Tool

Report: SRCCL

SWC

Definition: Soil and Water Conservation

Report: SRCCL

SYR

Definition: IPCC Synthesis Report

Report: SRCCL

T

t

Definition: Tonnes

Report: SRCCL

TCR

Definition: Transient Climate Response

Report: SRCCL

TEEB

Definition: The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity

Report: SRCCL

Tg

Definition: Teragrams

Report: SRCCL

TS

Definition: Technical Summary

Report: SRCCL

TSS

Definition: Time Series Segmentation

Report: SRCCL

U

UGI

Definition: Urban Green Infrastructure

Report: SRCCL

UHI

Definition: Urban Heat Island

Report: SRCCL

UNCBD

Definition: United Nations Convention on Biodiversity

Report: SRCCL

UNCCD

Definition: United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification

Report: SRCCL

UNCED

Definition: United Nations Conference on Environment and Development

Report: SRCCL

UNCTAD

Definition: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

Report: SRCCL

UNDP

Definition: United Nations Development Programme

Report: SRCCL

UN-EMG

Definition: UN Environment Management Group

Report: SRCCL

UNEP

Definition: United Nations Environment Programme

Report: SRCCL

UNEP-GEF

Definition: UN Environment Global Environment Facility

Report: SRCCL

UNFCCC

Definition: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Report: SRCCL

UNICEF

Definition: United Nations Children's Fund

Report: SRCCL

UNISDR

Definition: UN Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

Report: SRCCL

UN-REDD

Definition: United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries

Report: SRCCL

UPAF

Definition: Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture and Forestry

Report: SRCCL

USAID

Definition: United States Agency for International Development

Report: SRCCL

USD

Definition: United States Dollars

Report: SRCCL

USDA

Definition: United States Department of Agriculture

Report: SRCCL

USEPA

Definition: United States Environmental Protection Agency

Report: SRCCL

UTFI

Definition: Underground Taming of Floods for Irrigation

Report: SRCCL

UV

Definition: Ultraviolet

Report: SRCCL

V

VGGT

Definition: Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security

Report: SRCCL

VOC

Definition: Volatile Organic Compound

Report: SRCCL

VOD

Definition: Vegetation Optical Depth

Report: SRCCL

W

w/

Definition: With

Report: SRCCL

w/o

Definition: Without

Report: SRCCL

W

Definition: Watts

Report: SRCCL

WAF

Definition: West Africa

Report: SRCCL

WaTEM/SEDEM

Definition: Spatially distributed sediment delivery model combining the WaTEM and SEDEM models

Report: SRCCL

WBA

Definition: World Bioenergy Association

Report: SRCCL

WBCSD

Definition: World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Report: SRCCL

WEC

Definition: World Energy Council

Report: SRCCL

WEF

Definition: World Economic Forum

Report: SRCCL

WEO

Definition: World Energy Outlook

Report: SRCCL

WEPP

Definition: Water Erosion Prediction Project

Report: SRCCL

WET

Definition: Wetland Extent Trends

Report: SRCCL

WFP

Definition: World Food Programme

Report: SRCCL

WGI

Definition: IPCC Working Group I

Report: SRCCL

WGII

Definition: IPCC Working Group II

Report: SRCCL

WGIII

Definition: IPCC Working Group III

Report: SRCCL

WHO

Definition: World Health Organisation

Report: SRCCL

WMO

Definition: World Meteorological Organisation

Report: SRCCL

WOCAT

Definition: World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies

Report: SRCCL

WRI

Definition: World Resources Institute

Report: SRCCL

WSOA

Definition: Water Soluble Organic Compounds

Report: SRCCL

WTO

Definition: World Trade Organisation

Report: SRCCL

WUE

Definition: Water Use Efficiency

Report: SRCCL

Y

yr

Definition: Year

Report: SRCCL

Z

ZNLD

Definition: Zero Net Land Degradation

Report: SRCCL

A

a.s.l.

Definition: Above Sea Level

Report: SROCC

AABW

Definition: Antarctic Bottom Water

Report: SROCC

ABNJ

Definition: Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction

Report: SROCC

AC

Definition: Arctic Council

Report: SROCC

ACC

Definition: Antarctic Circumpolar Current

Report: SROCC

AEWC

Definition: Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission

Report: SROCC

AIS

Definition: Antarctic Ice Sheet

Report: SROCC

ALT

Definition: Active-Layer Thickness

Report: SROCC

AMO

Definition: Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation

Report: SROCC

AMOC

Definition: Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

Report: SROCC

AMV

Definition: Atlantic Multidecadal Variability

Report: SROCC

AOGCM

Definition: Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Model

Report: SROCC

AP

Definition: Antarctic Peninsula

Report: SROCC

AR4

Definition: IPCC 4th Assessment Report

Report: SROCC

AR5

Definition: IPCC 5th Assessment Report

Report: SROCC

AR6

Definition: IPCC 6th Assessment Report

Report: SROCC

ASE

Definition: Amundsen Sea Embayment

Report: SROCC

ASF

Definition: Animal Sourced Food

Report: SROCC

ATS

Definition: Antarctic Treaty System

Report: SROCC

B

BC

Definition: Black Carbon

Report: SROCC

BECCS

Definition: Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage

Report: SROCC

C

CAO

Definition: Central Arctic Ocean

Report: SROCC

CbA

Definition: Community-based Adaptation

Report: SROCC

CBD

Definition: Convention on Biological Diversity

Report: SROCC

CBM

Definition: Community-based Monitoring

Report: SROCC

CCAMLR

Definition: Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources

Report: SROCC

CDR

Definition: Carbon Dioxide Removal

Report: SROCC

CFC

Definition: Chlorofluorocarbons

Report: SROCC

CMIP

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project

Report: SROCC

CMIP3

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 3

Report: SROCC

CMIP5

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5

Report: SROCC

CMIP6

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6

Report: SROCC

COP

Definition: Conference of Parties

Report: SROCC

CoSMoS

Definition: Coastal Storm Modeling System

Report: SROCC

COWCLIP

Definition: Coordinated Ocean Wave Climate Project

Report: SROCC

CPR

Definition: Continuous Plankton Recorder

Report: SROCC

CRDP

Definition: Climate-Resilient Development Pathway

Report: SROCC

D

DDT

Definition: Dichlorodiphenyl-trichloroethane

Report: SROCC

DHW

Definition: Degree Heating Week

Report: SROCC

DIC

Definition: Dissolved Inorganic Carbon

Report: SROCC

DJF

Definition: December, January, February

Report: SROCC

DO

Definition: Dissolved Oxygen

Report: SROCC

DOC

Definition: Dissolved Organic Carbon

Report: SROCC

DRM

Definition: Disaster Risk Management

Report: SROCC

DSL

Definition: Deep Scattering Layers

Report: SROCC

E

EAD

Definition: Expected Annual Damages

Report: SROCC

EAIS

Definition: East Antarctic Ice Sheet

Report: SROCC

EbA

Definition: Ecosystem-based Adaptation

Report: SROCC

EBUS

Definition: Eastern Boundary Upwelling System

Report: SROCC

ECMWF

Definition: European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

Report: SROCC

ECP

Definition: Extended Concentration Pathway

Report: SROCC

EDW

Definition: Elevation Dependent Warming

Report: SROCC

EEZ

Definition: Exclusive Economic Zone

Report: SROCC

ENSO

Definition: El Niño-Southern Oscillation

Report: SROCC

ESA CCI

Definition: European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative

Report: SROCC

ESL

Definition: Extreme Sea Level

Report: SROCC

ESM

Definition: Earth System Model

Report: SROCC

ETC

Definition: Extratropical Cyclone

Report: SROCC

EWS

Definition: Early Warning System

Report: SROCC

F

FISHMIP

Definition: Fisheries and Marine Ecosystems Impact Model Intercomparison Project

Report: SROCC

G

GACS

Definition: Global Alliance of Continuous Plankton Recorder Surveys

Report: SROCC

GCM

Definition: General Circulation Model/Global Climate Model

Report: SROCC

GDP

Definition: Gross Domestic Product

Report: SROCC

GGR

Definition: Greenhouse Gas Removal

Report: SROCC

GHG

Definition: Greenhouse Gas

Report: SROCC

GIA

Definition: Glacio-Isostatic Adjustment

Report: SROCC

GIS

Definition: Greenland Ice Sheet

Report: SROCC

GLOF

Definition: Glacial Lake Outburst Flood

Report: SROCC

GMSL

Definition: Global Mean Sea Level

Report: SROCC

GMST

Definition: Global Mean Surface Temperature

Report: SROCC

GPD

Definition: Generalised Pareto Distribution

Report: SROCC

GPG

Definition: Good Practice Guidance

Report: SROCC

GPP

Definition: Gross Primary Production

Report: SROCC

GPS

Definition: Global Positioning System

Report: SROCC

GRACE

Definition: Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment

Report: SROCC

GRD

Definition: Gravity, Rotation, and Deformation

Report: SROCC

GSP

Definition: Gross State Product

Report: SROCC

GWP

Definition: Global Warming Potential

Report: SROCC

H

HAB

Definition: Harmful Algal Blooms

Report: SROCC

HFC

Definition: Hydrofluorocarbons

Report: SROCC

HSM

Definition: Historical Simulation

Report: SROCC

I

IAEA

Definition: International Atomic Energy Agency

Report: SROCC

ICC

Definition: Inuit Circumpolar Council

Report: SROCC

ICM

Definition: Integrated Coastal Management

Report: SROCC

ICZM

Definition: Integrated Coastal Zone Management

Report: SROCC

IK

Definition: Indigenous Knowledge

Report: SROCC

IMO

Definition: International Maritime Organization

Report: SROCC

INGO

Definition: International Non-Governmental Organisation

Report: SROCC

IOC-UNESCO

Definition: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Report: SROCC

IOD

Definition: Indian Ocean Dipole

Report: SROCC

IPBES

Definition: Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services assessments

Report: SROCC

IPO

Definition: Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation

Report: SROCC

IRC

Definition: Inuvialuit Regional Corporation

Report: SROCC

ISR

Definition: Inuvialuit Settlement Region

Report: SROCC

ITCZ

Definition: Intertropical Convergence Zone

Report: SROCC

ITF

Definition: Indonesia Throughflow

Report: SROCC

IWRM

Definition: Integrated Water Resource Management

Report: SROCC

J

JJA

Definition: June, July, August

Report: SROCC

L

L&D

Definition: Loss and Damage

Report: SROCC

LDC

Definition: Least Developed Countries

Report: SROCC

LDOC

Definition: Labile Dissolved Organic Carbon

Report: SROCC

LECZ

Definition: Low Elevation Coastal Zone

Report: SROCC

LGM

Definition: Last Glacial Maximum

Report: SROCC

LIG

Definition: Last Interglacial

Report: SROCC

LK

Definition: Local Knowledge

Report: SROCC

LLIC

Definition: Low-Lying Islands and Coasts

Report: SROCC

LMMA

Definition: Locally Managed Marine Protected Area

Report: SROCC

LUC

Definition: Land-Use Change

Report: SROCC

LULUC

Definition: Land Use and Land-Use Change

Report: SROCC

M

M&E

Definition: Monitoring and Evaluation

Report: SROCC

MAGT

Definition: Mean Annual Ground Temperature

Report: SROCC

MCDA

Definition: Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

Report: SROCC

MHW

Definition: Marine Heatwave

Report: SROCC

MICI

Definition: Marine Ice Cliff Instability

Report: SROCC

MIP

Definition: Model Intercomparison Project

Report: SROCC

MISI

Definition: Marine Ice Sheet Instability

Report: SROCC

MOC

Definition: Meridional Overturning Circulation

Report: SROCC

MPA

Definition: Marine Protected Area

Report: SROCC

mPWP

Definition: mid-Pliocene Warm Period

Report: SROCC

MRV

Definition: Measurement, Reporting and Verification

Report: SROCC

MSL

Definition: Mean Sea Level

Report: SROCC

MSY

Definition: Maximum Sustainable Yield

Report: SROCC

N

NADW

Definition: North Atlantic Deep Water

Report: SROCC

NAO

Definition: North Atlantic Oscillation

Report: SROCC

NAP

Definition: National Adaption Plan

Report: SROCC

NCEP

Definition: National Centers for Environmental Prediction

Report: SROCC

NCP

Definition: Nature's Contribution to People

Report: SROCC

NDC

Definition: Nationally Determined Contributions

Report: SROCC

NGO

Definition: Non-Governmental Organisation

Report: SROCC

NOAA

Definition: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Report: SROCC

NPP

Definition: Net Primary Production

Report: SROCC

NPV

Definition: Net Present Value

Report: SROCC

O

OA

Definition: Ocean Acidification

Report: SROCC

OHC

Definition: Ocean Heat Content

Report: SROCC

OLS

Definition: Ordinary Least Square

Report: SROCC

OMZ

Definition: Oxygen Minimum Zone

Report: SROCC

P

PCBs

Definition: Polychlorinated Biphenyls

Report: SROCC

PDO

Definition: Pacific Decadal Oscillation

Report: SROCC

PFC

Definition: Perfluorocarbons

Report: SROCC

PIG

Definition: Pine Island Glacier

Report: SROCC

PISM

Definition: Parallel Ice Sheet Model

Report: SROCC

PM

Definition: Particulate Matter

Report: SROCC

POC

Definition: Particulate Organic Carbon

Report: SROCC

POP

Definition: Persistent Organic Pollutants

Report: SROCC

ppmv

Definition: parts per million volume

Report: SROCC

PSU

Definition: Practical Salinity Unit

Report: SROCC

R

RCM

Definition: Regional Climate Model

Report: SROCC

RCP

Definition: Representative Concentration Pathway

Report: SROCC

RDM

Definition: Robust Decision Making

Report: SROCC

RDOC

Definition: Refractory Dissolved Organic Carbon

Report: SROCC

RFC

Definition: Reason for Concern

Report: SROCC

RGI

Definition: Randolph Glacier Inventory

Report: SROCC

RITC

Definition: Rapid Intensification of Tropical Cyclones

Report: SROCC

RSL

Definition: Relative Sea Level

Report: SROCC

RSLR

Definition: Relative Sea Level Rise

Report: SROCC

S

SAM

Definition: Southern Annular Mode

Report: SROCC

SAMOC

Definition: South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

Report: SROCC

SD

Definition: Sustainable Development

Report: SROCC

SDGs

Definition: Sustainable Development Goals

Report: SROCC

SDM

Definition: Structured Decision Making

Report: SROCC

SDP

Definition: Sustainable Development Pathway

Report: SROCC

SH

Definition: Southern Hemisphere

Report: SROCC

SIDS

Definition: Small Island Developing States

Report: SROCC

SLCF

Definition: Short-Lived Climate Forcers

Report: SROCC

SLE

Definition: Sea Level Equivalent

Report: SROCC

SLP

Definition: Sea Level Pressure

Report: SROCC

SLR

Definition: Sea Level Rise

Report: SROCC

SMB

Definition: Surface Mass Balance

Report: SROCC

SPG

Definition: Subpolar Gyre

Report: SROCC

SPM

Definition: Summary for Policymakers

Report: SROCC

SR15

Definition: IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C

Report: SROCC

SRCCL

Definition: IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land

Report: SROCC

SRES

Definition: IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios

Report: SROCC

SREX

Definition: IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation

Report: SROCC

SRM

Definition: Solar Radiation Modification

Report: SROCC

SROCC

Definition: IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate

Report: SROCC

SRTM

Definition: Shuttle Radar Topography Mission

Report: SROCC

SSPs

Definition: Shared Socioeconomic Pathways

Report: SROCC

SST

Definition: Sea Surface Temperature

Report: SROCC

SWE

Definition: Snow Water Equivalent

Report: SROCC

T

TC

Definition: Tropical Cyclone

Report: SROCC

THC

Definition: Thermohaline Circulation

Report: SROCC

ToE

Definition: Time of Emergence

Report: SROCC

U

UNCLOS

Definition: United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

Report: SROCC

UNEP

Definition: United Nations Environment Programme

Report: SROCC

UNFCCC

Definition: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Report: SROCC

UQ

Definition: Uncertainty Quantification

Report: SROCC

V

VLM

Definition: Vertical Land Motion

Report: SROCC

W

WAIS

Definition: West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Report: SROCC

WBC

Definition: Western Boundary Current

Report: SROCC

WGI

Definition: IPCC Working Group I

Report: SROCC

WGII

Definition: IPCC Working Group II

Report: SROCC

WGMS

Definition: World Glacial Monitoring Service

Report: SROCC

A

AFOLU

Definition: Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use

Report: SYR

AR5

Definition: Fifth Assessment Report

Report: SYR

AR6

Definition: Sixth Assessment Report

Report: SYR

B

BECCS

Definition: Bioenergy with Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage

Report: SYR

C

CCS

Definition: Carbon Capture and Storage

Report: SYR

CCU

Definition: Carbon Capture and Utilization

Report: SYR

CDR

Definition: Carbon Dioxide Removal

Report: SYR

CH4

Definition: Methane

Report: SYR

CID

Definition: Climatic impact-driver

Report: SYR

CMIP5

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5

Report: SYR

CMIP6

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6

Report: SYR

CO2

Definition: Carbon Dioxide

Report: SYR

CO2-eq

Definition: Carbon Dioxide Equivalent

Report: SYR

CRD

Definition: Climate Resilient Development

Report: SYR

CO2-FFI

Definition: CO2 from Fossil Fuel combustion and Industrial processes

Report: SYR

CO2-LULUCF

Definition: CO2 from Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry

Report: SYR

CSB

Definition: Cross-Section Box

Report: SYR

D

DACCS

Definition: Direct Air Carbon Capture and Storage

Report: SYR

DRM

Definition: Disaster Risk Management

Report: SYR

E

EbA

Definition: Ecosystem-based Adaptation

Report: SYR

ECS

Definition: Equilibrium climate sensitivity

Report: SYR

ES

Definition: Executive Summary

Report: SYR

EV

Definition: Electric Vehicle

Report: SYR

EWS

Definition: Early Warning System

Report: SYR

F

FaIR

Definition: Finite Amplitude Impulse Response simple climate model

Report: SYR

FAO

Definition: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Report: SYR

FFI

Definition: Fossil-Fuel combustion and Industrial processes

Report: SYR

F-gases

Definition: Fluorinated gases

Report: SYR

G

GDP

Definition: Gross Domestic Product

Report: SYR

GHG

Definition: Greenhouse Gas

Report: SYR

Gt

Definition: Gigatonnes

Report: SYR

GW

Definition: Gigawatt

Report: SYR

GWL

Definition: Global Warming Level

Report: SYR

GWP100

Definition: Global Warming Potential over a 100 year time horizon

Report: SYR

H

HFCs

Definition: Hydrofluorocarbons

Report: SYR

I

IEA

Definition: International Energy Agency

Report: SYR

IEA-STEPS

Definition: International Energy Agency Stated Policies Scenario

Report: SYR

IMP

Definition: Illustrative Mitigation Pathway

Report: SYR

IMP-LD

Definition: Illustrative Mitigation Pathway - Low Demand

Report: SYR

IMP-NEG

Definition: Illustrative Mitigation Pathway - NEGative emissions deployment

Report: SYR

IMP-SP

Definition: Illustrative Mitigation Pathway - Shifting development Pathways

Report: SYR

IMP-REN

Definition: Illustrative Mitigation Pathway - Heavy reliance on RENewables

Report: SYR

IP-ModAct

Definition: Illustrative Pathway Moderate Action

Report: SYR

IPCC

Definition: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Report: SYR

K

kWh

Definition: Kilowatt hour

Report: SYR

L

LCOE

Definition: Levelized Cost of Energy

Report: SYR

LDC

Definition: Least Developed Countries

Report: SYR

Li-on

Definition: Lithium-ion

Report: SYR

LK

Definition: Local Knowledge

Report: SYR

LULUCF

Definition: Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry

Report: SYR

M

MAGICC

Definition: Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Induced Climate Change

Report: SYR

MWh

Definition: Megawatt hour

Report: SYR

N

N2O

Definition: Nitrous oxide

Report: SYR

NDC

Definition: Nationally Determined Contribution

Report: SYR

NF3

Definition: Nitrogen trifluoride

Report: SYR

O

O3

Definition: Ozone

Report: SYR

P

PFCs

Definition: Perfluorocarbons

Report: SYR

ppb

Definition: parts per billion

Report: SYR

PPP

Definition: Purchasing Power Parity

Report: SYR

ppm

Definition: parts per million

Report: SYR

PV

Definition: Photovoltaic

Report: SYR

R

R&D

Definition: Research and Development

Report: SYR

RCB

Definition: Remaining Carbon Budget

Report: SYR

RCPs

Definition: Representative Concentration Pathways (e.g. RCP2.6, pathway for which radiative forcing by 2100 is limited to 2.6 Wm-2)

Report: SYR

RFCs

Definition: Reasons for Concern

Report: SYR

S

SDG

Definition: Sustainable Development Goal

Report: SYR

SDPs

Definition: Shifting Development Pathways

Report: SYR

SF6

Definition: Sulphur Hexafluoride

Report: SYR

SIDS

Definition: Small Island Developing States

Report: SYR

SLCF

Definition: Short-Lived Climate Forcer

Report: SYR

SPM

Definition: Summary For Policymakers

Report: SYR

SR1.5

Definition: Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C

Report: SYR

SRCCL

Definition: Special Report on Climate Change and Land

Report: SYR

SRM

Definition: Solar Radiation Modification

Report: SYR

SROCC

Definition: Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate

Report: SYR

SSP

Definition: Shared Socioeconomic Pathway

Report: SYR

SYR

Definition: Synthesis Report

Report: SYR

T

tCO2-eq

Definition: Tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent

Report: SYR

tCO2-FFI

Definition: Tonne of carbon dioxide from Fossil Fuel combustion and Industrial processes

Report: SYR

TS

Definition: Technical Summary

Report: SYR

U

UNFCCC

Definition: United Framework Convention on Climate Change

Report: SYR

USD

Definition: United States Dollar

Report: SYR

W

WG

Definition: Working Group

Report: SYR

WGI

Definition: IPCC Working Group I

Report: SYR

WGII

Definition: IPCC Working Group II

Report: SYR

WGIII

Definition: IPCC Working Group III

Report: SYR

WHO

Definition: World Health Organization

Report: SYR

WIM

Definition: Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage under UNFCCC

Report: SYR

Wm-2

Definition: Watts per square meter

Report: SYR

2

20CR

Definition: 20th Century Reanalysis

Report: WGI

A

A1B

Definition: Special Report on Emissions Scenarios A1B scenario

Report: WGI

AABW

Definition: Antarctic bottom water

Report: WGI

AAIW

Definition: Antarctic intermediate water

Report: WGI

AAO

Definition: Antarctic Oscillation

Report: WGI

abrupt4xCO2

Definition: Scenario with abrupt quadrupling of the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide

Report: WGI

ACC

Definition: Antarctic Circumpolar Current

Report: WGI

ACCESS

Definition: Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator

Report: WGI

ACCMIP

Definition: Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Model Intercomparison Project

Report: WGI

ACE

Definition: Accumulated Cyclone Energy

Report: WGI

AED

Definition: atmospheric evaporative demand

Report: WGI

AerChemMIP

Definition: Aerosols and Chemistry Model Intercomparison Project

Report: WGI

AeroCom

Definition: Aerosol Comparisons between Observations and Models project

Report: WGI

AERONET

Definition: Aerosol Robotic Network

Report: WGI

AEW

Definition: African Easterly Wave

Report: WGI

AF

Definition: airborne fraction of CO2

Report: WGI

AFOLU

Definition: agriculture, forestry and other land use

Report: WGI

AFR

Definition: Africa

Report: WGI

AGAGE

Definition: Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment

Report: WGI

AGCM

Definition: atmospheric global climate model

Report: WGI

AGFP

Definition: absolute global forcing potential

Report: WGI

AGR/ECOL

Definition: agriculture and ecological droughts

Report: WGI

AGTP

Definition: absolute global temperature change potential

Report: WGI

AGWP

Definition: absolute global warming potentials

Report: WGI

AIRS

Definition: Atmospheric Infrared Sounder

Report: WGI

AIS

Definition: Antarctic Ice Sheet

Report: WGI

ALL

Definition: all forcings

Report: WGI

ALT

Definition: active layer thickness

Report: WGI

AMIP

Definition: Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project

Report: WGI

AMM

Definition: Atlantic Meridional Mode

Report: WGI

AMMA

Definition: African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses

Report: WGI

AMO

Definition: Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation

Report: WGI

AMOC

Definition: Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

Report: WGI

AMSU

Definition: Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit

Report: WGI

AMV

Definition: Atlantic Multi-decadal Variability

Report: WGI

AO

Definition: Arctic Oscillation

Report: WGI

AOD

Definition: aerosol optical depth

Report: WGI

AOGCM

Definition: atmosphere–ocean general circulation model

Report: WGI

AP

Definition: Antarctic Peninsula

Report: WGI

AQ

Definition: air quality

Report: WGI

AR

Definition: atmospheric river

Report: WGI

AR4

Definition: IPCC Fourth Assessment Report

Report: WGI

AR5

Definition: IPCC Fifth Assessment Report

Report: WGI

AR6

Definition: IPCC Sixth Assessment Report

Report: WGI

ARO

Definition: Arctic Ocean

Report: WGI

ARP

Definition: Arabian Peninsula

Report: WGI

ARS

Definition: Arabian Sea

Report: WGI

ASE

Definition: Amundsen Sea Embayment

Report: WGI

AUS

Definition: Australasia

Report: WGI

AusMCM

Definition: Australian–Maritime Continent monsoon

Report: WGI

AVHRR

Definition: Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

Report: WGI

AZM

Definition: Atlantic Zonal Modes

Report: WGI

B

BC

Definition: black carbon

Report: WGI

BCE

Definition: Before the Common Era

Report: WGI

BCP

Definition: biological carbon pump

Report: WGI

BE

Definition: Berkeley Earth

Report: WGI

BECCS

Definition: bioenergy with carbon capture and storage

Report: WGI

BOB

Definition: Bay of Bengal

Report: WGI

BP

Definition: before the present

Report: WGI

BrC

Definition: brown carbon

Report: WGI

BSISO

Definition: boreal summer intra-seasonal oscillation

Report: WGI

BU

Definition: bottom up

Report: WGI

BVOC

Definition: biogenic volatile organic compound

Report: WGI

C

C3S

Definition: Copernicus Climate Change Service

Report: WGI

C4MIP

Definition: Coupled Climate Carbon Cycle Model Intercomparison Project

Report: WGI

CAF

Definition: Central Africa

Report: WGI

CAM

Definition: Central America

Report: WGI

CAMS

Definition: Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service

Report: WGI

CanESM2

Definition: Canadian Earth System Model version 2

Report: WGI

CanESM5

Definition: Canadian Earth System Model version 5

Report: WGI

CAPE

Definition: convective available potential energy

Report: WGI

CAR

Definition: Caribbean

Report: WGI

CAU

Definition: Central Australia

Report: WGI

CCM

Definition: chemistry–climate model

Report: WGI

CCMI

Definition: Chemistry–Climate Modelling Initiative

Report: WGI

CCN

Definition: cloud condensation nuclei

Report: WGI

CCS

Definition: carbon dioxide capture and storage

Report: WGI

CCT

Definition: cirrus cloud thinning

Report: WGI

CD

Definition: cooling degree days

Report: WGI

CDD

Definition: consecutive dry days

Report: WGI

CDR

Definition: carbon dioxide removal

Report: WGI

CDRMIP

Definition: Carbon Dioxide Removal Model Intercomparison Project

Report: WGI

CDW

Definition: Circumpolar Deep Water

Report: WGI

CE

Definition: Common Era

Report: WGI

CEDS

Definition: Community Emissions Data System

Report: WGI

CERES

Definition: Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System

Report: WGI

CESM

Definition: Community Earth System Model

Report: WGI

CFCs

Definition: chlorofluorocarbons

Report: WGI

CFMIP

Definition: Cloud Feedback Model Intercomparison Project

Report: WGI

CFSR

Definition: Climate Forecast System Reanalysis

Report: WGI

CGTP

Definition: combined global temperature change potential

Report: WGI

CH4

Definition: methane

Report: WGI

CICERO

Definition: Center for International Climate and Environment Research

Report: WGI

CID

Definition: climatic impact-driver

Report: WGI

CISM2

Definition: Community Ice Sheet Model 2

Report: WGI

CLLJ

Definition: Caribbean low-level jet

Report: WGI

CLSAT

Definition: China Land Surface Air Temperature

Report: WGI

CMAP

Definition: NOAA Climate Prediction Center Merged Analysis of Precipitation

Report: WGI

CMIP

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project

Report: WGI

CMIP3

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 3

Report: WGI

CMIP5

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5

Report: WGI

CMIP6

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6

Report: WGI

CNA

Definition: Central North America

Report: WGI

CNRM

Definition: Centre National de la Recherche Météorologique

Report: WGI

CO

Definition: carbon monoxide

Report: WGI

CO2

Definition: carbon dioxide

Report: WGI

CO2-eq

Definition: carbon dioxide equivalent

Report: WGI

COBE

Definition: Centennial in situ Observation-Based Estimates of Sea Surface Temperature

Report: WGI

CORDEX

Definition: Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment

Report: WGI

COSMO

Definition: Consortium for Small-scale Modeling

Report: WGI

COVID-19

Definition: coronavirus disease of 2019

Report: WGI

CP

Definition: Central Pacific

Report: WGI

CPM

Definition: convection-permitting model

Report: WGI

CRA

Definition: climate risk and adaptation assessment

Report: WGI

CRE

Definition: cloud radiative effect

Report: WGI

CRM

Definition: cloud resolving model

Report: WGI

CRU

Definition: Climate Research Unit

Report: WGI

CRUTEM

Definition: Climatic Research Unit gridded global historical near-surface air temperature dataset

Report: WGI

CRUTS

Definition: Climatic Research Unit gridded time-series dataset

Report: WGI

CSIRO

Definition: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Report: WGI

D

DACCS

Definition: direct air carbon capture with carbon storage

Report: WGI

DAMIP

Definition: Detection and Attribution Model Intercomparison Project

Report: WGI

DCPP

Definition: Decadal Climate Prediction Project

Report: WGI

DECK

Definition: Diagnostic, Evaluation and Characterization of Klima

Report: WGI

DeepMIP

Definition: Deep-Time Model Intercomparison Project

Report: WGI

DF

Definition: drought frequency

Report: WGI

DGVM

Definition: dynamic global vegetation model

Report: WGI

DI

Definition: Drought Index

Report: WGI

DIC

Definition: dissolved inorganic carbon

Report: WGI

DJF

Definition: December–January–February

Report: WGI

DJFM

Definition: December–January–February–March

Report: WGI

DMS

Definition: dimethyl sulphide

Report: WGI

DTR

Definition: diurnal temperature range

Report: WGI

DU

Definition: Dobson Units

Report: WGI

E

EAIS

Definition: East Antarctic Ice Sheet

Report: WGI

EAN

Definition: East Antarctica

Report: WGI

EAO

Definition: Equatorial Atlantic Ocean

Report: WGI

EAS

Definition: East Asia

Report: WGI

EAsiaM

Definition: East Asian monsoon

Report: WGI

EASM

Definition: East Asian summer monsoon

Report: WGI

EAU

Definition: Eastern Australia

Report: WGI

EAWM

Definition: East Asian winter monsoon

Report: WGI

EBAF

Definition: CERES Energy Balanced and Filled climate data record

Report: WGI

EBM

Definition: Energy Balance Model

Report: WGI

EBUS

Definition: Eastern boundary upwelling systems

Report: WGI

ECMWF

Definition: European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

Report: WGI

ECS

Definition: equilibrium climate sensitivity

Report: WGI

ECV

Definition: Essential Climate Variable

Report: WGI

ECWL

Definition: Extreme Coastal Water Level

Report: WGI

EDW

Definition: elevation-dependent warming

Report: WGI

EECO

Definition: Early Eocene Climatic Optimum

Report: WGI

EEU

Definition: Eastern Europe

Report: WGI

EgC

Definition: exagrams of carbon (1000 petagrams of carbon)

Report: WGI

EIO

Definition: Equatorial Indian Ocean

Report: WGI

EMIC

Definition: Earth models of intermediate complexity

Report: WGI

ENA

Definition: Eastern North America

Report: WGI

ENSO

Definition: El Niño–Southern Oscillation

Report: WGI

EOF

Definition: empirical orthogonal function

Report: WGI

EOV

Definition: Essential Ocean Variable

Report: WGI

EP

Definition: Eastern Pacific

Report: WGI

EPA

Definition: USA Environmental Protection Agency

Report: WGI

EPO

Definition: Equatorial Pacific Ocean

Report: WGI

EqAmer

Definition: equatorial America

Report: WGI

ERA-Interim

Definition: ECMWF global reanalysis

Report: WGI

ERA20C

Definition: ECMWF 20th century reanalysis

Report: WGI

ERA20CM

Definition: ECMWF 20th century atmospheric model ensemble

Report: WGI

ERA5

Definition: ECMWF global reanalysis (replaces ERA-Interim)

Report: WGI

ERF

Definition: effective radiative forcing

Report: WGI

ERFaci

Definition: effective radiative forcing due to aerosol–cloud interactions

Report: WGI

ERFari

Definition: effective radiative forcing due to aerosol–radiation interactions

Report: WGI

ERSST

Definition: Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature

Report: WGI

ESA

Definition: European Space Agency

Report: WGI

ESA CCI

Definition: European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative

Report: WGI

ESAF

Definition: East Southern Africa

Report: WGI

ESB

Definition: East Siberia

Report: WGI

ESGF

Definition: Earth System Grid Federation

Report: WGI

ESL

Definition: extreme sea level

Report: WGI

ESM

Definition: Earth system model

Report: WGI

ESMValTool

Definition: Earth System Model Evaluation Tool

Report: WGI

ESRL

Definition: NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory

Report: WGI

ESWL

Definition: extreme still water levels

Report: WGI

ET

Definition: evapotranspiration

Report: WGI

ETC

Definition: extratropical cyclone

Report: WGI

ETCCDI

Definition: Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices

Report: WGI

ETWL

Definition: Extreme Total Water Level

Report: WGI

EU

Definition: European Union

Report: WGI

F

FaIR

Definition: Finite Amplitude Impulse Response simple climate model

Report: WGI

FAIR

Definition: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable principles

Report: WGI

FAPAR

Definition: fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation

Report: WGI

FAR

Definition: IPCC First Assessment Report

Report: WGI

FD

Definition: frost days

Report: WGI

FESOM

Definition: Finite Element Sea ice/Ice Shelf Ocean Model

Report: WGI

FFDI

Definition: Forest Fire Danger Index

Report: WGI

FOLU

Definition: forestry and other land use

Report: WGI

fSST

Definition: fixed-sea surface temperature

Report: WGI

G

GCM

Definition: general circulation model or global climate model

Report: WGI

GCOS

Definition: Global Climate Observing System

Report: WGI

GCP

Definition: Global Carbon Project

Report: WGI

GDD

Definition: growing degree days

Report: WGI

GDP

Definition: gross domestic product

Report: WGI

GeoMIP

Definition: Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project

Report: WGI

GFCS

Definition: Global Framework for Climate Services

Report: WGI

GFDL

Definition: NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

Report: WGI

GHCN

Definition: NOAA Global Historical Climatology Network

Report: WGI

GHCNd

Definition: NOAA Global Historical Climatology Network daily database

Report: WGI

GHCNv4

Definition: NOAA Global Historical Climatology Network monthly database version 4

Report: WGI

GHG

Definition: greenhouse gas

Report: WGI

GHM

Definition: global hydrological model

Report: WGI

GIA

Definition: glacial isostatic adjustment

Report: WGI

GIC

Definition: Greenland/Iceland

Report: WGI

GISS

Definition: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Report: WGI

GISTEMP

Definition: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Surface Temperature Analysis

Report: WGI

GlacierMIP

Definition: Glacier Model Intercomparison Project

Report: WGI

GLDAS

Definition: Global Land Data Assimilation System

Report: WGI

GloGEM

Definition: Global Glacier Evolution Model

Report: WGI

GM

Definition: Global monsoon

Report: WGI

GMMIP

Definition: Global Monsoons Model Intercomparison Project

Report: WGI

GMSL

Definition: global mean sea level

Report: WGI

GMST

Definition: global mean surface temperature

Report: WGI

GMTSL

Definition: global mean thermosteric sea level

Report: WGI

GNSS

Definition: Global Navigation Satellite System

Report: WGI

GOME

Definition: Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment

Report: WGI

GOSAT

Definition: Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite

Report: WGI

GPCC

Definition: Global Precipitation Climatology Centre

Report: WGI

GPCP

Definition: Global Precipitation Climatology Project

Report: WGI

GPM

Definition: Global Precipitation Mission

Report: WGI

GPS

Definition: Global Positioning System

Report: WGI

GRACE

Definition: Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment

Report: WGI

GRD

Definition: gravitational, rotational and deformational

Report: WGI

GrIS

Definition: Greenland Ice Sheet

Report: WGI

GSAT

Definition: global surface air temperature

Report: WGI

GSMaP

Definition: Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation dataset

Report: WGI

GtC

Definition: gigatonnes of carbon

Report: WGI

GtCO2

Definition: gigatonnes of carbon dioxide

Report: WGI

GTP

Definition: global temperature change potential

Report: WGI

GWL

Definition: global warming level

Report: WGI

GWP

Definition: global warming potential

Report: WGI

H

HadCRUT

Definition: Hadley Centre Climatic Research Unit gridded surface temperature dataset

Report: WGI

HadEX3

Definition: Hadley Centre gridded land surface extremes indices

Report: WGI

HadGEM

Definition: Hadley Centre Global Environment Model

Report: WGI

HadISST

Definition: Hadley Centre Ice and Sea Surface Temperature dataset

Report: WGI

HadSST

Definition: Hadley Centre Sea Surface Temperature dataset

Report: WGI

HC

Definition: Hadley circulation

Report: WGI

HCFC

Definition: hydrochlorofluorocarbon

Report: WGI

HD

Definition: heating degree days

Report: WGI

HFC

Definition: hydrofluorocarbon

Report: WGI

HI

Definition: heat index

Report: WGI

HighResMIP

Definition: High Resolution Model Intercomparison Project

Report: WGI

HKH

Definition: Hindu Kush Himalaya

Report: WGI

HNO3

Definition: nitric acid

Report: WGI

I

IAGOS

Definition: In-service Aircraft for a Global Observing System

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IAM

Definition: integrated assessment model

Report: WGI

ICE

Definition: initial condition ensemble

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ICESat

Definition: Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite

Report: WGI

ICOADS

Definition: International Comprehensive Ocean–Atmosphere Data Set

Report: WGI

IMBIE

Definition: Ice Sheet Mass Balance Intercomparison Exercise

Report: WGI

INP

Definition: ice nucleating particle

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IOB

Definition: Indian Ocean Basin

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IOD

Definition: Indian Ocean Dipole

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IPBES

Definition: Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Report: WGI

IPCC

Definition: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Report: WGI

IPO

Definition: Inter-decadal Pacific Oscillation

Report: WGI

IPSL

Definition: Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace

Report: WGI

IRF

Definition: instantaneous radiative forcing

Report: WGI

IRFaci

Definition: Instantaneous radiative forcing (or effect) due to aerosol-cloud interactions

Report: WGI

IRFari

Definition: Instantaneous radiative forcing (or effect) due to aerosol–radiation interactions

Report: WGI

ISIMIP

Definition: Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project

Report: WGI

ITCZ

Definition: Inter-tropical Convergence Zone

Report: WGI

ITF

Definition: Indonesian throughflow

Report: WGI

J

JAS

Definition: July–August–September

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JAXA

Definition: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

Report: WGI

JJA

Definition: June–July–August

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JJAS

Definition: June–July–August–September

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JMA

Definition: Japan Meteorological Agency

Report: WGI

JRA-55

Definition: Japanese 55-year Reanalysis

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L

LAI

Definition: leaf area index

Report: WGI

LAP

Definition: light-absorbing particle

Report: WGI

LARMIP

Definition: Linear Antarctic Response Model Intercomparison Project

Report: WGI

LDT

Definition: Last deglacial transition

Report: WGI

LEO

Definition: low Earth orbit

Report: WGI

LGM

Definition: Last Glacial Maximum

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LIG

Definition: Last Interglacial

Report: WGI

LLGHG

Definition: long-lived greenhouse gas

Report: WGI

LLHI

Definition: Low-likelihood, high-impact

Report: WGI

LNOx

Definition: lightning NOx

Report: WGI

LR

Definition: lapse rate

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LSAT

Definition: land surface air temperature

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LUC

Definition: land-use change

Report: WGI

LULUCF

Definition: land use, land-use change and forestry

Report: WGI

LW

Definition: longwave

Report: WGI

LWP

Definition: liquid water path

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LWS

Definition: land-water storage

Report: WGI

M

MAGICC

Definition: Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Induced Climate Change

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MAM

Definition: March–April–May

Report: WGI

MAT

Definition: marine air temperature

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MCB

Definition: marine cloud brightening

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MCO

Definition: Miocene Climatic Optimum

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MCS

Definition: mesoscale convective system

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MDG

Definition: Madagascar

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MED

Definition: Mediterranean

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MENA

Definition: Middle East North Africa

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MERRA

Definition: Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications

Report: WGI

METACLIP

Definition: Metadata for climate products project

Report: WGI

MH

Definition: mid-Holocene

Report: WGI

MHW

Definition: marine heatwave

Report: WGI

MICI

Definition: marine ice cliff instability

Report: WGI

MIP

Definition: Model Intercomparison Project

Report: WGI

MIROC

Definition: Model for Interdisciplinary Research on Climate

Report: WGI

MIS

Definition: Marine Isotope Stage

Report: WGI

MISI

Definition: marine ice sheet instability

Report: WGI

MISMIP

Definition: Marine Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Projects

Report: WGI

MJO

Definition: Madden–Julian Oscillation

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MLO

Definition: Mauna Loa Observatory

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MME

Definition: multi-model ensemble

Report: WGI

MOC

Definition: meridional overturning circulation

Report: WGI

MODIS

Definition: Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer

Report: WGI

MPI

Definition: Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

Report: WGI

MPWP

Definition: mid-Pliocene Warm Period

Report: WGI

MRI

Definition: Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency

Report: WGI

MSD

Definition: midsummer drought

Report: WGI

MTFR

Definition: maximum technically feasible reductions

Report: WGI

N

N2O

Definition: nitrous oxide

Report: WGI

NADW

Definition: North Atlantic Deep Water

Report: WGI

NAM

Definition: Northern Annular Mode

Report: WGI

NAmerM

Definition: North American monsoon

Report: WGI

NAO

Definition: North Atlantic Oscillation

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NARCCAP

Definition: North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program

Report: WGI

NASA

Definition: USA National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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NASH

Definition: North Atlantic Subtropical High

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NAU

Definition: Northern Australia

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NBP

Definition: Net Biome Productivity

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NCA

Definition: Northern Central America

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NCAR

Definition: National Center for Atmospheric Research

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NCEI

Definition: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information

Report: WGI

NCEP

Definition: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction

Report: WGI

NDC

Definition: Nationally Determined Contribution

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NDD

Definition: number of dry days

Report: WGI

NDVI

Definition: Normalized Difference Vegetation Index

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NEAF

Definition: North Eastern Africa

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NEN

Definition: North-Eastern North America

Report: WGI

NES

Definition: North-Eastern South America

Report: WGI

NEU

Definition: Northern Europe

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NH

Definition: Northern Hemisphere

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NH3

Definition: ammonia

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NH4

Definition: ammonium

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NMAT

Definition: nighttime marine air temperature

Report: WGI

NMVOC

Definition: non-methane volatile organic compound

Report: WGI

NO2

Definition: nitrogen dioxide

Report: WGI

NO3

Definition: nitrate

Report: WGI

NOAA

Definition: USA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Report: WGI

NOAAGlobalTemp

Definition: NOAA Merged Land Ocean Global Surface Temperature Analysis

Report: WGI

NorESM

Definition: Norwegian Earth System Model

Report: WGI

NOx

Definition: nitrogen oxides

Report: WGI

NPO

Definition: North Pacific Ocean

Report: WGI

NPP

Definition: net primary production

Report: WGI

NSA

Definition: Northern South America

Report: WGI

NWN

Definition: North-Western North America

Report: WGI

NWS

Definition: North-Western South America

Report: WGI

NZ

Definition: New Zealand

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O

OA

Definition: organic aerosols

Report: WGI

OC

Definition: organic carbon

Report: WGI

ODS

Definition: ozone depleting substances

Report: WGI

OECD

Definition: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Report: WGI

OH

Definition: hydroxyl radical

Report: WGI

OHC

Definition: ocean heat content

Report: WGI

OLR

Definition: outgoing longwave radiation

Report: WGI

OLS

Definition: ordinary least squares

Report: WGI

OMI

Definition: Ozone Monitoring Instrument

Report: WGI

OMIP

Definition: Ocean Model Intercomparison Project

Report: WGI

P

PA

Definition: Paris Agreement

Report: WGI

PAGES 2K

Definition: Past Global Changes 2k consortium

Report: WGI

PC

Definition: principal component

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pCO2

Definition: partial pressure of CO2

Report: WGI

PDO

Definition: Pacific Decadal Oscillation

Report: WGI

PDSI

Definition: Palmer Drought Severity Index

Report: WGI

PDV

Definition: Pacific Decadal Variability

Report: WGI

PERSIANN-CDR

Definition: Precipitation estimations from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial Neural Networks Climate Data Record

Report: WGI

PETM

Definition: Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum

Report: WGI

PgC

Definition: petagrams of carbon

Report: WGI

PgCeq

Definition: petagrams of carbon equivalent

Report: WGI

PlioMIP

Definition: Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project

Report: WGI

PM

Definition: particulate matter

Report: WGI

PM10

Definition: particulate matter with diameter of less than 10 microns

Report: WGI

PM2.5

Definition: particulate matter with diameter of less than 2.5 microns

Report: WGI

PMIP

Definition: Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project

Report: WGI

POA

Definition: primary organic aerosols

Report: WGI

PP

Definition: primary production

Report: WGI

PSS-78

Definition: Practical Salinity Scale 1978

Report: WGI

Q

QBO

Definition: quasi-biennial oscillation

Report: WGI

R

RAR

Definition: Russian Arctic Region

Report: WGI

RCM

Definition: regional climate model

Report: WGI

RCMIP

Definition: Reduced Complexity Model Intercomparison Project

Report: WGI

RCP

Definition: Representative Concentration Pathway

Report: WGI

RF

Definition: radiative forcing

Report: WGI

RFC

Definition: Reasons for Concern

Report: WGI

RFE

Definition: Russian Far East

Report: WGI

RFMIP

Definition: Radiative Forcing Model Intercomparison Project

Report: WGI

RH

Definition: relative humidity

Report: WGI

RICH

Definition: Radiosonde Innovation Composite Homogenization

Report: WGI

RKR

Definition: Representative Key Risk

Report: WGI

RO

Definition: radio occultation

Report: WGI

RSL

Definition: relative sea level

Report: WGI

RSLR

Definition: relative sea level rise

Report: WGI

S

SAH

Definition: Sahara

Report: WGI

SAI

Definition: stratospheric aerosol injection

Report: WGI

SAM

Definition: Southern Annular Mode

Report: WGI

SAmerM

Definition: South American monsoon

Report: WGI

SAO

Definition: South Atlantic Ocean

Report: WGI

SAOD

Definition: stratospheric aerosol optical depth

Report: WGI

SAR

Definition: IPCC Second Assessment Report

Report: WGI

SARF

Definition: stratospheric-temperature-adjusted radiative forcing

Report: WGI

SAS

Definition: South Asia

Report: WGI

SAsiaM

Definition: South and South East Asian monsoon

Report: WGI

SAT

Definition: surface air temperature

Report: WGI

SAU

Definition: Southern Australia

Report: WGI

SCA

Definition: Southern Central America

Report: WGI

SCE

Definition: snow cover extent

Report: WGI

ScenarioMIP

Definition: Scenario Model Intercomparison Project

Report: WGI

SCM

Definition: simple climate model

Report: WGI

SDG

Definition: Sustainable Development Goals

Report: WGI

SEA

Definition: South East Asia

Report: WGI

SEAF

Definition: South Eastern Africa

Report: WGI

SED

Definition: Structured Expert Dialogue

Report: WGI

SEJ

Definition: Structured Expert Judgement

Report: WGI

SES

Definition: South-Eastern South America

Report: WGI

SF6

Definition: sulphur hexaflouride

Report: WGI

SH

Definition: Southern Hemisphere

Report: WGI

SIA

Definition: sea ice area

Report: WGI

SIDS

Definition: Small Island Developing States

Report: WGI

SIE

Definition: sea ice extent

Report: WGI

SLCF

Definition: short-lived climate forcer

Report: WGI

SLE

Definition: sea level equivalent

Report: WGI

SLP

Definition: sea level pressure

Report: WGI

SLR

Definition: sea level rise

Report: WGI

SMAP

Definition: Soil Moisture Active Passive

Report: WGI

SMB

Definition: surface mass balance

Report: WGI

SMILE

Definition: single-model initial-condition large ensemble

Report: WGI

SO2

Definition: sulphur dioxide

Report: WGI

SO4

Definition: sulphate

Report: WGI

SOA

Definition: secondary organic aerosols

Report: WGI

SOI

Definition: Southern Oscillation Index

Report: WGI

SON

Definition: September–October–November

Report: WGI

SOO

Definition: Southern Ocean

Report: WGI

SOx

Definition: sulphur oxides

Report: WGI

SPCZ

Definition: South Pacific Convergence Zone

Report: WGI

SPEI

Definition: Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index

Report: WGI

SPI

Definition: Standardized Precipitation Index

Report: WGI

SPM

Definition: Summary for Policymakers

Report: WGI

SPO

Definition: South Pacific Ocean or South Pole Observatory

Report: WGI

SR1.5

Definition: IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C

Report: WGI

SRCCL

Definition: IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land

Report: WGI

SRES

Definition: IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios

Report: WGI

SREX

Definition: IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risk of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation

Report: WGI

SRI

Definition: Standardized Runoff Index

Report: WGI

SRM

Definition: solar radiation modification

Report: WGI

SROCC

Definition: IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate

Report: WGI

SSA

Definition: Southern South America

Report: WGI

SSP

Definition: Shared Socio-economic Pathways

Report: WGI

SST

Definition: sea surface temperature

Report: WGI

SSW

Definition: sudden stratospheric warming

Report: WGI

STE

Definition: stratosphere–troposphere exchange

Report: WGI

SW

Definition: shortwave

Report: WGI

SWE

Definition: snow water equivalent

Report: WGI

SWS

Definition: South-Western South America

Report: WGI

SWV

Definition: stratospheric water vapour

Report: WGI

T

TAR

Definition: IPCC Third Assessment Report

Report: WGI

TAV

Definition: Tropical Atlantic Variability

Report: WGI

TC

Definition: tropical cyclone

Report: WGI

TCR

Definition: transient climate response

Report: WGI

TCRE

Definition: transient climate response to cumulative CO2 emissions

Report: WGI

TCWV

Definition: total column water vapour

Report: WGI

Tg

Definition: teragrams

Report: WGI

ThSL

Definition: thermosteric sea level

Report: WGI

TIB

Definition: Tibetan Plateau

Report: WGI

TNn

Definition: annual minimum daily minimum temperature

Report: WGI

TNx

Definition: annual maximum daily minimum temperature

Report: WGI

TOA

Definition: the net top-of-the-atmosphere

Report: WGI

ToE

Definition: time of emergence

Report: WGI

TPI

Definition: tripole Index

Report: WGI

TRMM

Definition: Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission

Report: WGI

TS

Definition: Technical Summary

Report: WGI

TSI

Definition: total solar irradiance

Report: WGI

U

UAH

Definition: University of Alabama in Huntsville

Report: WGI

UHI

Definition: urban heat island

Report: WGI

UN

Definition: United Nations

Report: WGI

UNEP

Definition: United Nations Environment Programme

Report: WGI

UNFCCC

Definition: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Report: WGI

UTLS

Definition: upper troposphere and lower stratosphere

Report: WGI

UV

Definition: ultraviolet

Report: WGI

UVic ESCM

Definition: University of Victoria Earth System Climate Model

Report: WGI

V

VLM

Definition: vertical land motion

Report: WGI

VOC

Definition: volatile organic compounds

Report: WGI

VPD

Definition: vapour pressure deficit

Report: WGI

VSLS

Definition: very short-lived halogenated species

Report: WGI

W

WAF

Definition: Western Africa

Report: WGI

WAfriM

Definition: West African monsoon

Report: WGI

WAIS

Definition: West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Report: WGI

WAN

Definition: West Antarctica

Report: WGI

WBC

Definition: western boundary current

Report: WGI

WBGT

Definition: wet bulb globe temperature

Report: WGI

WC

Definition: Walker circulation

Report: WGI

WCA

Definition: West Central Asia

Report: WGI

WCE

Definition: Western and Central Europe

Report: WGI

WCRP

Definition: World Climate Research Programme

Report: WGI

WG

Definition: IPCC Working Group

Report: WGI

WHO

Definition: World Health Organization

Report: WGI

WMGHG

Definition: well-mixed greenhouse gas

Report: WGI

WMO

Definition: World Meteorological Organization

Report: WGI

WNA

Definition: Western North America

Report: WGI

WNP

Definition: Western North Pacific

Report: WGI

WOA18

Definition: World Ocean Atlas 2018

Report: WGI

WSAF

Definition: West Southern Africa

Report: WGI

WSB

Definition: Wilkes Subglacial Basin

Report: WGI

WUE

Definition: water-use efficiency

Report: WGI

Y

YJ

Definition: yottajoule, 10^24 joules

Report: WGI

Z

ZEC

Definition: zero emissions commitment

Report: WGI

ZJ

Definition: zettajoule, 10^21 joules

Report: WGI

3

3-PG

Definition: Physiological Processes Predicting Growth

Report: WGII

A

A/R

Definition: Afforestation and Reforestation

Report: WGII

AAI

Definition: Africa Adaptation Initiative

Report: WGII

AAO

Definition: Antarctic Ocean Oscillation

Report: WGII

AAS

Definition: Australian Academy of Science

Report: WGII

ABNJ

Definition: Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction

Report: WGII

ABS

Definition: Australian Bureau of Statistics

Report: WGII

AC

Definition: Air Conditioning

Report: WGII

ACCC

Definition: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

Report: WGII

ACCCRN

Definition: Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network

Report: WGII

ACE

Definition: Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre

Report: WGII

ACRE

Definition: Agriculture and Climate Risk Enterprise

Report: WGII

ACT

Definition: Australian Capital Territory

Report: WGII

ADB

Definition: Asian Development Bank

Report: WGII

ADW

Definition: Alternate Drying and Wetting

Report: WGII

AEMO

Definition: Australian Energy Market Operator

Report: WGII

AF

Definition: Africa / Agroecological Farming

Report: WGII

AfDB

Definition: African Development Bank

Report: WGII

AFOLU

Definition: Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use

Report: WGII

AFSI

Definition: Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative

Report: WGII

AgMIP

Definition: Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project

Report: WGII

AHP

Definition: Analytic Hierarchy Processing

Report: WGII

AI

Definition: Artificial Intelligence

Report: WGII

AIDR

Definition: Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience

Report: WGII

AIHW

Definition: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Report: WGII

AK

Definition: Alaska

Report: WGII

ALT

Definition: Active Layer Thickness

Report: WGII

AMO

Definition: Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation

Report: WGII

AMOC

Definition: Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

Report: WGII

ANPP

Definition: Annual Net Primary Productivity

Report: WGII

AOGCM

Definition: Atmosphere–Ocean General Circulation Model

Report: WGII

AOSIS

Definition: Alliance of Small Island States

Report: WGII

APP

Definition: Agricultural Adaptation and Perception

Report: WGII

APRA

Definition: Australian Prudential Regulation Authority

Report: WGII

AR

Definition: Atmospheric River / Assessment Report

Report: WGII

AR4

Definition: IPCC Fourth Assessment Report

Report: WGII

AR5

Definition: IPCC Fifth Assessment Report

Report: WGII

AR6

Definition: IPCC Sixth Assessment Report

Report: WGII

ARA

Definition: Arab Region of Asia

Report: WGII

ARI

Definition: Acute Respiratory Infection

Report: WGII

ASBEC

Definition: Australian Sustainable Built Environment Council

Report: WGII

ASE

Definition: Amundsen Sea Embayment

Report: WGII

ASEAN

Definition: Association of Southeast Asian Nations

Report: WGII

ASFI

Definition: Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative

Report: WGII

ASP

Definition: Adaptive Social Protection

Report: WGII

AT

Definition: Air Temperature / Austria

Report: WGII

ATLAS

Definition: Adaptation Thought Leadership and Assessments

Report: WGII

AU

Definition: African Union

Report: WGII

AUC

Definition: Area under the Curve

Report: WGII

AUP

Definition: Auckland Unitary Plan

Report: WGII

B

BAU

Definition: Business-as-Usual

Report: WGII

BC

Definition: British Columbia

Report: WGII

BCH

Definition: Built Cultural Heritage

Report: WGII

BCR

Definition: Benefit-to-Cost Ratio

Report: WGII

BDP

Definition: The Bangladesh Delta Plan

Report: WGII

BE

Definition: Belgium

Report: WGII

BECCS

Definition: Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage

Report: WGII

BFV

Definition: Barmah Forest Virus

Report: WGII

BMPs

Definition: Best Management Practices

Report: WGII

BOM

Definition: Bureau of Meteorology

Report: WGII

BORDA

Definition: Bremen Overseas Research & Development Association

Report: WGII

BR

Definition: Biennial Report

Report: WGII

BRI

Definition: Belt and Road Initiative

Report: WGII

BRICS

Definition: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa

Report: WGII

BTM

Definition: Bhutanese Traditional Medicine

Report: WGII

BVOC

Definition: Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds

Report: WGII

C

C&S

Definition: Cities and Settlements

Report: WGII

CA

Definition: Conservation Agriculture

Report: WGII

CAM

Definition: Crassulacean Acid Metabolism

Report: WGII

CBA

Definition: Community-Based Adaptation / Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Report: WGII

CBD

Definition: Convention on Biological Diversity

Report: WGII

CBO

Definition: Community-Based Organisations

Report: WGII

CBs

Definition: Central Banks

Report: WGII

CCA

Definition: Climate-Change Adaptation

Report: WGII

CCAFS

Definition: Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

Report: WGII

CCATWG

Definition: Climate Change Adaptation Technical Working Group

Report: WGII

CCC

Definition: Climate Change Committee

Report: WGII

CCD

Definition: Climate Compatible Development

Report: WGII

CCDMF

Definition: China Clean Development Mechanism Fund

Report: WGII

CCE

Definition: Climate-Change Education

Report: WGII

CCP

Definition: Cross-Chapter Paper

Report: WGII

CCRA

Definition: Climate Change Response Act

Report: WGII

CCRIF

Definition: Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility

Report: WGII

CCS

Definition: Carbon Capture and Storage

Report: WGII

CCT

Definition: Cirrus Cloud Thinning

Report: WGII

CCU

Definition: Carbon Dioxide Capture and Utilisation

Report: WGII

CDC

Definition: Community Development Committees

Report: WGII

CDD

Definition: Consecutive Dry Days

Report: WGII

CDEM

Definition: Civil Defence & Emergency Management

Report: WGII

CDKN

Definition: Climate & Development Knowledge Network

Report: WGII

CDM

Definition: Clean Development Mechanism

Report: WGII

CDMC

Definition: Community Disaster Management Committees

Report: WGII

CDR

Definition: Carbon Dioxide Removal

Report: WGII

CE

Definition: Circular Economy

Report: WGII

CEIC

Definition: Census and Economic Information Center

Report: WGII

CER

Definition: Certified Emissions Reduction

Report: WGII

CES

Definition: Cultural Ecosystem Services / Circulating and Ecological Sphere

Report: WGII

CFC

Definition: Chlorofluorocarbon

Report: WGII

CFM

Definition: Community Forest Management

Report: WGII

CFP

Definition: Ciguatera Fish Poisoning

Report: WGII

CFPP

Definition: Coal-Fired Power Plant

Report: WGII

CGE

Definition: Computable General Equilibrium

Report: WGII

CGIAR

Definition: Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research

Report: WGII

CGRA

Definition: Coordinated Global and Regional Assessments

Report: WGII

CH

Definition: Switzerland

Report: WGII

CHIKV

Definition: Chikungunya Virus

Report: WGII

CHL

Definition: Chlorophyll a

Report: WGII

CICES

Definition: Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services

Report: WGII

CID

Definition: Climate-Impact Driver

Report: WGII

CIS

Definition: Climate Information Services

Report: WGII

CLP

Definition: Community Learning Platform

Report: WGII

CMIP

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project

Report: WGII

CMIP3

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 3

Report: WGII

CMIP5

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5

Report: WGII

CMIP6

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6

Report: WGII

CMR

Definition: Crude Mortality Rate

Report: WGII

CMSI

Definition: Climate Measurement Standards Initiative

Report: WGII

CoA

Definition: Commonwealth of Australia

Report: WGII

COAG

Definition: Council of Australian Governments

Report: WGII

CODOHSAPA

Definition: Centre for Dialogue on Human Settlement and Poverty Alleviation

Report: WGII

COP

Definition: Conference of the Parties

Report: WGII

COP16

Definition: 16th Session of the Conference of the Parties

Report: WGII

COP19

Definition: 19th Session of the Conference of the Parties

Report: WGII

COP26

Definition: 26th Session of the Conference of the Parties

Report: WGII

COPD

Definition: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Report: WGII

CORDEX

Definition: Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment

Report: WGII

COSSAO

Definition: Corporación De Servicios De Salud Y Desarrollo Socioeconómico, El Otoao

Report: WGII

COVID-19

Definition: Coronavirus Disease 2019

Report: WGII

CPA

Definition: Conservation Priority Areas

Report: WGII

CPI

Definition: Climate Policy Initiative / Climate Policy Integration

Report: WGII

CRC

Definition: Climate Resilient City

Report: WGII

CRD

Definition: Climate Resilient Development

Report: WGII

CRDP

Definition: Climate Resilient Development Pathway

Report: WGII

CRFS

Definition: City Region Food System

Report: WGII

CRGE

Definition: Climate Resilient Green Economy

Report: WGII

CRIDA

Definition: Climate Risk Informed Decision Analysis

Report: WGII

CRM

Definition: Climate Risk Management

Report: WGII

CRO

Definition: Chief Resilience Officer

Report: WGII

CRS

Definition: Climate Regime Shifts

Report: WGII

CS

Definition: Climate Services

Report: WGII

CSA

Definition: Central and South American / Climate-Smart Agriculture

Report: WGII

CSF

Definition: Climate-Smart Forestry

Report: WGII

CSIRO

Definition: Commonwealth Scientific Industrial and Research Organisation

Report: WGII

CSOs

Definition: Combined Sewer Overflows

Report: WGII

CSR

Definition: Climatically Suitable Region

Report: WGII

CVD

Definition: Cardiovascular Disease

Report: WGII

CZ

Definition: Czech Republic

Report: WGII

D

DAC

Definition: Development Assistance Committee

Report: WGII

DACCS

Definition: Direct Air Carbon Capture and Storage

Report: WGII

DAE

Definition: Direct Access Entities

Report: WGII

DAI

Definition: Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference

Report: WGII

DALY

Definition: Disability-Adjusted Life Year

Report: WGII

DAPP

Definition: Dynamic Adaptive Pathways Planning

Report: WGII

DBH

Definition: Diameter at Breast Height

Report: WGII

DCCEE

Definition: Department of Climate Change, Energy and Efficiency

Report: WGII

DE

Definition: Germany

Report: WGII

DEA

Definition: Data Envelopment Analysis

Report: WGII

DEHP

Definition: Department of Environment and Heritage Protection

Report: WGII

DELWP

Definition: Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning

Report: WGII

DEM

Definition: Digital Elevation Model

Report: WGII

DENR

Definition: Department of Environment and Natural Resources

Report: WGII

DES

Definition: Department of Environment and Science

Report: WGII

DESA

Definition: Department of Economic and Social Affairs

Report: WGII

DFIs

Definition: Development Finance Institutions

Report: WGII

DGVMs

Definition: Dynamic Global Vegetation Models

Report: WGII

DHW

Definition: Degree Heating Weeks

Report: WGII

DINA

Definition: Drought Impact and Needs Assessment

Report: WGII

DISER

Definition: Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources

Report: WGII

DIY

Definition: Do It Yourself

Report: WGII

DMDU

Definition: Decision-Making under Deep Uncertainty

Report: WGII

DOC

Definition: Dissolved Organic Carbon / Department of Conservation

Report: WGII

DOM

Definition: Dissolved Organic Matter

Report: WGII

DRC

Definition: Democratic Republic of Congo

Report: WGII

DRFIP

Definition: Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance Program

Report: WGII

DRM

Definition: Disaster Risk Management

Report: WGII

DRR

Definition: Disaster Risk Reduction

Report: WGII

DSR

Definition: Direct-Seeded Rice

Report: WGII

E

E

Definition: Exposure

Report: WGII

EAD

Definition: Expected Annual Damages

Report: WGII

EAIS

Definition: East Antarctic Ice Sheet

Report: WGII

EbA

Definition: Ecosystem-Based Adaptation

Report: WGII

EBM

Definition: Ecosystem-Based Management

Report: WGII

EBS

Definition: Eastern Bering Sea

Report: WGII

EBSA

Definition: Ecologically and Biologically Significant Areas

Report: WGII

EBUS

Definition: Eastern Boundary Upwelling System

Report: WGII

EC

Definition: End-Century

Report: WGII

ECB

Definition: European Central Bank

Report: WGII

ECOSOC

Definition: Economic and Social Council of the United Nations

Report: WGII

ECS

Definition: Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity

Report: WGII

ECWL

Definition: Extreme Coastal Water Level

Report: WGII

EDCD

Definition: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

Report: WGII

EDRM

Definition: Emergency and Disaster Risk Management

Report: WGII

EEA

Definition: European Environment Agency

Report: WGII

EEU

Definition: Eastern Europe

Report: WGII

EEZ

Definition: Exclusive Economic Zone

Report: WGII

EFRs

Definition: Environmental Flow Requirements

Report: WGII

EIA

Definition: Energy Information Administration

Report: WGII

EKC

Definition: Environmental Kuznets Curve

Report: WGII

ENACTS

Definition: East Africa and the West African Sahel

Report: WGII

ENSO

Definition: El Niño-Southern Oscillation

Report: WGII

EP

Definition: Environmental Peacebuilding

Report: WGII

ES

Definition: Expected Shortfall / Spain

Report: WGII

ESA

Definition: European Space Agency

Report: WGII

ESA CCI

Definition: European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative

Report: WGII

ESAF

Definition: East Southern Africa

Report: WGII

ESCC

Definition: Earth Systems and Climate Change

Report: WGII

ESCI

Definition: Electricity Sector Climate Information

Report: WGII

ESD

Definition: Education for Sustainable Development

Report: WGII

ESL

Definition: Extreme Sea Level

Report: WGII

ESM

Definition: Earth System Model

Report: WGII

ESW

Definition: Economic and Sector Work

Report: WGII

ESWL

Definition: Extreme Still Water Level

Report: WGII

ET

Definition: Evapotranspiration

Report: WGII

ETC

Definition: Extra-Tropical Cyclone

Report: WGII

ETWL

Definition: Extreme Total Water Level

Report: WGII

EU

Definition: European Union

Report: WGII

EV

Definition: Electric Vehicle

Report: WGII

EW

Definition: Enhanced Weathering

Report: WGII

EWFD

Definition: European Water Framework Directive

Report: WGII

EWS

Definition: Early Warning System

Report: WGII

F

FACE

Definition: Free-Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment

Report: WGII

FAO

Definition: Food and Agriculture Organization

Report: WGII

FAQ

Definition: Frequently Asked Questions

Report: WGII

FAR

Definition: Financing for Adaptation and Resilience / Fraction of Attributable Risks

Report: WGII

FBD

Definition: Food-Borne Disease

Report: WGII

FEDURP

Definition: Federation of the Urban and Rural Poor

Report: WGII

FEMA

Definition: Federal Emergency Management Agency

Report: WGII

FEW

Definition: Food–Energy–Water

Report: WGII

FFDI

Definition: Forest Fire Danger Index

Report: WGII

Fish-MIP

Definition: Fisheries and Marine Ecosystem Model Intercomparison Project

Report: WGII

FLW

Definition: Food Loss and Waste

Report: WGII

FMU

Definition: Forest Management Unit

Report: WGII

FPIC

Definition: Free Prior and Informed Consent

Report: WGII

FR

Definition: France

Report: WGII

FSC

Definition: Forest Stewardship Council

Report: WGII

FW

Definition: Fire Weather

Report: WGII

FWL

Definition: Freshwater Lens

Report: WGII

FYROM

Definition: North Macedonia

Report: WGII

G

G20

Definition: Group of Twenty

Report: WGII

GAMI

Definition: Global Adaptation Mapping Initiative

Report: WGII

GAST

Definition: Global Mean Surface Air Temperature

Report: WGII

GBAM

Definition: Ground-Based Albedo Modification

Report: WGII

GBCA

Definition: Green Building Council of Australia

Report: WGII

GBP

Definition: Great Britain Pound

Report: WGII

GBR

Definition: Great Barrier Reef

Report: WGII

GBRMPA

Definition: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

Report: WGII

GCF

Definition: Green Climate Fund

Report: WGII

GCM

Definition: General Circulation Model / Global Climate Model

Report: WGII

GDD

Definition: Growing Degree Days

Report: WGII

GDE

Definition: Groundwater-Dependent Ecosystem

Report: WGII

GDP

Definition: Gross Domestic Product

Report: WGII

GEF

Definition: Global Environment Facility

Report: WGII

GHA

Definition: Greater Horn of Africa

Report: WGII

GHG

Definition: Greenhouse Gas

Report: WGII

GHM

Definition: Global Hydrological Model

Report: WGII

GI

Definition: Gastrointestinal

Report: WGII

GIS

Definition: Geographic Information System

Report: WGII

GLEON

Definition: Global Lakes Ecological Observatory Network

Report: WGII

GLOF

Definition: Glacial Lake Outburst Flood

Report: WGII

GM

Definition: Genetically Modified / Global Monsoon

Report: WGII

GMSL

Definition: Global Mean Sea Level

Report: WGII

GMSLR

Definition: Global Mean Sea Level Rise

Report: WGII

GMST

Definition: Global Mean Surface Temperature

Report: WGII

GMT

Definition: Global Mean Temperature

Report: WGII

GNDR

Definition: Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction

Report: WGII

GNH

Definition: Gross National Happiness

Report: WGII

GOA-ON

Definition: Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network

Report: WGII

GPCC

Definition: Global Precipitation Climatology Centre

Report: WGII

GPG

Definition: Good Practice Guidance

Report: WGII

GPP

Definition: Gross Primary Production

Report: WGII

GQL

Definition: Good Quality of Life

Report: WGII

GRACE

Definition: Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment

Report: WGII

GRDC

Definition: Global Runoff Data Centre

Report: WGII

GSAT

Definition: Global Surface Air Temperature

Report: WGII

GW

Definition: Gigawatt

Report: WGII

GWL

Definition: Global Warming Level

Report: WGII

GWP

Definition: Global Warming Potential

Report: WGII

GWR

Definition: Geographically Weighted Regression

Report: WGII

GWRC

Definition: Greater Wellington Regional Council

Report: WGII

GWSHP

Definition: Groundwater-Source Heat Pumps

Report: WGII

GWSI

Definition: Global Water Security Index

Report: WGII

H

H

Definition: Hazard

Report: WGII

HAB

Definition: Harmful Algal Bloom

Report: WGII

HadCM3

Definition: Hadley Center Coupled Model

Report: WGII

HAP

Definition: Heat Action Plan

Report: WGII

HCSA

Definition: High Carbon Stock Areas

Report: WGII

HCVA

Definition: High Conservation Value Areas

Report: WGII

HDD

Definition: Heat Degree Days

Report: WGII

HDI

Definition: Human Development Index

Report: WGII

HDSR

Definition: Health and Disability System Review

Report: WGII

HELP

Definition: High Level Experts and Leaders Panel

Report: WGII

HFC

Definition: Hydrofluorocarbon

Report: WGII

HFRS

Definition: Haemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome

Report: WGII

HIV

Definition: Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Report: WGII

HKH

Definition: Hindu Kush Himalaya

Report: WGII

HLD

Definition: High Latitude Dust

Report: WGII

HNPP

Definition: Herbaceous Net Primary Productivity

Report: WGII

HPLE

Definition: High Level Panel of Experts

Report: WGII

HRBA

Definition: Human Rights-Based Approach

Report: WGII

HVAC

Definition: Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning

Report: WGII

I

IAM

Definition: Integrated Assessment Model

Report: WGII

IAS

Definition: Invasive Alien Species

Report: WGII

IBAI

Definition: Index-Based Agricultural Insurance

Report: WGII

ICA

Definition: Insurance Council of Australia

Report: WGII

ICLEI

Definition: Local Governments for Sustainability

Report: WGII

ICM

Definition: Integrated Coastal Management

Report: WGII

ICNZ

Definition: Insurance Council of New Zealand

Report: WGII

ICRI

Definition: International Coral Reef Initiative

Report: WGII

ICT

Definition: Information and Communications Technology

Report: WGII

ICV

Definition: Instituto Centro de Vida

Report: WGII

ICZM

Definition: Integrated Coastal Zone Management

Report: WGII

ID

Definition: Insufficient Data

Report: WGII

IDF

Definition: International Diabetes Foundation

Report: WGII

IDMC

Definition: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre

Report: WGII

IDP

Definition: Internally Displaced People

Report: WGII

IEA

Definition: International Energy Agency

Report: WGII

IFPRI

Definition: International Food Policy Research Institute

Report: WGII

IGCC

Definition: Investor Group on Climate Change

Report: WGII

IHME

Definition: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Report: WGII

IIED

Definition: International Institute for Environment and Development

Report: WGII

IISD

Definition: International Institute for Sustainable Development

Report: WGII

IK

Definition: Indigenous Knowledge

Report: WGII

IKLK

Definition: Indigenous Knowledge and Local Knowledge

Report: WGII

iLUC

Definition: Indirect Land-Use Change

Report: WGII

IMF

Definition: International Monetary Fund

Report: WGII

INDC

Definition: Intended Nationally Determined Contributions

Report: WGII

IOD

Definition: Indian Ocean Dipole

Report: WGII

IoT

Definition: Internet of Things

Report: WGII

IPBES

Definition: Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Report: WGII

IPCC

Definition: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Report: WGII

IPLC

Definition: Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities

Report: WGII

IPO

Definition: Inter-Decadal Pacific Oscillation

Report: WGII

IQR

Definition: Interquartile Range

Report: WGII

IRGC

Definition: International Risk Governance Council

Report: WGII

IS

Definition: Ice Sheet

Report: WGII

ISIMIP

Definition: Inter-Sectoral Impacts Model Intercomparison Project

Report: WGII

ISME

Definition: International Society for Mangrove Ecosystems

Report: WGII

ISO

Definition: International Organization for Standardization

Report: WGII

IT

Definition: Italy

Report: WGII

IUCN

Definition: International Union for the Conservation of Nature

Report: WGII

IUWN

Definition: Integrated Urban Water Management

Report: WGII

IVA

Definition: Integrated Vulnerability Assessments

Report: WGII

IWGIA

Definition: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs

Report: WGII

IWRM

Definition: Integrated Water Resource Management

Report: WGII

J

JRC

Definition: Joint Research Centre

Report: WGII

K

K1, K2, K3

Definition: Mountain Delineations

Report: WGII

KNOMAD

Definition: Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development

Report: WGII

KR

Definition: Key Risk

Report: WGII

L

L&D

Definition: Losses and Damages

Report: WGII

LAI

Definition: Leaf Area Index

Report: WGII

LCOE

Definition: Levelised Costs of Electricity

Report: WGII

LCP

Definition: Local Community Perception

Report: WGII

LC-PUFAs

Definition: Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids

Report: WGII

LDC

Definition: Least Developed Countries

Report: WGII

LDCF

Definition: Least Developed Country Fund

Report: WGII

LDN

Definition: Land Degradation Neutrality

Report: WGII

LECZ

Definition: Low-Elevation Coastal Zone

Report: WGII

LEDS

Definition: Low Emission Development Strategies

Report: WGII

LEED

Definition: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design

Report: WGII

LEED-ND

Definition: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design–Neighbourhood Design

Report: WGII

LGBTQI

Definition: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex

Report: WGII

LGNZ

Definition: Local Government of New Zealand

Report: WGII

LI

Definition: Lithuania

Report: WGII

LIG

Definition: Last Interglacial

Report: WGII

LIMIC

Definition: Low-Income and Medium-Income Countries

Report: WGII

LK

Definition: Local Knowledge

Report: WGII

LMMA

Definition: Locally Managed Marine Area

Report: WGII

LSLA

Definition: Large-Scale Land Acquisition

Report: WGII

LTP

Definition: Long-Term Plan

Report: WGII

LU

Definition: Luxembourg

Report: WGII

LUC

Definition: Land-Use Change

Report: WGII

LULUC

Definition: Land Use and Land-Use Change

Report: WGII

LULUCF

Definition: Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry

Report: WGII

M

m w.e.

Definition: Meter Water Equivalent

Report: WGII

M&C

Definition: Monitoring and Evaluation

Report: WGII

m.a.s.l.

Definition: Metres Above Sea Level

Report: WGII

MAP

Definition: Mediterranean Action Plan / Municipal Adaptation Plan

Report: WGII

MAR

Definition: Managed Aquifer Recharge

Report: WGII

MBIE

Definition: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

Report: WGII

MC

Definition: Mid-Century

Report: WGII

MCB

Definition: Marine Cloud Brightening

Report: WGII

MCDA

Definition: Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

Report: WGII

MCP

Definition: Maximum Catch Potential

Report: WGII

MCPP

Definition: Municipal Climate Protection Programme

Report: WGII

MD

Definition: Mega-Drought

Report: WGII

MDB

Definition: Multi-Lateral Development Bank / Murray–Darling Basin

Report: WGII

MDG

Definition: Millennium Development Goal

Report: WGII

MEA

Definition: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

Report: WGII

MEASO

Definition: Marine Ecosystem Assessment for the Southern Ocean

Report: WGII

MED

Definition: Mediterranean

Report: WGII

MEE

Definition: Ministry of Ecology and Environment

Report: WGII

MEFF

Definition: Mediterranean Flood Fatalities Database

Report: WGII

MeHg

Definition: Methylmercury

Report: WGII

MEL

Definition: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

Report: WGII

MENA

Definition: Middle East and North Africa

Report: WGII

MERI

Definition: Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Improvement

Report: WGII

MERS

Definition: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome

Report: WGII

MfE

Definition: Ministry for the Environment

Report: WGII

MFP

Definition: Multistakeholder Forestry Programme

Report: WGII

MGNREGA

Definition: Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act

Report: WGII

MHW

Definition: Marine Heatwaves

Report: WGII

MI

Definition: Myocardial Infarction

Report: WGII

MIPs

Definition: Model Intercomparison Projects

Report: WGII

MISI

Definition: Marine Ice Sheet Instability

Report: WGII

MMT

Definition: Minimum Mortality Temperature

Report: WGII

MODIS

Definition: Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer

Report: WGII

MPA

Definition: Marine-Protected Area

Report: WGII

MPI

Definition: Multidimensional Poverty Index

Report: WGII

MRV

Definition: Monitoring, Reporting and Verification

Report: WGII

MSFD

Definition: Marine Strategy Framework Directive

Report: WGII

MSL

Definition: Mean Sea Level

Report: WGII

MSP

Definition: Marine Spatial Planning

Report: WGII

MSRI

Definition: Modified System of Rice Intensification

Report: WGII

MSSD

Definition: Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development

Report: WGII

MSY

Definition: Maximum Sustainable Yields

Report: WGII

MTE

Definition: Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems

Report: WGII

N

NAF

Definition: North Africa and Middle East

Report: WGII

NAHS

Definition: National Aboriginal Health Strategy

Report: WGII

NAO

Definition: North Atlantic Oscillation

Report: WGII

NAP

Definition: National Adaptation Plan

Report: WGII

NAPA

Definition: National Adaptation Programmes of Action

Report: WGII

NAS

Definition: National Adaptation Strategy

Report: WGII

NBI

Definition: Nile Basin Initiative

Report: WGII

NbS

Definition: Nature-Based Solutions

Report: WGII

NCCARF

Definition: National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility

Report: WGII

NCCRS

Definition: National Climate Change Response Strategy

Report: WGII

NCD

Definition: Non-Communicable Disease

Report: WGII

NCEI

Definition: National Centers for Environmental Information

Report: WGII

NCP

Definition: Nature's Contribution to People

Report: WGII

NDC

Definition: Nationally Determined Contributions

Report: WGII

NDVI

Definition: Normalised Difference Vegetation Index

Report: WGII

NE

Definition: Northeast

Report: WGII

NELD

Definition: Non-Economic Loss and Damage

Report: WGII

NEP

Definition: Net Ecosystem Production

Report: WGII

NESP

Definition: National Environmental Science Program

Report: WGII

NEU

Definition: Northern Europe

Report: WGII

NEUS

Definition: European Arctic Waters

Report: WGII

NF

Definition: Near Future

Report: WGII

NFM

Definition: Natural Flood Management

Report: WGII

NGO

Definition: Non-Governmental Organisation

Report: WGII

NHS

Definition: National Health Service

Report: WGII

NIES

Definition: National Institute for Environmental Studies

Report: WGII

NIWA

Definition: National Institute of Water and Air

Report: WGII

NL

Definition: Netherlands

Report: WGII

NMHS

Definition: National Meteorological and Hydrological Services

Report: WGII

NPP

Definition: Net Primary Production / Nuclear Power Plants

Report: WGII

NSR

Definition: Northern Sea Route

Report: WGII

NSW

Definition: New South Wales

Report: WGII

NTDs

Definition: Neglected Tropical Diseases

Report: WGII

NTFPs

Definition: Non-Timber Forest Products

Report: WGII

NUA

Definition: New Urban Agenda

Report: WGII

NWP

Definition: Northwest Passages

Report: WGII

NWS

Definition: Northwestern South America

Report: WGII

NYCEDC

Definition: New York City Economic Development Corporation

Report: WGII

NZ

Definition: New Zealand

Report: WGII

NZCFSF

Definition: New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Finance

Report: WGII

O

OA

Definition: Ocean Acidification

Report: WGII

OAC

Definition: Ocean Albedo Change

Report: WGII

OCLTT

Definition: Capacity-Limited Thermal Tolerance

Report: WGII

ODA

Definition: Official Development Assistance

Report: WGII

OECD

Definition: Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development

Report: WGII

OECM

Definition: Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures

Report: WGII

OEH

Definition: Office of Environment and Heritage

Report: WGII

OHRLLS

Definition: United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States

Report: WGII

OMVS

Definition: Senegal River Basin Organisation

Report: WGII

OMZ

Definition: Oxygen Minimum Zones

Report: WGII

OSPAR

Definition: Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic

Report: WGII

OW

Definition: The Office of Water

Report: WGII

P

PA

Definition: Partnership Agreement / Protected Area

Report: WGII

PACJA

Definition: Pan Africa Climate Justice Alliance

Report: WGII

PAGCC

Definition: Gender and Climate Change Action Plans

Report: WGII

Pas

Definition: Protected Areas

Report: WGII

PCB

Definition: Polychlorinated Biphenyl

Report: WGII

PCE

Definition: Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment

Report: WGII

pCO2

Definition: Partial Pressure of Carbon Dioxide

Report: WGII

PDO

Definition: Pacific Decadal Oscillation

Report: WGII

PDRC

Definition: People's Democratic Republic of Congo

Report: WGII

PDS

Definition: Public Distribution System

Report: WGII

PDSI

Definition: Palmer Drought Severity Index

Report: WGII

PE

Definition: Asked for Expansion

Report: WGII

PEFC

Definition: Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification

Report: WGII

PES

Definition: Payments for Ecosystem Services

Report: WGII

PET

Definition: Potential Evapotranspiration

Report: WGII

PFC

Definition: Perfluorocarbon

Report: WGII

pH

Definition: Potential of Hydrogen

Report: WGII

PICSA

Definition: Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture

Report: WGII

PIDA

Definition: African Union's Programme for Infrastructure Development

Report: WGII

PIDACC

Definition: Programmes for Integrated Development and Adaptation to Climate Change

Report: WGII

PM

Definition: Particulate Matter

Report: WGII

POC

Definition: Particulate Organic Carbon

Report: WGII

POMS

Definition: Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome

Report: WGII

POP

Definition: Persistent Organic Pollutant

Report: WGII

PPADI

Definition: Human Development Index, Recently Adjusted to Reflect the Effect of Planetary Pressures

Report: WGII

PPB

Definition: Participatory Plant Breeding

Report: WGII

PPP

Definition: Public–Private Partnerships / Purchasing Power Parity

Report: WGII

PSI

Definition: Principles for Sustainable Insurance

Report: WGII

PSNP

Definition: Productive Safety Net Programme

Report: WGII

PTSD

Definition: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Report: WGII

PWC

Definition: Physical Work Capacity

Report: WGII

PWLM

Definition: Participatory Watershed Land-Use Management

Report: WGII

Q

QFCI

Definition: Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry

Report: WGII

QFES

Definition: Queensland Fire and Emergency Services

Report: WGII

QOL

Definition: Quality of Life

Report: WGII

R

RAWES

Definition: Rapid Assessment of Wetland Ecosystem Services

Report: WGII

RBNZ

Definition: Reserve Bank of New Zealand

Report: WGII

RCM

Definition: Regional Climate Model

Report: WGII

RCP

Definition: Representative Concentration Pathway

Report: WGII

RCSA

Definition: Rwanda Climate Services Programme

Report: WGII

RDM

Definition: Robust Decision-Making

Report: WGII

RE

Definition: Renewable Energy

Report: WGII

REDD

Definition: Reduction of Emissions From Deforestation and Forest Degradation

Report: WGII

REGEN

Definition: Rainfall Estimates on a Gridded Network

Report: WGII

RFC

Definition: Reason for Concern

Report: WGII

RFMO

Definition: Regional Fisheries Management Organisation

Report: WGII

RIO

Definition: Rational Impartial Observer

Report: WGII

RIT

Definition: Resilient Infrastructure and Technologies

Report: WGII

RKR

Definition: Representative Key Risk

Report: WGII

RMB

Definition: Renminbi

Report: WGII

ROSES

Definition: Reporting Standards for Systematic Evidence Syntheses

Report: WGII

RRV

Definition: Ross River Virus

Report: WGII

RSL

Definition: Relative Sea Level

Report: WGII

RSLR

Definition: Relative Sea-Level Rise

Report: WGII

RTI

Definition: Respiratory Tract Infection

Report: WGII

RVF

Definition: Rift Valley Fever

Report: WGII

S

SAI

Definition: Stratospheric Aerosol Intervention

Report: WGII

SAIA

Definition: South African Insurance Association

Report: WGII

SAIIA

Definition: South African Institute of International Affairs

Report: WGII

SAM

Definition: Southern Annular Mode / South American Monsoon

Report: WGII

SAR

Definition: Second Assessment Report

Report: WGII

SARS

Definition: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

Report: WGII

SAS

Definition: South Asia

Report: WGII

SASSCAL

Definition: Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change, Adaptive Land Management

Report: WGII

SC

Definition: Sponge City

Report: WGII

SCC

Definition: Social Cost of Carbon

Report: WGII

SCE

Definition: Snow Cover Extent

Report: WGII

scPDSI

Definition: Self-Calibrating Palmer Drought Severity Index

Report: WGII

SD

Definition: Sustainable Development

Report: WGII

SDG

Definition: Sustainable Development Goal

Report: WGII

SDM

Definition: Species Distribution Model

Report: WGII

SDP

Definition: Sustainable Development Pathway

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SDS

Definition: Sand and Dust Storms

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SE

Definition: Southeast

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SEEA

Definition: System of Environmental–Economic Accounting

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SES

Definition: Socio-Ecological Systems / Southeast South America / Semi-Enclosed Sea

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SETS

Definition: Social, Ecological and Technological Systems

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SEU

Definition: Southern Europe

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SEUS

Definition: Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea

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SHELF

Definition: Sheffield Elicitation Framework

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SI

Definition: Sustainable Intensification

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SIDS

Definition: Small Island Developing States

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SITES

Definition: Sustainable Sites Initiative

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SL

Definition: Slovenia

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SLCF

Definition: Short-Lived Climate Forcer

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SLM

Definition: Sustainable Land Management

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SLR

Definition: Sea Level Rise

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SLURC

Definition: Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre

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SM

Definition: Supplementary Material

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SMART

Definition: Stormwater Management and Road Tunnel

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SME

Definition: Small and Medium Enterprises

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SNA

Definition: System of National Accounts

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SOC

Definition: Soil Organic Carbon

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SOI

Definition: Southern Oscillation Index

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SOM

Definition: Soil Organic Matter

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SP

Definition: Social Protection

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SPEI

Definition: Standardised Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index

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SPI

Definition: Standardised Precipitation Index

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SPM

Definition: Summary for Policymakers

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SPP

Definition: State Planning Policy

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SPV

Definition: Special Purpose Vehicle

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SR1.5

Definition: IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C

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SRA

Definition: Social Responsibility Agreements

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SRCCL

Definition: Special Report on Climate Change and Land

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SRES

Definition: Special Report on Emissions Scenarios

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SRM

Definition: Solar Radiation Modification

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SROCC

Definition: Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate

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SRTM

Definition: Shuttle Radar Topography Mission

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SSA

Definition: South and Sub-Saharan Africa

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SSP

Definition: Shared Socioeconomic Pathways

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SSR

Definition: Seasonal Severity Rating

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SST

Definition: Sea Surface Temperature

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STFM

Definition: Sustainable Tropical Forest Management

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STI

Definition: Science, Technology and Innovation

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SUDS

Definition: Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems

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SW

Definition: Southwest

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SWE

Definition: Snow Water Equivalent

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SWM

Definition: Sustainable Water Management

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SWP

Definition: Soil Water Potential

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T

TAR

Definition: Third Assessment Report

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TAV

Definition: Tropical Atlantic Variability

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TC

Definition: Tropical Cyclone

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TCFD

Definition: Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures

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TCs

Definition: Tropical Cyclones

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TEG CRM

Definition: Technical Expert Group on Comprehensive Risk Management

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TEU

Definition: Twenty-Foot Container Equivalent Units

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TEUS

Definition: European Temperate Seas

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T-FACE

Definition: Temperature Free-Air Controlled Enhancement

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TFP

Definition: Total Factor Productivity

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THI

Definition: Temperature Humidity Index

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TIA

Definition: Tourism Industry Aotearoa

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TIB

Definition: Tibetan Plateau

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TK

Definition: Traditional Knowledge

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TLAS

Definition: Timber Legality Assurance System

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TMNs

Definition: Transnational Municipal Networks

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TMSP

Definition: Transboundary Marine Spatial Planning

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TN

Definition: Tropical Nights

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TSR

Definition: Transpolar Sea Route

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TSRA

Definition: Torres Strait Regional Authority

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TSU

Definition: Technical Support Unit

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TURFs

Definition: Territorial Use Rights for Fishing

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TWS

Definition: Terrestrial Water Storage

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TWS-DSI

Definition: Terrestrial Water Storage-Drought Severity Index

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TWWHA

Definition: Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area

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U

UA

Definition: Urban Agriculture

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UCDP

Definition: Uppsala Conflict Data Program

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UCLG

Definition: United Cities and Local Governments

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UHC

Definition: Universal Health Coverage

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UHI

Definition: Urban Heat Island

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UN

Definition: United Nations

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UNCCD

Definition: United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification

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UNDP

Definition: United Nations Development Programme

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UNEP

Definition: United Nations Environment Programme

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UNESCO

Definition: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

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UNFCCC

Definition: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

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UNHCR

Definition: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee

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UNICEF

Definition: United Nations Children's Fund

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UPA

Definition: Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture

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USAID

Definition: United States Agency for International Development

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USD

Definition: United States Dollars

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USGS

Definition: United States Geological Survey

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V

V

Definition: Vulnerability

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VaR

Definition: Value at Risk

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VBD

Definition: Vector-Borne Disease

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VF

Definition: Vertical Farming

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VOC

Definition: Volatile Organic Compound

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VoCC

Definition: Velocity of Climate Change

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VOD

Definition: Vegetation Optical Depth

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VPA

Definition: Voluntary Partnership Agreements

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VPD

Definition: Vapour Pressure Deficit

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VRES

Definition: Variable Renewable Energies

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W

W

Definition: Western

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WAIS

Definition: West Antarctic Ice Sheet

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WASCAL

Definition: West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management

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WASH

Definition: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

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WBD

Definition: Waterborne Disease

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WCA

Definition: West Central Asia

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WCE

Definition: Western Central Europe

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WCRP

Definition: World Climate Research Programme

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WEF

Definition: Water–Energy–Food / World Economic Forum

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WEMA

Definition: Water Efficient Maize for Africa

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WEU

Definition: Western Europe

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WGI

Definition: Working Group I

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WGII

Definition: Working Group II

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WGIII

Definition: Working Group III

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WGWDGD

Definition: Wet Get Wetter, Dry Get Drier

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WHO

Definition: World Health Organization

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WIM

Definition: Warsaw International Mechanism

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WMO

Definition: World Meteorological Organization

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WNF

Definition: West Nile Fever

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WSAA

Definition: Water Services Association of Australia

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WSAF

Definition: West Southern Africa

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WSI

Definition: Water Scarcity Index

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WSUD

Definition: Water Sensitive Urban Design

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WTTC

Definition: World Travel & Tourism Council

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WTU

Definition: Water Treatment Unit

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WUE

Definition: Water-Use Efficiency

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WUI

Definition: Wildland–Urban Interface

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WWF

Definition: World Wildlife Fund

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Y

YCS

Definition: Yield Constraint Score

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YLD

Definition: Years of Life Lived with Disability

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YLL

Definition: Years of Life Lost

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A

A/R

Definition: afforestation/reforestation

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AB

Definition: Assembly Bill

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AC

Definition: alternating current

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ACCTS

Definition: Agreement on Climate Change, Trade and Sustainability

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ACF

Definition: areal carbon footprint

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ADEME

Definition: Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l'Energie (French Environment and Energy Management Agency)

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AF

Definition: Adaptation Fund

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AFR

Definition: Africa

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AFD

Definition: French Development Agency

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AFOLU

Definition: agriculture, forestry and other land use

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AGAGE

Definition: Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment

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AI

Definition: artificial intelligence

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AILAC

Definition: Association of the Latin American and Caribbean Countries

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ALBA

Definition: Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our Americas)

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ALCA

Definition: Attributional Life Cycle Assessment

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AM

Definition: additive manufacturing

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APEC

Definition: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation

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AR4

Definition: Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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AR5

Definition: Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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AR6

Definition: Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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AR7

Definition: Seventh Assessment Cycle of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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ARC

Definition: African Risk Capacity

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ARPA-E

Definition: Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy

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ART

Definition: Architecture for REDD+ Transactions

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Art.

Definition: Article (e.g., of the UNFCCC)

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ASAP

Definition: Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme

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ASCM

Definition: Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures

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ASI

Definition: Avoid-Shift-Improve

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ASK

Definition: available seat kilometres

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AUM

Definition: assets under management

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B

BASIC

Definition: Brazil, South Africa, India and China

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BAT

Definition: best available technology

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BAU

Definition: business as usual

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BC

Definition: black carbon

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BCA

Definition: border carbon adjustment

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BECCS

Definition: bioenergy with carbon capture and storage

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BEES

Definition: building energy efficiency standards

Report: WGIII

BEMS

Definition: building energy management systems

Report: WGIII

BEV

Definition: battery electric vehicle

Report: WGIII

BF-BOF

Definition: blast furnace-basic oxygen furnace

Report: WGIII

BIM

Definition: Building Information Modelling

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BIPV

Definition: building-integrated photovoltaic

Report: WGIII

BLUE

Definition: Bookkeeping of land-use emissions

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BR

Definition: biennial report

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BRI

Definition: Belt and Road Initiative

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BRT

Definition: bus rapid transport

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BTR

Definition: biennial transparency report

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BTU

Definition: British thermal units

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BUR

Definition: biennial update report

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C

CA

Definition: capability approach

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CAT

Definition: Climate Action Tracker

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CAGR

Definition: compound annual growth rate

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CAIT

Definition: Climate Analysis Indicators Tool

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CAPEX

Definition: capital expenditure

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CAR

Definition: Climate Action Reserve

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CBA

Definition: cost-benefit analysis

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CBAM

Definition: carbon border adjustment mechanism

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CBCF

Definition: consumption-based carbon footprint (accounting)

Report: WGIII

CBD

Definition: Convention on Biological Diversity

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CBDRRC

Definition: common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities

Report: WGIII

CBEs

Definition: consumption-based emissions

Report: WGIII

CCAC

Definition: Climate and Clean Air Coalition

Report: WGIII

CCD

Definition: climate-compatible development

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CCPI

Definition: Climate Change Performance Index

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CCRIF

Definition: Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility

Report: WGIII

CCS

Definition: carbon capture and storage

Report: WGIII

CCT

Definition: cirrus cloud thinning

Report: WGIII

CCU

Definition: carbon capture and utilisation

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CCUS

Definition: carbon capture, use and storage

Report: WGIII

CCX

Definition: Chicago Climate Exchange

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CD

Definition: charge depleting

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CDD

Definition: cooling degree-days

Report: WGIII

CDIAC

Definition: Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center

Report: WGIII

CDM

Definition: Clean Development Mechanism

Report: WGIII

CDR

Definition: carbon dioxide removal

Report: WGIII

CE

Definition: circular economy

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CEA

Definition: cost-effectiveness analysis

Report: WGIII

CEDS

Definition: Community Emissions Data System

Report: WGIII

CETA

Definition: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement

Report: WGIII

CFCs

Definition: chlorofluorocarbons

Report: WGIII

CfD

Definition: contract for difference

Report: WGIII

CFL

Definition: compact fluorescent lamp [/lighting]

Report: WGIII

CGE

Definition: Computable General Equilibrium

Report: WGIII

CGTP

Definition: combined global temperature change potential

Report: WGIII

CH4

Definition: methane

Report: WGIII

CHP

Definition: combined heat and power

Report: WGIII

CII

Definition: Carbon Intensity Indicator

Report: WGIII

CLASP

Definition: Collaborative Labelling and Appliance Standards Program

Report: WGIII

CLC

Definition: constant land cover

Report: WGIII

CLCA

Definition: Consequential Life Cycle Assessment

Report: WGIII

CLIMI

Definition: Climate Laws, Institutions and Measures Index

Report: WGIII

CLRTAP

Definition: Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution

Report: WGIII

CLT

Definition: cross-laminated timber

Report: WGIII

CMA

Definition: Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement

Report: WGIII

CMIP6

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6

Report: WGIII

CNG

Definition: compressed natural gas

Report: WGIII

CO

Definition: carbon monoxide

Report: WGIII

CO2

Definition: carbon dioxide

Report: WGIII

CO2-eq

Definition: carbon dioxide equivalent

Report: WGIII

COMMIT

Definition: Climate policy assessment and Mitigation Modelling to Integrate national and global Transition pathways

Report: WGIII

CoP

Definition: coefficient of performance

Report: WGIII

COP

Definition: Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC

Report: WGIII

CORSIA

Definition: Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation

Report: WGIII

CPRS

Definition: Climate Policy Relevant Sectors

Report: WGIII

CPTPP

Definition: Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership

Report: WGIII

CRD

Definition: climate-resilient development

Report: WGIII

CREMAs

Definition: Community Resource Management Area Mechanisms (Ghana)

Report: WGIII

CRF

Definition: common reporting format

Report: WGIII

CRIBs

Definition: Climate Relevant Innovation-system Builders

Report: WGIII

CS

Definition: charge sustaining

Report: WGIII

CSC

Definition: climate-smart cocoa

Report: WGIII

CSI

Definition: Cement Sustainability Initiative

Report: WGIII

CSP

Definition: concentrating solar power

Report: WGIII

CSR

Definition: corporate social responsibility

Report: WGIII

CSSP

Definition: cross-sector social partnership

Report: WGIII

CTCN

Definition: Climate Technology Centre and Network

Report: WGIII

CurPol

Definition: Current Policies scenario

Report: WGIII

D

DAC

Definition: direct air capture

Report: WGIII

DACCS

Definition: direct air carbon capture and storage

Report: WGIII

DACCU

Definition: direct air capture carbon and utilisation

Report: WGIII

DALY

Definition: disability adjusted life year

Report: WGIII

DBH

Definition: diameter at breast height

Report: WGIII

DC

Definition: direct current

Report: WGIII

DGVM

Definition: dynamic global vegetation model

Report: WGIII

DLS

Definition: decent living standards

Report: WGIII

DRI

Definition: direct reduced iron

Report: WGIII

DSM

Definition: demand-side management

Report: WGIII

DWM

Definition: down woody material

Report: WGIII

E

EaaS

Definition: energy as a service

Report: WGIII

EAF

Definition: electric arc furnace

Report: WGIII

EBEs

Definition: extraction-based emissions

Report: WGIII

EDGAR

Definition: Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research

Report: WGIII

EDLC

Definition: electrochemical double layer capacitor

Report: WGIII

EEA

Definition: Eastern Europe and West Central Asia

Report: WGIII

EED

Definition: Energy Efficiency Directive

Report: WGIII

EEDI

Definition: Energy Efficiency Design Index

Report: WGIII

EEE

Definition: emissions embodied in exports

Report: WGIII

EEI

Definition: emissions embodied in imports

Report: WGIII

EEM

Definition: Energy Efficient Mortgage

Report: WGIII

EES

Definition: electrical energy storage

Report: WGIII

EET

Definition: emissions embodied in trade

Report: WGIII

EEXI

Definition: Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index

Report: WGIII

EF

Definition: emission factor

Report: WGIII

EGR

Definition: exhaust gas recirculation

Report: WGIII

EGTT

Definition: Expert Group on Technology Transfer

Report: WGIII

EIMs

Definition: Energy Improvement Mortgages

Report: WGIII

EIP

Definition: energy and industrial processes

Report: WGIII

EJ

Definition: exajoule

Report: WGIII

ELUC

Definition: land-use change emissions

Report: WGIII

EMAS

Definition: Eco-Management and Auditing Scheme

Report: WGIII

EPD

Definition: Environmental Product Declaration

Report: WGIII

EPBD

Definition: Energy Performance Buildings Directive

Report: WGIII

EPCs

Definition: Energy Performance Certificates

Report: WGIII

EPS

Definition: Emissions Performance Standard

Report: WGIII

EPR

Definition: extended producer responsibility

Report: WGIII

ERF

Definition: effective radiative forcing

Report: WGIII

ERIA

Definition: Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia

Report: WGIII

ES-FiT

Definition: Energy Savings Feed-in Tariff

Report: WGIII

ESCO

Definition: Energy Service Company

Report: WGIII

ESA

Definition: energy services agreement

Report: WGIII

ESD

Definition: education for sustainable development

Report: WGIII

ESG

Definition: environmental, social and governance

Report: WGIII

ESM

Definition: energy systems model

Report: WGIII

ETP

Definition: Energy Technology Perspectives (IEA report)

Report: WGIII

ETS

Definition: Emissions Trading System

Report: WGIII

EU

Definition: European Union

Report: WGIII

EU-27

Definition: European Union member states [excluding UK]

Report: WGIII

EU-28

Definition: European Union member states [including UK]

Report: WGIII

EU ETS

Definition: European Union Emissions Trading Scheme

Report: WGIII

EU-RED

Definition: EU Renewable Energy Directive

Report: WGIII

EV

Definition: electric vehicle

Report: WGIII

EW

Definition: enhanced weathering

Report: WGIII

F

FaIR

Definition: Finite Amplitude Impulse Response

Report: WGIII

FAQ

Definition: frequently asked question

Report: WGIII

FAO

Definition: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Report: WGIII

FBDG

Definition: food-based dietary guidelines

Report: WGIII

FCDO

Definition: UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Report: WGIII

FCV

Definition: fuel cell vehicle

Report: WGIII

FDI

Definition: Foreign Direct Investment

Report: WGIII

FFI

Definition: fossil fuel and industry

Report: WGIII

F-gas

Definition: fluorinated gas

Report: WGIII

FIC

Definition: Faster Innovation Case

Report: WGIII

FiT

Definition: feed-in tariff

Report: WGIII

FiTP

Definition: feed-in premium

Report: WGIII

FLEGT

Definition: Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade

Report: WGIII

FLW

Definition: food loss and waste

Report: WGIII

FRAND

Definition: fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory

Report: WGIII

FSC

Definition: Forest Sustainability Council

Report: WGIII

FT

Definition: Fischer-Tropsch

Report: WGIII

FTA

Definition: free trade agreement

Report: WGIII

FWM

Definition: fine woody material

Report: WGIII

G

GATS

Definition: General Agreement on Trade in Services

Report: WGIII

GATT

Definition: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

Report: WGIII

GBAM

Definition: ground-based albedo modifications

Report: WGIII

GCAM

Definition: Global Change Assessment Model

Report: WGIII

GCCA

Definition: Global Cement and Concrete Association

Report: WGIII

GCF

Definition: Green Climate Fund

Report: WGIII

GCoM

Definition: Global Covenant of Mayors

Report: WGIII

GCP

Definition: Global Carbon Project

Report: WGIII

GDP

Definition: gross domestic product

Report: WGIII

GEA

Definition: Global Energy Assessment

Report: WGIII

GEF

Definition: Global Environment Facility

Report: WGIII

GFBI

Definition: Global Forest Biodiversity Initiative

Report: WGIII

GFCA

Definition: Global Framework for Climate Action

Report: WGIII

GFCF

Definition: Gross-fixed capital formation

Report: WGIII

GFED

Definition: Global Fire Emissions Database

Report: WGIII

GHG

Definition: greenhouse gas

Report: WGIII

GIS

Definition: geographic information system / global innovation system

Report: WGIII

GIZ

Definition: the German Development Agency (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit)

Report: WGIII

GJ

Definition: gigajoule

Report: WGIII

GMF

Definition: Global Methane Fund

Report: WGIII

GMI

Definition: Global Methane Initiative

Report: WGIII

GMRIO

Definition: global multi-region input-output

Report: WGIII

GNI

Definition: gross national income

Report: WGIII

GPP

Definition: Green Public Procurement

Report: WGIII

GPT

Definition: general-purpose technologies

Report: WGIII

GSAT

Definition: Global Surface Air Temperature

Report: WGIII

Gt

Definition: gigatonne

Report: WGIII

GtCO2-eq

Definition: gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent

Report: WGIII

GTEM

Definition: global transport energy sectoral models

Report: WGIII

GTP

Definition: global temperature change potential

Report: WGIII

GWP

Definition: global warming potential

Report: WGIII

GWP100

Definition: 100-year global warming potential

Report: WGIII

H

HAP

Definition: household air pollution

Report: WGIII

HCE

Definition: historical cumulative emission

Report: WGIII

HCFCs

Definition: hydrochlorofluorocarbons

Report: WGIII

HCS

Definition: High Carbon Stock

Report: WGIII

HDI

Definition: Human Development Index

Report: WGIII

H-DRI

Definition: Hydrogen-based direct reduced iron

Report: WGIII

HDV

Definition: Heavy-duty vehicles

Report: WGIII

HEMS

Definition: home energy management system

Report: WGIII

HES

Definition: Hybrid energy storage

Report: WGIII

HEV

Definition: hybrid electric vehicle

Report: WGIII

HFC

Definition: hydrofluorocarbon

Report: WGIII

HFCV

Definition: hydrogen fuel cell vehicle

Report: WGIII

HIHD

Definition: Historical Index of Human Development

Report: WGIII

HLPF

Definition: High-Level Political Forum

Report: WGIII

HN

Definition: Houghton and Nassikas

Report: WGIII

HSR

Definition: high-speed rail

Report: WGIII

HVAC

Definition: heating, ventilation and air conditioning

Report: WGIII

HVO

Definition: hydrotreated vegetable oil

Report: WGIII

HYDE

Definition: History database of the Global Environment

Report: WGIII

I

IAGA

Definition: International Air Transport Association

Report: WGIII

IAM

Definition: integrated assessment model

Report: WGIII

IBE

Definition: income-based emission accounting

Report: WGIII

ICAO

Definition: International Civil Aviation Organization

Report: WGIII

ICCT

Definition: International Council on Clean Transportation

Report: WGIII

ICE

Definition: internal combustion engine

Report: WGIII

ICEV

Definition: internal combustion engine vehicles

Report: WGIII

ICI

Definition: international cooperative initiative

Report: WGIII

ICJ

Definition: International Court of Justice

Report: WGIII

ICT

Definition: information and communication technology

Report: WGIII

IDDRI

Definition: Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations

Report: WGIII

IEA

Definition: International Energy Agency

Report: WGIII

IFC

Definition: International Finance Corporation

Report: WGIII

IFDD

Definition: Institut de la Francophonie pour le Développement Durable (Francophonie Institute for Sustainable Development)

Report: WGIII

IFI

Definition: international financial institution

Report: WGIII

IGCC

Definition: International Green Construction Code

Report: WGIII

IIASA

Definition: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Report: WGIII

IIGCC

Definition: Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change

Report: WGIII

IIoT

Definition: industrial internet of things

Report: WGIII

ILB

Definition: incandescent light bulb

Report: WGIII

ILM

Definition: intrusive load monitoring

Report: WGIII

IMF

Definition: International Monetary Fund

Report: WGIII

IMO

Definition: International Maritime Organization

Report: WGIII

IMP

Definition: Illustrative Mitigation Pathway

Report: WGIII

IMP-GS

Definition: Illustrative Mitigation Pathway – Gradual Strengthening

Report: WGIII

IMP-LD

Definition: Illustrative Mitigation Pathway – Low Demand

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IMP-Neg

Definition: Illustrative Mitigation Pathway – Net Negative Emissions

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IMP-Ren

Definition: Illustrative Mitigation Pathway – Renewable Electricity

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IMP-SP

Definition: Illustrative Mitigation Pathway – Shifting Pathways

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INDC

Definition: Intended Nationally Determined Contributions

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IoT

Definition: internet of things

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IPBES

Definition: Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

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IPCC

Definition: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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IP

Definition: Illustrative Pathway

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IPP

Definition: independent power producers

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IPPU

Definition: Industrial processes and product use

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IPR

Definition: intellectual property rights

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IRENA

Definition: International Renewable Energy Agency

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IRP

Definition: UN International Resource Panel

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ISDS

Definition: investor–state dispute settlement

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ITF

Definition: International Transport Forum

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ITMO

Definition: internationally transferred mitigation outcome

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ITUC

Definition: International Trade Union Confederation

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JICA

Definition: Japanese International Cooperation Agency

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JRC

Definition: GECO Joint Research Centre – Global Energy and Climate Outlook

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K

KR

Definition: key risks

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kWh

Definition: kilowatt hour

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LAM

Definition: Latin America and the Caribbean

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LCA

Definition: life cycle assessment or life cycle analysis

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LCC

Definition: lifecycle costs

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LCCE

Definition: levelised cost of conserved energy

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LCCC

Definition: levelised cost of conserved carbon

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LCOE

Definition: levelised cost of electricity or levelised cost of energy

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LCS

Definition: low-carbon society

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LDCs

Definition: Least-Developed Countries

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LDCF

Definition: Least Developed Countries Fund

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LDN

Definition: Land Degradation Neutrality

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LDV

Definition: light-duty vehicle

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LEAF

Definition: Lowering Emissions by Accelerating Forest Finance

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LED

Definition: light-emitting diode

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LED scenario

Definition: Low Energy Demand scenario

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LEDS

Definition: low-emissions development strategies

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LIB

Definition: lithium-ion battery

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LiRE

Definition: IMAGE-Lifestyle-Renewable (IEA scenario)

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LNG

Definition: liquefied natural gas

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LPG

Definition: liquefied petroleum gas

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LTGG

Definition: long-term global goal (to hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels)

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LTO

Definition: long-term operation

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LULUCF

Definition: land use, land-use change and forestry

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LUM

Definition: land-use model

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M

MA

Definition: Mitigation Alliance

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MaaS

Definition: Mobility as a Service

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MAC

Definition: marginal abatement cost

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MACC

Definition: marginal abatement cost curve

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MAPS

Definition: Mitigation Action Plans and Scenarios

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mbpd

Definition: million barrels per day

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MCB

Definition: marine cloud brightening

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MDB

Definition: multilateral development bank

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ME

Definition: material efficiency

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MES

Definition: material efficiency scenario

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MEA

Definition: multilateral environmental agreement

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MEPC

Definition: Marine Environment Protection Committee

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MEPSs

Definition: Minimum Energy Performance Standards

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Mha

Definition: million hectares

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MIGA

Definition: Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency

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MIS

Definition: mission-oriented innovation systems

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MJ

Definition: megajoule

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Mkm2

Definition: million square kilometres

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MLP

Definition: multi-level perspective

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ModAct

Definition: Moderate Action scenario

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MOE

Definition: molten oxide electrolysis

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MOOC

Definition: massive open online course

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MPa

Definition: megapascal

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MRV

Definition: measuring, reporting and verifying or measuring, reporting and verification

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MS

Definition: member state

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MSME

Definition: micro, small and medium enterprises

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Mt

Definition: megatonne

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MTA

Definition: methanol-to-aromatics

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MTO

Definition: methanol-to-olefins

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MWh

Definition: megawatt hour

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N2O

Definition: nitrous oxide

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NAFTA

Definition: North American Free Trade Agreement

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NAMA

Definition: Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions

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NAP

Definition: national adaptation plan

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NAZCA

Definition: Non-State Actor Zone for Climate Action

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NBS

Definition: nature-based solutions

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NDC

Definition: Nationally Determined Contribution

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NEDO

Definition: New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organisation, Japan

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NELD

Definition: non-economic loss and damage

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NF3

Definition: nitrogen trifluoride

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NGFS

Definition: Network for Greening the Financial System

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NGHGI

Definition: national greenhouse gas inventories

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NGO

Definition: non-governmental organisation

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NiCD

Definition: nickel–cadmium

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NILM

Definition: non-intrusive load monitoring

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Nimby

Definition: Not in my back yard

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NiMH

Definition: nickel-metal hydride

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NIS

Definition: national innovation system

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NMVOC

Definition: non-methane volatile organic compounds

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NOAA

Definition: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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NRG

Definition: natural regrowth

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NR

Definition: Non-Residential

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NSA

Definition: non-state actor

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NTEM

Definition: national transport-energy models

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NT

Definition: Non-technological

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NZE

Definition: net zero emissions

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NZE scenario

Definition: Net-Zero Emissions by 2050 (IEA scenario)

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NZEB

Definition: net zero energy building

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nZEB

Definition: nearly zero energy building

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NSTT

Definition: North–South technology transfer and cooperation

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NUA

Definition: New Urban Agenda

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NYDF

Definition: New York Declaration on Forests

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OA

Definition: ocean alkalinity

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OAC

Definition: ocean albedo change

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OAE

Definition: ocean alkalinity enhancement

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ODA

Definition: overseas development assistance

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ODS

Definition: ozone-depleting substance

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OECD

Definition: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

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OF

Definition: ocean fertilisation

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OPEC

Definition: Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

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OPEX

Definition: operating and maintenance expenditures

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OS

Definition: overshoot

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OSS

Definition: one-stop shop

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P

P2P

Definition: peer-to-peer

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PA

Definition: The Paris Agreement

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PACE

Definition: Property Assessed Clean Energy

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PBEs

Definition: production-based emissions

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PCCB

Definition: Paris Committee on Capacity-building

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PCF

Definition: personal carbon footprint

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PCRAFI

Definition: Pacific Catastrophe Risk Assessment and Financing Initiative

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PDB

Definition: public development bank

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PEFC

Definition: Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification

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PEMFC

Definition: proton-exchange membrane fuel cells

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PES

Definition: payment for ecosystem services

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PFCs

Definition: perfluorocarbons

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PHEV

Definition: plug-in hybrid electric vehicle

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pkm

Definition: passenger-kilometres

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PM

Definition: particulate matter

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PPA

Definition: Power Purchase Agreement

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PPCA

Definition: Powering Past Coal Alliance

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PPCR

Definition: Pilot Program for Climate Resilience

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PPI

Definition: pulp and paper industry

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PPP

Definition: public-private partnership / purchasing power parity

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PRI

Definition: Principles for Responsible Investment

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PV

Definition: photovoltaic

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Q

QE

Definition: quantitative easing

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R&D

Definition: research and development

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RCEP

Definition: Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership

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RCM

Definition: reduced complexity model

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RCP

Definition: Representative Concentration Pathway

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RD&D

Definition: research, development and demonstration

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RDI

Definition: Research, Development and Innovation

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RECC

Definition: Resource Efficiency and Climate Change

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RECC-LED

Definition: Resource Efficiency and Climate Change-Low Energy Demand (IEA scenario)

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REDD+

Definition: reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks

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REEs

Definition: rare earth elements

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ReSOLVE

Definition: Regenerate, Share, Optimise, Loop, Virtualise, Exchange framework

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RGGI

Definition: Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

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RIMAP

Definition: Real-time Integrated Model for probabilistic Assessment of emissions Paths

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RIS

Definition: regional innovation systems

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RKR

Definition: Representative Key Risks

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RPK

Definition: revenue passenger-kilometres

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RSD

Definition: relative standard deviation

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RSPO

Definition: Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil

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RTS

Definition: Reference Technology Scenario

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S

S&L

Definition: standards and labelling

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SAF

Definition: sustainable aviation fuel

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SAI

Definition: stratospheric aerosol interventions

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SAM

Definition: Social Accounting Matrix

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SAR

Definition: Second Assessment Report

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SARPs

Definition: Standards and Recommended Practices

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SASB

Definition: Sustainability Accounting Standards Board

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SBSTA

Definition: Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice

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SBT

Definition: science-based target

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SCC

Definition: social cost of carbon

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SCCF

Definition: Special Climate Change Fund

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SCS

Definition: soil carbon sequestration

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SDG

Definition: Sustainable Development Goal

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SDPS

Definition: shifting development pathways to increased sustainability

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SDR

Definition: Special Drawing Rights

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SDS

Definition: Sustainable Development Scenario (IEA scenario)

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SDSN

Definition: Sustainable Development Solutions Network

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SE

Definition: sustainable entrepreneur

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SEA

Definition: strategic environmental assessment

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SEADRIF

Definition: South East Asian Disaster Risk Insurance Facility

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SEC

Definition: specific energy consumption

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SECA

Definition: sulphur emission control area

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SEEMP

Definition: Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan

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SEM

Definition: structural equations modelling

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SER

Definition: Sufficiency, Efficiency, Renewal

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SETAC

Definition: Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (UNEP-SETAC)

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SF6

Definition: sulphur hexafluoride

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SI

Definition: sustainable intensification

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SIDS

Definition: Small Island Developing States

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SIS

Definition: sectoral innovation system

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SLCF

Definition: short-lived climate forcer

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SLCP

Definition: short-lived climate pollutant

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SLoCaT

Definition: Sustainable Low Carbon Transport Partnership

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SLM

Definition: sustainable land management

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SLR

Definition: sea level rise

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SM

Definition: smart manufacturing

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SMEs

Definition: small and medium-sized enterprises

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SNA

Definition: System of National Accounts

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SNTT

Definition: South–North technology transfer and cooperation

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SO2

Definition: sulphur dioxide

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SOE

Definition: state-owned enterprise

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SOFC

Definition: solid oxide fuel cell

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SPM

Definition: Summary for Policymakers

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SPV

Definition: special purpose vehicle

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SR1.5

Definition: IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5ºC

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SRCCL

Definition: IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land

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SRI

Definition: Sustainable and Responsible Investment

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SRM

Definition: solar radiation modification

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SROCC

Definition: IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate

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SSC

Definition: South-South cooperation

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SSP

Definition: Shared Socio-economic Pathway

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SSTT

Definition: South–South technology transfer and cooperation

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STEM

Definition: science, technology, engineering and mathematics

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STEPS

Definition: Stated Policies Scenario

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SUV

Definition: sport utility vehicle

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TA

Definition: territorial accounting

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TABS

Definition: thermally activated building systems

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TBT Agreement

Definition: WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade

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TCBA

Definition: technology-adjusted consumption-based emission accounting

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TCFD

Definition: Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures

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TCRE

Definition: transient climate response to cumulative emissions of carbon dioxide

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TDR

Definition: travel demand reduction

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TEEB

Definition: The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity

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TEC

Definition: Technology Executive Committee

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TES

Definition: Transforming Energy Scenario

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TIS

Definition: technological innovation system

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TFC

Definition: total final energy consumption

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TGC

Definition: tradeable green certificate

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tkm

Definition: tonne-kilometre

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TNA

Definition: technology needs assessment

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TOD

Definition: transit-oriented development

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TPES

Definition: total primary energy supply

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TRA

Definition: technology readiness assessment

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TrC

Definition: triangular cooperation

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TGCs

Definition: Tradable Green Certificates

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TRIPS Agreement

Definition: Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement

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TRL

Definition: technology readiness level

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TW

Definition: terawatt

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UF

Definition: utility factor

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UHI

Definition: urban heat island

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UKCCC

Definition: United Kingdom Climate Change Committee

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ULCS

Definition: ultra-low carbon steel

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UNCCD

Definition: United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification

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UNCRD

Definition: United Nations Centre for Regional Development

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UNDP

Definition: United Nations Development Programme

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UNEP

Definition: United Nations Environment Programme

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UNFCCC

Definition: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

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UNOSSC

Definition: United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation

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USD

Definition: US dollar

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US DOE

Definition: United States Department of Energy

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US EPA

Definition: United States Environmental Protection Agency

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UV

Definition: ultraviolet

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V

V1G

Definition: controlled charging (of an electric vehicle)

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V2G

Definition: vehicle-to-grid

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VC

Definition: venture capital

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VCS

Definition: Verified Carbon Standard of the Verra programme

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vkm

Definition: vehicle-kilometre

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VKT

Definition: vehicle kilometres travelled

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VLR

Definition: Voluntary Local Review

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VMT

Definition: vehicle miles travelled

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VNR

Definition: Voluntary National Review

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W

WBCSD

Definition: World Business Council on Sustainable Development

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WEFN

Definition: water-energy-food nexus

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WEO

Definition: World Energy Outlook

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WFP

Definition: World Food Programme

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WG

Definition: Working Group

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WHO

Definition: World Health Organization

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WHP

Definition: waste heat to power

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WMO

Definition: World Meteorological Organisation

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WRAP

Definition: Waste and Resources Action Programme

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WSUD

Definition: Water Sensitive Urban Design

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WTO

Definition: World Trade Organization

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WTP

Definition: willingness to pay

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ZEV

Definition: zero emission vehicle

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