Carbon Acronyms

See also: our carbon glossary

AA: Assigned Amount

AAU: Assigned Amount Unit

AB 32: Assembly Bill 32: California's Global Warming Solutions Act

ACG: Asia Carbon Group

ACX: Asia Carbon Exchange

AFOLU: Agriculture, forestry,and other land use

AOSIS: Alliance of Small Island States

APP or AP6: Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate

A/R: Afforestation and reforestation

ATU: Allotment Trading Units

Btu: British thermal unit

BAU: Business As Usual Scenario

CARB: California Air Resources Board

CCAR: California Climate Action Registry

CATIE: Centro Agronomico Tropical de Investigacion y Ensenanza

CCBA: Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance

CCB: Climate, Community and Biodiversity standard

CCL: Climate Change Levy (UK)

CCS: Carbon capture and storage

CCFE: Chicago Climate Futures Exchange

CCX: Chicago Climate Exchange

CDM: Clean Development Mechanism

CDM EB: Clean Development Mechanism Executive Board

CDP: Carbon Disclosure Project

CEMS: Continuous Emissions Monitoring System

CEO: Certified Emission Offsets

CERs: Certified Emission Reductions

CERSPA: CER Sales and Purchase Agreement

CERUPT: Certified Emission Reduction Unit Procurement Tender

CFCs: Chlorofluorocarbons

CFTC: Commodities Futures Trading Commission

CFI: Carbon Financial Instrument

CFU: Carbon Finance Unit

CH4: Methane

CHP: Combined heat and power

CITL: Community Independent Transaction Log

CNN: Carbon Neutral Network

COP: Conference of the Parties. Alt.: coefficient of performance.

CO2: Carbon Dioxide

CO2e: Carbon Dioxide Equivalent. See tCO2e, MtCO?2e

CSA: Climate Security Act

Defra: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (UK)

DERs, DERCs: Discrete Emission Reduction Credits

DNA: Designated National Authority

DOE: Designated Operational Entity

DPA: Direct Purchase Agreement

DSM: Demand Side Management

EB: Executive Board (of the CDM)

EC: European Commission

ECCM: Edinburgh Center for Carbon Management

ECIS: European Carbon Investor Services

ECX: European Climate Exchange

ECCP: European Climate Change Programme

EE: energy efficiency

EIA: Energy Information Administration

EIT: Economies in Transition

EM: Ecosystem Marketplace

EPA: Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.)

ERs: Emission Reductions

ERMs: Emissions Reduction Market System

ERPA: Emission Reductions Purchase Agreement

ERT: Environmental Resources Trust

ERUs: Emission Reduction Units

E-t-C: Emissions to Cap

EU ETS: European Union Emission Trading Scheme

EUA: European Union Allowances

FMC: Fund Management Committee

FMU: Fund Management Unit

FTC: US Federal Trade Commission

GCV: Gross caloric value

GGAS: Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme

GHG: Greenhouse gases

GIS: Green investment scheme

GS: Gold Standard

GWP: Global warming potential

HCFCs: Hydrochlorofluorocarbons

HFCs: Hydrofluorocarbons

HFC-23: Trifluoromethane

HHV: Higher heating value

ICLEI: International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives

IET: International Emissions Trading

IETA: International Emissions Trading Association

IFC: International Finance Corporation

IGCC: Integrated Gas Combined-Cycle plants

IIED: International Institute for Environment and Development

IPCC: Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change

IPP: independent power producer

ISDA: International Swaps and Derivatives Association

ISO: International Organization for Standardization

ISO 14064: ISO Climate Change Standard

ITL: International Transaction Log

JI: Joint Implementation

kWh: kilowatt-hour

lCERs: Long-term Certified Emission Reductions

LDCs: Least Developed Countries

LECs: Levy Exemption Certificates

LHV: lower heating value

LoA: Letter of Approval

LoE: Letter of Endorsement

LoNo: Letter of 'No Objection'

LPG: Liquefied petroleum gas

LULUCF: Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry

MAC: marginal abatement cost; alt. California Market Advisory Committee

MDGs: Millennium Development Goals

MGGA: Midwestern Greenhouse Gas Accord

MOP: Meeting of Parties

MoU: Memorandum of Understanding

MP: Monitoring Plan

MtCO2e: Metric tons of CO2e

MWh: Megawatt-hour

NAP: National Allocation Plan

NCCC: National Committee on Climate Change (of China)

NDRC: National Development and Reform Commission (of China)

NEPOOL: New England Power Pool

NETS: National Emission Trading Scheme (Australia)

NGAC: NSW (New South Wales) Greenhouse Abatement Certificates

NGO: Non-Governmental Organization

NOx: Nitrogen oxide

N2O: Nitrous oxide

NREL: US National Renewable Energy Laboratory

NSW GGAS: New South Wales Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme

NZ ETS: New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme

ODA: Official Development Assistance

OE: Operational Entity

OECD: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

OTC: "Over-the-counter" market

PCN: Project Concept Note

PDD: Project Design Document

PFC: perfluorocarbon

PIN: Project Idea Note

RGGI: Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

RECs: Renewable Energy Certificates

REDD: Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation

REGO: Renewable Energy Guarantee of Origin

RIT: CDM Registration and Issuance Team

RMU: Removable Units

ROCs: Renewables Obligation Certificates. See also LECs.

RPS: Renewable Portfolio Standards

RTFO: Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation

SDPAM: Sector specific policies and measures

SF6: sulfur hexafluoride

SNLT: Sector No Lose Targets

SO2: Sulfur dioxide

SOx: Sulfur oxide

tCO2e: ton of CO2e

tCERs: Temporary Certified Emission Reductions

TCR: The Climate Registry

TRCs: Tradable Renewable Certificates. Also known as RECs?.

TREC: Tradable renewable energy credit

UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme

UNFCCC: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

USCAP: U.S. Climate Action Partnership

US EPA: United States Environmental Protection Agency

VERs: Verified Emission Reductions

VCS: Voluntary Carbon Standard

VCU: Voluntary Carbon Unit

VOM: Volatile organic material

VOS: Voluntary Offset Standard

WBCSD: World Business Council for Sustainable Development

WCI: Western Climate Initiative

WRCAI: Western Regional Climate Action Initiative. Now known as WCI.

WRI: World Resources Institute.

WWF: World Wildlife Fund