List of abbreviations relating to climate change

Yuya ŋɔ nyɛla yujihi shɛŋa zaŋ chaŋ  climate change tahibu na,  di nahigbana n-ti pahi di mitigation.

## A
*ADP - Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action
*AGN - African Group of Negotiators 
*APA - Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement 
*APP - Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate
*AR4 - Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC (2007)
*AR5 - Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC (2014)
*AR5 SYR - Synthesis Report of AR5  
*AR6 - Sixth Assessment Report of the IPCC (published on 9 August 2021)
*AWG-KP - Ad Hoc Working Group on further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol 
*AWG-LCA -  Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action
*AYCC - Australian Youth Climate Coalition

## B
*BAP - Bali Action Plan

## C
*C&C - Contraction & Convergence, a global CO<sub>2</sub> emissions management model promoted by the Global Commons Institute
*CAIT - The World Resources Institute's Climate Data Explorer archive 
*CAPP - Climate Action Pacific Partnership 
**CAPP II - Climate Action Pacific Partnership (CAPP) Conference II – 2018
**CAPP III - Third meeting of the Climate Action Pacific Partnership Conference (29-30 April 2019)
*CCA - Climate Change Agreement (UK)
*CCAFS - Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Research Program 
*CCAF - Climate Change Action Fund (Australia)
*CCC - Committee on Climate Change (UK)
*CCCEP - Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy
*CCCR - Canada's Changing Climate Report
*CCCS - Centre for Climate Change Studies, University of Dar es Salaam
*CCF - The Scottish Government's Climate Challenge Fund 
*CCIA - Climate Change in Australia 
*CC:iNet - Climate Change Information Network 
*CCL - Climate Change Levy (UK)
*CCl2F2 - Dichlorodifluoromethane (greenhouse gas)
*CCLS - Cambridge Climate Lecture Series
*CCRA - Climate Change Risk Assessment 
*CCS - Carbon Capture and Storage
*CDM - Clean Development Mechanism
*CDP - Organisation formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project
*CDR - Carbon dioxide removal
*CER - Certified Emission Reduction
*CFC - Chlorofluorocarbon
*CFRF - Climate Financial Risk Forum (UK)
*CF4 - Carbon tetrafluoride or tetrafluoromethane (greenhouse gas)
*CGE - Consultative Group of Experts 
*CHClF2 - Chlorodifluoromethane (greenhouse gas)
*CH4 - Methane
*CINC - Interdepartmental Committee of Climate Negotiators
*CLP - Carbon Literacy Project
*CMA - Meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement
**CMA1 - First meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (7-18 November 2016)
***CMA1.2 - The second part of the first session of the Conference of the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (6-17 November 2017)
***CMA1.3 - The third part of the first session of the Conference of the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (2-14 December 2018)
**CMA2 - Second meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (2–13 December 2019)
**CMA3 - Third meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (postponed to 1–12 December 2021)
*CMIP - Coupled Model Intercomparison Project
**CMIP5 - Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, Phase 5 
*CMP - Conference of the Parties Serving as the Meeting of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol
**CMP9 - 9th meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (11-23 November 2013)
**CMP10 - 10th meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (1-12 December 2014)
**CMP11 - 11th meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (30 November-12 December 2015)
**CMP12 - 12th meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (7-18 November 2016)
**CMP13 - 13th meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (6-17 November 2017)
**CMP14 - 14th meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (2-15 December 2018)
**CMP15 - 15th meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (2–13 December 2019)
**CMP16 - 16th meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (postponed to 1–12 December 2021)
*CNZ - Carbon Net Zero 
*CO2 - Carbon dioxide
*CO2-e - Carbon dioxide equivalent, also CO2-eq 
*CoM - Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (Europe) 
*COP - Conference of the Parties [to the UNFCCC]
**COP1 - First UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (28 March to 7 April 1995)
**COP2 - Second UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (8-18 July 1996)
**COP3 - Third UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (1-10 December 1997) 
**COP4 - Fourth UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (2-14 November 1998)
**COP5 - Fifth UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (25 October to 5 November 1999)
**COP6 - Sixth UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (13–25 November 2000)
**COP6-bis - Resumed Session of COP6 (16-27 July 2001) 
**COP7 - Seventh UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (29 October - 10 November 2001)
**COP8 - Eighth UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (23 October - 1 November 2002)
**COP9 - Ninth UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (1-12 December 2003)
**COP10 - Tenth UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (6-14 December 2004)
**COP11 - Eleventh UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (28 November - 9 December 2005)
**COP12 - Twelfth UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (6-17 November 2006)
**COP13 - 13th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (3-15 December 2007)
**COP14 - 14th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (1-12 December 2008)
**COP15 - 15th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (7-18 December 2009)
**COP16 - 16th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (29 November - 10 December 2010)
**COP17 - 17th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (28 November - 11 December 2011)
**COP18 - 18th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (26 November - 6 December 2012)
**COP19 - 19th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (11-23 November 2013)
**COP20 - 20th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (1-12 December 2014)
**COP21 - 21st UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (30 November-12 December 2015)
**COP22 - 22nd UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (7-18 November 2016)
**COP23 - 23rd UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (6-17 November 2017)
**COP24 - 24th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (2-15 December 2018)
**COP25 - 25th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (2-13 December 2019)
**COP26 - 26th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (1-12 November 2021)
**COP27 - 27th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (6-18 November 2022)
**COP28 - 28th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties, scheduled for November 2023 in the United Arab Emirates 
**COP29 - 29th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties, 2024, proposed venue is Australia 
**COP30 - anticipated 2025 UNFCCC Conference of the Parties 
*CORSIA - Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation
*CPA - Carbon Pricing Act (Singapore)
*CPRS - Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Australia)
*CRC - CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, formerly Carbon Reduction Commitment (UK)
*CREWS - Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems 
*CRU - Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia 
*CRU TS - Climatic Research Unit Time Series datasets 
*CSA - Climate-Smart Agriculture 
*CVF - Climate Vulnerable Forum

## D
*DECC - Department of Energy and Climate Change (UK), now Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

## E
*ECI - Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford
*ETC - Energy Transition Council 
*ETS - Emissions Trading System
*ETSWAP - Emissions Trading Scheme Workflow Automation Project operated by the UK's Environment Agency

## F
*FAR - First Assessment Report of the IPCC (1990)
*F-gas - Fluorinated gas 
*FICER - Fund for Innovative Climate and Energy Research 
*FOLU - Forestry and other land use
*FFF - Fridays for Future

## G
*GCF - Green Climate Fund
*GCoM - Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy
*GHG - Greenhouse gas
*GtC - Gigatonnes of carbon
*GWP - Global warming potential

## H
*HadCM3 - Hadley Centre Coupled Model, version 3
*HadGEM - Hadley Centre Global Environmental Model
**HadGEM1 - 
*HCFC - Hydrochlorofluorocarbon
*HFC - Hydrofluorocarbon

## I
*ICLEI - International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives
*IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
**IPCC-50 - the IPCC's 50th session (2019)
*IPCC-NGGIP - IPCC National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Programme
*ISO 1406x Series - ISO standards for climate change mitigation
*ISO 14090:2019 - ISO standard for adaptation to climate change — Principles, requirements and guidelines
*ISO/DIS 14091 - Adaptation to climate change — Guidelines on vulnerability, impacts and risk assessment
*ISO/TS 14092 - Adaptation to climate change — Requirements and guidance on adaptation planning for local governments and communities

## J
*JI - Joint Implementation

## K
*KLD - Ministry of Climate and Environment (*Klima- og miljødepartementet*), Norway 

## L
*LCDI - Low Carbon Development Indonesia 
*LDCF - Least Developed Countries Fund 
*LECBP - Low Emission Capacity Building Programme 
*LEDS - Low-Emission Development Strategies
*LSCE - Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l'environnement, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
*LULUCF - Land use, land-use change, and forestry

## M
*MCC - Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Berlin
*MPGCA - Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action
*MoCC - Ministry of Climate Change (Pakistan)
*MoEFCC - Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (India)
*MOP1 - 1st Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (28 November - 9 December 2005)
*MOP2 - 2nd Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (6-17 November 2006)
*MOP3 - 3rd Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (3-15 December 2007)
*MOP4 - 4th Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (1-12 December 2008)
*MOP5 - 5th Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (7-18 December 2009)
*MWE/CCD - Climate Change Department of the Ministry of Water and Environment (Uganda)

## N
*NAMA - Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions
*NAPA - National Adaptation Programme of Action
*NAZCA - Non-state Actor Zone for Climate Action
*NC - National Communication (under the Paris Agreement) 
*NDC - Nationally Determined Contributions
*NECIA - Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (USA) 
*N2O - Nitrous Oxide
*NRSP - National Reports Submission Portal 

## O
*O3 - Ozone

## P
*PATPA - Partnership on Transparency in the Paris Agreement 
*P-CAN - Place-based Climate Action Networks, a UK-based partnership between university researchers and the public, private and third sectors in tackling climate change, aiming to accelerate and sustain the transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient society through the creation of local climate commissions.
*PCD - Petersberg Climate Dialogue
**PCD X - Petersberg Climate Dialogue 10 (13-14 May 2019) 
**PCD XI - Petersberg Climate Dialogue (27-28 April 2020)
*PFC - Perfluorocarbon
*PIK - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research ()

## S
*SAR - Second Assessment Report of the IPCC (1995)
*SB 52 -  Fifty-second session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA 52) and the fifty-second session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI 52) (postponed to 2021) 
*SB 56 - the Bonn Climate Change Conference, 56th session of the subsidiary bodies, held on 6 to 16 June 2022 
*SBI - Subsidiary Body for Implementation
**SBI 46 - Forth-sixth session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (8-18 May 2017)
**SBI 47 - Forty-seventh session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (6-15 November 2017)
**SBI 52 - Fifty-second session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (postponed to 2021) 
*SBSTA - Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice
*SBTi - Science Based Targets initiative 
*SCCF - Special Climate Change Fund 
*SDA - Sectoral Decarbonization Approach
*SDGs - Sustainable Development Goals
*SECR - Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting framework (UK)
*SF6 - Sulfur hexafluoride
*SRCCL - Special Report on Climate Change and Land of the IPCC
*SRES - Special Report on Emissions Scenarios of the IPCC
*SR15 - IPCC's Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C
*SSP - Shared Socioeconomic Pathway

## T
*TACC - Territorial Approach to Climate Change
*TAR - Third Assessment Report of the IPCC (2001)
*TCCC - Tarawa Climate Change Conference
*TCFD - Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures 
*tCO2 - Tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent
*TD - Talanoa Dialogue
*TFI - Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories 

## U
*UKCIP - Multi-disciplinary team formerly known as the UK Climate Impacts Programme, based at the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford
*UKCP - UK Climate Projections
**UKCP09 - UK Climate Projections 2009 
**UKCP18 - UK Climate Projections 2018 
*UKHACC - UK Health Alliance on Climate Change
*UN CC:Learn - One UN Climate Change Learning Partnership 
*UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme
*UNFCCC - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
*USCAP - U.S. Climate Action Partnership

## W
*WCI - Western Climate Initiative
*WCRP - World Climate Research Programme
*WGI - Working Group I of the IPCC, which assesses the physical science of climate change
*WGII - Working Group II of the IPCC, which assesses the vulnerability of socio-economic and natural systems to climate change
*WGIII - Working Group III of the IPCC, which "focuses on climate change mitigation, assessing methods for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere".
*WIM - Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage associated with Climate Change Impacts
*WMO - World Meteorological Organization
*WRI - World Resources Institute

## Numerical
*4CMR - Former Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research 

## Notes

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