Klimaatafkortingen: van AAO tot WUR

Onderstaand een alfabetische lijst van met betrekking tot klimaatverandering relevante afkortingen, en hun letterlijke betekenis.

4AR: Fourth Assessment Report (IPCC-rapport 2007)

AAO: AntArctische Oscillatie
ACP: Alliance for Climate Protection
AO: Arctische Oscillatie
AOSIS: Alliance Of Small Island States
AWG: Ad hoc Working Group

BAP: Bali Action Plan

CAN: Climate Action Network
CCB: Climate Change on Biosphere
CCBA: Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance
CCS: Carbon Capture and Storage of Carbon Capture and Sequestration
CDM: Clean Development Mechanism
CH4: Methaan (molecuulformule)
C: Koolstof (element)
CO: Koolstofmonoxide (molecuulformule)
CO2: Koolstofdioxide (molecuulformule)
CoP: Conference of Parties

ECN: Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland
EIA: Energy Information Administration
ENSO: El Niño Southern Oscillation
EPICA: European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica
EPR: Extended Polluter Responsibility
ETS: Emission Trading Scheme

FAO: Food and Agriculture Organization

GCM: General Circulation Model (ook wel: Global Climate Model)
GISS: Goddard Institute for Space Studies (onderdeel NASA)

H2: Waterstof (molecuulformule)

IEA: International Energy Agency
IPCC: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
ITER: International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
IUCN: International Union for Conservation of Nature

JI: Joint Implementation

KNMI: Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut

MDG: Millenium Development Goals
MNP: Milieu- en Natuurplanbureau

N2O: Distikstofoxide (molecuulformule lachgas)
NADW: North Atlantic Deep Water
NAO: North Atlantic Oscillation
NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

O3: Ozon (molecuulformule)
OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

PCCC: Platform Communication on Climate Change (Klimaatportaal)
ppm: parts per million
PETM: Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
PPP: Polluter Pays Principle

REDD: Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (soms ook vertaald als Reduced Emissions from Deforestation in Developing countries)

SRES: Special Report on Emissions Scenarios
SST: Sea Surface Temperature

TAR: Third Assessment Report (IPCC-rapport 2001)
THC: ThermoHaline Circulation

UNDP: United Nationes Development Programme
UNEP: United Nations Environmental Programme
UNFCCC: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

VCS: Voluntary Carbon Standard

WCRP: World Climate Research Programme
WFP: World Food Programme
WG: Working Group
WMO: World Meteorological Organization
WUR: Wageningen University and Research

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