Im Irrgarten der Abkürzungen
Kaum ist man auf inetrnationalem Partkett unterwegs ist man umgeben von Abkürzungen. Svana Rogalla hat für euch eine Auflistung der wichtigsten „Acronyms“ zusammengestellt. Ergänzungen könnt ihr gern als Kommentar dazu posten!
AAU Assigned amount unit
ABS Access and Benefit Sharing
AF Adaptation Fund
AFOLU Agriculture, Forestry and other Land-Use
AHTEC Ad-Hoc Technical Expert Group
AIJ Activities Implemented Jointly
AIP Annex I Parties
AOSIS Alliance of Small Island States
ASTV Ausschuss d. ständigen Vertreter (bei EU)
AWG AWG – Ad Hoc Working Group
AWG-LCA Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the
Convention
BAP Biodiversity Action Plan
BfN Bundesamt für Naturschutz (Federal Agency for Nature Conservation,
Germany)
BINGO Business and industry non-governmental organizations
(observer constituency)
BMU Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit
BNatSchG Bundesnaturschutzgesetz
CACAM Central Asia, Caucasus, Albania and Moldova (as a negotiating group)
CBD Convention on Biological Diversity
CC Council Conclusions
CCS Carbon Capture and Storage/Sequestration
CDI Capacity Development Initiative (1999)
(of GEF / UNDP)
CDM Clean Development Mechanism
(under the Kyoto Protocol)
CDM EB CDM Executive Board
CEE Central and Eastern Europe
CEO Chief Executive Officer
CEPA
Global Initiative on Communication, Education and Public Awareness
(CBD, UNESCO)
CER Certified emission reduction
CG-11 Central Group 11
CGE Consultative Group of Experts on National Communications from Non-Annex
I Parties
CHM Clearing-House Mechanism
CMS Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals
COP Conference of the Parties
COP/MOP Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties
COW Committee of the Whole
COY Conference of Youth
CPF Collaborative Partnership on Forests
CRF Common reporting format
CSO Civil society organization
DAC Development Assistance Committee (of the OECD)
DESD Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
EA Enabling Activity (GEF project category)
EBSA European Biosafety Association
EC European Community
ECA Ecological Compensation Area
ECOSOC Economic and Social Council
EGTT Expert Group on Technology Transfer
EIA Environmental Impact Assessment
EIG Environmental Integrity Group
EIT Economy in transition
ENB Earth Negotiations Bulletin
ENGO Environmental non-governmental organizations
ERU Emission reduction unit
EU European Union
FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FCCC Framework Convention on Climate Change (= UNFCCC)
FFH Fauna-Flora-Habitatrichtlinie
FSP Full-Size Project (GEF project category)
G-77 Group of 77 and China
GA General Assembly
GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GBO Global Biodiversity Outlook
GCOS Global Climate Observing System
GEF Global Environment Facility
GEO Ad hoc Group on Earth Observations
GEOSS Global Earth Observation System of Systems
GET Global Environment Trust Fund (replaced by the GEF Trust Fund)
GHG Greenhouse gas
GMO Genetically Modified Organism
GOOS Global Ocean Observing System
GRULAC Group of Latin America and Caribbean States
GTI Global Taxonomy Initiative
GTOS Global Terrestrial Observing System
GTZ German Technical Cooperation Agency
GWP Global warming potential
HWP Harvested wood products
IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
ICAO International Civil Aviation Organization
ICCP International Climate Change Partnership
ICJ International Court of Justice
ICLEI International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives
ICNP Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya-Protocol
ICSU International Council of Scientific Unions
IEA International Energy Agency
IGBP International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
IGO Intergovernmental Organization
IHDP International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change
IMF International Monetary Fund
IMO International Maritime Organization
INC Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee
IOC Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (of UNESCO)
IPARD Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance for Rural Development (EU)
IPBES Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IPO Indigenous peoples organizations
ISSC International Social Science Council
IUCN International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
JI Joint Implementation
JLG Joint Liaison Group (between the UNFCCC, CBD and UNCCD secretariats)
JNCC Joint Nature Conservation Committee (UK)
JUSCANZ / JUSSCANNZ Japan, United States, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, Norway and New Zealand
JWG Joint Working Group (between SBSTA and IPCC)
KP Kyoto Protocol
LDC Least developed country
LDCF Least Developed Countries Fund
LEG Least Developed Countries Expert Group
LGMA Local government and municipal authorities
LMOs Living modified organisms
LUCF Land use change and forestry
LULUCF Land use, land use change and forestry
MAT Mutually Agreed Terms
MEA Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
MoE Ministry of the Environment
MOU Memorandum of Understanding (between the COP and the GEF)
MRV Measurable, Reportable, Verifiable
MSP Medium-sized project (GEF project category)
N.N. Not Named
NAIP Non-Annex I Parties
NAPA National Adaptation Programme of Action
NBS National Biodiversity Strategy
NBSAP National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan
NCSA National capacity needs self-assessment
NCSP National Communications Support Programme
NGO Non-governmental organization
NIR National inventory report
ODA Official development assistance
OECD Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
OP Operational programme (of the GEF)
OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
PDF Project Preparation and Development Facility (of the GEF)
PEBLDS Pan-European Biological and Landscape Diversity Strategy
PEEN Pan-European Ecological Network
PIC Prior Informed Consent
POP Persistent Organic Pollutant
Post2010
Post2012
QA Quality Assurance
QC Quality Control
RDB Regional Development Bank
REC Regional Environmental Center
REDD Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation
REDD+ Reducing emissions from Deforestation and Degradation, conservation of existing carbon stocks and enhancement of carbon stocks
RINGO Research oriented and independent non-governmental organizations
RMU Removal unit
(generated by LULUCF projects)
SAR Second Assessment Report
(by the IPCC)
SB Subsidiary Body
SBI Subsidiary Body for Implementation
SBSTA Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice
SBSTTA Subsidiary Body for Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (of the CBD)
SCBD Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
SCCF Special Climate Change Fund
SDPAMs Sustainable Development Policies and Measures
SDR Special Drawing Rights
SEA Strategic Environmental Assessment
SGP Small Grants Programme (of the GEF)
SIDS Small Island Developing States
SP Strategic Plan
STRM Short-term response measures
(GEF programme category)
TEAP Technology and Economic Assessment Panel (of the Montreal Protocol)
TEEB The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity
TT:CLEAR Technology Transfer Information Clearing House
UN United Nations
UN CSD United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development
UNCCD United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
UNCED United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
UNDP United Nations Development Programme
UNEP United Nations Environment Programme
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
UNFF United Nations Forum on Forests
UNGA United Nations General Assembly
UNIDO United Nations Industrial Development Organization
UNITAR United Nations Institute for Training and Research
URF Uniform Reporting Format
USCSP U.S. Country Studies Program
WCC World Climate Conference
WCMC World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP)
WCRP World Climate Research Programme
WEOG Western European and Others Group
WGRI Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Review of Implementation of the CBD
WHO World Health Organization
WMO World Meteorological Organization
WPIEI Working Party on International Environment Issues
WRI World Resources Institute
WSSD World Summit on Sustainable Development
WTO World Trade Organization
NAJU Internationales 