The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) use tens of acronyms and initialisms in documents relating to climate change policy.
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- AAU - Assigned amount unit
- AGGI - Annual Greenhouse Gas Index
- AMO - Atlantic multidecadal oscillation
- AO - Arctic oscillation
C
- CDM – Clean Development Mechanism is an arrangement under the Kyoto Protocol allowing industrialised countries with a greenhouse gas reduction commitment (called Annex 1 countries) to invest in projects that reduce emissions in developing countries as an alternative to more expensive emission reductions in their own countries.
- CDR - Carbon dioxide removal
- CER – Certified Emission Reduction
- CFC - Chlorofluorocarbon
- CF4 - Carbon tetrafluoride
- CH4 - Methane
- COP - Conference of the Parties
- CO2 - Carbon dioxide
- C2F6 - Hexafluoroethane
D
- DER – Distributed Energy Resources is a small-scale unit of power generation that operates locally and is connected to a larger power grid at the distribution level. DERs include solar panels, small natural gas-fueled generators, electric vehicles and controllable loads, such as HVAC systems and electric water heaters. An important distinction of a DER is that the energy it produces is often consumed close to the source.
E
- EEI - Earth's Energy Imbalance
- ENSO - El Niño–Southern Oscillation
G
- GCM - General circulation model or global climate model
- GFDL - Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
- GHG - Greenhouse gas
- GWP - Global warming potential
H
- HCFC - Hydrochlorofluorocarbon
- HFC - Hydrofluorocarbon
- H2O - Water vapor
I
- IOD - Indian Ocean Dipole
- IPO - Interdecadal Pacific oscillation
M
- MSL - Mean Sea Level
N
- NCDS - Nationally Determined Contributions (aka Paris Accord/Agreement)
- NAPA – National Adaptation Programme of Action.
- NCAR - National Center for Atmospheric Research
- NF3 - Nitrogen trifluoride
- N20 - Nitrous oxide
O
- OHC - Ocean heat content
- O3 - (Tropospheric) Ozone
P
R
- REDD – Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation mechanisms use market/financial incentives to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases from deforestation and forest degradation.
S
- SSP - Shared Socioeconomic Pathways
- SST - Sea surface temperature
- SF6 - Sulfur hexafluoride
T
U
- UHI - Urban heat island
W
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