- Climate change acronyms
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have implemented the use of tens of acronyms in documents relating to climate change policy.
Contents
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AAU - Assigned amount unit
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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.
CER – Certified emission reductions
COP - Conference of the Parties
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NAPA – National Adaptation Programme of Action.
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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.
See also
- LOWERN
References
Categories: Lists of abbreviations | Climate change
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