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Book Title: Environmental Technologies, Intellectual Property and Climate Change

Editor(s): Brown, E.L. Abbe

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9780857934178

Section Title: Abbreviations

Number of pages: 3

Extract:

Abbreviations
ABS access and benefit sharing
ACTA Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
ACTI Alliance for Clean Technology Innovation
AI Annex I UNFCCC
AMC advance market commitment
AOSIS Alliance of Small Island States
AWG-LCA Ad-Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative
Action
BASIC Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, India, China
CARDA cooperative research and development agreement
CBD Convention on Biological Diversity
CBDR common but differentiated responsibilities
CCS carbon capture and storage
CDIP Committee on Development and IP
CDM Clean Development Mechanism
CER certified emission reduction
CESCR UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights
CGIAR Consultative Group on International Agricultural
Research
CIEL Center for International Environmental Law
COP Conference of the Parties
CTCN Climate Technology Center and Network
DFID UK Department for International Development
DNDI Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative
DSP Darfur Stoves Project
EE Enabling Environments
EGTT Expert Group on Technology Transfer
EIA US Energy Information Institute
EPO European Patent Office
EST environmentally sound technology
EU European Union
FAO Food and Agriculture Organization

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FAO Treaty International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for
Food and Agriculture
FDI foreign direct investment
GAL global administrative law
GEF World Bank Global Environment Facility
GHG greenhouse gas
HCFC hydrochlorofluorocarbons
HFC hydrofluorocarbons
IA intellectual asset
ICCPR International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
ICESCR International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights
ICTSD International Centre for Trade and Sustainable
Development
IEA International Energy Agency
IEL international environmental law
IFAD International Fund for Agricultural Development
INC International Negotiating ...