IPCC:AR6/Acronyms

IPCC AR6 Acronyms

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

Μ

μatm

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Microatmospheres

1

1.5DS

Report: SR1.5

Definition: 1.5 Degree Scenario

2

2DS

Report: SR1.5

Definition: 2 Degree Scenario

A

ACCESS

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Australian Community Climate and Earth-System Simulator

ACCMIP

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Model Intercomparison Project

ACCRN

Report: SR1.5

Definition: The Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network

ACOLA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Australian Council of Learned Academies

ACs

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Air Conditioners

ADB

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Asian Development Bank

ADVANCE

Report: SR1.5

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

AEZ

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Agro-Ecological Zone

AfDB

Report: SR1.5

Definition: African Development Bank

AFOLU

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land-Use

AGCM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Atmospheric General Circulation Model

AI

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Artificial Intelligence

AIM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Asia-Pacific Integrated Model

ALA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Alaska/Northwest Canada

AMAP

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme

AMOC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

AMP

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Adjusting Mitigation Pathway

AMZ

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Amazon

ANT

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Antarctica

APEX

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Air Pollutants Exposure Model

AR

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Afforestation and Reforestation

AR4

Report: SR1.5

Definition: IPCC Fourth Assessment Report

AR5

Report: SR1.5

Definition: IPCC Fifth Assessment Report

AR6

Report: SR1.5

Definition: IPCC Sixth Assessment Report

ARC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Arctic

ASEAN

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Association of Southeast Asian Nations

ASIA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Non-OECD Asia

AUD

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Australian Dollar

B

B2DS

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Beyond 2 Degrees Scenario

BASIC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Brazil, South Africa, India, China

BC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Black Carbon

BCC-CSM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Beijing Climate Center Climate System Model

BCM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Bergen Climate Model

BECCS

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Bioenergy with Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage

BET

Report: SR1.5

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

BEV

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Battery Electric Vehicle

BNEF

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Bloomberg New Energy Finance

BNU

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Beijing Normal University

BRT

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Bus Rapid Transit

C

cm

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Centimetres

C

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Carbon

CA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Conservation Agriculture

CAF

Report: SR1.5

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

CAM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Central America/Mexico or Community Atmosphere Model

CAMx

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Comprehensive Air Quality Model with Extensions

CanESM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Canadian Earth System Model

CanRCM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Canadian Regional Climate Model

CAR

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Small Islands Regions Caribbean

CAS

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Central Asia

Cat-HM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Catchment-scale Hydrological Models

CbA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Community-based Adaptation

CBA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Cost-Benefit Analysis

CBD

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Convention on Biological Diversity

CBDR-RC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Common But Differentiated Responsibilities and Respective Capabilities

CBS & GNH

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Centre for Bhutan Studies and Gross National Happiness Research

CC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Carbon Capture

CCAM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Conformal Cubic Atmospheric Model

CCC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Constant Composition Commitment

CCCma

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis

CCRIF

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility

CCS

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage

CCSM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Community Climate System Model

CCT

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Cirrus Cloud Thinning

CCU

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Carbon dioxide Capture and Utilisation

CCUS

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Carbon dioxide Capture, Utilisation and Storage

CDD

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Consecutive Dry Days

CD-LINKS

Report: SR1.5

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

CDM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Clean Development Mechanism

CDP

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Carbon Disclosure Project

CDR

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Carbon Dioxide Removal

CEA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

CEC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Clean Energy Council

CEDS

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Community Emissions Data System

CEMICS

Report: SR1.5

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

CES

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Constant Elasticity of Substitution

CESM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Community Earth System Model

CEU

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Central Europe

CFCs

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Chlorofluorocarbons

CGCM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Coupled Global Climate Model

CGE

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Computable General Equilibrium

CGI

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Canada/Greenland/Iceland

CGIAR

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research

CH4

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Methane

CHP

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Combined Heat and Power

CI

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Confidence Interval

CIRED

Report: SR1.5

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

CISL

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership

CLM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Climate Limited-area Modelling

CMAQ

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System

CMIP3

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 3

CMIP5

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5

CMIP6

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6

CNA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Central North America

CNRM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques

CO

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Carbon monoxide

CO2

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Carbon dioxide

CO2e

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Carbon dioxide equivalent

CO2eq

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Carbon dioxide equivalent

CoM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Covenant of Mayors

COP

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Conference of the Parties

COPPE-COFFEE

Report: SR1.5

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

CORDEX

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment

COSMO

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Consortium for Small-scale Modeling

CRCM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Canadian Regional Climate Model

CRDPs

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Climate-Resilient Development Pathways

CRIEPI

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Institut Central de Recherche des Industries Électriques

CRISPR

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats

C-ROADS

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Climate Rapid Overview And Decision-support Simulator

CRU

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Climatic Research Unit

CSA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Climate-Smart Agriculture

CSC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Climate Service Center Germany

CSDI

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Cold Spell Duration Index

CSIRO

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

CSP

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Concentrated Solar Power

CSR

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Corporate Social Responsibility

CTC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Covenant Territorial Coordinator

CWD

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Consecutive Wet Days

D

DACCS

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Direct Air Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage

DACS

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Direct Air Capture and Storage

DALY

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Disability Adjusted Life Year

DICE

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Dynamic Integrated Climate-Economy model

DJF

Report: SR1.5

Definition: December, January, February

DM8H

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Daily Maximum 8-Hour exposure

DNE21+

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Dynamic New Earth 21 model

DOE

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Department of Energy (USA)

DRI

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Direct Reduced Iron

DRM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Disaster Risk Management

DTU

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Technical University of Denmark

E

E

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Equilibrium, Evaporation or Evapotranspiration

EAF

Report: SR1.5

Definition: East Africa

EAIS

Report: SR1.5

Definition: East Antarctic Ice Sheet

EAS

Report: SR1.5

Definition: East Asia

EbA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Ecosystems-based Adaptation

EC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: European Commission

ECF

Report: SR1.5

Definition: European Climate Foundation

ECMWF

Report: SR1.5

Definition: European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

ECS

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity

EDGAR

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Emission Database for Global Atmospheric Research

EEA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: European Environment Agency

EGMAM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: ECHO-G Middle Atmosphere Model

E-HYPE

Report: SR1.5

Definition: European Hydrological Predictions for the Environment

EJ

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Exajoules

EMEP

Report: SR1.5

Definition: European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme

EMF

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Energy Modeling Forum

EMIC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Earth-system Model of Intermediate Complexity

ENA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: East North America

ENSO

Report: SR1.5

Definition: El Niño-Southern Oscillation

EOR

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Enhanced Oil Recovery

EPA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Environmental Protection Agency (USA)

EPIs

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Energy-Intensive Processing Industries

ERA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: ECMWF ReAnalysis

ERF

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Effective Radiative Forcing

ERFaci

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Effective Radiative Forcing from aerosol-cloud interactions

ERFari

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Effective Radiative Forcing from aerosol-radiation interactions

ESCOs

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Energy Service Companies

ESL

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Extreme Sea Level

ESM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Earth System Model

ESR

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Empirical Scaling Relationship

ESRB ASC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: European Systemic Risk Board Advisory Scientific Committee

ESRL

Report: SR1.5

Definition: NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory

Eta-CPTEC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Eta Centro de Previsão do Tempo e Estudos Climáticos

ETP

Report: SR1.5

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

ETS

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Emission Trading Scheme

EU

Report: SR1.5

Definition: European Union

EU-FP6

Report: SR1.5

Definition: European Union Sixth Framework Programme

EUG4

Report: SR1.5

Definition: France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom

EURO-CORDEX

Report: SR1.5

Definition: European branch of the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment

EV

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Electric Vehicle

EW

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Enhanced Weathering

F

FAIR

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Finite Amplitude Impulse Response model

FAO

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

FAOSTAT

Report: SR1.5

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

FAQ

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Frequently Asked Questions

FARM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Future Agricultural Resources Model

Fe

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Iron

FE

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Final Energy

FEMA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Federal Emergency Management Agency (USA)

FF

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Fossil Fuel

FF&I

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Fossil-Fuel combustion and Industrial processes

F-gas

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Fluorinated gases

FGOALS

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System model

FIO

Report: SR1.5

Definition: First Institute of Oceanography

FMNR

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration

FUND

Report: SR1.5

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

FUSSR

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

G

g

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Grams

GAMS

Report: SR1.5

Definition: General Algebraic Modeling System

GBAM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Ground-Based Albedo Modification

GCAM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Global Change Assessment Model

GCC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Gulf Cooperative Council

GCEC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Global Commission on the Economy and Climate

GCM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: General Circulation Model or Global Climate Model

GCP

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Global Carbon Project

GDP

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Gross Domestic Product

GE

Report: SR1.5

Definition: General Equilibrium

GEA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Global Energy Assessment

GEM-E3

Report: SR1.5

Definition: General Equilibrium Model for Economy - Energy - Environment

GENeSYS-MOD

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Global Energy System Model

GeSI

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Global e-Sustainability Initiative

GFCF

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Gross Fixed Capital Formation

GFDL

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Geophysical Fluid Dynamic Laboratory

GFR

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Grid Flexibility Resources

Gha

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Gigahectares

GHCNDEX

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Global Historical Climatology Network – Daily climate Extremes

GHGs

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Greenhouse Gases

GHM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Global Hydrological Models

GIS

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Greenland Ice Sheet

GISS

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Goddard Institute for Space Studies

GISTEMP

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Goddard Institute for Space Studies Surface Temperature Analysis

GJ

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Gigajoules

GLEAM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model

Glob-HM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Global Hydrological Model

GLOBIOM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: GLObal BIOsphere Management model

GLOFs

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Glacial Lake Outburst Floods

GM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Genetically Modified

GMO

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Genetically Modified Organism

GMSL

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Global Mean Sea Level

GMST

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Global Mean Surface Temperature

GMT

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Global Mean Temperature

GNHI

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Gross National Happiness Index

GPP

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Gross Primary Productivity

GPT

Report: SR1.5

Definition: General Purpose Technologies

GRAPE

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Global Relationship Assessment to Protect the Environment model

GSAT

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Global mean Surface Air Temperature

Gt

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Gigatonne

GTP

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Global Temperature-change Potential

GWA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Government of Western Australia

GWP

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Global Warming Potential or Gross World Product

H

ha

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Hectares

H2

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Hydrogen

HadCM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Hadley Centre Coupled Model

HadCRUT

Report: SR1.5

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

HadEX

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Hadley Centre Global Climate Extremes index

HadGEM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Hadley Centre Global Environmental Model

HadRM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Hadley Centre Regional Model

HAPPI

Report: SR1.5

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

HDV

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Heavy-Duty Vehicle

HEV

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Hybrid Electric Vehicle

HFCs

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Hydrofluorocarbons

HLCCP

Report: SR1.5

Definition: High-Level Commission on Carbon Prices

HLPE

Report: SR1.5

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

HSRTF

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force

HTM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Holocene Thermal Maximum

HYMOD

Report: SR1.5

Definition: HYdrological MODel

I

IAEA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: International Atomic Energy Agency

IAMC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Integrated Assessment Modelling Consortium

IAMs

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Integrated Assessment Models

IBA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: International Bar Association

IBI

Report: SR1.5

Definition: International Biochar Initiative

ICAMS

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Integrated Climate and Air Quality Modeling System

ICEM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: International Centre for Environmental Management

ICLEI

Report: SR1.5

Definition: International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives

ICPDR

Report: SR1.5

Definition: International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River

ICSU

Report: SR1.5

Definition: International Council for Science

ICT

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Information and Communication Technology

IEA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: International Energy Agency

IEAGHG

Report: SR1.5

Definition: IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme

IFAD

Report: SR1.5

Definition: International Fund for Agricultural Development

IFPRI

Report: SR1.5

Definition: International Food Policy Research Institute

IGCC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle

IIASA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

IIF

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Institute of International Finance

iLUC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Indirect Land-Use Change

IMACLIM-NLU

Report: SR1.5

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

IMAGE

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Integrated Model to Assess the Global Environment

IMF

Report: SR1.5

Definition: International Monetary Fund

IMO

Report: SR1.5

Definition: International Maritime Organization

IMPACT2C

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Quantifying Projected Impacts under 2°C Warming

INDCs

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Intended Nationally Determined Contributions

INM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Russian Institute for Numerical Mathematics

IOM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: International Organization for Migration

IoT

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Internet of Things

IPCC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

IPSL

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Institute Pierre Simon Laplace

IRENA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: International Renewable Energy Agency

ISIMIP

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project

ISO

Report: SR1.5

Definition: International Standards Organisation

ISSC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: International Social Science Council

ITF

Report: SR1.5

Definition: International Transport Forum

IUCN

Report: SR1.5

Definition: International Union for Conservation of Nature

IWG

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases

IWRM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Integrated Water Resources Management

J

JeDi

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Jena Diversity-Dynamic Global Vegetation Model

JJA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: June, July, August

JMA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Japan Meteorological Agency

JRA-55

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Japanese 55-year Reanalysis

JRC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: European Commission – Joint Research Centre

JULES

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Joint United Kingdom Land Environment Simulator

K

kcal cap-1 day-1

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Kilocalories per capita per day

km

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Kilometres

kt

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Kilotonnes

kWh

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Kilowatt hours

KNMI

Report: SR1.5

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

L

L

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Litres

L&D

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Loss and Damage

LAM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Latin America and Caribbean

LDCs

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Least Developed Countries

LDMz-INCA

Report: SR1.5

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

LDV

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Light-Duty Vehicle

LE

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Limited Evidence

LED

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Low Energy Demand or Light Emitting Diode

LGM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Last Glacial Maximum

LIG

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Last Interglacial

LLCFs

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Long-Lived Climate Forcers

LNG

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Liquefied Natural Gas

LPG

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Liquefied Petroleum Gas

LPJmL

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Lund-Potsdam-Jena managed Land model

LTA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Land Transport Authority of Singapore

LTGG

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Long-Term Global Goal

LUC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Land-Use Change

LULUCF

Report: SR1.5

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

M

m

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Metres

m3 cap-1 yr-1

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Cubic metres per capita per year

mg

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Milligrams

mL

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Millilitres

mm

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Millimetres

M&E

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Monitoring and Evaluation

Ma

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Million years ago

MAC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Marginal Abatement Cost

MacPDM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Macro-scale – Probability-Distributed Moisture Model

MAGICC

Report: SR1.5

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

MAgPIE

Report: SR1.5

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

MAM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: March, April, May

MCB

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Marine Cloud Brightening

MCCA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Mercado Común Centroamericano

MDB

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Group of Multilateral Development Banks

MDGs

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Millennium Development Goals

MEA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

MED

Report: SR1.5

Definition: South Europe/Mediterranean

MEPS

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Minimum Energy Performance Standards

MER

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Market Exchange Rates

MERET

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Managing Environmental Resources to Enable Transitions

MERGE-ETL

Report: SR1.5

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

MESSAGE

Report: SR1.5

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

Mha

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Megahectare

MIROC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Model for Interdisciplinary Research on Climate

MISI

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Marine Ice Sheet Instability

MIT IGSM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Integrated Global System Model

MJ

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Megajoules

MoCC

Report: SR1.5

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

MOHC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Met Office Hadley Centre

MOPEX

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Model Parameter Estimation Experiment

MPAs

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Marine Protected Areas

MPI

Report: SR1.5

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

MPWP

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Mid Pliocene Warm Period

MRFCJ

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice

MRI

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Meteorological Research Institute of Japan Meteorological Agency

MRV

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Measurement, Reporting and Verification

MSR

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Multi-Sector Risk score

Mt

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Megatonnes

N

N

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Nitrogen

N2O

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Nitrous oxide

NAP

Report: SR1.5

Definition: National Adaptation Plan

NAS

Report: SR1.5

Definition: North Asia

NASA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NASEM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

NAU

Report: SR1.5

Definition: North Australia

NCAR

Report: SR1.5

Definition: National Center for Atmospheric Research

NCCARF

Report: SR1.5

Definition: National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility

NCE

Report: SR1.5

Definition: New Climate Economy

NDCs

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Nationally Determined Contributions

NEA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Nuclear Energy Agency

NEB

Report: SR1.5

Definition: North-East Brazil

NEC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: National Environment Commission (Royal Government of Bhutan)

NETL

Report: SR1.5

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

NEU

Report: SR1.5

Definition: North Europe

NF3

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Nitrogen trifluoride

NGO

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Non-Governmental Organization

NH3

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Definition: Ammonia

NHD

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Number of Hot Days

NITI Aayog

Report: SR1.5

Definition: National Institution for Transforming India

NMVOC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Non-Methane Volatile Organic Compounds

NOAA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NorESM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Norwegian Earth System Model

NOx

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Nitrogen oxides

NPCC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: New York City Panel on Climate Change

NPP

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Net Primary Productivity

NPV

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Net Present Value

NRC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: National Research Council

NSR

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Northern Sea Route

NTP

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Pacific Islands region [2]

NYC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: New York City

NZAGRC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Center

O

O2

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Oxygen

O3

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Ozone

OA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Ocean Acidification or Ocean Alkalinization

OC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Organic Carbon

OECD

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

OGCC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Optimal Gasification Combined Cycle

OHCHR

Report: SR1.5

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

OIF

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Ocean Iron Fertilisation

ORCHIDEE

Report: SR1.5

Definition: ORganising Carbon and Hydrology In Dynamic EcosystEms model

ORR

Report: SR1.5

Definition: NYC Mayor's Office of Recovery & Resiliency

OS

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Overshoot

P

pp

Report: SR1.5

Definition: People

ppb

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Parts per billion

ppm

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Parts per million

ppt

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Parts per thousand

P

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Precipitation or Phosphorous

PAGE

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Policy Analysis of the Greenhouse Effect model

PAHO

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Pan American Health Organization

PCM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Parallel Climate Model

PDSI

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Palmer Drought Severity Index

PE

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Primary Energy or Partial Equilibrium

PET

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Physiologically Equivalent Temperature or Potential Evapo-Transpiration

PFCs

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Perfluorocarbons

Pg

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Petagrams

PHEV

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle

PIK

Report: SR1.5

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

PM10

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Particulate Matter with Aerodynamic Diameter <10 μm

PM2.5

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Particulate Matter with Aerodynamic Diameter <2.5 μm

POLES

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Prospective Outlook on Long-term Energy Systems model

PPP

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Purchasing Power Parity

PR

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Probability Ratio

PV

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Photovoltaics

R

R&D

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Research and Development

RCA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Rossby Centre Regional Atmospheric Model

RCI

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Rotterdam Climate Initiative

RCM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Regional Climate Model

RCPs

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Representative Concentration Pathways

REDD+

Report: SR1.5

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

ReEDS-IPM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Regional Electricity Deployment System model – Integrated Planning Model

RegCM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Regional Climate Model system

REMIND

Report: SR1.5

Definition: REgional Model of INvestments and Development

REN21

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century

RF

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Radiative Forcing

RFC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Reason for Concern

RGoB

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Royal Government of Bhutan

RMI

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Rocky Mountain Institute

RNCFC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Reference Non-CO2 Forcing Contribution

RNCTC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Reference Non-CO2 Temperature Contribution

Rx1day

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Annual maximum 1-day precipitation

Rx5day

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Annual maximum 5-day precipitation

S

SAF

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Southern Africa

SAH

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Sahara

SAI

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Stratospheric Aerosol Injection

SAMS

Report: SR1.5

Definition: South American Monsoon System

SAR

Report: SR1.5

Definition: IPCC Second Assessment Report

SAS

Report: SR1.5

Definition: South Asia

SAT

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Surface Air Temperature

SAU

Report: SR1.5

Definition: South Australia/New Zealand

SBSTA

Report: SR1.5

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

SCC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Social Cost of Carbon

SCS

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Soil Carbon Sequestration

SD

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Sustainable Development

SDGs

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Sustainable Development Goals

SDGVM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Sheffield Dynamic Global Vegetation Model

SDII

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Simple Daily Intensity Index

SDSN

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Sustainable Development Solutions Network

SEA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Southeast Asia

SEAPs

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Sustainable Energy Action Plans

SED

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Structured Expert Dialogue

SEM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Semi-Empirical Model

SF6

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Sulphur hexafluoride

SFM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Sustainable Forest Management

SIDS

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Small Island Developing States

SIFMA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association

SLCFs

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Short-Lived Climate Forcers

SLCPs

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Short-Lived Climate Pollutants

SLR

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Sea Level Rise

SM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Supplementary Material

SMA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Soil Moisture Anomalies

SMHI

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

SO2

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Sulphur dioxide

SOLARIS HEPPA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: SOLARIS High Energy Particle Precipitation in the Atmosphere

SON

Report: SR1.5

Definition: September, October, November

SOx

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Sulphur oxides

SPAs

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Shared climate Policy Assumptions

SPC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Secretariat of the Pacific Community

SPEI

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index

SPI

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Standardised Precipitation Index

SPM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Summary for Policymakers

SR1.5

Report: SR1.5

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

SRCCL

Report: SR1.5

Definition: IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land

SRES

Report: SR1.5

Definition: IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios

SREX

Report: SR1.5

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

SRM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Solar Radiation Modification

SROCC

Report: SR1.5

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

SSA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Southeastern South America

SSPs

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Shared Socioeconomic Pathways

SST

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Sea Surface Temperature

STP

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Southern Tropical Pacific

SWAT

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Soil & Water Assessment Tool

SWF

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Social Welfare Function

SYR

Report: SR1.5

Definition: IPCC Synthesis Report

T

t

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Tonnes

tDM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Tonnes Dry Matter

tril$

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Trillion dollars

T

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Temperature or Transient

T&D

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Transmission and Distribution

TCR

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Transient Climate Response

TCRE

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Transient Climate Response to cumulative CO2 Emissions

TEAP

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Technology and Economic Assessment Panel

TFE

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Thematic Focus Element

TFP

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Total Factor Productivity

Tg

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Teragrams

TIB

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Tibetan Plateau

TNn

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Coldest night-time temperature of the year

TOD

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Transit Oriented Development

TS

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Technical Summary

Tt

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Teratonnes

TTs

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Transition Towns

TXx

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Hottest daytime temperature of the year

U

UCCRN

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Urban Climate Change Research Network

UHI

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Urban Heat Islands

UITP

Report: SR1.5

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

UKCP

Report: SR1.5

Definition: United Kingdom Climate Projections

UN

Report: SR1.5

Definition: United Nations

UN DESA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs

UNCBD

Report: SR1.5

Definition: United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity

UNDP

Report: SR1.5

Definition: United Nations Development Programme

UNEP

Report: SR1.5

Definition: UN Environment

UNEP-WCMC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre

UNESCO

Report: SR1.5

Definition: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

UNFCCC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

UNGA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: United Nations General Assembly

UNICEF

Report: SR1.5

Definition: United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund

UNISDR

Report: SR1.5

Definition: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

UN-OHRLLS

Report: SR1.5

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

UNRISD

Report: SR1.5

Definition: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development

UNSCEAR

Report: SR1.5

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

UNU

Report: SR1.5

Definition: United Nations University

UNU-EHS

Report: SR1.5

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

USD

Report: SR1.5

Definition: United States Dollars

UV

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Ultraviolet

V

VISIT

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Vegetation Integrative Simulator for Trace Gases

VKT

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Vehicle Kilometres of Travel

VOCs

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Volatile Organic Compounds

W

w/

Report: SR1.5

Definition: With

w/o

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Without

w.r.t.

Report: SR1.5

Definition: With respect to

W

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Watts

WAF

Report: SR1.5

Definition: West Africa

WAIS

Report: SR1.5

Definition: West Antarctic Ice Sheet

WAS

Report: SR1.5

Definition: West Asia

WBCSD

Report: SR1.5

Definition: World Business Council for Sustainable Development

WBGU

Report: SR1.5

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

WBM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Water Balance Model

WCED

Report: SR1.5

Definition: World Commission on Environment and Development

WCRP

Report: SR1.5

Definition: World Climate Research Programme

WEC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: World Energy Council

WEF

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Water-Energy-Food or World Economic Forum

WEM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: World Energy Model

WEO

Report: SR1.5

Definition: World Energy Outlook

WFP

Report: SR1.5

Definition: World Food Programme

WGI

Report: SR1.5

Definition: IPCC Working Group I

WGII

Report: SR1.5

Definition: IPCC Working Group II

WGIII

Report: SR1.5

Definition: IPCC Working Group III

WHO

Report: SR1.5

Definition: World Health Organization

WIM

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage

WIO

Report: SR1.5

Definition: West Indian Ocean

WITCH

Report: SR1.5

Definition: World Induced Technical Change Hybrid Model

WMGHGs

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Well-Mixed Greenhouse Gases

WMO

Report: SR1.5

Definition: World Meteorological Organization

WNA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: West North America

WRF

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Weather Research and Forecasting

WSA

Report: SR1.5

Definition: West Coast South America

WSDI

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Warm Spell Duration Index

WTO

Report: SR1.5

Definition: World Trade Organization

Y

yr

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Year

Z

ZEC

Report: SR1.5

Definition: Zero Emissions Commitment

3

3-NOP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: 3-Nitrooxypropanol

A

A/F

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Afforestation/Reforestation

ABC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Low Carbon Agriculture Plan

ABM

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Agent-Based Model

ADB

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Asian Development Bank

AerChemMIP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Aerosol Chemistry Model Intercomparison Project

AFOLU

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use

AgMIP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project

AGRA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa

AI

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Aridity Index

AMO

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation

AR

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Afforestation and Reforestation

AR5

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Fifth Assessment Report

ARC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Africa Risk Capacity

ARM

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Adaptive Risk Management

ASF

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Animal Sourced Foods

AVHRR

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Advanced High Resolution Radiometer

AWD

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Alternate Wetting and Drying

B

BAPEN

Report: SRCCL

Definition: British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition

BAU

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Business as Usual

BC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Biochar / Black Carbon

BCR

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Benefit Cost Ratio

BE

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Bioenergy

BECCS

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage

BEFM

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Bio-Economic Farm Model

BEST

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature

BPE

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Biomass Production Efficiency

BrC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Brown Carbon

BTV

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Blue-Tongue Virus

BUR

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Biannual Update Report

BVOC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds

C

C

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Carbon

CA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Conservation Agriculture

CABI

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International

CACILM

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Central Asian Countries Initiative for Land Management

CAFO

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations

CAMPA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Compensatory Afforestation Management and Planning Authority

CATDDO

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Catastrophe Risk Deferred Drawdown Option

CBA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Community-based Adaptation/Cost Benefit Analysis

CBD

Report: SRCCL

Definition: United Nations Convention on Biodiversity

CC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Carbon Capture

CCS

Report: SRCCL

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

CCA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Climate Change Adaptation

CCAFS

Report: SRCCL

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

CCN

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Cloud Condensation Nuclei

CCRIF

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility

CCU

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Carbon Capture and Usage

CDM

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Clean Development Mechanism

CDP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Carbon Disclosure Project

CDR

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Carbon Dioxide Removal

CEA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Cost Effectiveness Analysis

CEC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Commission of the European Communities

Ç

ÇEMGM

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Conservation Reserve Program

C

CEN-SAD

Report: SRCCL

Definition: The Community of Sahel-Saharan States

CFS

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Committee on World Food Security

CGIAR-

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research

CGRA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Coordinated Global and Regional Assessment

CH4

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Methane

CHP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Combined Heat and Power

CHIRPS

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Climate Hazards Group Infrared Precipitation with Station

CHMI

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Czech Hydrometeorological Institute

CI

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Confidence Interval

CIAT

Report: SRCCL

Definition: International Centre for Tropical Agriculture

CIPHET

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Central Institute of Post-Harvest Engineering and Technology

CIREN

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Centro de Información de Recursos Naturales

CM

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Cultured Meat

CMIE

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Centre of Monitoring the Indian Economy

CMIP5

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5

CMIP6

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6

CO

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Carbon monoxide

CO2

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Carbon dioxide

CO2e

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Carbon dioxide equivalent

CO2eq

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Carbon dioxide equivalent

COP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Conference of the Parties

CRCM

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Canadian Regional Climate Model

CRISPR

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats

CRP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Conservation Reserve Program

CRU

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia

CRUTEM

Report: SRCCL

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

CRV

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Climate Resilient Villages

CSA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Climate Smart Agriculture

CSO

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Civil Society Organisation

CSV

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Climate Smart Village

D

DALY

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Disability-Adjusted Life-Year

DERM

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Department of Environment and Resource Management, India

DESIRE

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Desertification Mitigation and Remediation of Land

DGVM

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Dynamic Global Vegetation Model

DJF

Report: SRCCL

Definition: December-January-February

DMP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Dust Mass Path

DRM

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Disaster Risk Management

DOD

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Dust Optical Depth

DRR

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Disaster Risk Reduction

E

EBA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Ecosystem Based Adaptation

EC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Elemental Carbon or European Commission

ECA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: European Court of Auditors

EDGAR

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research

EEA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: European Environment Agency

EF

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Emission Factor

EFSA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: European Food Safety Authority

EFT

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Ecological Fiscal Transfer

ELD

Report: SRCCL

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

EM-DAT

Report: SRCCL

Definition: International Disaster Database

ENSO

Report: SRCCL

Definition: El Niño/Southern Oscillation

EPA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: UN Environmental Protection Agency

ES

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Ecosystem Service

ESM

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Earth System Models

ESL

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Extreme Sea Level

ETS

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Emissions Trading Scheme

EU

Report: SRCCL

Definition: European Union

EU-RED

Report: SRCCL

Definition: European Union Renewable Energy Directive

EVI

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Enhanced Vegetation Index

EW/EA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Early Warning and Early Action

EWS

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Early Warning Systems

F

FACE

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Free-Air Carbon dioxide Enrichment

FAO

Report: SRCCL

Definition: United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation

FAO-FRA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment

FAOSTAT

Report: SRCCL

Definition: FAO Database

FAQ

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Frequently Asked Questions

Fe

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Iron

FF

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Fossil Fuel

FIES

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Food Insecurity Experience Scale

fNRB

Report: SRCCL

Definition: fraction of Non-Renewable Biomass

FRA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Forest Rights Act (India)

FSC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Forest Stewardship Council

FWL

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Food Waste and Loss

G

GATT

Report: SRCCL

Definition: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

GBEP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Global Bioenergy Partnership

GCF

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Green Climate Fund

GCM

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Global Climate Model or General Circulation Model

GCP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Global Carbon Project

GDEWS

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Global Drought Early Warning System

GDP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Gross Domestic Product

GE

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Government Effectiveness or General Equilibrium

GEF

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Global Environmental Facility

GFCS

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Global Framework for Climate Services

GFED

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Global Fire Emissions Database

GFGP

Report: SRCCL

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

GGCM

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Global Gridded Crop Models

Gha

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Gigahectares

GHCN

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Global Historical Climatology Network

GHG

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Greenhouse Gas

GHGE

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Greenhouse Gas Emissions

GHGI

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Greenhouse Gas Inventory

GIAHS

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Site

GIEWS

Report: SRCCL

Definition: FAO Global Information and Early Warning System

GIMMS3g

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Global Inventory Modelling and Mapping Studies

GISTEMP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Goddard's Global Surface Temperature Analysis

GIZ

Report: SRCCL

Definition: German Society for International Cooperation

GJ

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Gigajoules

GLASOD

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Global Assessment of Human-Induced Soil Degradation

GLASS

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Global Land Atmosphere System Study

GLOBIOM

Report: SRCCL

Definition: GLObal BIOsphere Management model

GLOF

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Glacial Lake Outburst Floods

GLOMAP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Global Model of Aerosol Processes

GM

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Genetically Modified

GMO

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Genetically Modified Organism

GMSL

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Global Mean Sea Level

GMST

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Global Mean Surface Temperature

GMT

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Global Mean Temperature

GNR

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Global Nutrition Report

GPP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Gross Primary Productivity/Gross Primary Production

GWP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Global Warming Potential

H

Ha

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Hectares

H2

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Hydrogen

HadCM3

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Hadley Centre Coupled Model, version 3

HANPP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production

HAPPI

Report: SRCCL

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

HDI

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Human Development Index

HEI

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Healthcare Environment Inspectorate

HHP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: High Hydrostatic Pressure

HKH

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Hindu-Kush Himalayan

HLPE

Report: SRCCL

Definition: High Level Panel of Experts

HYDE

Report: SRCCL

Definition: History Database of the Global Environment

I

IAM

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Integrated Assessment Model

ICARDA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas

ICCC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: International Conference on Climate Change

ICOS

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Integrated Carbon Observation System

ICPAC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre

ICSU

Report: SRCCL

Definition: International Council for Science

ICT

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Information and Communication Technology

ICTP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: International Centre for Theoretical Physics

IEA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: International Energy Agency

IFAD

Report: SRCCL

Definition: International Fund for Agricultural Development

IFPRI

Report: SRCCL

Definition: International Food Policy Research Institute

IGAD

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Intergovernmental Authority on Development

IHME

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

IK

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Indigenous Knowledge

ILK

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Indigenous and Local Knowledge

iLUC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: indirect Land Use Change

IMAGE

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Integrated Model to Assess Global Environment

INDC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Intended Nationally Determined Contribution

INPE

Report: SRCCL

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

IOD

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Indian Ocean Dipole

IPBES

Report: SRCCL

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

IPCC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

IPO

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Inter-decadal Pacific Oscillation

IQR

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Interquartile Range

IRD

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Integrated Rural Development

ISEAL

Report: SRCCL

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

ISO

Report: SRCCL

Definition: International Organization for Standardization

ITPS

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils

ITRDB

Report: SRCCL

Definition: International Tree Ring Data Bank

IUCN

Report: SRCCL

Definition: International Union for Conservation of Nature

IWAI

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Inland Waterways Authority of India

IWM

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Integrated Watershed Management

J

JJA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: June-July-August

K

K

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Potassium

km

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Kilometres

kt

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Kilotonnes

kWh

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Kilowatt hours

L

L

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Litres

LADA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands

LAI

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Leaf Area Index

LAPA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Local Adaptation Plan of Action

LCA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Lifecycle Analysis/Life-Cycle Assessment

LCC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Land-Cover Conversions

LCCS

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Land Cover Classification System

LDC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Least Developed Countries

LDN

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Land Degradation Neutrality

LED

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Low Energy Demand

LGP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Length of Growing Period

LiDAR

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Light Detection and Ranging

LIMCOM

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Limpopo Watercourse Commission

LK

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Local Knowledge

LM

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Land Management

LMIC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Low- and Middle-Income Country

LPG

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Liquified Petroleum Gas

LSAT

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Land Surface Air Temperature

LSLA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Large-Scale Land Acquisition

LTKA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Local and Traditional Knowledge in Agriculture

LUC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Land Use Change

LUH2

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Harmonised Land Use Change Data

LULCC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Land Use Land Cover Change

LULUCF

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry

M

MA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

MAC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Marginal Abatement Cost

MACC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Marginal Abatement Cost Curve

MAgPIE

Report: SRCCL

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

MAM

Report: SRCCL

Definition: March-April-May

MAR

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Managed Aquifer Recharge

MCF

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Methyl Chloroform

MCS

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Mesoscale Convective Systems

MEA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

MED

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Middle Eastern Dust Storms

MERIS

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer

MESSAGE

Report: SRCCL

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

MFS

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Microfinance Services

Mha

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Megahectare

MIRWH

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Mechanized Micro Rainwater Harvesting

MJ

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Megajoules

MND

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Micro Nutrient Deficiency

MODIS

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer

MOFPI

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Ministry of Food Processing Industries

MRV

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Monitoring, Reporting and Verification

MSA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Mean Species Abundance

Mt

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Megatonnes

MTOE

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Million Tonnes of Oil Equivalent

N

N

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Nitrogen

N2O

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Nitrous Oxide

NAMA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action

NAP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: National Adaptation Plan

NAPA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: National Adaptation Program of Action

NARC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Nepal Agricultural Research Council

NASA/GISS

Report: SRCCL

Definition: US National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NBS

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Nature Based Solutions

NCE

Report: SRCCL

Definition: New Climate Economy

NCD

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Non-Communicable Diseases

NCP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Nature's Contributions to People

NDC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Nationally Determined Contribution

NDVI

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Normalised Difference Vegetation Index

NENA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Near East and North Africa

NEON

Report: SRCCL

Definition: National Science Foundation's National Ecological Observatory Network

NEP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: National Energy Programme

NET

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Negative Emission Technology

NFPP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: National Forest Protection Program

NGO

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Non-Governmental Organisation

NH3

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Ammonia

NIAB

Report: SRCCL

Definition: National Institute of Agricultural Botany

NOAA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NOAA AVHRR

Report: SRCCL

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

NOAA ESRL

Report: SRCCL

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

NPP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Net Primary Production/Net Primary Productivity

NPV

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Net Present Value

NRC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: National Research Council

NRDC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Natural Resources Defence Council

NTFP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Non-Timber Forest Product

NUS

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Neglected and Underutilised Species

O

O2

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Oxygen

O3

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Ozone

OC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Organic Carbon

OECD

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

OH

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Hydroxyl Radical

ORCHIDEE

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Organising Carbon and Hydrology In Dynamic Ecosystems

OSS

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Sahara and Sahel Observatory

P

P

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Precipitation or Phosphorus

PAF

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Pilot Auction Facility

PAGGW

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Pan-African Agency of the Great Green Wall

PAH

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon

PAYT

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Pay As You Throw

PBAP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Primary Biological Aerosol Particles

PCP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Precipitation

PCRAFI

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Pacific Catastrophe Risk Assessment and Financing Initiative

PEFC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification

PES

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Payment for Environmental Services/Payment for Ecosystem Services

PET

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Potential Evapotranspiration

PHL

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Post Harvest Losses

PICS

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Purdue Improved Crop Storage

PM

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Particulate Matter

PM2.5

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Particulate matter with size less than 2.5 µm

PoU

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Prevalence of Undernourishment

PPA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Power Purchase Agreements

PPCDAm

Report: SRCCL

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

PPI

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Plant Phenology Index

PRIMAP

Report: SRCCL

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

R

RAP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Representative Agricultural Pathways

RCM

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Regional Climate Models

RCP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Representative Concentration Pathway

REDD

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation

REDD+

Report: SRCCL

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

RegCM

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Regional Climate Model

REMIND

Report: SRCCL

Definition: REgional Model of INvestments and Development

REN21

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century

RF

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Radiative Forcing

RESTREND

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Residual Trends

RIL

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Reduced Impact Logging

ROSCA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Rotating Saving and Credit Association

RPDS

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Research Program on Dryland Systems

RUE

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Rain Use Efficiency

RUSLE

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation

RVI

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Reconstructed Vegetation Index

RWH

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Rainwater Harvesting

RX1day

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Annual Maximum 1-day Precipitation

S

SAH

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Sahara

SAS

Report: SRCCL

Definition: South Asia

SAT

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Surface Air Temperature

SCC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Social Cost of Carbon

SD

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Standard Deviation or Sustainable Development

SDG

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Sustainable Development Goal

SDS-WAS

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Sand and Dust Storm Warning Advisory and Assessment System

SERFOR

Report: SRCCL

Definition: National Forest Service and Wildlife Authority

SES

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Socio-Ecological Systems

SFM

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Sustainable Forest Management

SFSC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Shortening Food Supply Chain

SI

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Sustainable Intensification

SIB

Report: SRCCL

Definition: State Investment Bank

SICAR

Report: SRCCL

Definition: National Land Registry System

SIDS

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Small Island Developing States

SLCF

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Short-Lived Climate Forcer

SLCP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Short Lived Climate Pollutant

SLM

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Sustainable Land Management

SM

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Supplementary Materials

SO2

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Sulfur dioxide

SOA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Secondary Organic Aerosols

SOC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Soil Organic Carbon

SOFI

Report: SRCCL

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

SOM

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Soil Organic Matter

SON

Report: SRCCL

Definition: September-October-November

SPOT VGT

Report: SRCCL

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

SR15

Report: SRCCL

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

SRCCL

Report: SRCCL

Definition: IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land

SRES

Report: SRCCL

Definition: IPCC Special Report on Emission Scenarios

SREX

Report: SRCCL

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

SR-LULUCF

Report: SRCCL

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

SROCC

Report: SRCCL

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

SSP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Shared Socio-economic Pathways

SSSA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Soil Science Society of America

SST

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Sea Surface Temperature

SWAT

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Soil and Water Assessment Tool

SWC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Soil and Water Conservation

SYR

Report: SRCCL

Definition: IPCC Synthesis Report

T

t

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Tonnes

TCR

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Transient Climate Response

TEEB

Report: SRCCL

Definition: The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity

Tg

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Teragrams

TS

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Technical Summary

TSS

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Time Series Segmentation

U

UGI

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Urban Green Infrastructure

UHI

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Urban Heat Island

UNCBD

Report: SRCCL

Definition: United Nations Convention on Biodiversity

UNCCD

Report: SRCCL

Definition: United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification

UNCED

Report: SRCCL

Definition: United Nations Conference on Environment and Development

UNCTAD

Report: SRCCL

Definition: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

UNDP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: United Nations Development Programme

UN-EMG

Report: SRCCL

Definition: UN Environment Management Group

UNEP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: United Nations Environment Programme

UNEP-GEF

Report: SRCCL

Definition: UN Environment Global Environment Facility

UNFCCC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

UNICEF

Report: SRCCL

Definition: United Nations Children's Fund

UNISDR

Report: SRCCL

Definition: UN Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

UN-REDD

Report: SRCCL

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

UPAF

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture and Forestry

USAID

Report: SRCCL

Definition: United States Agency for International Development

USD

Report: SRCCL

Definition: United States Dollars

USDA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: United States Department of Agriculture

USEPA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: United States Environmental Protection Agency

UTFI

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Underground Taming of Floods for Irrigation

UV

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Ultraviolet

V

VGGT

Report: SRCCL

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

VOC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Volatile Organic Compound

VOD

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Vegetation Optical Depth

W

w/

Report: SRCCL

Definition: With

w/o

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Without

W

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Watts

WAF

Report: SRCCL

Definition: West Africa

WaTEM/SEDEM

Report: SRCCL

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

WBA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: World Bioenergy Association

WBCSD

Report: SRCCL

Definition: World Business Council for Sustainable Development

WEC

Report: SRCCL

Definition: World Energy Council

WEF

Report: SRCCL

Definition: World Economic Forum

WEO

Report: SRCCL

Definition: World Energy Outlook

WEPP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Water Erosion Prediction Project

WET

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Wetland Extent Trends

WFP

Report: SRCCL

Definition: World Food Programme

WGI

Report: SRCCL

Definition: IPCC Working Group I

WGII

Report: SRCCL

Definition: IPCC Working Group II

WGIII

Report: SRCCL

Definition: IPCC Working Group III

WHO

Report: SRCCL

Definition: World Health Organisation

WMO

Report: SRCCL

Definition: World Meteorological Organisation

WOCAT

Report: SRCCL

Definition: World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies

WRI

Report: SRCCL

Definition: World Resources Institute

WSOA

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Water Soluble Organic Compounds

WTO

Report: SRCCL

Definition: World Trade Organisation

WUE

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Water Use Efficiency

Y

yr

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Year

Z

ZNLD

Report: SRCCL

Definition: Zero Net Land Degradation

A

a.s.l.

Report: SROCC

Definition: Above Sea Level

AABW

Report: SROCC

Definition: Antarctic Bottom Water

ABNJ

Report: SROCC

Definition: Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction

AC

Report: SROCC

Definition: Arctic Council

ACC

Report: SROCC

Definition: Antarctic Circumpolar Current

AEWC

Report: SROCC

Definition: Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission

AIS

Report: SROCC

Definition: Antarctic Ice Sheet

ALT

Report: SROCC

Definition: Active-Layer Thickness

AMO

Report: SROCC

Definition: Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation

AMOC

Report: SROCC

Definition: Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

AMV

Report: SROCC

Definition: Atlantic Multidecadal Variability

AOGCM

Report: SROCC

Definition: Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Model

AP

Report: SROCC

Definition: Antarctic Peninsula

AR4

Report: SROCC

Definition: IPCC 4th Assessment Report

AR5

Report: SROCC

Definition: IPCC 5th Assessment Report

AR6

Report: SROCC

Definition: IPCC 6th Assessment Report

ASE

Report: SROCC

Definition: Amundsen Sea Embayment

ASF

Report: SROCC

Definition: Animal Sourced Food

ATS

Report: SROCC

Definition: Antarctic Treaty System

B

BC

Report: SROCC

Definition: Black Carbon

BECCS

Report: SROCC

Definition: Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage

C

CAO

Report: SROCC

Definition: Central Arctic Ocean

CbA

Report: SROCC

Definition: Community-based Adaptation

CBD

Report: SROCC

Definition: Convention on Biological Diversity

CBM

Report: SROCC

Definition: Community-based Monitoring

CCAMLR

Report: SROCC

Definition: Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources

CDR

Report: SROCC

Definition: Carbon Dioxide Removal

CFC

Report: SROCC

Definition: Chlorofluorocarbons

CMIP

Report: SROCC

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project

CMIP3

Report: SROCC

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 3

CMIP5

Report: SROCC

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5

CMIP6

Report: SROCC

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6

COP

Report: SROCC

Definition: Conference of Parties

CoSMoS

Report: SROCC

Definition: Coastal Storm Modeling System

COWCLIP

Report: SROCC

Definition: Coordinated Ocean Wave Climate Project

CPR

Report: SROCC

Definition: Continuous Plankton Recorder

CRDP

Report: SROCC

Definition: Climate-Resilient Development Pathway

D

DDT

Report: SROCC

Definition: Dichlorodiphenyl-trichloroethane

DHW

Report: SROCC

Definition: Degree Heating Week

DIC

Report: SROCC

Definition: Dissolved Inorganic Carbon

DJF

Report: SROCC

Definition: December, January, February

DO

Report: SROCC

Definition: Dissolved Oxygen

DOC

Report: SROCC

Definition: Dissolved Organic Carbon

DRM

Report: SROCC

Definition: Disaster Risk Management

DSL

Report: SROCC

Definition: Deep Scattering Layers

E

EAD

Report: SROCC

Definition: Expected Annual Damages

EAIS

Report: SROCC

Definition: East Antarctic Ice Sheet

EbA

Report: SROCC

Definition: Ecosystem-based Adaptation

EBUS

Report: SROCC

Definition: Eastern Boundary Upwelling System

ECMWF

Report: SROCC

Definition: European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

ECP

Report: SROCC

Definition: Extended Concentration Pathway

EDW

Report: SROCC

Definition: Elevation Dependent Warming

EEZ

Report: SROCC

Definition: Exclusive Economic Zone

ENSO

Report: SROCC

Definition: El Niño-Southern Oscillation

ESA CCI

Report: SROCC

Definition: European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative

ESL

Report: SROCC

Definition: Extreme Sea Level

ESM

Report: SROCC

Definition: Earth System Model

ETC

Report: SROCC

Definition: Extratropical Cyclone

EWS

Report: SROCC

Definition: Early Warning System

F

FISHMIP

Report: SROCC

Definition: Fisheries and Marine Ecosystems Impact Model Intercomparison Project

G

GACS

Report: SROCC

Definition: Global Alliance of Continuous Plankton Recorder Surveys

GCM

Report: SROCC

Definition: General Circulation Model/Global Climate Model

GDP

Report: SROCC

Definition: Gross Domestic Product

GGR

Report: SROCC

Definition: Greenhouse Gas Removal

GHG

Report: SROCC

Definition: Greenhouse Gas

GIA

Report: SROCC

Definition: Glacio-Isostatic Adjustment

GIS

Report: SROCC

Definition: Greenland Ice Sheet

GLOF

Report: SROCC

Definition: Glacial Lake Outburst Flood

GMSL

Report: SROCC

Definition: Global Mean Sea Level

GMST

Report: SROCC

Definition: Global Mean Surface Temperature

GPD

Report: SROCC

Definition: Generalised Pareto Distribution

GPG

Report: SROCC

Definition: Good Practice Guidance

GPP

Report: SROCC

Definition: Gross Primary Production

GPS

Report: SROCC

Definition: Global Positioning System

GRACE

Report: SROCC

Definition: Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment

GRD

Report: SROCC

Definition: Gravity, Rotation, and Deformation

GSP

Report: SROCC

Definition: Gross State Product

GWP

Report: SROCC

Definition: Global Warming Potential

H

HAB

Report: SROCC

Definition: Harmful Algal Blooms

HFC

Report: SROCC

Definition: Hydrofluorocarbons

HSM

Report: SROCC

Definition: Historical Simulation

I

IAEA

Report: SROCC

Definition: International Atomic Energy Agency

ICC

Report: SROCC

Definition: Inuit Circumpolar Council

ICM

Report: SROCC

Definition: Integrated Coastal Management

ICZM

Report: SROCC

Definition: Integrated Coastal Zone Management

IK

Report: SROCC

Definition: Indigenous Knowledge

IMO

Report: SROCC

Definition: International Maritime Organization

INGO

Report: SROCC

Definition: International Non-Governmental Organisation

IOC-UNESCO

Report: SROCC

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

IOD

Report: SROCC

Definition: Indian Ocean Dipole

IPBES

Report: SROCC

Definition: Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services assessments

IPO

Report: SROCC

Definition: Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation

IRC

Report: SROCC

Definition: Inuvialuit Regional Corporation

ISR

Report: SROCC

Definition: Inuvialuit Settlement Region

ITCZ

Report: SROCC

Definition: Intertropical Convergence Zone

ITF

Report: SROCC

Definition: Indonesia Throughflow

IWRM

Report: SROCC

Definition: Integrated Water Resource Management

J

JJA

Report: SROCC

Definition: June, July, August

L

L&D

Report: SROCC

Definition: Loss and Damage

LDC

Report: SROCC

Definition: Least Developed Countries

LDOC

Report: SROCC

Definition: Labile Dissolved Organic Carbon

LECZ

Report: SROCC

Definition: Low Elevation Coastal Zone

LGM

Report: SROCC

Definition: Last Glacial Maximum

LIG

Report: SROCC

Definition: Last Interglacial

LK

Report: SROCC

Definition: Local Knowledge

LLIC

Report: SROCC

Definition: Low-Lying Islands and Coasts

LMMA

Report: SROCC

Definition: Locally Managed Marine Protected Area

LUC

Report: SROCC

Definition: Land-Use Change

LULUC

Report: SROCC

Definition: Land Use and Land-Use Change

M

M&E

Report: SROCC

Definition: Monitoring and Evaluation

MAGT

Report: SROCC

Definition: Mean Annual Ground Temperature

MCDA

Report: SROCC

Definition: Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

MHW

Report: SROCC

Definition: Marine Heatwave

MICI

Report: SROCC

Definition: Marine Ice Cliff Instability

MIP

Report: SROCC

Definition: Model Intercomparison Project

MISI

Report: SROCC

Definition: Marine Ice Sheet Instability

MOC

Report: SROCC

Definition: Meridional Overturning Circulation

MPA

Report: SROCC

Definition: Marine Protected Area

mPWP

Report: SROCC

Definition: mid-Pliocene Warm Period

MRV

Report: SROCC

Definition: Measurement, Reporting and Verification

MSL

Report: SROCC

Definition: Mean Sea Level

MSY

Report: SROCC

Definition: Maximum Sustainable Yield

N

NADW

Report: SROCC

Definition: North Atlantic Deep Water

NAO

Report: SROCC

Definition: North Atlantic Oscillation

NAP

Report: SROCC

Definition: National Adaption Plan

NCEP

Report: SROCC

Definition: National Centers for Environmental Prediction

NCP

Report: SROCC

Definition: Nature's Contribution to People

NDC

Report: SROCC

Definition: Nationally Determined Contributions

NGO

Report: SROCC

Definition: Non-Governmental Organisation

NOAA

Report: SROCC

Definition: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NPP

Report: SROCC

Definition: Net Primary Production

NPV

Report: SROCC

Definition: Net Present Value

O

OA

Report: SROCC

Definition: Ocean Acidification

OHC

Report: SROCC

Definition: Ocean Heat Content

OLS

Report: SROCC

Definition: Ordinary Least Square

OMZ

Report: SROCC

Definition: Oxygen Minimum Zone

P

PCBs

Report: SROCC

Definition: Polychlorinated Biphenyls

PDO

Report: SROCC

Definition: Pacific Decadal Oscillation

PFC

Report: SROCC

Definition: Perfluorocarbons

PIG

Report: SROCC

Definition: Pine Island Glacier

PISM

Report: SROCC

Definition: Parallel Ice Sheet Model

PM

Report: SROCC

Definition: Particulate Matter

POC

Report: SROCC

Definition: Particulate Organic Carbon

POP

Report: SROCC

Definition: Persistent Organic Pollutants

ppmv

Report: SROCC

Definition: parts per million volume

PSU

Report: SROCC

Definition: Practical Salinity Unit

R

RCM

Report: SROCC

Definition: Regional Climate Model

RCP

Report: SROCC

Definition: Representative Concentration Pathway

RDM

Report: SROCC

Definition: Robust Decision Making

RDOC

Report: SROCC

Definition: Refractory Dissolved Organic Carbon

RFC

Report: SROCC

Definition: Reason for Concern

RGI

Report: SROCC

Definition: Randolph Glacier Inventory

RITC

Report: SROCC

Definition: Rapid Intensification of Tropical Cyclones

RSL

Report: SROCC

Definition: Relative Sea Level

RSLR

Report: SROCC

Definition: Relative Sea Level Rise

S

SAM

Report: SROCC

Definition: Southern Annular Mode

SAMOC

Report: SROCC

Definition: South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

SD

Report: SROCC

Definition: Sustainable Development

SDGs

Report: SROCC

Definition: Sustainable Development Goals

SDM

Report: SROCC

Definition: Structured Decision Making

SDP

Report: SROCC

Definition: Sustainable Development Pathway

SH

Report: SROCC

Definition: Southern Hemisphere

SIDS

Report: SROCC

Definition: Small Island Developing States

SLCF

Report: SROCC

Definition: Short-Lived Climate Forcers

SLE

Report: SROCC

Definition: Sea Level Equivalent

SLP

Report: SROCC

Definition: Sea Level Pressure

SLR

Report: SROCC

Definition: Sea Level Rise

SMB

Report: SROCC

Definition: Surface Mass Balance

SPG

Report: SROCC

Definition: Subpolar Gyre

SPM

Report: SROCC

Definition: Summary for Policymakers

SR15

Report: SROCC

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

SRCCL

Report: SROCC

Definition: IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land

SRES

Report: SROCC

Definition: IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios

SREX

Report: SROCC

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

SRM

Report: SROCC

Definition: Solar Radiation Modification

SROCC

Report: SROCC

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

SRTM

Report: SROCC

Definition: Shuttle Radar Topography Mission

SSPs

Report: SROCC

Definition: Shared Socioeconomic Pathways

SST

Report: SROCC

Definition: Sea Surface Temperature

SWE

Report: SROCC

Definition: Snow Water Equivalent

T

TC

Report: SROCC

Definition: Tropical Cyclone

THC

Report: SROCC

Definition: Thermohaline Circulation

ToE

Report: SROCC

Definition: Time of Emergence

U

UNCLOS

Report: SROCC

Definition: United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

UNEP

Report: SROCC

Definition: United Nations Environment Programme

UNFCCC

Report: SROCC

Definition: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

UQ

Report: SROCC

Definition: Uncertainty Quantification

V

VLM

Report: SROCC

Definition: Vertical Land Motion

W

WAIS

Report: SROCC

Definition: West Antarctic Ice Sheet

WBC

Report: SROCC

Definition: Western Boundary Current

WGI

Report: SROCC

Definition: IPCC Working Group I

WGII

Report: SROCC

Definition: IPCC Working Group II

WGMS

Report: SROCC

Definition: World Glacial Monitoring Service

A

AFOLU

Report: SYR

Definition: Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use

AR5

Report: SYR

Definition: Fifth Assessment Report

AR6

Report: SYR

Definition: Sixth Assessment Report

B

BECCS

Report: SYR

Definition: Bioenergy with Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage

C

CCS

Report: SYR

Definition: Carbon Capture and Storage

CCU

Report: SYR

Definition: Carbon Capture and Utilization

CDR

Report: SYR

Definition: Carbon Dioxide Removal

CH4

Report: SYR

Definition: Methane

CID

Report: SYR

Definition: Climatic impact-driver

CMIP5

Report: SYR

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5

CMIP6

Report: SYR

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6

CO2

Report: SYR

Definition: Carbon Dioxide

CO2-eq

Report: SYR

Definition: Carbon Dioxide Equivalent

CRD

Report: SYR

Definition: Climate Resilient Development

CO2-FFI

Report: SYR

Definition: CO2 from Fossil Fuel combustion and Industrial processes

CO2-LULUCF

Report: SYR

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

CSB

Report: SYR

Definition: Cross-Section Box

D

DACCS

Report: SYR

Definition: Direct Air Carbon Capture and Storage

DRM

Report: SYR

Definition: Disaster Risk Management

E

EbA

Report: SYR

Definition: Ecosystem-based Adaptation

ECS

Report: SYR

Definition: Equilibrium climate sensitivity

ES

Report: SYR

Definition: Executive Summary

EV

Report: SYR

Definition: Electric Vehicle

EWS

Report: SYR

Definition: Early Warning System

F

FaIR

Report: SYR

Definition: Finite Amplitude Impulse Response simple climate model

FAO

Report: SYR

Definition: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

FFI

Report: SYR

Definition: Fossil-Fuel combustion and Industrial processes

F-gases

Report: SYR

Definition: Fluorinated gases

G

GDP

Report: SYR

Definition: Gross Domestic Product

GHG

Report: SYR

Definition: Greenhouse Gas

Gt

Report: SYR

Definition: Gigatonnes

GW

Report: SYR

Definition: Gigawatt

GWL

Report: SYR

Definition: Global Warming Level

GWP100

Report: SYR

Definition: Global Warming Potential over a 100 year time horizon

H

HFCs

Report: SYR

Definition: Hydrofluorocarbons

I

IEA

Report: SYR

Definition: International Energy Agency

IEA-STEPS

Report: SYR

Definition: International Energy Agency Stated Policies Scenario

IMP

Report: SYR

Definition: Illustrative Mitigation Pathway

IMP-LD

Report: SYR

Definition: Illustrative Mitigation Pathway - Low Demand

IMP-NEG

Report: SYR

Definition: Illustrative Mitigation Pathway - NEGative emissions deployment

IMP-SP

Report: SYR

Definition: Illustrative Mitigation Pathway - Shifting development Pathways

IMP-REN

Report: SYR

Definition: Illustrative Mitigation Pathway - Heavy reliance on RENewables

IP-ModAct

Report: SYR

Definition: Illustrative Pathway Moderate Action

IPCC

Report: SYR

Definition: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

K

kWh

Report: SYR

Definition: Kilowatt hour

L

LCOE

Report: SYR

Definition: Levelized Cost of Energy

LDC

Report: SYR

Definition: Least Developed Countries

Li-on

Report: SYR

Definition: Lithium-ion

LK

Report: SYR

Definition: Local Knowledge

LULUCF

Report: SYR

Definition: Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry

M

MAGICC

Report: SYR

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

MWh

Report: SYR

Definition: Megawatt hour

N

N2O

Report: SYR

Definition: Nitrous oxide

NDC

Report: SYR

Definition: Nationally Determined Contribution

NF3

Report: SYR

Definition: Nitrogen trifluoride

O

O3

Report: SYR

Definition: Ozone

P

PFCs

Report: SYR

Definition: Perfluorocarbons

ppb

Report: SYR

Definition: parts per billion

PPP

Report: SYR

Definition: Purchasing Power Parity

ppm

Report: SYR

Definition: parts per million

PV

Report: SYR

Definition: Photovoltaic

R

R&D

Report: SYR

Definition: Research and Development

RCB

Report: SYR

Definition: Remaining Carbon Budget

RCPs

Report: SYR

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

RFCs

Report: SYR

Definition: Reasons for Concern

S

SDG

Report: SYR

Definition: Sustainable Development Goal

SDPs

Report: SYR

Definition: Shifting Development Pathways

SF6

Report: SYR

Definition: Sulphur Hexafluoride

SIDS

Report: SYR

Definition: Small Island Developing States

SLCF

Report: SYR

Definition: Short-Lived Climate Forcer

SPM

Report: SYR

Definition: Summary For Policymakers

SR1.5

Report: SYR

Definition: Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C

SRCCL

Report: SYR

Definition: Special Report on Climate Change and Land

SRM

Report: SYR

Definition: Solar Radiation Modification

SROCC

Report: SYR

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

SSP

Report: SYR

Definition: Shared Socioeconomic Pathway

SYR

Report: SYR

Definition: Synthesis Report

T

tCO2-eq

Report: SYR

Definition: Tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent

tCO2-FFI

Report: SYR

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

TS

Report: SYR

Definition: Technical Summary

U

UNFCCC

Report: SYR

Definition: United Framework Convention on Climate Change

USD

Report: SYR

Definition: United States Dollar

W

WG

Report: SYR

Definition: Working Group

WGI

Report: SYR

Definition: IPCC Working Group I

WGII

Report: SYR

Definition: IPCC Working Group II

WGIII

Report: SYR

Definition: IPCC Working Group III

WHO

Report: SYR

Definition: World Health Organization

WIM

Report: SYR

Definition: Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage under UNFCCC

Wm-2

Report: SYR

Definition: Watts per square meter

2

20CR

Report: WGI

Definition: 20th Century Reanalysis

A

A1B

Report: WGI

Definition: Special Report on Emissions Scenarios A1B scenario

AABW

Report: WGI

Definition: Antarctic bottom water

AAIW

Report: WGI

Definition: Antarctic intermediate water

AAO

Report: WGI

Definition: Antarctic Oscillation

abrupt4xCO2

Report: WGI

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

ACC

Report: WGI

Definition: Antarctic Circumpolar Current

ACCESS

Report: WGI

Definition: Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator

ACCMIP

Report: WGI

Definition: Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Model Intercomparison Project

ACE

Report: WGI

Definition: Accumulated Cyclone Energy

AED

Report: WGI

Definition: atmospheric evaporative demand

AerChemMIP

Report: WGI

Definition: Aerosols and Chemistry Model Intercomparison Project

AeroCom

Report: WGI

Definition: Aerosol Comparisons between Observations and Models project

AERONET

Report: WGI

Definition: Aerosol Robotic Network

AEW

Report: WGI

Definition: African Easterly Wave

AF

Report: WGI

Definition: airborne fraction of CO2

AFOLU

Report: WGI

Definition: agriculture, forestry and other land use

AFR

Report: WGI

Definition: Africa

AGAGE

Report: WGI

Definition: Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment

AGCM

Report: WGI

Definition: atmospheric global climate model

AGFP

Report: WGI

Definition: absolute global forcing potential

AGR/ECOL

Report: WGI

Definition: agriculture and ecological droughts

AGTP

Report: WGI

Definition: absolute global temperature change potential

AGWP

Report: WGI

Definition: absolute global warming potentials

AIRS

Report: WGI

Definition: Atmospheric Infrared Sounder

AIS

Report: WGI

Definition: Antarctic Ice Sheet

ALL

Report: WGI

Definition: all forcings

ALT

Report: WGI

Definition: active layer thickness

AMIP

Report: WGI

Definition: Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project

AMM

Report: WGI

Definition: Atlantic Meridional Mode

AMMA

Report: WGI

Definition: African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses

AMO

Report: WGI

Definition: Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation

AMOC

Report: WGI

Definition: Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

AMSU

Report: WGI

Definition: Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit

AMV

Report: WGI

Definition: Atlantic Multi-decadal Variability

AO

Report: WGI

Definition: Arctic Oscillation

AOD

Report: WGI

Definition: aerosol optical depth

AOGCM

Report: WGI

Definition: atmosphere–ocean general circulation model

AP

Report: WGI

Definition: Antarctic Peninsula

AQ

Report: WGI

Definition: air quality

AR

Report: WGI

Definition: atmospheric river

AR4

Report: WGI

Definition: IPCC Fourth Assessment Report

AR5

Report: WGI

Definition: IPCC Fifth Assessment Report

AR6

Report: WGI

Definition: IPCC Sixth Assessment Report

ARO

Report: WGI

Definition: Arctic Ocean

ARP

Report: WGI

Definition: Arabian Peninsula

ARS

Report: WGI

Definition: Arabian Sea

ASE

Report: WGI

Definition: Amundsen Sea Embayment

AUS

Report: WGI

Definition: Australasia

AusMCM

Report: WGI

Definition: Australian–Maritime Continent monsoon

AVHRR

Report: WGI

Definition: Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

AZM

Report: WGI

Definition: Atlantic Zonal Modes

B

BC

Report: WGI

Definition: black carbon

BCE

Report: WGI

Definition: Before the Common Era

BCP

Report: WGI

Definition: biological carbon pump

BE

Report: WGI

Definition: Berkeley Earth

BECCS

Report: WGI

Definition: bioenergy with carbon capture and storage

BOB

Report: WGI

Definition: Bay of Bengal

BP

Report: WGI

Definition: before the present

BrC

Report: WGI

Definition: brown carbon

BSISO

Report: WGI

Definition: boreal summer intra-seasonal oscillation

BU

Report: WGI

Definition: bottom up

BVOC

Report: WGI

Definition: biogenic volatile organic compound

C

C3S

Report: WGI

Definition: Copernicus Climate Change Service

C4MIP

Report: WGI

Definition: Coupled Climate Carbon Cycle Model Intercomparison Project

CAF

Report: WGI

Definition: Central Africa

CAM

Report: WGI

Definition: Central America

CAMS

Report: WGI

Definition: Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service

CanESM2

Report: WGI

Definition: Canadian Earth System Model version 2

CanESM5

Report: WGI

Definition: Canadian Earth System Model version 5

CAPE

Report: WGI

Definition: convective available potential energy

CAR

Report: WGI

Definition: Caribbean

CAU

Report: WGI

Definition: Central Australia

CCM

Report: WGI

Definition: chemistry–climate model

CCMI

Report: WGI

Definition: Chemistry–Climate Modelling Initiative

CCN

Report: WGI

Definition: cloud condensation nuclei

CCS

Report: WGI

Definition: carbon dioxide capture and storage

CCT

Report: WGI

Definition: cirrus cloud thinning

CD

Report: WGI

Definition: cooling degree days

CDD

Report: WGI

Definition: consecutive dry days

CDR

Report: WGI

Definition: carbon dioxide removal

CDRMIP

Report: WGI

Definition: Carbon Dioxide Removal Model Intercomparison Project

CDW

Report: WGI

Definition: Circumpolar Deep Water

CE

Report: WGI

Definition: Common Era

CEDS

Report: WGI

Definition: Community Emissions Data System

CERES

Report: WGI

Definition: Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System

CESM

Report: WGI

Definition: Community Earth System Model

CFCs

Report: WGI

Definition: chlorofluorocarbons

CFMIP

Report: WGI

Definition: Cloud Feedback Model Intercomparison Project

CFSR

Report: WGI

Definition: Climate Forecast System Reanalysis

CGTP

Report: WGI

Definition: combined global temperature change potential

CH4

Report: WGI

Definition: methane

CICERO

Report: WGI

Definition: Center for International Climate and Environment Research

CID

Report: WGI

Definition: climatic impact-driver

CISM2

Report: WGI

Definition: Community Ice Sheet Model 2

CLLJ

Report: WGI

Definition: Caribbean low-level jet

CLSAT

Report: WGI

Definition: China Land Surface Air Temperature

CMAP

Report: WGI

Definition: NOAA Climate Prediction Center Merged Analysis of Precipitation

CMIP

Report: WGI

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project

CMIP3

Report: WGI

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 3

CMIP5

Report: WGI

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5

CMIP6

Report: WGI

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6

CNA

Report: WGI

Definition: Central North America

CNRM

Report: WGI

Definition: Centre National de la Recherche Météorologique

CO

Report: WGI

Definition: carbon monoxide

CO2

Report: WGI

Definition: carbon dioxide

CO2-eq

Report: WGI

Definition: carbon dioxide equivalent

COBE

Report: WGI

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

CORDEX

Report: WGI

Definition: Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment

COSMO

Report: WGI

Definition: Consortium for Small-scale Modeling

COVID-19

Report: WGI

Definition: coronavirus disease of 2019

CP

Report: WGI

Definition: Central Pacific

CPM

Report: WGI

Definition: convection-permitting model

CRA

Report: WGI

Definition: climate risk and adaptation assessment

CRE

Report: WGI

Definition: cloud radiative effect

CRM

Report: WGI

Definition: cloud resolving model

CRU

Report: WGI

Definition: Climate Research Unit

CRUTEM

Report: WGI

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

CRUTS

Report: WGI

Definition: Climatic Research Unit gridded time-series dataset

CSIRO

Report: WGI

Definition: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

D

DACCS

Report: WGI

Definition: direct air carbon capture with carbon storage

DAMIP

Report: WGI

Definition: Detection and Attribution Model Intercomparison Project

DCPP

Report: WGI

Definition: Decadal Climate Prediction Project

DECK

Report: WGI

Definition: Diagnostic, Evaluation and Characterization of Klima

DeepMIP

Report: WGI

Definition: Deep-Time Model Intercomparison Project

DF

Report: WGI

Definition: drought frequency

DGVM

Report: WGI

Definition: dynamic global vegetation model

DI

Report: WGI

Definition: Drought Index

DIC

Report: WGI

Definition: dissolved inorganic carbon

DJF

Report: WGI

Definition: December–January–February

DJFM

Report: WGI

Definition: December–January–February–March

DMS

Report: WGI

Definition: dimethyl sulphide

DTR

Report: WGI

Definition: diurnal temperature range

DU

Report: WGI

Definition: Dobson Units

E

EAIS

Report: WGI

Definition: East Antarctic Ice Sheet

EAN

Report: WGI

Definition: East Antarctica

EAO

Report: WGI

Definition: Equatorial Atlantic Ocean

EAS

Report: WGI

Definition: East Asia

EAsiaM

Report: WGI

Definition: East Asian monsoon

EASM

Report: WGI

Definition: East Asian summer monsoon

EAU

Report: WGI

Definition: Eastern Australia

EAWM

Report: WGI

Definition: East Asian winter monsoon

EBAF

Report: WGI

Definition: CERES Energy Balanced and Filled climate data record

EBM

Report: WGI

Definition: Energy Balance Model

EBUS

Report: WGI

Definition: Eastern boundary upwelling systems

ECMWF

Report: WGI

Definition: European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

ECS

Report: WGI

Definition: equilibrium climate sensitivity

ECV

Report: WGI

Definition: Essential Climate Variable

ECWL

Report: WGI

Definition: Extreme Coastal Water Level

EDW

Report: WGI

Definition: elevation-dependent warming

EECO

Report: WGI

Definition: Early Eocene Climatic Optimum

EEU

Report: WGI

Definition: Eastern Europe

EgC

Report: WGI

Definition: exagrams of carbon (1000 petagrams of carbon)

EIO

Report: WGI

Definition: Equatorial Indian Ocean

EMIC

Report: WGI

Definition: Earth models of intermediate complexity

ENA

Report: WGI

Definition: Eastern North America

ENSO

Report: WGI

Definition: El Niño–Southern Oscillation

EOF

Report: WGI

Definition: empirical orthogonal function

EOV

Report: WGI

Definition: Essential Ocean Variable

EP

Report: WGI

Definition: Eastern Pacific

EPA

Report: WGI

Definition: USA Environmental Protection Agency

EPO

Report: WGI

Definition: Equatorial Pacific Ocean

EqAmer

Report: WGI

Definition: equatorial America

ERA-Interim

Report: WGI

Definition: ECMWF global reanalysis

ERA20C

Report: WGI

Definition: ECMWF 20th century reanalysis

ERA20CM

Report: WGI

Definition: ECMWF 20th century atmospheric model ensemble

ERA5

Report: WGI

Definition: ECMWF global reanalysis (replaces ERA-Interim)

ERF

Report: WGI

Definition: effective radiative forcing

ERFaci

Report: WGI

Definition: effective radiative forcing due to aerosol–cloud interactions

ERFari

Report: WGI

Definition: effective radiative forcing due to aerosol–radiation interactions

ERSST

Report: WGI

Definition: Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature

ESA

Report: WGI

Definition: European Space Agency

ESA CCI

Report: WGI

Definition: European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative

ESAF

Report: WGI

Definition: East Southern Africa

ESB

Report: WGI

Definition: East Siberia

ESGF

Report: WGI

Definition: Earth System Grid Federation

ESL

Report: WGI

Definition: extreme sea level

ESM

Report: WGI

Definition: Earth system model

ESMValTool

Report: WGI

Definition: Earth System Model Evaluation Tool

ESRL

Report: WGI

Definition: NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory

ESWL

Report: WGI

Definition: extreme still water levels

ET

Report: WGI

Definition: evapotranspiration

ETC

Report: WGI

Definition: extratropical cyclone

ETCCDI

Report: WGI

Definition: Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices

ETWL

Report: WGI

Definition: Extreme Total Water Level

EU

Report: WGI

Definition: European Union

F

FaIR

Report: WGI

Definition: Finite Amplitude Impulse Response simple climate model

FAIR

Report: WGI

Definition: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable principles

FAPAR

Report: WGI

Definition: fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation

FAR

Report: WGI

Definition: IPCC First Assessment Report

FD

Report: WGI

Definition: frost days

FESOM

Report: WGI

Definition: Finite Element Sea ice/Ice Shelf Ocean Model

FFDI

Report: WGI

Definition: Forest Fire Danger Index

FOLU

Report: WGI

Definition: forestry and other land use

fSST

Report: WGI

Definition: fixed-sea surface temperature

G

GCM

Report: WGI

Definition: general circulation model or global climate model

GCOS

Report: WGI

Definition: Global Climate Observing System

GCP

Report: WGI

Definition: Global Carbon Project

GDD

Report: WGI

Definition: growing degree days

GDP

Report: WGI

Definition: gross domestic product

GeoMIP

Report: WGI

Definition: Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project

GFCS

Report: WGI

Definition: Global Framework for Climate Services

GFDL

Report: WGI

Definition: NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

GHCN

Report: WGI

Definition: NOAA Global Historical Climatology Network

GHCNd

Report: WGI

Definition: NOAA Global Historical Climatology Network daily database

GHCNv4

Report: WGI

Definition: NOAA Global Historical Climatology Network monthly database version 4

GHG

Report: WGI

Definition: greenhouse gas

GHM

Report: WGI

Definition: global hydrological model

GIA

Report: WGI

Definition: glacial isostatic adjustment

GIC

Report: WGI

Definition: Greenland/Iceland

GISS

Report: WGI

Definition: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

GISTEMP

Report: WGI

Definition: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Surface Temperature Analysis

GlacierMIP

Report: WGI

Definition: Glacier Model Intercomparison Project

GLDAS

Report: WGI

Definition: Global Land Data Assimilation System

GloGEM

Report: WGI

Definition: Global Glacier Evolution Model

GM

Report: WGI

Definition: Global monsoon

GMMIP

Report: WGI

Definition: Global Monsoons Model Intercomparison Project

GMSL

Report: WGI

Definition: global mean sea level

GMST

Report: WGI

Definition: global mean surface temperature

GMTSL

Report: WGI

Definition: global mean thermosteric sea level

GNSS

Report: WGI

Definition: Global Navigation Satellite System

GOME

Report: WGI

Definition: Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment

GOSAT

Report: WGI

Definition: Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite

GPCC

Report: WGI

Definition: Global Precipitation Climatology Centre

GPCP

Report: WGI

Definition: Global Precipitation Climatology Project

GPM

Report: WGI

Definition: Global Precipitation Mission

GPS

Report: WGI

Definition: Global Positioning System

GRACE

Report: WGI

Definition: Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment

GRD

Report: WGI

Definition: gravitational, rotational and deformational

GrIS

Report: WGI

Definition: Greenland Ice Sheet

GSAT

Report: WGI

Definition: global surface air temperature

GSMaP

Report: WGI

Definition: Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation dataset

GtC

Report: WGI

Definition: gigatonnes of carbon

GtCO2

Report: WGI

Definition: gigatonnes of carbon dioxide

GTP

Report: WGI

Definition: global temperature change potential

GWL

Report: WGI

Definition: global warming level

GWP

Report: WGI

Definition: global warming potential

H

HadCRUT

Report: WGI

Definition: Hadley Centre Climatic Research Unit gridded surface temperature dataset

HadEX3

Report: WGI

Definition: Hadley Centre gridded land surface extremes indices

HadGEM

Report: WGI

Definition: Hadley Centre Global Environment Model

HadISST

Report: WGI

Definition: Hadley Centre Ice and Sea Surface Temperature dataset

HadSST

Report: WGI

Definition: Hadley Centre Sea Surface Temperature dataset

HC

Report: WGI

Definition: Hadley circulation

HCFC

Report: WGI

Definition: hydrochlorofluorocarbon

HD

Report: WGI

Definition: heating degree days

HFC

Report: WGI

Definition: hydrofluorocarbon

HI

Report: WGI

Definition: heat index

HighResMIP

Report: WGI

Definition: High Resolution Model Intercomparison Project

HKH

Report: WGI

Definition: Hindu Kush Himalaya

HNO3

Report: WGI

Definition: nitric acid

I

IAGOS

Report: WGI

Definition: In-service Aircraft for a Global Observing System

IAM

Report: WGI

Definition: integrated assessment model

ICE

Report: WGI

Definition: initial condition ensemble

ICESat

Report: WGI

Definition: Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite

ICOADS

Report: WGI

Definition: International Comprehensive Ocean–Atmosphere Data Set

IMBIE

Report: WGI

Definition: Ice Sheet Mass Balance Intercomparison Exercise

INP

Report: WGI

Definition: ice nucleating particle

IOB

Report: WGI

Definition: Indian Ocean Basin

IOD

Report: WGI

Definition: Indian Ocean Dipole

IPBES

Report: WGI

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

IPCC

Report: WGI

Definition: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

IPO

Report: WGI

Definition: Inter-decadal Pacific Oscillation

IPSL

Report: WGI

Definition: Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace

IRF

Report: WGI

Definition: instantaneous radiative forcing

IRFaci

Report: WGI

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

IRFari

Report: WGI

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

ISIMIP

Report: WGI

Definition: Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project

ITCZ

Report: WGI

Definition: Inter-tropical Convergence Zone

ITF

Report: WGI

Definition: Indonesian throughflow

J

JAS

Report: WGI

Definition: July–August–September

JAXA

Report: WGI

Definition: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

JJA

Report: WGI

Definition: June–July–August

JJAS

Report: WGI

Definition: June–July–August–September

JMA

Report: WGI

Definition: Japan Meteorological Agency

JRA-55

Report: WGI

Definition: Japanese 55-year Reanalysis

L

LAI

Report: WGI

Definition: leaf area index

LAP

Report: WGI

Definition: light-absorbing particle

LARMIP

Report: WGI

Definition: Linear Antarctic Response Model Intercomparison Project

LDT

Report: WGI

Definition: Last deglacial transition

LEO

Report: WGI

Definition: low Earth orbit

LGM

Report: WGI

Definition: Last Glacial Maximum

LIG

Report: WGI

Definition: Last Interglacial

LLGHG

Report: WGI

Definition: long-lived greenhouse gas

LLHI

Report: WGI

Definition: Low-likelihood, high-impact

LNOx

Report: WGI

Definition: lightning NOx

LR

Report: WGI

Definition: lapse rate

LSAT

Report: WGI

Definition: land surface air temperature

LUC

Report: WGI

Definition: land-use change

LULUCF

Report: WGI

Definition: land use, land-use change and forestry

LW

Report: WGI

Definition: longwave

LWP

Report: WGI

Definition: liquid water path

LWS

Report: WGI

Definition: land-water storage

M

MAGICC

Report: WGI

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

MAM

Report: WGI

Definition: March–April–May

MAT

Report: WGI

Definition: marine air temperature

MCB

Report: WGI

Definition: marine cloud brightening

MCO

Report: WGI

Definition: Miocene Climatic Optimum

MCS

Report: WGI

Definition: mesoscale convective system

MDG

Report: WGI

Definition: Madagascar

MED

Report: WGI

Definition: Mediterranean

MENA

Report: WGI

Definition: Middle East North Africa

MERRA

Report: WGI

Definition: Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications

METACLIP

Report: WGI

Definition: Metadata for climate products project

MH

Report: WGI

Definition: mid-Holocene

MHW

Report: WGI

Definition: marine heatwave

MICI

Report: WGI

Definition: marine ice cliff instability

MIP

Report: WGI

Definition: Model Intercomparison Project

MIROC

Report: WGI

Definition: Model for Interdisciplinary Research on Climate

MIS

Report: WGI

Definition: Marine Isotope Stage

MISI

Report: WGI

Definition: marine ice sheet instability

MISMIP

Report: WGI

Definition: Marine Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Projects

MJO

Report: WGI

Definition: Madden–Julian Oscillation

MLO

Report: WGI

Definition: Mauna Loa Observatory

MME

Report: WGI

Definition: multi-model ensemble

MOC

Report: WGI

Definition: meridional overturning circulation

MODIS

Report: WGI

Definition: Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer

MPI

Report: WGI

Definition: Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

MPWP

Report: WGI

Definition: mid-Pliocene Warm Period

MRI

Report: WGI

Definition: Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency

MSD

Report: WGI

Definition: midsummer drought

MTFR

Report: WGI

Definition: maximum technically feasible reductions

N

N2O

Report: WGI

Definition: nitrous oxide

NADW

Report: WGI

Definition: North Atlantic Deep Water

NAM

Report: WGI

Definition: Northern Annular Mode

NAmerM

Report: WGI

Definition: North American monsoon

NAO

Report: WGI

Definition: North Atlantic Oscillation

NARCCAP

Report: WGI

Definition: North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program

NASA

Report: WGI

Definition: USA National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NASH

Report: WGI

Definition: North Atlantic Subtropical High

NAU

Report: WGI

Definition: Northern Australia

NBP

Report: WGI

Definition: Net Biome Productivity

NCA

Report: WGI

Definition: Northern Central America

NCAR

Report: WGI

Definition: National Center for Atmospheric Research

NCEI

Report: WGI

Definition: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information

NCEP

Report: WGI

Definition: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction

NDC

Report: WGI

Definition: Nationally Determined Contribution

NDD

Report: WGI

Definition: number of dry days

NDVI

Report: WGI

Definition: Normalized Difference Vegetation Index

NEAF

Report: WGI

Definition: North Eastern Africa

NEN

Report: WGI

Definition: North-Eastern North America

NES

Report: WGI

Definition: North-Eastern South America

NEU

Report: WGI

Definition: Northern Europe

NH

Report: WGI

Definition: Northern Hemisphere

NH3

Report: WGI

Definition: ammonia

NH4

Report: WGI

Definition: ammonium

NMAT

Report: WGI

Definition: nighttime marine air temperature

NMVOC

Report: WGI

Definition: non-methane volatile organic compound

NO2

Report: WGI

Definition: nitrogen dioxide

NO3

Report: WGI

Definition: nitrate

NOAA

Report: WGI

Definition: USA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NOAAGlobalTemp

Report: WGI

Definition: NOAA Merged Land Ocean Global Surface Temperature Analysis

NorESM

Report: WGI

Definition: Norwegian Earth System Model

NOx

Report: WGI

Definition: nitrogen oxides

NPO

Report: WGI

Definition: North Pacific Ocean

NPP

Report: WGI

Definition: net primary production

NSA

Report: WGI

Definition: Northern South America

NWN

Report: WGI

Definition: North-Western North America

NWS

Report: WGI

Definition: North-Western South America

NZ

Report: WGI

Definition: New Zealand

O

OA

Report: WGI

Definition: organic aerosols

OC

Report: WGI

Definition: organic carbon

ODS

Report: WGI

Definition: ozone depleting substances

OECD

Report: WGI

Definition: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

OH

Report: WGI

Definition: hydroxyl radical

OHC

Report: WGI

Definition: ocean heat content

OLR

Report: WGI

Definition: outgoing longwave radiation

OLS

Report: WGI

Definition: ordinary least squares

OMI

Report: WGI

Definition: Ozone Monitoring Instrument

OMIP

Report: WGI

Definition: Ocean Model Intercomparison Project

P

PA

Report: WGI

Definition: Paris Agreement

PAGES 2K

Report: WGI

Definition: Past Global Changes 2k consortium

PC

Report: WGI

Definition: principal component

pCO2

Report: WGI

Definition: partial pressure of CO2

PDO

Report: WGI

Definition: Pacific Decadal Oscillation

PDSI

Report: WGI

Definition: Palmer Drought Severity Index

PDV

Report: WGI

Definition: Pacific Decadal Variability

PERSIANN-CDR

Report: WGI

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

PETM

Report: WGI

Definition: Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum

PgC

Report: WGI

Definition: petagrams of carbon

PgCeq

Report: WGI

Definition: petagrams of carbon equivalent

PlioMIP

Report: WGI

Definition: Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project

PM

Report: WGI

Definition: particulate matter

PM10

Report: WGI

Definition: particulate matter with diameter of less than 10 microns

PM2.5

Report: WGI

Definition: particulate matter with diameter of less than 2.5 microns

PMIP

Report: WGI

Definition: Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project

POA

Report: WGI

Definition: primary organic aerosols

PP

Report: WGI

Definition: primary production

PSS-78

Report: WGI

Definition: Practical Salinity Scale 1978

Q

QBO

Report: WGI

Definition: quasi-biennial oscillation

R

RAR

Report: WGI

Definition: Russian Arctic Region

RCM

Report: WGI

Definition: regional climate model

RCMIP

Report: WGI

Definition: Reduced Complexity Model Intercomparison Project

RCP

Report: WGI

Definition: Representative Concentration Pathway

RF

Report: WGI

Definition: radiative forcing

RFC

Report: WGI

Definition: Reasons for Concern

RFE

Report: WGI

Definition: Russian Far East

RFMIP

Report: WGI

Definition: Radiative Forcing Model Intercomparison Project

RH

Report: WGI

Definition: relative humidity

RICH

Report: WGI

Definition: Radiosonde Innovation Composite Homogenization

RKR

Report: WGI

Definition: Representative Key Risk

RO

Report: WGI

Definition: radio occultation

RSL

Report: WGI

Definition: relative sea level

RSLR

Report: WGI

Definition: relative sea level rise

S

SAH

Report: WGI

Definition: Sahara

SAI

Report: WGI

Definition: stratospheric aerosol injection

SAM

Report: WGI

Definition: Southern Annular Mode

SAmerM

Report: WGI

Definition: South American monsoon

SAO

Report: WGI

Definition: South Atlantic Ocean

SAOD

Report: WGI

Definition: stratospheric aerosol optical depth

SAR

Report: WGI

Definition: IPCC Second Assessment Report

SARF

Report: WGI

Definition: stratospheric-temperature-adjusted radiative forcing

SAS

Report: WGI

Definition: South Asia

SAsiaM

Report: WGI

Definition: South and South East Asian monsoon

SAT

Report: WGI

Definition: surface air temperature

SAU

Report: WGI

Definition: Southern Australia

SCA

Report: WGI

Definition: Southern Central America

SCE

Report: WGI

Definition: snow cover extent

ScenarioMIP

Report: WGI

Definition: Scenario Model Intercomparison Project

SCM

Report: WGI

Definition: simple climate model

SDG

Report: WGI

Definition: Sustainable Development Goals

SEA

Report: WGI

Definition: South East Asia

SEAF

Report: WGI

Definition: South Eastern Africa

SED

Report: WGI

Definition: Structured Expert Dialogue

SEJ

Report: WGI

Definition: Structured Expert Judgement

SES

Report: WGI

Definition: South-Eastern South America

SF6

Report: WGI

Definition: sulphur hexaflouride

SH

Report: WGI

Definition: Southern Hemisphere

SIA

Report: WGI

Definition: sea ice area

SIDS

Report: WGI

Definition: Small Island Developing States

SIE

Report: WGI

Definition: sea ice extent

SLCF

Report: WGI

Definition: short-lived climate forcer

SLE

Report: WGI

Definition: sea level equivalent

SLP

Report: WGI

Definition: sea level pressure

SLR

Report: WGI

Definition: sea level rise

SMAP

Report: WGI

Definition: Soil Moisture Active Passive

SMB

Report: WGI

Definition: surface mass balance

SMILE

Report: WGI

Definition: single-model initial-condition large ensemble

SO2

Report: WGI

Definition: sulphur dioxide

SO4

Report: WGI

Definition: sulphate

SOA

Report: WGI

Definition: secondary organic aerosols

SOI

Report: WGI

Definition: Southern Oscillation Index

SON

Report: WGI

Definition: September–October–November

SOO

Report: WGI

Definition: Southern Ocean

SOx

Report: WGI

Definition: sulphur oxides

SPCZ

Report: WGI

Definition: South Pacific Convergence Zone

SPEI

Report: WGI

Definition: Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index

SPI

Report: WGI

Definition: Standardized Precipitation Index

SPM

Report: WGI

Definition: Summary for Policymakers

SPO

Report: WGI

Definition: South Pacific Ocean or South Pole Observatory

SR1.5

Report: WGI

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

SRCCL

Report: WGI

Definition: IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land

SRES

Report: WGI

Definition: IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios

SREX

Report: WGI

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

SRI

Report: WGI

Definition: Standardized Runoff Index

SRM

Report: WGI

Definition: solar radiation modification

SROCC

Report: WGI

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

SSA

Report: WGI

Definition: Southern South America

SSP

Report: WGI

Definition: Shared Socio-economic Pathways

SST

Report: WGI

Definition: sea surface temperature

SSW

Report: WGI

Definition: sudden stratospheric warming

STE

Report: WGI

Definition: stratosphere–troposphere exchange

SW

Report: WGI

Definition: shortwave

SWE

Report: WGI

Definition: snow water equivalent

SWS

Report: WGI

Definition: South-Western South America

SWV

Report: WGI

Definition: stratospheric water vapour

T

TAR

Report: WGI

Definition: IPCC Third Assessment Report

TAV

Report: WGI

Definition: Tropical Atlantic Variability

TC

Report: WGI

Definition: tropical cyclone

TCR

Report: WGI

Definition: transient climate response

TCRE

Report: WGI

Definition: transient climate response to cumulative CO2 emissions

TCWV

Report: WGI

Definition: total column water vapour

Tg

Report: WGI

Definition: teragrams

ThSL

Report: WGI

Definition: thermosteric sea level

TIB

Report: WGI

Definition: Tibetan Plateau

TNn

Report: WGI

Definition: annual minimum daily minimum temperature

TNx

Report: WGI

Definition: annual maximum daily minimum temperature

TOA

Report: WGI

Definition: the net top-of-the-atmosphere

ToE

Report: WGI

Definition: time of emergence

TPI

Report: WGI

Definition: tripole Index

TRMM

Report: WGI

Definition: Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission

TS

Report: WGI

Definition: Technical Summary

TSI

Report: WGI

Definition: total solar irradiance

U

UAH

Report: WGI

Definition: University of Alabama in Huntsville

UHI

Report: WGI

Definition: urban heat island

UN

Report: WGI

Definition: United Nations

UNEP

Report: WGI

Definition: United Nations Environment Programme

UNFCCC

Report: WGI

Definition: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

UTLS

Report: WGI

Definition: upper troposphere and lower stratosphere

UV

Report: WGI

Definition: ultraviolet

UVic ESCM

Report: WGI

Definition: University of Victoria Earth System Climate Model

V

VLM

Report: WGI

Definition: vertical land motion

VOC

Report: WGI

Definition: volatile organic compounds

VPD

Report: WGI

Definition: vapour pressure deficit

VSLS

Report: WGI

Definition: very short-lived halogenated species

W

WAF

Report: WGI

Definition: Western Africa

WAfriM

Report: WGI

Definition: West African monsoon

WAIS

Report: WGI

Definition: West Antarctic Ice Sheet

WAN

Report: WGI

Definition: West Antarctica

WBC

Report: WGI

Definition: western boundary current

WBGT

Report: WGI

Definition: wet bulb globe temperature

WC

Report: WGI

Definition: Walker circulation

WCA

Report: WGI

Definition: West Central Asia

WCE

Report: WGI

Definition: Western and Central Europe

WCRP

Report: WGI

Definition: World Climate Research Programme

WG

Report: WGI

Definition: IPCC Working Group

WHO

Report: WGI

Definition: World Health Organization

WMGHG

Report: WGI

Definition: well-mixed greenhouse gas

WMO

Report: WGI

Definition: World Meteorological Organization

WNA

Report: WGI

Definition: Western North America

WNP

Report: WGI

Definition: Western North Pacific

WOA18

Report: WGI

Definition: World Ocean Atlas 2018

WSAF

Report: WGI

Definition: West Southern Africa

WSB

Report: WGI

Definition: Wilkes Subglacial Basin

WUE

Report: WGI

Definition: water-use efficiency

Y

YJ

Report: WGI

Definition: yottajoule, 10^24 joules

Z

ZEC

Report: WGI

Definition: zero emissions commitment

ZJ

Report: WGI

Definition: zettajoule, 10^21 joules

3

3-PG

Report: WGII

Definition: Physiological Processes Predicting Growth

A

A/R

Report: WGII

Definition: Afforestation and Reforestation

AAI

Report: WGII

Definition: Africa Adaptation Initiative

AAO

Report: WGII

Definition: Antarctic Ocean Oscillation

AAS

Report: WGII

Definition: Australian Academy of Science

ABNJ

Report: WGII

Definition: Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction

ABS

Report: WGII

Definition: Australian Bureau of Statistics

AC

Report: WGII

Definition: Air Conditioning

ACCC

Report: WGII

Definition: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

ACCCRN

Report: WGII

Definition: Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network

ACE

Report: WGII

Definition: Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre

ACRE

Report: WGII

Definition: Agriculture and Climate Risk Enterprise

ACT

Report: WGII

Definition: Australian Capital Territory

ADB

Report: WGII

Definition: Asian Development Bank

ADW

Report: WGII

Definition: Alternate Drying and Wetting

AEMO

Report: WGII

Definition: Australian Energy Market Operator

AF

Report: WGII

Definition: Africa / Agroecological Farming

AfDB

Report: WGII

Definition: African Development Bank

AFOLU

Report: WGII

Definition: Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use

AFSI

Report: WGII

Definition: Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative

AgMIP

Report: WGII

Definition: Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project

AHP

Report: WGII

Definition: Analytic Hierarchy Processing

AI

Report: WGII

Definition: Artificial Intelligence

AIDR

Report: WGII

Definition: Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience

AIHW

Report: WGII

Definition: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

AK

Report: WGII

Definition: Alaska

ALT

Report: WGII

Definition: Active Layer Thickness

AMO

Report: WGII

Definition: Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation

AMOC

Report: WGII

Definition: Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

ANPP

Report: WGII

Definition: Annual Net Primary Productivity

AOGCM

Report: WGII

Definition: Atmosphere–Ocean General Circulation Model

AOSIS

Report: WGII

Definition: Alliance of Small Island States

APP

Report: WGII

Definition: Agricultural Adaptation and Perception

APRA

Report: WGII

Definition: Australian Prudential Regulation Authority

AR

Report: WGII

Definition: Atmospheric River / Assessment Report

AR4

Report: WGII

Definition: IPCC Fourth Assessment Report

AR5

Report: WGII

Definition: IPCC Fifth Assessment Report

AR6

Report: WGII

Definition: IPCC Sixth Assessment Report

ARA

Report: WGII

Definition: Arab Region of Asia

ARI

Report: WGII

Definition: Acute Respiratory Infection

ASBEC

Report: WGII

Definition: Australian Sustainable Built Environment Council

ASE

Report: WGII

Definition: Amundsen Sea Embayment

ASEAN

Report: WGII

Definition: Association of Southeast Asian Nations

ASFI

Report: WGII

Definition: Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative

ASP

Report: WGII

Definition: Adaptive Social Protection

AT

Report: WGII

Definition: Air Temperature / Austria

ATLAS

Report: WGII

Definition: Adaptation Thought Leadership and Assessments

AU

Report: WGII

Definition: African Union

AUC

Report: WGII

Definition: Area under the Curve

AUP

Report: WGII

Definition: Auckland Unitary Plan

B

BAU

Report: WGII

Definition: Business-as-Usual

BC

Report: WGII

Definition: British Columbia

BCH

Report: WGII

Definition: Built Cultural Heritage

BCR

Report: WGII

Definition: Benefit-to-Cost Ratio

BDP

Report: WGII

Definition: The Bangladesh Delta Plan

BE

Report: WGII

Definition: Belgium

BECCS

Report: WGII

Definition: Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage

BFV

Report: WGII

Definition: Barmah Forest Virus

BMPs

Report: WGII

Definition: Best Management Practices

BOM

Report: WGII

Definition: Bureau of Meteorology

BORDA

Report: WGII

Definition: Bremen Overseas Research & Development Association

BR

Report: WGII

Definition: Biennial Report

BRI

Report: WGII

Definition: Belt and Road Initiative

BRICS

Report: WGII

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

BTM

Report: WGII

Definition: Bhutanese Traditional Medicine

BVOC

Report: WGII

Definition: Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds

C

C&S

Report: WGII

Definition: Cities and Settlements

CA

Report: WGII

Definition: Conservation Agriculture

CAM

Report: WGII

Definition: Crassulacean Acid Metabolism

CBA

Report: WGII

Definition: Community-Based Adaptation / Commonwealth Bank of Australia

CBD

Report: WGII

Definition: Convention on Biological Diversity

CBO

Report: WGII

Definition: Community-Based Organisations

CBs

Report: WGII

Definition: Central Banks

CCA

Report: WGII

Definition: Climate-Change Adaptation

CCAFS

Report: WGII

Definition: Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

CCATWG

Report: WGII

Definition: Climate Change Adaptation Technical Working Group

CCC

Report: WGII

Definition: Climate Change Committee

CCD

Report: WGII

Definition: Climate Compatible Development

CCDMF

Report: WGII

Definition: China Clean Development Mechanism Fund

CCE

Report: WGII

Definition: Climate-Change Education

CCP

Report: WGII

Definition: Cross-Chapter Paper

CCRA

Report: WGII

Definition: Climate Change Response Act

CCRIF

Report: WGII

Definition: Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility

CCS

Report: WGII

Definition: Carbon Capture and Storage

CCT

Report: WGII

Definition: Cirrus Cloud Thinning

CCU

Report: WGII

Definition: Carbon Dioxide Capture and Utilisation

CDC

Report: WGII

Definition: Community Development Committees

CDD

Report: WGII

Definition: Consecutive Dry Days

CDEM

Report: WGII

Definition: Civil Defence & Emergency Management

CDKN

Report: WGII

Definition: Climate & Development Knowledge Network

CDM

Report: WGII

Definition: Clean Development Mechanism

CDMC

Report: WGII

Definition: Community Disaster Management Committees

CDR

Report: WGII

Definition: Carbon Dioxide Removal

CE

Report: WGII

Definition: Circular Economy

CEIC

Report: WGII

Definition: Census and Economic Information Center

CER

Report: WGII

Definition: Certified Emissions Reduction

CES

Report: WGII

Definition: Cultural Ecosystem Services / Circulating and Ecological Sphere

CFC

Report: WGII

Definition: Chlorofluorocarbon

CFM

Report: WGII

Definition: Community Forest Management

CFP

Report: WGII

Definition: Ciguatera Fish Poisoning

CFPP

Report: WGII

Definition: Coal-Fired Power Plant

CGE

Report: WGII

Definition: Computable General Equilibrium

CGIAR

Report: WGII

Definition: Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research

CGRA

Report: WGII

Definition: Coordinated Global and Regional Assessments

CH

Report: WGII

Definition: Switzerland

CHIKV

Report: WGII

Definition: Chikungunya Virus

CHL

Report: WGII

Definition: Chlorophyll a

CICES

Report: WGII

Definition: Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services

CID

Report: WGII

Definition: Climate-Impact Driver

CIS

Report: WGII

Definition: Climate Information Services

CLP

Report: WGII

Definition: Community Learning Platform

CMIP

Report: WGII

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project

CMIP3

Report: WGII

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 3

CMIP5

Report: WGII

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5

CMIP6

Report: WGII

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6

CMR

Report: WGII

Definition: Crude Mortality Rate

CMSI

Report: WGII

Definition: Climate Measurement Standards Initiative

CoA

Report: WGII

Definition: Commonwealth of Australia

COAG

Report: WGII

Definition: Council of Australian Governments

CODOHSAPA

Report: WGII

Definition: Centre for Dialogue on Human Settlement and Poverty Alleviation

COP

Report: WGII

Definition: Conference of the Parties

COP16

Report: WGII

Definition: 16th Session of the Conference of the Parties

COP19

Report: WGII

Definition: 19th Session of the Conference of the Parties

COP26

Report: WGII

Definition: 26th Session of the Conference of the Parties

COPD

Report: WGII

Definition: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

CORDEX

Report: WGII

Definition: Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment

COSSAO

Report: WGII

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

COVID-19

Report: WGII

Definition: Coronavirus Disease 2019

CPA

Report: WGII

Definition: Conservation Priority Areas

CPI

Report: WGII

Definition: Climate Policy Initiative / Climate Policy Integration

CRC

Report: WGII

Definition: Climate Resilient City

CRD

Report: WGII

Definition: Climate Resilient Development

CRDP

Report: WGII

Definition: Climate Resilient Development Pathway

CRFS

Report: WGII

Definition: City Region Food System

CRGE

Report: WGII

Definition: Climate Resilient Green Economy

CRIDA

Report: WGII

Definition: Climate Risk Informed Decision Analysis

CRM

Report: WGII

Definition: Climate Risk Management

CRO

Report: WGII

Definition: Chief Resilience Officer

CRS

Report: WGII

Definition: Climate Regime Shifts

CS

Report: WGII

Definition: Climate Services

CSA

Report: WGII

Definition: Central and South American / Climate-Smart Agriculture

CSF

Report: WGII

Definition: Climate-Smart Forestry

CSIRO

Report: WGII

Definition: Commonwealth Scientific Industrial and Research Organisation

CSOs

Report: WGII

Definition: Combined Sewer Overflows

CSR

Report: WGII

Definition: Climatically Suitable Region

CVD

Report: WGII

Definition: Cardiovascular Disease

CZ

Report: WGII

Definition: Czech Republic

D

DAC

Report: WGII

Definition: Development Assistance Committee

DACCS

Report: WGII

Definition: Direct Air Carbon Capture and Storage

DAE

Report: WGII

Definition: Direct Access Entities

DAI

Report: WGII

Definition: Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference

DALY

Report: WGII

Definition: Disability-Adjusted Life Year

DAPP

Report: WGII

Definition: Dynamic Adaptive Pathways Planning

DBH

Report: WGII

Definition: Diameter at Breast Height

DCCEE

Report: WGII

Definition: Department of Climate Change, Energy and Efficiency

DE

Report: WGII

Definition: Germany

DEA

Report: WGII

Definition: Data Envelopment Analysis

DEHP

Report: WGII

Definition: Department of Environment and Heritage Protection

DELWP

Report: WGII

Definition: Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning

DEM

Report: WGII

Definition: Digital Elevation Model

DENR

Report: WGII

Definition: Department of Environment and Natural Resources

DES

Report: WGII

Definition: Department of Environment and Science

DESA

Report: WGII

Definition: Department of Economic and Social Affairs

DFIs

Report: WGII

Definition: Development Finance Institutions

DGVMs

Report: WGII

Definition: Dynamic Global Vegetation Models

DHW

Report: WGII

Definition: Degree Heating Weeks

DINA

Report: WGII

Definition: Drought Impact and Needs Assessment

DISER

Report: WGII

Definition: Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources

DIY

Report: WGII

Definition: Do It Yourself

DMDU

Report: WGII

Definition: Decision-Making under Deep Uncertainty

DOC

Report: WGII

Definition: Dissolved Organic Carbon / Department of Conservation

DOM

Report: WGII

Definition: Dissolved Organic Matter

DRC

Report: WGII

Definition: Democratic Republic of Congo

DRFIP

Report: WGII

Definition: Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance Program

DRM

Report: WGII

Definition: Disaster Risk Management

DRR

Report: WGII

Definition: Disaster Risk Reduction

DSR

Report: WGII

Definition: Direct-Seeded Rice

E

E

Report: WGII

Definition: Exposure

EAD

Report: WGII

Definition: Expected Annual Damages

EAIS

Report: WGII

Definition: East Antarctic Ice Sheet

EbA

Report: WGII

Definition: Ecosystem-Based Adaptation

EBM

Report: WGII

Definition: Ecosystem-Based Management

EBS

Report: WGII

Definition: Eastern Bering Sea

EBSA

Report: WGII

Definition: Ecologically and Biologically Significant Areas

EBUS

Report: WGII

Definition: Eastern Boundary Upwelling System

EC

Report: WGII

Definition: End-Century

ECB

Report: WGII

Definition: European Central Bank

ECOSOC

Report: WGII

Definition: Economic and Social Council of the United Nations

ECS

Report: WGII

Definition: Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity

ECWL

Report: WGII

Definition: Extreme Coastal Water Level

EDCD

Report: WGII

Definition: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

EDRM

Report: WGII

Definition: Emergency and Disaster Risk Management

EEA

Report: WGII

Definition: European Environment Agency

EEU

Report: WGII

Definition: Eastern Europe

EEZ

Report: WGII

Definition: Exclusive Economic Zone

EFRs

Report: WGII

Definition: Environmental Flow Requirements

EIA

Report: WGII

Definition: Energy Information Administration

EKC

Report: WGII

Definition: Environmental Kuznets Curve

ENACTS

Report: WGII

Definition: East Africa and the West African Sahel

ENSO

Report: WGII

Definition: El Niño-Southern Oscillation

EP

Report: WGII

Definition: Environmental Peacebuilding

ES

Report: WGII

Definition: Expected Shortfall / Spain

ESA

Report: WGII

Definition: European Space Agency

ESA CCI

Report: WGII

Definition: European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative

ESAF

Report: WGII

Definition: East Southern Africa

ESCC

Report: WGII

Definition: Earth Systems and Climate Change

ESCI

Report: WGII

Definition: Electricity Sector Climate Information

ESD

Report: WGII

Definition: Education for Sustainable Development

ESL

Report: WGII

Definition: Extreme Sea Level

ESM

Report: WGII

Definition: Earth System Model

ESW

Report: WGII

Definition: Economic and Sector Work

ESWL

Report: WGII

Definition: Extreme Still Water Level

ET

Report: WGII

Definition: Evapotranspiration

ETC

Report: WGII

Definition: Extra-Tropical Cyclone

ETWL

Report: WGII

Definition: Extreme Total Water Level

EU

Report: WGII

Definition: European Union

EV

Report: WGII

Definition: Electric Vehicle

EW

Report: WGII

Definition: Enhanced Weathering

EWFD

Report: WGII

Definition: European Water Framework Directive

EWS

Report: WGII

Definition: Early Warning System

F

FACE

Report: WGII

Definition: Free-Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment

FAO

Report: WGII

Definition: Food and Agriculture Organization

FAQ

Report: WGII

Definition: Frequently Asked Questions

FAR

Report: WGII

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

FBD

Report: WGII

Definition: Food-Borne Disease

FEDURP

Report: WGII

Definition: Federation of the Urban and Rural Poor

FEMA

Report: WGII

Definition: Federal Emergency Management Agency

FEW

Report: WGII

Definition: Food–Energy–Water

FFDI

Report: WGII

Definition: Forest Fire Danger Index

Fish-MIP

Report: WGII

Definition: Fisheries and Marine Ecosystem Model Intercomparison Project

FLW

Report: WGII

Definition: Food Loss and Waste

FMU

Report: WGII

Definition: Forest Management Unit

FPIC

Report: WGII

Definition: Free Prior and Informed Consent

FR

Report: WGII

Definition: France

FSC

Report: WGII

Definition: Forest Stewardship Council

FW

Report: WGII

Definition: Fire Weather

FWL

Report: WGII

Definition: Freshwater Lens

FYROM

Report: WGII

Definition: North Macedonia

G

G20

Report: WGII

Definition: Group of Twenty

GAMI

Report: WGII

Definition: Global Adaptation Mapping Initiative

GAST

Report: WGII

Definition: Global Mean Surface Air Temperature

GBAM

Report: WGII

Definition: Ground-Based Albedo Modification

GBCA

Report: WGII

Definition: Green Building Council of Australia

GBP

Report: WGII

Definition: Great Britain Pound

GBR

Report: WGII

Definition: Great Barrier Reef

GBRMPA

Report: WGII

Definition: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

GCF

Report: WGII

Definition: Green Climate Fund

GCM

Report: WGII

Definition: General Circulation Model / Global Climate Model

GDD

Report: WGII

Definition: Growing Degree Days

GDE

Report: WGII

Definition: Groundwater-Dependent Ecosystem

GDP

Report: WGII

Definition: Gross Domestic Product

GEF

Report: WGII

Definition: Global Environment Facility

GHA

Report: WGII

Definition: Greater Horn of Africa

GHG

Report: WGII

Definition: Greenhouse Gas

GHM

Report: WGII

Definition: Global Hydrological Model

GI

Report: WGII

Definition: Gastrointestinal

GIS

Report: WGII

Definition: Geographic Information System

GLEON

Report: WGII

Definition: Global Lakes Ecological Observatory Network

GLOF

Report: WGII

Definition: Glacial Lake Outburst Flood

GM

Report: WGII

Definition: Genetically Modified / Global Monsoon

GMSL

Report: WGII

Definition: Global Mean Sea Level

GMSLR

Report: WGII

Definition: Global Mean Sea Level Rise

GMST

Report: WGII

Definition: Global Mean Surface Temperature

GMT

Report: WGII

Definition: Global Mean Temperature

GNDR

Report: WGII

Definition: Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction

GNH

Report: WGII

Definition: Gross National Happiness

GOA-ON

Report: WGII

Definition: Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network

GPCC

Report: WGII

Definition: Global Precipitation Climatology Centre

GPG

Report: WGII

Definition: Good Practice Guidance

GPP

Report: WGII

Definition: Gross Primary Production

GQL

Report: WGII

Definition: Good Quality of Life

GRACE

Report: WGII

Definition: Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment

GRDC

Report: WGII

Definition: Global Runoff Data Centre

GSAT

Report: WGII

Definition: Global Surface Air Temperature

GW

Report: WGII

Definition: Gigawatt

GWL

Report: WGII

Definition: Global Warming Level

GWP

Report: WGII

Definition: Global Warming Potential

GWR

Report: WGII

Definition: Geographically Weighted Regression

GWRC

Report: WGII

Definition: Greater Wellington Regional Council

GWSHP

Report: WGII

Definition: Groundwater-Source Heat Pumps

GWSI

Report: WGII

Definition: Global Water Security Index

H

H

Report: WGII

Definition: Hazard

HAB

Report: WGII

Definition: Harmful Algal Bloom

HadCM3

Report: WGII

Definition: Hadley Center Coupled Model

HAP

Report: WGII

Definition: Heat Action Plan

HCSA

Report: WGII

Definition: High Carbon Stock Areas

HCVA

Report: WGII

Definition: High Conservation Value Areas

HDD

Report: WGII

Definition: Heat Degree Days

HDI

Report: WGII

Definition: Human Development Index

HDSR

Report: WGII

Definition: Health and Disability System Review

HELP

Report: WGII

Definition: High Level Experts and Leaders Panel

HFC

Report: WGII

Definition: Hydrofluorocarbon

HFRS

Report: WGII

Definition: Haemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome

HIV

Report: WGII

Definition: Human Immunodeficiency Virus

HKH

Report: WGII

Definition: Hindu Kush Himalaya

HLD

Report: WGII

Definition: High Latitude Dust

HNPP

Report: WGII

Definition: Herbaceous Net Primary Productivity

HPLE

Report: WGII

Definition: High Level Panel of Experts

HRBA

Report: WGII

Definition: Human Rights-Based Approach

HVAC

Report: WGII

Definition: Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning

I

IAM

Report: WGII

Definition: Integrated Assessment Model

IAS

Report: WGII

Definition: Invasive Alien Species

IBAI

Report: WGII

Definition: Index-Based Agricultural Insurance

ICA

Report: WGII

Definition: Insurance Council of Australia

ICLEI

Report: WGII

Definition: Local Governments for Sustainability

ICM

Report: WGII

Definition: Integrated Coastal Management

ICNZ

Report: WGII

Definition: Insurance Council of New Zealand

ICRI

Report: WGII

Definition: International Coral Reef Initiative

ICT

Report: WGII

Definition: Information and Communications Technology

ICV

Report: WGII

Definition: Instituto Centro de Vida

ICZM

Report: WGII

Definition: Integrated Coastal Zone Management

ID

Report: WGII

Definition: Insufficient Data

IDF

Report: WGII

Definition: International Diabetes Foundation

IDMC

Report: WGII

Definition: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre

IDP

Report: WGII

Definition: Internally Displaced People

IEA

Report: WGII

Definition: International Energy Agency

IFPRI

Report: WGII

Definition: International Food Policy Research Institute

IGCC

Report: WGII

Definition: Investor Group on Climate Change

IHME

Report: WGII

Definition: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

IIED

Report: WGII

Definition: International Institute for Environment and Development

IISD

Report: WGII

Definition: International Institute for Sustainable Development

IK

Report: WGII

Definition: Indigenous Knowledge

IKLK

Report: WGII

Definition: Indigenous Knowledge and Local Knowledge

iLUC

Report: WGII

Definition: Indirect Land-Use Change

IMF

Report: WGII

Definition: International Monetary Fund

INDC

Report: WGII

Definition: Intended Nationally Determined Contributions

IOD

Report: WGII

Definition: Indian Ocean Dipole

IoT

Report: WGII

Definition: Internet of Things

IPBES

Report: WGII

Definition: Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

IPCC

Report: WGII

Definition: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

IPLC

Report: WGII

Definition: Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities

IPO

Report: WGII

Definition: Inter-Decadal Pacific Oscillation

IQR

Report: WGII

Definition: Interquartile Range

IRGC

Report: WGII

Definition: International Risk Governance Council

IS

Report: WGII

Definition: Ice Sheet

ISIMIP

Report: WGII

Definition: Inter-Sectoral Impacts Model Intercomparison Project

ISME

Report: WGII

Definition: International Society for Mangrove Ecosystems

ISO

Report: WGII

Definition: International Organization for Standardization

IT

Report: WGII

Definition: Italy

IUCN

Report: WGII

Definition: International Union for the Conservation of Nature

IUWN

Report: WGII

Definition: Integrated Urban Water Management

IVA

Report: WGII

Definition: Integrated Vulnerability Assessments

IWGIA

Report: WGII

Definition: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs

IWRM

Report: WGII

Definition: Integrated Water Resource Management

J

JRC

Report: WGII

Definition: Joint Research Centre

K

K1, K2, K3

Report: WGII

Definition: Mountain Delineations

KNOMAD

Report: WGII

Definition: Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development

KR

Report: WGII

Definition: Key Risk

L

L&D

Report: WGII

Definition: Losses and Damages

LAI

Report: WGII

Definition: Leaf Area Index

LCOE

Report: WGII

Definition: Levelised Costs of Electricity

LCP

Report: WGII

Definition: Local Community Perception

LC-PUFAs

Report: WGII

Definition: Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids

LDC

Report: WGII

Definition: Least Developed Countries

LDCF

Report: WGII

Definition: Least Developed Country Fund

LDN

Report: WGII

Definition: Land Degradation Neutrality

LECZ

Report: WGII

Definition: Low-Elevation Coastal Zone

LEDS

Report: WGII

Definition: Low Emission Development Strategies

LEED

Report: WGII

Definition: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design

LEED-ND

Report: WGII

Definition: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design–Neighbourhood Design

LGBTQI

Report: WGII

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

LGNZ

Report: WGII

Definition: Local Government of New Zealand

LI

Report: WGII

Definition: Lithuania

LIG

Report: WGII

Definition: Last Interglacial

LIMIC

Report: WGII

Definition: Low-Income and Medium-Income Countries

LK

Report: WGII

Definition: Local Knowledge

LMMA

Report: WGII

Definition: Locally Managed Marine Area

LSLA

Report: WGII

Definition: Large-Scale Land Acquisition

LTP

Report: WGII

Definition: Long-Term Plan

LU

Report: WGII

Definition: Luxembourg

LUC

Report: WGII

Definition: Land-Use Change

LULUC

Report: WGII

Definition: Land Use and Land-Use Change

LULUCF

Report: WGII

Definition: Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry

M

m w.e.

Report: WGII

Definition: Meter Water Equivalent

M&C

Report: WGII

Definition: Monitoring and Evaluation

m.a.s.l.

Report: WGII

Definition: Metres Above Sea Level

MAP

Report: WGII

Definition: Mediterranean Action Plan / Municipal Adaptation Plan

MAR

Report: WGII

Definition: Managed Aquifer Recharge

MBIE

Report: WGII

Definition: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

MC

Report: WGII

Definition: Mid-Century

MCB

Report: WGII

Definition: Marine Cloud Brightening

MCDA

Report: WGII

Definition: Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

MCP

Report: WGII

Definition: Maximum Catch Potential

MCPP

Report: WGII

Definition: Municipal Climate Protection Programme

MD

Report: WGII

Definition: Mega-Drought

MDB

Report: WGII

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

MDG

Report: WGII

Definition: Millennium Development Goal

MEA

Report: WGII

Definition: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

MEASO

Report: WGII

Definition: Marine Ecosystem Assessment for the Southern Ocean

MED

Report: WGII

Definition: Mediterranean

MEE

Report: WGII

Definition: Ministry of Ecology and Environment

MEFF

Report: WGII

Definition: Mediterranean Flood Fatalities Database

MeHg

Report: WGII

Definition: Methylmercury

MEL

Report: WGII

Definition: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

MENA

Report: WGII

Definition: Middle East and North Africa

MERI

Report: WGII

Definition: Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Improvement

MERS

Report: WGII

Definition: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome

MfE

Report: WGII

Definition: Ministry for the Environment

MFP

Report: WGII

Definition: Multistakeholder Forestry Programme

MGNREGA

Report: WGII

Definition: Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act

MHW

Report: WGII

Definition: Marine Heatwaves

MI

Report: WGII

Definition: Myocardial Infarction

MIPs

Report: WGII

Definition: Model Intercomparison Projects

MISI

Report: WGII

Definition: Marine Ice Sheet Instability

MMT

Report: WGII

Definition: Minimum Mortality Temperature

MODIS

Report: WGII

Definition: Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer

MPA

Report: WGII

Definition: Marine-Protected Area

MPI

Report: WGII

Definition: Multidimensional Poverty Index

MRV

Report: WGII

Definition: Monitoring, Reporting and Verification

MSFD

Report: WGII

Definition: Marine Strategy Framework Directive

MSL

Report: WGII

Definition: Mean Sea Level

MSP

Report: WGII

Definition: Marine Spatial Planning

MSRI

Report: WGII

Definition: Modified System of Rice Intensification

MSSD

Report: WGII

Definition: Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development

MSY

Report: WGII

Definition: Maximum Sustainable Yields

MTE

Report: WGII

Definition: Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems

N

NAF

Report: WGII

Definition: North Africa and Middle East

NAHS

Report: WGII

Definition: National Aboriginal Health Strategy

NAO

Report: WGII

Definition: North Atlantic Oscillation

NAP

Report: WGII

Definition: National Adaptation Plan

NAPA

Report: WGII

Definition: National Adaptation Programmes of Action

NAS

Report: WGII

Definition: National Adaptation Strategy

NBI

Report: WGII

Definition: Nile Basin Initiative

NbS

Report: WGII

Definition: Nature-Based Solutions

NCCARF

Report: WGII

Definition: National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility

NCCRS

Report: WGII

Definition: National Climate Change Response Strategy

NCD

Report: WGII

Definition: Non-Communicable Disease

NCEI

Report: WGII

Definition: National Centers for Environmental Information

NCP

Report: WGII

Definition: Nature's Contribution to People

NDC

Report: WGII

Definition: Nationally Determined Contributions

NDVI

Report: WGII

Definition: Normalised Difference Vegetation Index

NE

Report: WGII

Definition: Northeast

NELD

Report: WGII

Definition: Non-Economic Loss and Damage

NEP

Report: WGII

Definition: Net Ecosystem Production

NESP

Report: WGII

Definition: National Environmental Science Program

NEU

Report: WGII

Definition: Northern Europe

NEUS

Report: WGII

Definition: European Arctic Waters

NF

Report: WGII

Definition: Near Future

NFM

Report: WGII

Definition: Natural Flood Management

NGO

Report: WGII

Definition: Non-Governmental Organisation

NHS

Report: WGII

Definition: National Health Service

NIES

Report: WGII

Definition: National Institute for Environmental Studies

NIWA

Report: WGII

Definition: National Institute of Water and Air

NL

Report: WGII

Definition: Netherlands

NMHS

Report: WGII

Definition: National Meteorological and Hydrological Services

NPP

Report: WGII

Definition: Net Primary Production / Nuclear Power Plants

NSR

Report: WGII

Definition: Northern Sea Route

NSW

Report: WGII

Definition: New South Wales

NTDs

Report: WGII

Definition: Neglected Tropical Diseases

NTFPs

Report: WGII

Definition: Non-Timber Forest Products

NUA

Report: WGII

Definition: New Urban Agenda

NWP

Report: WGII

Definition: Northwest Passages

NWS

Report: WGII

Definition: Northwestern South America

NYCEDC

Report: WGII

Definition: New York City Economic Development Corporation

NZ

Report: WGII

Definition: New Zealand

NZCFSF

Report: WGII

Definition: New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Finance

O

OA

Report: WGII

Definition: Ocean Acidification

OAC

Report: WGII

Definition: Ocean Albedo Change

OCLTT

Report: WGII

Definition: Capacity-Limited Thermal Tolerance

ODA

Report: WGII

Definition: Official Development Assistance

OECD

Report: WGII

Definition: Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development

OECM

Report: WGII

Definition: Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures

OEH

Report: WGII

Definition: Office of Environment and Heritage

OHRLLS

Report: WGII

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

OMVS

Report: WGII

Definition: Senegal River Basin Organisation

OMZ

Report: WGII

Definition: Oxygen Minimum Zones

OSPAR

Report: WGII

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

OW

Report: WGII

Definition: The Office of Water

P

PA

Report: WGII

Definition: Partnership Agreement / Protected Area

PACJA

Report: WGII

Definition: Pan Africa Climate Justice Alliance

PAGCC

Report: WGII

Definition: Gender and Climate Change Action Plans

Pas

Report: WGII

Definition: Protected Areas

PCB

Report: WGII

Definition: Polychlorinated Biphenyl

PCE

Report: WGII

Definition: Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment

pCO2

Report: WGII

Definition: Partial Pressure of Carbon Dioxide

PDO

Report: WGII

Definition: Pacific Decadal Oscillation

PDRC

Report: WGII

Definition: People's Democratic Republic of Congo

PDS

Report: WGII

Definition: Public Distribution System

PDSI

Report: WGII

Definition: Palmer Drought Severity Index

PE

Report: WGII

Definition: Asked for Expansion

PEFC

Report: WGII

Definition: Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification

PES

Report: WGII

Definition: Payments for Ecosystem Services

PET

Report: WGII

Definition: Potential Evapotranspiration

PFC

Report: WGII

Definition: Perfluorocarbon

pH

Report: WGII

Definition: Potential of Hydrogen

PICSA

Report: WGII

Definition: Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture

PIDA

Report: WGII

Definition: African Union's Programme for Infrastructure Development

PIDACC

Report: WGII

Definition: Programmes for Integrated Development and Adaptation to Climate Change

PM

Report: WGII

Definition: Particulate Matter

POC

Report: WGII

Definition: Particulate Organic Carbon

POMS

Report: WGII

Definition: Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome

POP

Report: WGII

Definition: Persistent Organic Pollutant

PPADI

Report: WGII

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

PPB

Report: WGII

Definition: Participatory Plant Breeding

PPP

Report: WGII

Definition: Public–Private Partnerships / Purchasing Power Parity

PSI

Report: WGII

Definition: Principles for Sustainable Insurance

PSNP

Report: WGII

Definition: Productive Safety Net Programme

PTSD

Report: WGII

Definition: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

PWC

Report: WGII

Definition: Physical Work Capacity

PWLM

Report: WGII

Definition: Participatory Watershed Land-Use Management

Q

QFCI

Report: WGII

Definition: Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry

QFES

Report: WGII

Definition: Queensland Fire and Emergency Services

QOL

Report: WGII

Definition: Quality of Life

R

RAWES

Report: WGII

Definition: Rapid Assessment of Wetland Ecosystem Services

RBNZ

Report: WGII

Definition: Reserve Bank of New Zealand

RCM

Report: WGII

Definition: Regional Climate Model

RCP

Report: WGII

Definition: Representative Concentration Pathway

RCSA

Report: WGII

Definition: Rwanda Climate Services Programme

RDM

Report: WGII

Definition: Robust Decision-Making

RE

Report: WGII

Definition: Renewable Energy

REDD

Report: WGII

Definition: Reduction of Emissions From Deforestation and Forest Degradation

REGEN

Report: WGII

Definition: Rainfall Estimates on a Gridded Network

RFC

Report: WGII

Definition: Reason for Concern

RFMO

Report: WGII

Definition: Regional Fisheries Management Organisation

RIO

Report: WGII

Definition: Rational Impartial Observer

RIT

Report: WGII

Definition: Resilient Infrastructure and Technologies

RKR

Report: WGII

Definition: Representative Key Risk

RMB

Report: WGII

Definition: Renminbi

ROSES

Report: WGII

Definition: Reporting Standards for Systematic Evidence Syntheses

RRV

Report: WGII

Definition: Ross River Virus

RSL

Report: WGII

Definition: Relative Sea Level

RSLR

Report: WGII

Definition: Relative Sea-Level Rise

RTI

Report: WGII

Definition: Respiratory Tract Infection

RVF

Report: WGII

Definition: Rift Valley Fever

S

SAI

Report: WGII

Definition: Stratospheric Aerosol Intervention

SAIA

Report: WGII

Definition: South African Insurance Association

SAIIA

Report: WGII

Definition: South African Institute of International Affairs

SAM

Report: WGII

Definition: Southern Annular Mode / South American Monsoon

SAR

Report: WGII

Definition: Second Assessment Report

SARS

Report: WGII

Definition: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

SAS

Report: WGII

Definition: South Asia

SASSCAL

Report: WGII

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

SC

Report: WGII

Definition: Sponge City

SCC

Report: WGII

Definition: Social Cost of Carbon

SCE

Report: WGII

Definition: Snow Cover Extent

scPDSI

Report: WGII

Definition: Self-Calibrating Palmer Drought Severity Index

SD

Report: WGII

Definition: Sustainable Development

SDG

Report: WGII

Definition: Sustainable Development Goal

SDM

Report: WGII

Definition: Species Distribution Model

SDP

Report: WGII

Definition: Sustainable Development Pathway

SDS

Report: WGII

Definition: Sand and Dust Storms

SE

Report: WGII

Definition: Southeast

SEEA

Report: WGII

Definition: System of Environmental–Economic Accounting

SES

Report: WGII

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

SETS

Report: WGII

Definition: Social, Ecological and Technological Systems

SEU

Report: WGII

Definition: Southern Europe

SEUS

Report: WGII

Definition: Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea

SHELF

Report: WGII

Definition: Sheffield Elicitation Framework

SI

Report: WGII

Definition: Sustainable Intensification

SIDS

Report: WGII

Definition: Small Island Developing States

SITES

Report: WGII

Definition: Sustainable Sites Initiative

SL

Report: WGII

Definition: Slovenia

SLCF

Report: WGII

Definition: Short-Lived Climate Forcer

SLM

Report: WGII

Definition: Sustainable Land Management

SLR

Report: WGII

Definition: Sea Level Rise

SLURC

Report: WGII

Definition: Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre

SM

Report: WGII

Definition: Supplementary Material

SMART

Report: WGII

Definition: Stormwater Management and Road Tunnel

SME

Report: WGII

Definition: Small and Medium Enterprises

SNA

Report: WGII

Definition: System of National Accounts

SOC

Report: WGII

Definition: Soil Organic Carbon

SOI

Report: WGII

Definition: Southern Oscillation Index

SOM

Report: WGII

Definition: Soil Organic Matter

SP

Report: WGII

Definition: Social Protection

SPEI

Report: WGII

Definition: Standardised Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index

SPI

Report: WGII

Definition: Standardised Precipitation Index

SPM

Report: WGII

Definition: Summary for Policymakers

SPP

Report: WGII

Definition: State Planning Policy

SPV

Report: WGII

Definition: Special Purpose Vehicle

SR1.5

Report: WGII

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

SRA

Report: WGII

Definition: Social Responsibility Agreements

SRCCL

Report: WGII

Definition: Special Report on Climate Change and Land

SRES

Report: WGII

Definition: Special Report on Emissions Scenarios

SRM

Report: WGII

Definition: Solar Radiation Modification

SROCC

Report: WGII

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

SRTM

Report: WGII

Definition: Shuttle Radar Topography Mission

SSA

Report: WGII

Definition: South and Sub-Saharan Africa

SSP

Report: WGII

Definition: Shared Socioeconomic Pathways

SSR

Report: WGII

Definition: Seasonal Severity Rating

SST

Report: WGII

Definition: Sea Surface Temperature

STFM

Report: WGII

Definition: Sustainable Tropical Forest Management

STI

Report: WGII

Definition: Science, Technology and Innovation

SUDS

Report: WGII

Definition: Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems

SW

Report: WGII

Definition: Southwest

SWE

Report: WGII

Definition: Snow Water Equivalent

SWM

Report: WGII

Definition: Sustainable Water Management

SWP

Report: WGII

Definition: Soil Water Potential

T

TAR

Report: WGII

Definition: Third Assessment Report

TAV

Report: WGII

Definition: Tropical Atlantic Variability

TC

Report: WGII

Definition: Tropical Cyclone

TCFD

Report: WGII

Definition: Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures

TCs

Report: WGII

Definition: Tropical Cyclones

TEG CRM

Report: WGII

Definition: Technical Expert Group on Comprehensive Risk Management

TEU

Report: WGII

Definition: Twenty-Foot Container Equivalent Units

TEUS

Report: WGII

Definition: European Temperate Seas

T-FACE

Report: WGII

Definition: Temperature Free-Air Controlled Enhancement

TFP

Report: WGII

Definition: Total Factor Productivity

THI

Report: WGII

Definition: Temperature Humidity Index

TIA

Report: WGII

Definition: Tourism Industry Aotearoa

TIB

Report: WGII

Definition: Tibetan Plateau

TK

Report: WGII

Definition: Traditional Knowledge

TLAS

Report: WGII

Definition: Timber Legality Assurance System

TMNs

Report: WGII

Definition: Transnational Municipal Networks

TMSP

Report: WGII

Definition: Transboundary Marine Spatial Planning

TN

Report: WGII

Definition: Tropical Nights

TSR

Report: WGII

Definition: Transpolar Sea Route

TSRA

Report: WGII

Definition: Torres Strait Regional Authority

TSU

Report: WGII

Definition: Technical Support Unit

TURFs

Report: WGII

Definition: Territorial Use Rights for Fishing

TWS

Report: WGII

Definition: Terrestrial Water Storage

TWS-DSI

Report: WGII

Definition: Terrestrial Water Storage-Drought Severity Index

TWWHA

Report: WGII

Definition: Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area

U

UA

Report: WGII

Definition: Urban Agriculture

UCDP

Report: WGII

Definition: Uppsala Conflict Data Program

UCLG

Report: WGII

Definition: United Cities and Local Governments

UHC

Report: WGII

Definition: Universal Health Coverage

UHI

Report: WGII

Definition: Urban Heat Island

UN

Report: WGII

Definition: United Nations

UNCCD

Report: WGII

Definition: United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification

UNDP

Report: WGII

Definition: United Nations Development Programme

UNEP

Report: WGII

Definition: United Nations Environment Programme

UNESCO

Report: WGII

Definition: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

UNFCCC

Report: WGII

Definition: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

UNHCR

Report: WGII

Definition: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee

UNICEF

Report: WGII

Definition: United Nations Children's Fund

UPA

Report: WGII

Definition: Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture

USAID

Report: WGII

Definition: United States Agency for International Development

USD

Report: WGII

Definition: United States Dollars

USGS

Report: WGII

Definition: United States Geological Survey

V

V

Report: WGII

Definition: Vulnerability

VaR

Report: WGII

Definition: Value at Risk

VBD

Report: WGII

Definition: Vector-Borne Disease

VF

Report: WGII

Definition: Vertical Farming

VOC

Report: WGII

Definition: Volatile Organic Compound

VoCC

Report: WGII

Definition: Velocity of Climate Change

VOD

Report: WGII

Definition: Vegetation Optical Depth

VPA

Report: WGII

Definition: Voluntary Partnership Agreements

VPD

Report: WGII

Definition: Vapour Pressure Deficit

VRES

Report: WGII

Definition: Variable Renewable Energies

W

W

Report: WGII

Definition: Western

WAIS

Report: WGII

Definition: West Antarctic Ice Sheet

WASCAL

Report: WGII

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

WASH

Report: WGII

Definition: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

WBD

Report: WGII

Definition: Waterborne Disease

WCA

Report: WGII

Definition: West Central Asia

WCE

Report: WGII

Definition: Western Central Europe

WCRP

Report: WGII

Definition: World Climate Research Programme

WEF

Report: WGII

Definition: Water–Energy–Food / World Economic Forum

WEMA

Report: WGII

Definition: Water Efficient Maize for Africa

WEU

Report: WGII

Definition: Western Europe

WGI

Report: WGII

Definition: Working Group I

WGII

Report: WGII

Definition: Working Group II

WGIII

Report: WGII

Definition: Working Group III

WGWDGD

Report: WGII

Definition: Wet Get Wetter, Dry Get Drier

WHO

Report: WGII

Definition: World Health Organization

WIM

Report: WGII

Definition: Warsaw International Mechanism

WMO

Report: WGII

Definition: World Meteorological Organization

WNF

Report: WGII

Definition: West Nile Fever

WSAA

Report: WGII

Definition: Water Services Association of Australia

WSAF

Report: WGII

Definition: West Southern Africa

WSI

Report: WGII

Definition: Water Scarcity Index

WSUD

Report: WGII

Definition: Water Sensitive Urban Design

WTTC

Report: WGII

Definition: World Travel & Tourism Council

WTU

Report: WGII

Definition: Water Treatment Unit

WUE

Report: WGII

Definition: Water-Use Efficiency

WUI

Report: WGII

Definition: Wildland–Urban Interface

WWF

Report: WGII

Definition: World Wildlife Fund

Y

YCS

Report: WGII

Definition: Yield Constraint Score

YLD

Report: WGII

Definition: Years of Life Lived with Disability

YLL

Report: WGII

Definition: Years of Life Lost

A

A/R

Report: WGIII

Definition: afforestation/reforestation

AB

Report: WGIII

Definition: Assembly Bill

AC

Report: WGIII

Definition: alternating current

ACCTS

Report: WGIII

Definition: Agreement on Climate Change, Trade and Sustainability

ACF

Report: WGIII

Definition: areal carbon footprint

ADEME

Report: WGIII

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

AF

Report: WGIII

Definition: Adaptation Fund

AFR

Report: WGIII

Definition: Africa

AFD

Report: WGIII

Definition: French Development Agency

AFOLU

Report: WGIII

Definition: agriculture, forestry and other land use

AGAGE

Report: WGIII

Definition: Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment

AI

Report: WGIII

Definition: artificial intelligence

AILAC

Report: WGIII

Definition: Association of the Latin American and Caribbean Countries

ALBA

Report: WGIII

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

ALCA

Report: WGIII

Definition: Attributional Life Cycle Assessment

AM

Report: WGIII

Definition: additive manufacturing

APEC

Report: WGIII

Definition: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation

AR4

Report: WGIII

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

AR5

Report: WGIII

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

AR6

Report: WGIII

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

AR7

Report: WGIII

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

ARC

Report: WGIII

Definition: African Risk Capacity

ARPA-E

Report: WGIII

Definition: Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy

ART

Report: WGIII

Definition: Architecture for REDD+ Transactions

Art.

Report: WGIII

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

ASAP

Report: WGIII

Definition: Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme

ASCM

Report: WGIII

Definition: Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures

ASI

Report: WGIII

Definition: Avoid-Shift-Improve

ASK

Report: WGIII

Definition: available seat kilometres

AUM

Report: WGIII

Definition: assets under management

B

BASIC

Report: WGIII

Definition: Brazil, South Africa, India and China

BAT

Report: WGIII

Definition: best available technology

BAU

Report: WGIII

Definition: business as usual

BC

Report: WGIII

Definition: black carbon

BCA

Report: WGIII

Definition: border carbon adjustment

BECCS

Report: WGIII

Definition: bioenergy with carbon capture and storage

BEES

Report: WGIII

Definition: building energy efficiency standards

BEMS

Report: WGIII

Definition: building energy management systems

BEV

Report: WGIII

Definition: battery electric vehicle

BF-BOF

Report: WGIII

Definition: blast furnace-basic oxygen furnace

BIM

Report: WGIII

Definition: Building Information Modelling

BIPV

Report: WGIII

Definition: building-integrated photovoltaic

BLUE

Report: WGIII

Definition: Bookkeeping of land-use emissions

BR

Report: WGIII

Definition: biennial report

BRI

Report: WGIII

Definition: Belt and Road Initiative

BRT

Report: WGIII

Definition: bus rapid transport

BTR

Report: WGIII

Definition: biennial transparency report

BTU

Report: WGIII

Definition: British thermal units

BUR

Report: WGIII

Definition: biennial update report

C

CA

Report: WGIII

Definition: capability approach

CAT

Report: WGIII

Definition: Climate Action Tracker

CAGR

Report: WGIII

Definition: compound annual growth rate

CAIT

Report: WGIII

Definition: Climate Analysis Indicators Tool

CAPEX

Report: WGIII

Definition: capital expenditure

CAR

Report: WGIII

Definition: Climate Action Reserve

CBA

Report: WGIII

Definition: cost-benefit analysis

CBAM

Report: WGIII

Definition: carbon border adjustment mechanism

CBCF

Report: WGIII

Definition: consumption-based carbon footprint (accounting)

CBD

Report: WGIII

Definition: Convention on Biological Diversity

CBDRRC

Report: WGIII

Definition: common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities

CBEs

Report: WGIII

Definition: consumption-based emissions

CCAC

Report: WGIII

Definition: Climate and Clean Air Coalition

CCD

Report: WGIII

Definition: climate-compatible development

CCPI

Report: WGIII

Definition: Climate Change Performance Index

CCRIF

Report: WGIII

Definition: Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility

CCS

Report: WGIII

Definition: carbon capture and storage

CCT

Report: WGIII

Definition: cirrus cloud thinning

CCU

Report: WGIII

Definition: carbon capture and utilisation

CCUS

Report: WGIII

Definition: carbon capture, use and storage

CCX

Report: WGIII

Definition: Chicago Climate Exchange

CD

Report: WGIII

Definition: charge depleting

CDD

Report: WGIII

Definition: cooling degree-days

CDIAC

Report: WGIII

Definition: Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center

CDM

Report: WGIII

Definition: Clean Development Mechanism

CDR

Report: WGIII

Definition: carbon dioxide removal

CE

Report: WGIII

Definition: circular economy

CEA

Report: WGIII

Definition: cost-effectiveness analysis

CEDS

Report: WGIII

Definition: Community Emissions Data System

CETA

Report: WGIII

Definition: EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement

CFCs

Report: WGIII

Definition: chlorofluorocarbons

CfD

Report: WGIII

Definition: contract for difference

CFL

Report: WGIII

Definition: compact fluorescent lamp [/lighting]

CGE

Report: WGIII

Definition: Computable General Equilibrium

CGTP

Report: WGIII

Definition: combined global temperature change potential

CH4

Report: WGIII

Definition: methane

CHP

Report: WGIII

Definition: combined heat and power

CII

Report: WGIII

Definition: Carbon Intensity Indicator

CLASP

Report: WGIII

Definition: Collaborative Labelling and Appliance Standards Program

CLC

Report: WGIII

Definition: constant land cover

CLCA

Report: WGIII

Definition: Consequential Life Cycle Assessment

CLIMI

Report: WGIII

Definition: Climate Laws, Institutions and Measures Index

CLRTAP

Report: WGIII

Definition: Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution

CLT

Report: WGIII

Definition: cross-laminated timber

CMA

Report: WGIII

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

CMIP6

Report: WGIII

Definition: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6

CNG

Report: WGIII

Definition: compressed natural gas

CO

Report: WGIII

Definition: carbon monoxide

CO2

Report: WGIII

Definition: carbon dioxide

CO2-eq

Report: WGIII

Definition: carbon dioxide equivalent

COMMIT

Report: WGIII

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

CoP

Report: WGIII

Definition: coefficient of performance

COP

Report: WGIII

Definition: Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC

CORSIA

Report: WGIII

Definition: Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation

CPRS

Report: WGIII

Definition: Climate Policy Relevant Sectors

CPTPP

Report: WGIII

Definition: Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership

CRD

Report: WGIII

Definition: climate-resilient development

CREMAs

Report: WGIII

Definition: Community Resource Management Area Mechanisms (Ghana)

CRF

Report: WGIII

Definition: common reporting format

CRIBs

Report: WGIII

Definition: Climate Relevant Innovation-system Builders

CS

Report: WGIII

Definition: charge sustaining

CSC

Report: WGIII

Definition: climate-smart cocoa

CSI

Report: WGIII

Definition: Cement Sustainability Initiative

CSP

Report: WGIII

Definition: concentrating solar power

CSR

Report: WGIII

Definition: corporate social responsibility

CSSP

Report: WGIII

Definition: cross-sector social partnership

CTCN

Report: WGIII

Definition: Climate Technology Centre and Network

CurPol

Report: WGIII

Definition: Current Policies scenario

D

DAC

Report: WGIII

Definition: direct air capture

DACCS

Report: WGIII

Definition: direct air carbon capture and storage

DACCU

Report: WGIII

Definition: direct air capture carbon and utilisation

DALY

Report: WGIII

Definition: disability adjusted life year

DBH

Report: WGIII

Definition: diameter at breast height

DC

Report: WGIII

Definition: direct current

DGVM

Report: WGIII

Definition: dynamic global vegetation model

DLS

Report: WGIII

Definition: decent living standards

DRI

Report: WGIII

Definition: direct reduced iron

DSM

Report: WGIII

Definition: demand-side management

DWM

Report: WGIII

Definition: down woody material

E

EaaS

Report: WGIII

Definition: energy as a service

EAF

Report: WGIII

Definition: electric arc furnace

EBEs

Report: WGIII

Definition: extraction-based emissions

EDGAR

Report: WGIII

Definition: Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research

EDLC

Report: WGIII

Definition: electrochemical double layer capacitor

EEA

Report: WGIII

Definition: Eastern Europe and West Central Asia

EED

Report: WGIII

Definition: Energy Efficiency Directive

EEDI

Report: WGIII

Definition: Energy Efficiency Design Index

EEE

Report: WGIII

Definition: emissions embodied in exports

EEI

Report: WGIII

Definition: emissions embodied in imports

EEM

Report: WGIII

Definition: Energy Efficient Mortgage

EES

Report: WGIII

Definition: electrical energy storage

EET

Report: WGIII

Definition: emissions embodied in trade

EEXI

Report: WGIII

Definition: Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index

EF

Report: WGIII

Definition: emission factor

EGR

Report: WGIII

Definition: exhaust gas recirculation

EGTT

Report: WGIII

Definition: Expert Group on Technology Transfer

EIMs

Report: WGIII

Definition: Energy Improvement Mortgages

EIP

Report: WGIII

Definition: energy and industrial processes

EJ

Report: WGIII

Definition: exajoule

ELUC

Report: WGIII

Definition: land-use change emissions

EMAS

Report: WGIII

Definition: Eco-Management and Auditing Scheme

EPD

Report: WGIII

Definition: Environmental Product Declaration

EPBD

Report: WGIII

Definition: Energy Performance Buildings Directive

EPCs

Report: WGIII

Definition: Energy Performance Certificates

EPS

Report: WGIII

Definition: Emissions Performance Standard

EPR

Report: WGIII

Definition: extended producer responsibility

ERF

Report: WGIII

Definition: effective radiative forcing

ERIA

Report: WGIII

Definition: Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia

ES-FiT

Report: WGIII

Definition: Energy Savings Feed-in Tariff

ESCO

Report: WGIII

Definition: Energy Service Company

ESA

Report: WGIII

Definition: energy services agreement

ESD

Report: WGIII

Definition: education for sustainable development

ESG

Report: WGIII

Definition: environmental, social and governance

ESM

Report: WGIII

Definition: energy systems model

ETP

Report: WGIII

Definition: Energy Technology Perspectives (IEA report)

ETS

Report: WGIII

Definition: Emissions Trading System

EU

Report: WGIII

Definition: European Union

EU-27

Report: WGIII

Definition: European Union member states [excluding UK]

EU-28

Report: WGIII

Definition: European Union member states [including UK]

EU ETS

Report: WGIII

Definition: European Union Emissions Trading Scheme

EU-RED

Report: WGIII

Definition: EU Renewable Energy Directive

EV

Report: WGIII

Definition: electric vehicle

EW

Report: WGIII

Definition: enhanced weathering

F

FaIR

Report: WGIII

Definition: Finite Amplitude Impulse Response

FAQ

Report: WGIII

Definition: frequently asked question

FAO

Report: WGIII

Definition: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

FBDG

Report: WGIII

Definition: food-based dietary guidelines

FCDO

Report: WGIII

Definition: UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

FCV

Report: WGIII

Definition: fuel cell vehicle

FDI

Report: WGIII

Definition: Foreign Direct Investment

FFI

Report: WGIII

Definition: fossil fuel and industry

F-gas

Report: WGIII

Definition: fluorinated gas

FIC

Report: WGIII

Definition: Faster Innovation Case

FiT

Report: WGIII

Definition: feed-in tariff

FiTP

Report: WGIII

Definition: feed-in premium

FLEGT

Report: WGIII

Definition: Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade

FLW

Report: WGIII

Definition: food loss and waste

FRAND

Report: WGIII

Definition: fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory

FSC

Report: WGIII

Definition: Forest Sustainability Council

FT

Report: WGIII

Definition: Fischer-Tropsch

FTA

Report: WGIII

Definition: free trade agreement

FWM

Report: WGIII

Definition: fine woody material

G

GATS

Report: WGIII

Definition: General Agreement on Trade in Services

GATT

Report: WGIII

Definition: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

GBAM

Report: WGIII

Definition: ground-based albedo modifications

GCAM

Report: WGIII

Definition: Global Change Assessment Model

GCCA

Report: WGIII

Definition: Global Cement and Concrete Association

GCF

Report: WGIII

Definition: Green Climate Fund

GCoM

Report: WGIII

Definition: Global Covenant of Mayors

GCP

Report: WGIII

Definition: Global Carbon Project

GDP

Report: WGIII

Definition: gross domestic product

GEA

Report: WGIII

Definition: Global Energy Assessment

GEF

Report: WGIII

Definition: Global Environment Facility

GFBI

Report: WGIII

Definition: Global Forest Biodiversity Initiative

GFCA

Report: WGIII

Definition: Global Framework for Climate Action

GFCF

Report: WGIII

Definition: Gross-fixed capital formation

GFED

Report: WGIII

Definition: Global Fire Emissions Database

GHG

Report: WGIII

Definition: greenhouse gas

GIS

Report: WGIII

Definition: geographic information system / global innovation system

GIZ

Report: WGIII

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

GJ

Report: WGIII

Definition: gigajoule

GMF

Report: WGIII

Definition: Global Methane Fund

GMI

Report: WGIII

Definition: Global Methane Initiative

GMRIO

Report: WGIII

Definition: global multi-region input-output

GNI

Report: WGIII

Definition: gross national income

GPP

Report: WGIII

Definition: Green Public Procurement

GPT

Report: WGIII

Definition: general-purpose technologies

GSAT

Report: WGIII

Definition: Global Surface Air Temperature

Gt

Report: WGIII

Definition: gigatonne

GtCO2-eq

Report: WGIII

Definition: gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent

GTEM

Report: WGIII

Definition: global transport energy sectoral models

GTP

Report: WGIII

Definition: global temperature change potential

GWP

Report: WGIII

Definition: global warming potential

GWP100

Report: WGIII

Definition: 100-year global warming potential

H

HAP

Report: WGIII

Definition: household air pollution

HCE

Report: WGIII

Definition: historical cumulative emission

HCFCs

Report: WGIII

Definition: hydrochlorofluorocarbons

HCS

Report: WGIII

Definition: High Carbon Stock

HDI

Report: WGIII

Definition: Human Development Index

H-DRI

Report: WGIII

Definition: Hydrogen-based direct reduced iron

HDV

Report: WGIII

Definition: Heavy-duty vehicles

HEMS

Report: WGIII

Definition: home energy management system

HES

Report: WGIII

Definition: Hybrid energy storage

HEV

Report: WGIII

Definition: hybrid electric vehicle

HFC

Report: WGIII

Definition: hydrofluorocarbon

HFCV

Report: WGIII

Definition: hydrogen fuel cell vehicle

HIHD

Report: WGIII

Definition: Historical Index of Human Development

HLPF

Report: WGIII

Definition: High-Level Political Forum

HN

Report: WGIII

Definition: Houghton and Nassikas

HSR

Report: WGIII

Definition: high-speed rail

HVAC

Report: WGIII

Definition: heating, ventilation and air conditioning

HVO

Report: WGIII

Definition: hydrotreated vegetable oil

HYDE

Report: WGIII

Definition: History database of the Global Environment

I

IAGA

Report: WGIII

Definition: International Air Transport Association

IAM

Report: WGIII

Definition: integrated assessment model

IBE

Report: WGIII

Definition: income-based emission accounting

ICAO

Report: WGIII

Definition: International Civil Aviation Organization

ICCT

Report: WGIII

Definition: International Council on Clean Transportation

ICE

Report: WGIII

Definition: internal combustion engine

ICEV

Report: WGIII

Definition: internal combustion engine vehicles

ICI

Report: WGIII

Definition: international cooperative initiative

ICJ

Report: WGIII

Definition: International Court of Justice

ICT

Report: WGIII

Definition: information and communication technology

IDDRI

Report: WGIII

Definition: Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations

IEA

Report: WGIII

Definition: International Energy Agency

IFC

Report: WGIII

Definition: International Finance Corporation

IFDD

Report: WGIII

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

IFI

Report: WGIII

Definition: international financial institution

IGCC

Report: WGIII

Definition: International Green Construction Code

IIASA

Report: WGIII

Definition: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

IIGCC

Report: WGIII

Definition: Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change

IIoT

Report: WGIII

Definition: industrial internet of things

ILB

Report: WGIII

Definition: incandescent light bulb

ILM

Report: WGIII

Definition: intrusive load monitoring

IMF

Report: WGIII

Definition: International Monetary Fund

IMO

Report: WGIII

Definition: International Maritime Organization

IMP

Report: WGIII

Definition: Illustrative Mitigation Pathway

IMP-GS

Report: WGIII

Definition: Illustrative Mitigation Pathway – Gradual Strengthening

IMP-LD

Report: WGIII

Definition: Illustrative Mitigation Pathway – Low Demand

IMP-Neg

Report: WGIII

Definition: Illustrative Mitigation Pathway – Net Negative Emissions

IMP-Ren

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Definition: Illustrative Mitigation Pathway – Renewable Electricity

IMP-SP

Report: WGIII

Definition: Illustrative Mitigation Pathway – Shifting Pathways

INDC

Report: WGIII

Definition: Intended Nationally Determined Contributions

IoT

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Definition: internet of things

IPBES

Report: WGIII

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

IPCC

Report: WGIII

Definition: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

IP

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Definition: Illustrative Pathway

IPP

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Definition: independent power producers

IPPU

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Definition: Industrial processes and product use

IPR

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Definition: intellectual property rights

IRENA

Report: WGIII

Definition: International Renewable Energy Agency

IRP

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Definition: UN International Resource Panel

ISDS

Report: WGIII

Definition: investor–state dispute settlement

ITF

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Definition: International Transport Forum

ITMO

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Definition: internationally transferred mitigation outcome

ITUC

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Definition: International Trade Union Confederation

J

JICA

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Definition: Japanese International Cooperation Agency

JRC

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

K

KR

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Definition: key risks

kWh

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Definition: kilowatt hour

L

LAM

Report: WGIII

Definition: Latin America and the Caribbean

LCA

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Definition: life cycle assessment or life cycle analysis

LCC

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Definition: lifecycle costs

LCCE

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Definition: levelised cost of conserved energy

LCCC

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Definition: levelised cost of conserved carbon

LCOE

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Definition: levelised cost of electricity or levelised cost of energy

LCS

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Definition: low-carbon society

LDCs

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Definition: Least-Developed Countries

LDCF

Report: WGIII

Definition: Least Developed Countries Fund

LDN

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Definition: Land Degradation Neutrality

LDV

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Definition: light-duty vehicle

LEAF

Report: WGIII

Definition: Lowering Emissions by Accelerating Forest Finance

LED

Report: WGIII

Definition: light-emitting diode

LED scenario

Report: WGIII

Definition: Low Energy Demand scenario

LEDS

Report: WGIII

Definition: low-emissions development strategies

LIB

Report: WGIII

Definition: lithium-ion battery

LiRE

Report: WGIII

Definition: IMAGE-Lifestyle-Renewable (IEA scenario)

LNG

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Definition: liquefied natural gas

LPG

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Definition: liquefied petroleum gas

LTGG

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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)

LTO

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Definition: long-term operation

LULUCF

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Definition: land use, land-use change and forestry

LUM

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Definition: land-use model

M

MA

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Definition: Mitigation Alliance

MaaS

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Definition: Mobility as a Service

MAC

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Definition: marginal abatement cost

MACC

Report: WGIII

Definition: marginal abatement cost curve

MAPS

Report: WGIII

Definition: Mitigation Action Plans and Scenarios

mbpd

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Definition: million barrels per day

MCB

Report: WGIII

Definition: marine cloud brightening

MDB

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Definition: multilateral development bank

ME

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Definition: material efficiency

MES

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Definition: material efficiency scenario

MEA

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Definition: multilateral environmental agreement

MEPC

Report: WGIII

Definition: Marine Environment Protection Committee

MEPSs

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Definition: Minimum Energy Performance Standards

Mha

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Definition: million hectares

MIGA

Report: WGIII

Definition: Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency

MIS

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Definition: mission-oriented innovation systems

MJ

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Definition: megajoule

Mkm2

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Definition: million square kilometres

MLP

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Definition: multi-level perspective

ModAct

Report: WGIII

Definition: Moderate Action scenario

MOE

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Definition: molten oxide electrolysis

MOOC

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Definition: massive open online course

MPa

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Definition: megapascal

MRV

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

MS

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Definition: member state

MSME

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Definition: micro, small and medium enterprises

Mt

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Definition: megatonne

MTA

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Definition: methanol-to-aromatics

MTO

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Definition: methanol-to-olefins

MWh

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Definition: megawatt hour

N

N2O

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Definition: nitrous oxide

NAFTA

Report: WGIII

Definition: North American Free Trade Agreement

NAMA

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Definition: Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions

NAP

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Definition: national adaptation plan

NAZCA

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Definition: Non-State Actor Zone for Climate Action

NBS

Report: WGIII

Definition: nature-based solutions

NDC

Report: WGIII

Definition: Nationally Determined Contribution

NEDO

Report: WGIII

Definition: New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organisation, Japan

NELD

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Definition: non-economic loss and damage

NF3

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Definition: nitrogen trifluoride

NGFS

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Definition: Network for Greening the Financial System

NGHGI

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Definition: national greenhouse gas inventories

NGO

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Definition: non-governmental organisation

NiCD

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Definition: nickel–cadmium

NILM

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Definition: non-intrusive load monitoring

Nimby

Report: WGIII

Definition: Not in my back yard

NiMH

Report: WGIII

Definition: nickel-metal hydride

NIS

Report: WGIII

Definition: national innovation system

NMVOC

Report: WGIII

Definition: non-methane volatile organic compounds

NOAA

Report: WGIII

Definition: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NRG

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Definition: natural regrowth

NR

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Definition: Non-Residential

NSA

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Definition: non-state actor

NTEM

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Definition: national transport-energy models

NT

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Definition: Non-technological

NZE

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Definition: net zero emissions

NZE scenario

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

NZEB

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Definition: net zero energy building

nZEB

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Definition: nearly zero energy building

NSTT

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Definition: North–South technology transfer and cooperation

NUA

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Definition: New Urban Agenda

NYDF

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Definition: New York Declaration on Forests

O

OA

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Definition: ocean alkalinity

OAC

Report: WGIII

Definition: ocean albedo change

OAE

Report: WGIII

Definition: ocean alkalinity enhancement

ODA

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Definition: overseas development assistance

ODS

Report: WGIII

Definition: ozone-depleting substance

OECD

Report: WGIII

Definition: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

OF

Report: WGIII

Definition: ocean fertilisation

OPEC

Report: WGIII

Definition: Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

OPEX

Report: WGIII

Definition: operating and maintenance expenditures

OS

Report: WGIII

Definition: overshoot

OSS

Report: WGIII

Definition: one-stop shop

P

P2P

Report: WGIII

Definition: peer-to-peer

PA

Report: WGIII

Definition: The Paris Agreement

PACE

Report: WGIII

Definition: Property Assessed Clean Energy

PBEs

Report: WGIII

Definition: production-based emissions

PCCB

Report: WGIII

Definition: Paris Committee on Capacity-building

PCF

Report: WGIII

Definition: personal carbon footprint

PCRAFI

Report: WGIII

Definition: Pacific Catastrophe Risk Assessment and Financing Initiative

PDB

Report: WGIII

Definition: public development bank

PEFC

Report: WGIII

Definition: Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification

PEMFC

Report: WGIII

Definition: proton-exchange membrane fuel cells

PES

Report: WGIII

Definition: payment for ecosystem services

PFCs

Report: WGIII

Definition: perfluorocarbons

PHEV

Report: WGIII

Definition: plug-in hybrid electric vehicle

pkm

Report: WGIII

Definition: passenger-kilometres

PM

Report: WGIII

Definition: particulate matter

PPA

Report: WGIII

Definition: Power Purchase Agreement

PPCA

Report: WGIII

Definition: Powering Past Coal Alliance

PPCR

Report: WGIII

Definition: Pilot Program for Climate Resilience

PPI

Report: WGIII

Definition: pulp and paper industry

PPP

Report: WGIII

Definition: public-private partnership / purchasing power parity

PRI

Report: WGIII

Definition: Principles for Responsible Investment

PV

Report: WGIII

Definition: photovoltaic

Q

QE

Report: WGIII

Definition: quantitative easing

R

R&D

Report: WGIII

Definition: research and development

RCEP

Report: WGIII

Definition: Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership

RCM

Report: WGIII

Definition: reduced complexity model

RCP

Report: WGIII

Definition: Representative Concentration Pathway

RD&D

Report: WGIII

Definition: research, development and demonstration

RDI

Report: WGIII

Definition: Research, Development and Innovation

RECC

Report: WGIII

Definition: Resource Efficiency and Climate Change

RECC-LED

Report: WGIII

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

REDD+

Report: WGIII

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

REEs

Report: WGIII

Definition: rare earth elements

ReSOLVE

Report: WGIII

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

RGGI

Report: WGIII

Definition: Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

RIMAP

Report: WGIII

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

RIS

Report: WGIII

Definition: regional innovation systems

RKR

Report: WGIII

Definition: Representative Key Risks

RPK

Report: WGIII

Definition: revenue passenger-kilometres

RSD

Report: WGIII

Definition: relative standard deviation

RSPO

Report: WGIII

Definition: Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil

RTS

Report: WGIII

Definition: Reference Technology Scenario

S

S&L

Report: WGIII

Definition: standards and labelling

SAF

Report: WGIII

Definition: sustainable aviation fuel

SAI

Report: WGIII

Definition: stratospheric aerosol interventions

SAM

Report: WGIII

Definition: Social Accounting Matrix

SAR

Report: WGIII

Definition: Second Assessment Report

SARPs

Report: WGIII

Definition: Standards and Recommended Practices

SASB

Report: WGIII

Definition: Sustainability Accounting Standards Board

SBSTA

Report: WGIII

Definition: Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice

SBT

Report: WGIII

Definition: science-based target

SCC

Report: WGIII

Definition: social cost of carbon

SCCF

Report: WGIII

Definition: Special Climate Change Fund

SCS

Report: WGIII

Definition: soil carbon sequestration

SDG

Report: WGIII

Definition: Sustainable Development Goal

SDPS

Report: WGIII

Definition: shifting development pathways to increased sustainability

SDR

Report: WGIII

Definition: Special Drawing Rights

SDS

Report: WGIII

Definition: Sustainable Development Scenario (IEA scenario)

SDSN

Report: WGIII

Definition: Sustainable Development Solutions Network

SE

Report: WGIII

Definition: sustainable entrepreneur

SEA

Report: WGIII

Definition: strategic environmental assessment

SEADRIF

Report: WGIII

Definition: South East Asian Disaster Risk Insurance Facility

SEC

Report: WGIII

Definition: specific energy consumption

SECA

Report: WGIII

Definition: sulphur emission control area

SEEMP

Report: WGIII

Definition: Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan

SEM

Report: WGIII

Definition: structural equations modelling

SER

Report: WGIII

Definition: Sufficiency, Efficiency, Renewal

SETAC

Report: WGIII

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

SF6

Report: WGIII

Definition: sulphur hexafluoride

SI

Report: WGIII

Definition: sustainable intensification

SIDS

Report: WGIII

Definition: Small Island Developing States

SIS

Report: WGIII

Definition: sectoral innovation system

SLCF

Report: WGIII

Definition: short-lived climate forcer

SLCP

Report: WGIII

Definition: short-lived climate pollutant

SLoCaT

Report: WGIII

Definition: Sustainable Low Carbon Transport Partnership

SLM

Report: WGIII

Definition: sustainable land management

SLR

Report: WGIII

Definition: sea level rise

SM

Report: WGIII

Definition: smart manufacturing

SMEs

Report: WGIII

Definition: small and medium-sized enterprises

SNA

Report: WGIII

Definition: System of National Accounts

SNTT

Report: WGIII

Definition: South–North technology transfer and cooperation

SO2

Report: WGIII

Definition: sulphur dioxide

SOE

Report: WGIII

Definition: state-owned enterprise

SOFC

Report: WGIII

Definition: solid oxide fuel cell

SPM

Report: WGIII

Definition: Summary for Policymakers

SPV

Report: WGIII

Definition: special purpose vehicle

SR1.5

Report: WGIII

Definition: IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5ºC

SRCCL

Report: WGIII

Definition: IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land

SRI

Report: WGIII

Definition: Sustainable and Responsible Investment

SRM

Report: WGIII

Definition: solar radiation modification

SROCC

Report: WGIII

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

SSC

Report: WGIII

Definition: South-South cooperation

SSP

Report: WGIII

Definition: Shared Socio-economic Pathway

SSTT

Report: WGIII

Definition: South–South technology transfer and cooperation

STEM

Report: WGIII

Definition: science, technology, engineering and mathematics

STEPS

Report: WGIII

Definition: Stated Policies Scenario

SUV

Report: WGIII

Definition: sport utility vehicle

T

TA

Report: WGIII

Definition: territorial accounting

TABS

Report: WGIII

Definition: thermally activated building systems

TBT Agreement

Report: WGIII

Definition: WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade

TCBA

Report: WGIII

Definition: technology-adjusted consumption-based emission accounting

TCFD

Report: WGIII

Definition: Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures

TCRE

Report: WGIII

Definition: transient climate response to cumulative emissions of carbon dioxide

TDR

Report: WGIII

Definition: travel demand reduction

TEEB

Report: WGIII

Definition: The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity

TEC

Report: WGIII

Definition: Technology Executive Committee

TES

Report: WGIII

Definition: Transforming Energy Scenario

TIS

Report: WGIII

Definition: technological innovation system

TFC

Report: WGIII

Definition: total final energy consumption

TGC

Report: WGIII

Definition: tradeable green certificate

tkm

Report: WGIII

Definition: tonne-kilometre

TNA

Report: WGIII

Definition: technology needs assessment

TOD

Report: WGIII

Definition: transit-oriented development

TPES

Report: WGIII

Definition: total primary energy supply

TRA

Report: WGIII

Definition: technology readiness assessment

TrC

Report: WGIII

Definition: triangular cooperation

TGCs

Report: WGIII

Definition: Tradable Green Certificates

TRIPS Agreement

Report: WGIII

Definition: Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement

TRL

Report: WGIII

Definition: technology readiness level

TW

Report: WGIII

Definition: terawatt

U

UF

Report: WGIII

Definition: utility factor

UHI

Report: WGIII

Definition: urban heat island

UKCCC

Report: WGIII

Definition: United Kingdom Climate Change Committee

ULCS

Report: WGIII

Definition: ultra-low carbon steel

UNCCD

Report: WGIII

Definition: United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification

UNCRD

Report: WGIII

Definition: United Nations Centre for Regional Development

UNDP

Report: WGIII

Definition: United Nations Development Programme

UNEP

Report: WGIII

Definition: United Nations Environment Programme

UNFCCC

Report: WGIII

Definition: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

UNOSSC

Report: WGIII

Definition: United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation

USD

Report: WGIII

Definition: US dollar

US DOE

Report: WGIII

Definition: United States Department of Energy

US EPA

Report: WGIII

Definition: United States Environmental Protection Agency

UV

Report: WGIII

Definition: ultraviolet

V

V1G

Report: WGIII

Definition: controlled charging (of an electric vehicle)

V2G

Report: WGIII

Definition: vehicle-to-grid

VC

Report: WGIII

Definition: venture capital

VCS

Report: WGIII

Definition: Verified Carbon Standard of the Verra programme

vkm

Report: WGIII

Definition: vehicle-kilometre

VKT

Report: WGIII

Definition: vehicle kilometres travelled

VLR

Report: WGIII

Definition: Voluntary Local Review

VMT

Report: WGIII

Definition: vehicle miles travelled

VNR

Report: WGIII

Definition: Voluntary National Review

W

WBCSD

Report: WGIII

Definition: World Business Council on Sustainable Development

WEFN

Report: WGIII

Definition: water-energy-food nexus

WEO

Report: WGIII

Definition: World Energy Outlook

WFP

Report: WGIII

Definition: World Food Programme

WG

Report: WGIII

Definition: Working Group

WHO

Report: WGIII

Definition: World Health Organization

WHP

Report: WGIII

Definition: waste heat to power

WMO

Report: WGIII

Definition: World Meteorological Organisation

WRAP

Report: WGIII

Definition: Waste and Resources Action Programme

WSUD

Report: WGIII

Definition: Water Sensitive Urban Design

WTO

Report: WGIII

Definition: World Trade Organization

WTP

Report: WGIII

Definition: willingness to pay

Z

ZEV

Report: WGIII

Definition: zero emission vehicle