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"Abbreviations" [2011] ELECD 258; in Faure, Michael; Peeters, Marjan (eds), "Climate Change Liability" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011)

Book Title: Climate Change Liability

Editor(s): Faure, Michael; Peeters, Marjan

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781849802864

Section Title: Abbreviations

Number of pages: 4

Extract:

Abbreviations
1996 London Protocol 1996 London Protocol to the 1972 Convention
on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by
Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter
AAUs Assigned Amount Units
ABI Association of British Insurers
Awb General Administrative Law Act (in Dutch:
Algemene wet bestuusrecht, Awb)
AWG-KP Ad Hoc Working Group on Further
Commitments for Annex I Parties under the
Kyoto Protocol
AWG-LCA Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term
Cooperative Action
BSA EC Burden-Sharing Agreement
CCS Carbon Capture and Storage
CDM Clean Development Mechanism
CER Certified Emission Reduction Credit
CERs Certified Emission Reduction Credits
CFCs Chlorofluorocarbons
CH4 Methane
CO2 Carbon dioxide
CO2-eq. CO2 equivalent
COP Conference of Parties
DEFRA Department for Environment, Food and Rural
Affairs
EC European Community
ECHR European Convention for the Protection of
Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
ECJ European Court of Justice
EEPR European Energy Programme for Recovery
ELD Environmental Liability Directive: Directive
2004/35/EC of the European Parliament and of
the Council of 21 April 2004 on environmental
liability with regard to the prevention and
remedying of environmental damage
EPA Environmental Protection Agency (US)

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ERU Emission Reduction Unit
EU European Union
EU ETS European Union Emissions Trading Scheme
GALA Dutch General Administrative Law Act
(Algemene wet bestuursrecht)
GDP Gross Domestic Product
GHG emissions Greenhouse gas emissions
GLOFs Glacier Outburst Floods
GNP Gross National Product
HR Hoge Raad (Dutch Supreme Court)
IAC InterAcademy Council
IEA International Energy Agency
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IPCC AR Intergovernmental ...