Abbreviations
- AGGG
Advisory Group on Greenhouse Gases
- AMIP
Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project
- AR
IPCC Assessment Report
- AR1 (or FAR)
- AR2 (or SAR)
- AR3 (or TAR)
- AR4
Fourth Assessment Report (2007)
- AR5
Fifth Assessment Report (2013/14)
- AR6
Sixth Assessment Report (2021/22)
- BECCS
bioenergy with carbon capture and storage
- BMPC
Brazilian Panel on Climate Change
- BOG
- CBD
- CLA
Coordinating Lead Author
- CMIP
Coupled Model Intercomparison Project
- COP
Conference of the Parties (to the UNFCCC)
- DAI
- ECR
Early Career Researcher
- ECS
equilibrium climate sensitivity
- eLAM
electronic [virtual] Lead Author Meeting
- EMIC
Earth System Model of Intermediate Complexity
- EPA
Environmental Protection Agency
- ESM
Earth System Model
- EU
European Union
- FAQ
frequently asked questions
- FGD
- FOD
First Order Draft
- GARP
Global Atmospheric Research Programme
- GCC
Global Climate Coalition
- GCM
General Circulation Model/Global Climate Model
- GEA
global environmental assessment
- GEO
Global Environmental Outlook
- GHG
greenhouse gas
- GWP
global warming potential
- IAC
InterAcademy Council
- IAM
Integrated Assessment Model(ling)
- IAMC
Integrated Assessment Modelling Consortium
- ICC
- ICSU
International Council for Science (was International Council of Scientific Unions)
- IEA
International Energy Agency
- IGY
International Geophysical Year
- IIASA
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
- IIPFCC
- IISD
- IK
Indigenous knowledge
- ILO
International Labour Organisation
- IMAGE
- INC
Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee
- IPBES
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
- IP
Indigenous Peoples
- IPO
- IS92
IPCC Scenarios 1992
- IUCN
- LA
Lead Author
- LAM
- LCIPP
- LTGG
long-term global goal
- MEA
- MIPs
- NDCs
Nationally Determined Contributions
- NETs
- NFP
- NL
Netherlands
- OAS
Organisation of American States
- OECD
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
- OO
observer organisation
- PBL
Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
- PRSQs
policy-relevant scientific questions
- RCP
Representative Concentration Pathway
- RE
Review Editor
- RIVM
Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (Dutch National institute for public health and the environment)
- SBSTA
Subsidiary Body for Science and Technology Advice
- SED
Structured Expert Dialogue
- SLR
sea-level rise
- SOA
solutions-oriented assessment
- SOD
Second Order Draft
- SPM
Summary for Policymakers
- SR
(IPCC) Special Report
- SR15
Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C (2018)
- SRCCL
Special Report on Climate Change and Land (2019)
- SRES
Special Report on Emission Scenarios (2000)
- SREX
Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (2012)
- SRLULUCF
Special Report on Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (2000)
- SROCC
Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (2019)
- SSP
Shared Socioeconomic Pathway
- STS
science and technology studies
- SYR
Synthesis Report
- TFI
Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories
- TG-Data
- TGICA
Task Group on Data and Scenario Support for Impacts and Climate Analysis
- TS
- TSU
Technical Support Unit (for a Working Group, WG)
- UNEP
UN Environment Programme
- UNFCCC
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
- UNPFII
- VOSL
value of statistical life
- WCRP
World Climate Research Programme
- WG
(IPCC) Working Group
- WGI
Working Group I (of the IPCC)
- WGII
Working Group II (of the IPCC)
- WGIII
Working Group III (of the IPCC)
- WHO
- WMO
World Meteorological Organisation
- ZOD
Open access