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A

Accredited Independent Entities (AIE)

Additionality

Allocation

Annex A

Annex B

Annex I

Approval

Assigned Amount Unit (AAU)

Auctioning

 

B

Banking

Baseline

Benchmark

Borrowing

Bubble

Bundling

 

C

Cap

Capacity

Calorific Value

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

Carbon Leakage (CL)

CDM Executive Board

CDM Programme Activity (CPA)

Certification

Certified Emission Reductions (CER)

Clean Dark Spread

Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)

Clean Spark Spread

Community Independent Transaction Log (CITL)

Conference of the Parties (COP)

Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties (CMP)

CO2e

Company Carbon Footprint (CCF)

Compliance Factor

Copenhagen Accord

Crediting Period

 

D

De minimis Source Streams

Deutsche Emissionshandelsstelle (DEHSt) - German Emissions Trading Authority

Designated National Authority (DNA)

Designated Focal Point (DFP)

Designated Operational Entity (DOE)

Determination

Domestic Offset Projects (DOP)

Double Counting

 

E

Eligibility

Emission

Emission Certificates

Emission Credit

Emission Factor

Emission Reduction Unit (ERU)

Emission Reduction Purchase Agreement (ERPA)

EU Allowance (EUA)

EU Burden Sharing

EU Linking Directive

EU Emissions Trading Directive 2003/87/EG, 2009/29/EG

European Transactions Log (EUTL)

Ex-post Correction

 

F

Flexible Mechanism

Forwards

 

G

Gas Coal Spread

GHG Protocol

Global Warming Potential (GWP)

Gold Standard (GS)/Gold Standard Verified Emission Reductions (GS-VER)

Grandfathering

Green Investment Scheme (GIS)

Greenhouse Gases (GHG)

 

H

Historische Aktivitätsrate (HAR)/Historical Acitivity Level (HAL)

Host Country

 

I

Installation

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

International Emissions Trading (IET)

Investor Country

International Transaction Log (ITL)

 

J

JI Programme Activity (JPA)

JI Supervisory Committee (JISC)

Joint Implementation (JI)

 

K

Kyoto Mechanism

Kyoto Protocol

 

L

Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF)

Large-scale Projects

Leakage

Letter of Approval (LoA)

Letter of Endorsement (LoE)

Long-term CER (lCER)

Long-Position

Low Emissions Source Streams

 

M

Merit Order

Methodology

Monitoring (Projects)

Monitoring & Reporting Guidelines (M&R Guidelines)

 

N

Nationaler Allokationsplan (NAP)

National GHG Inventory

Non-Annex I

 

O

Operator

Opportunity Costs

Option

Opt-in

Opt-out

Over-the-Counter-Markt (OTC)

 

P

Process Emissions

Programme of Activities (PoA)

Programme of Activities Design Document (PoA DD)

Project Design Document (PDD)

Project Idea Note (PIN)

ProMechG (Projekt-Mechanismen-Gesetz, Project Mechanism Act)

 

R

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD)

Registration

Removal Unit (RMU)

Reporting

 

S

Scope

Sink

Secondary CER

Share of Proceeds

Short-Position

Small-Scale Projects

Spot Market

Switch-Level/Switch-Range

 

T

TEHG (Treibhausgasemissionshandelsgesetz, GHG Emissions Trading Act)

Temporary CER (tCER)

Track 1

Track 2

 

U

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Use Restrictions

 

V

Validation

Verification

Verified Carbon Unit (VCU)

Verified Carbon Standard (VCS)

Verified Emission Reduction (VER)

 

Z

ZuG 2007 (Zuteilungsgesetz 2007)

ZuG 2012 (Zuteilungsgesetz 2012)

ZuV 2007 (Zuteilungsverordnung 2007)

ZuV 2012 (Zuteilungsverordnung 2012)