Climate Justice Acronyms

Many acronyms commonly used on www.mrfcj.org in relation to the issues of climate change and climate justice can be difficult to interpret for (not just!) newcomers. As a helpful reference, here is a list of commonly used acronyms:

AAU: Assigned Amount Units

Actual Climate Justice Research: For the purposes of the the Foundation Research Database, actual climate justice research projects are those which fall into at least one of the three categories to the right.

Annex 1 Countries: Parties include industrialised countries that were members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in 1992, plus countries with economies in transition (the EIT Parties). There are 41 countries in this group and the European Union.

Annex 2 Countries: Parties are developed countries which are the OECD members of Annex I but not the countries with economies in transition (EIT). The Annex II countries are required to provide financial resources to enable developing countries to undertake activities to reduce emissions and to help them adapt to the effects of climate change. They also have to take steps to promote the development and transfer of environmentally friendly technologies to developing countries and countries with economies in transition. There are 23 Parties in this group and the European Union.

Non-Annex 1 Countries: There are 153 Parties in this group, most of which are developing countries. Certain groups of developing countries are recognised by the Convention as being especially vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change. This includes countries with low-lying coastal areas and those prone to desertification and drought. Forty nine countries are classified as least developed countries (LDCs) by the United Nations and are given special consideration under the Convention due to their limited capacity to respond to climate change and adapt to its effects. Other Parties in this group are countries that that claim to be more vulnerable to the potential economic impacts of climate change response measures, such as countries which rely heavily on income from fossil fuel production.

AWG-LCA: Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention

AWG-KP: Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex 1 Parties under the Kyoto Protocol

BAP: Bali Action Plan

BRIDGE: (Development Gender) research and information programme in the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex

CEO: Chief Executive Officer

CER: Certified Emission Reduction credits

CDM: Clean Development Mechanisms

CMP: Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol

CMP 6: Sixth Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol

C02: Carbon dioxide

COP: Conference of the Parties

COP 13: Thirteenth Conference of the Parties

COP 14: Fourteenth Conference of the Parties

COP 15: Fifteenth Conference of the Parties

COP 16: Sixteenth Conference of the Parties

COP 17: Seventeenth Conference of the Parties

COP18: Eighteenth Conference of the Parties

COP19: Nineteenth Conference of the Parties

COP20: Twentieth Conference of the Parties

COP21: Twenty-first Conference of the Parties

CW2: Climate Wise Women

EDN: Earth Day Network

EIT: Economies in Transition

ERU: Emission Reduction Unit

FSF: Fast-Start Finance

GBM: Green Belt Movement

GlobalPOWER: Global Partnership of Women Elected/Appointed Representatives

GHG: Greenhouse gas

IEA: International Energy Agency

IPCC: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

JI: Joint Implementation

KP: Kyoto Protocol

LCA: Referring to Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA)

LDCs: Least Developed Countries

MDGs: Millennium Development Goals

the Foundation: The Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice

MRV: Measurement, Reporting and Verification

NAMAs: Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions

NAPAs: National Adaptation Programmes of Action

NWI: Nobel Women’s Initiative

OECD: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

PNG: Papua New Guinea

Potential Climate Justice Research: For the purposes of the the Foundation Research Database, potential climate justice research is research being carried out in the fields of climate change, human rights or development which could have a climate justice angle.

REDD: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation

REDD+: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation and includes the role of conservation and sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries

Rio +20: United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development 2012

RR: Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative

SBI: Subsidiary Body for Implementation

SBSTA: Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice

UN: United Nations

UNF: United Nations Foundation

UNFCCC: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

UNCED: United Nations Conference on Environment and Development

WEDO: Women’s Environment and Development Organisation