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CarbonSIG glossary
This page is 'under development'. This page is the glossary of terms and abbreviations from the HEDON CarbonSIG, the Special Interest Group on Cooking and Carbon. [top] [end]Numeric2006 IPCC Guidelines 20-year GWP [top] [end]AACS - American Chemical Society Adaptation - practical steps countries and communities take to protect themselves from the likely disruption and damage that will result from inevitable changes in climate. See the UNFCCC website here (explanation) and here (legal framework and methodologies). AGU - American Geophysical Union. They are "a worldwide scientific community that advances, through unselfish cooperation in research, the understanding of Earth and space for the benefit of humanity" (from their website - http://www.agu.org/) Ambient concentration - the concentration of a gas or particulates in the surrounding environment (in a room, outdoors, a rural or urban area). Similar to background concentration. Annex-1 countries - the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change has a number of annexes. One of these is a list of industrialized countries which were committed to bring their greenhouse-gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000, and accepted emissions targets for the period 2008-12 within the Kyoto Protocol. They include the 24 original Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) members, the European Union, and 14 countries with economies in transition. [top] [end]BBlack carbon [top] [end]CCAI-SSA Carbon neutral Carbon sink projects CDM - Clean Development Mechanism, which is a Kyoto Protocol mechanism through which developed countries finance greenhouse-gas emission reductions in developing countries, and receive credits for doing so which they may apply towards meeting mandatory limits on their own emissions. See the UNFCCC's CDM page here CDM EB 23 Annex 18 CDM Executive Board CDM SSC- Clean Air Initiative – Sub-Saharan Africa See http://www.cleanairnet.org/ssa/1414/channel.html CEA Clean fuel - In general it is easier to burn gases in a way that produces low levels of pollutants (i.e. "cleanly") than liquids, and liquids are easier to burn cleanly than solids. So gaseous fuels like biogas and LPG appear to be 'clean fuels' because they are easier to burn cleanly. In fact most biofuels are potentially clean-burning - it just depends on how they are burnt. Some fuels contain heavy metals such as mercury, and other pollutants such as arsenic (some low-grad coal for example). Without removal of these pollutants before combustion, these fuels cannot burn cleanly. CO2 equivalent Co-benefits COP/MOP Conference of Parties/Meeting of Parties CORINAIR [top] [end]Ddecision 17/CP.7 DG ENV DHS Dilution DSM [top] [end]EEB Executive Board (See CDM Executive Board) EE EMEP / Europe Emission factor Emission inventory ENPHO Environment and Public Health Organisation ENSO El Nino Southern Oscillation http://ess.geology.ufl.edu/usra_esse/el_nino.html ERPA Emission Reduction Purchase Agreement ESMAP [top] [end]FFAO FCCC Framework Convention on Climate Change [top] [end]GGEF - Global Environment Facility, a funding mechanisms for a number of conventions including the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change GHG Greenhouse Gas Global emissions Gold Standard Gold Standard for CDM projects. See www.cdmgoldstandard.org Greenhouse gases Greenhouse neutral See Carbon Neutral [top] [end]H[top] [end]IIAP Indoor Air Pollution IAP BOD Indoor Air Pollution Burden of Disease IEA World Energy Outlook 2006 IETA International Emissions Trading Association. See www.ieta.org IIMA International Information Management Association. See www.iima.org IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. See www.ipcc.ch [top] [end]JJI Joint Implementation [top] [end]K[top] [end]LLDCs Least Developed Countries LPG Liquefied Petroleum Gas LULUCF Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry [top] [end]M[top] [end]NN2O from soils Non-CO2 gases Greenhouse Gases other than Carbon Dioxide NOx Nitrogen Oxides NRB - Non-renewable biomass [top] [end]OOAP Outdoor Air Pollution [top] [end]Pparagraph 7 (a) decision 17/CP.7 Particulate emissions PCIA Partnership for Clean Indoor Air. See www.pciaonline.org PDD Project Design Document, Official Document prepared for CDM projects that are submitted to CDM Executive Board PICs PROGEDE [top] [end]Q[top] [end]RRadiative forcing Renewable fuel RWEDP [top] [end]SSIM framework Smoke SNV biogas Soot Source inputs SSA SSC_055 and SSC_061 [top] [end]T[top] [end]UUNDP United Nations Development Program. See www.undp.org UNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. See [unfccc.int] USEPA United States Environment Protection Agency [top] [end]VVER buyers [top] [end]WWB - World Bank (www.worldbank.org) WEO 2006 WHO - World Health Organization (www.who.org) WLPGA - World LP Gas Association [top] [end]XYZ[top] [end]Related topicsCategories: CDM | ||||
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