| Adaptation | Adjustment in natural or human systems to a new or changing environment. Coping with the residual effects of climate change. (See paragraph 40)
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| AIJ | Activities Implemented Jointly or Joint Implementation (JI)
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| AOSIS | Alliance of Small Island States
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| Biomass | Biomass is any organic matter, available on a renewable basis through natural processes or as a by-product of human activity. Biomass includes: agricultural crops and wastes, wood and wood waste, energy crops, and municipal solid waste. Biomass can be converted into energy through many different means such as combustion (burning), gasification, fermentation, and anaerobic digestion.
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| CAS | Country Assistance Strategy
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| CDM | Clean Development Mechanism. (See paragraphs 69-71).
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Climate
change | Climate change is a long-lasting change in either the climate or its variability. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) defined climate change as "¼a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability¼".[358] This definition makes a distinction between climate change due to human activity (anthropogenic) and climate change due to natural processes.
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| CoP | Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change. The supreme body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, comprising countries that have ratified or acceded to the Framework Convention on Climate Change. The first session of the Conference of the Parties (CoP-1) was held in Berlin in 1995, followed by CoP-2 in Geneva 1996, CoP-3 in Kyoto 1997, CoP-4 in Buenos Aires, CoP-5 in Bonn, CoP-6 in The Hague and CoP-7 in Marrakech.
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| CSP | Country Strategy Paper
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| DEFRA | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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| DFID | Department for International Development
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| DMP | Disaster mitigation and preparedness (See paragraphs 91-94)
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| ECA | Export Credit Agency |
| ECGD | Export Credit Guarantee Department
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| ENSO | El Niño/ Southern Oscillation
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| FDI | Foreign Direct Investment
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| GEF | Global Environment Facility (See paragraphs 72-78)
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| GHG | Greenhouse Gases |
| Gini coefficient | An indicator of income inequality reflecting the distribution of income throughout the population. If income is distributed equally across the population, the coefficient is equal to 0, and if a few individuals predominantly hold the wealth, the coefficient is closer to 1.
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| GNP | Gross National Product
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| GTZ | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit. German government owned corporation for international cooperation
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| IDNDR | International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, now known as ISDR
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| IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (See paragraphs 4-5 and 100)
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| ISDR | International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
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| LDC | Least Developed Country. An informal term for countries defined using a number of parameters including per capita GDP.
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| Maladaptation | An adaptation that does not succeed in reducing vulnerability but increases it instead.
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| MDB | Multilateral Development Bank
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| MDG | Millennium Development Goal (See paragraph 101)
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| MEA | Multilateral Environmental Agreement
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| Mitigation | In terms of climate change reduction and stabilisation of greenhouse gas emissions and enhancing the sinks of greenhouse gases. In terms of disaster relief, action to limit the impact of disasters. (See paragraph 58)
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| NAPA | National Adaptation Programme of Action (See paragraph 126)
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| NC | National Communications. A central requirement of the Convention (and the Protocol) is that each Party must inform the others about its national climate change activities.
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| No regrets | Actions to address climate risk that also make good environmental and economic sense in their own right. They are actions that will lead to a beneficial outcome, even if climate change turns out to be an exaggerated fear. No regrets options are measures worth doing anyway.
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| NSSD | National Strategy for Sustainable Development
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| PRSP | Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
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| SBSTA | Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice
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| TAR | Third Assessment Report from the IPCC
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| TSU | Technical Service Unit
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| UNEP | United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
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| UNFCCC | United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (See paragraphs 65-66)
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| WAIS | West Antarctic Ice Sheet
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| WHO | World Health Organisation
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| WSSD | World Summit on Sustainable Development (See paragraphs 86-88)
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| WMO | World Meteorological Organization
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| WTO | World Trade Organisation
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