UNFCCC - A participant guide of the UN Climate Change process

Acronyms

Acronym Name

ABU Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay

AC Adaptation Committee

ADP Durban Platform for Enhanced Action

AFB Adaptation Fund Board

AILAC Asociacion Independiente di Latinoamerica y el Caribe

ALBA Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America

AOSIS Alliance of Small Island States

BINGO Business and Industry NGO

CBDR Common but Differentiated Responsibilities

CC Compliance Committee of the Kyoto Protocol

CDB ED Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism

CGE Consultative Group of Experts

CMA Conference of the Parties Serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement

CMP Conference of the Parties Serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol
COP Conference of the Parties

CTCN Climate Technology Centre & Network

EIG The Environmental Integrity Group
ENGO Environmental NGO

ENGO Environmental NGOs

EU European Union

Farmers Farmers and Agriculture NGOs

FWG LCIPP Facilitative Working Group

G77 Group of 77
GCF Green Climate Fund

GEF Global Environmental Fund

GHG Greenhouse gas

GRULAC Group of Latin American and Caribbean States
IGO Intergovernmental Organization

IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

IPO Indigenous Peoples Organization
JISC Joint Implementation and Supervisory Committee

KCI The Katowice Committee of Experts on the Impacts of the Implementation of Response Measures
KP Kyoto Protocol

LCIPP Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform

LDCs Least Developed Countries

LEG Least Developed Countries Expert Group

LGMA Local Government and Municipal Authorities

LGMA Local Government and Municipal Authorities

LMDC Like Minded Development Countries

MEA Multilateral Environmental Agreements
NDCs Nationally Determined Contributions
NGO Nongovernmental Organization

OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

PA Paris Agreement
PAICC Paris Agreement Implementation and Compliance Committee

PCCB Paris Committee on Capacity-building

RINGO Research and Other NGOs

RoPs Rules of Procedure

SB Subsidiary Body
SBI Subsidiary Body for Implementation

SBSTA Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice

SCF Standing Committee on Finance

SIDS The Small Island Developing States

TEC Technology Executive Committee

TUNGO Trade Union NGOs

UN United Nations

UNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

WEOG Western European and Other Groups

WGC Women and Gender Constituency
WIM The Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage

YOUNGO UNFCCC constituency of Youth Non-Governmental Organizations