Abbreviations and acronyms
- APN
- Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research
- ASAP
- Automated Shipboard Aerological Programme
- BRANZ
- Building Research Association of New Zealand
- CCP-NZ
- Communities for Climate Protection - New Zealand
- CCRA
- The Climate Change Response Act 2002
- CDM
- clean development mechanism
- CH4
- methane
- CMS
- Carbon Monitoring System
- CO
- carbon monoxide
- CO2
- carbon dioxide
- COP1
- First Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC
- CP1
- Kyoto Protocol's first commitment period 2008-2012
- CRF
- Common Reporting Format
- CSLF
- Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum
- EECA
- Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority
- FLUXNET
- Global Terrestrial Network - Carbon
- FRST
- Foundation for Research, Science and Technology
- GAW
- Global Atmosphere Watch of WMO
- GCOS
- Global Climate Observing System
- GDP
- Gross Domestic Product
- GEF
- Global Environment Facility
- GEO
- Group on Earth Observations
- Gg
- gigagrams
- GIC
- Gas Industry Company
- GOOS
- Global Ocean Observing System
- GSN
- GCOS Surface Network
- GTN-G
- Global Terrestrial Network - Glaciers
- GTN-P
- Global Terrestrial Network - Permafrost
- GTOS
- Global Terrestrial Observation System
- GUAN
- GCOS Upper Air Network
- GWPs
- Global Warming Potentials
- HFCs
- hydrofluorocarbons
- ICLEI-A/NZ
- International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives Australia/New Zealand
- ICSU
- International Council for Science
- IEA
- International Energy Agency
- IGBP
- International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
- IGOS
- Integrated Global Observing Strategy
- IOC
- Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO
- IPCC
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- IPHE
- International Partnership for the Hydrogen Economy
- JI
- Joint Implementation projects
- LTCCP
- Long Term Council Community Plans
- LULUCF
- land use, land-use change and forestry sector
- MAF
- Ministry for Agriculture and Forestry
- MED
- Ministry of Economic Development
- MfE
- Ministry for the Environment
- Mt
- Megatonne (one million tonnes)
- N2O
- nitrous oxide
- NEECS
- National Energy Efficiency and Conservation Strategy
- NIR
- National Inventory Report
- NMVOC
- non-methane volatile organic compounds
- NOX
- oxides of nitrogen
- NSSCCC
- National Science Strategy Committee for Climate Change
- NZAID
- New Zealand Agency for International Development's
- NZCAS
- New Zealand Carbon Accounting System
- OECD
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- OI&C
- "other industrial and commercial"
- PFCs
- perfluorocarbons
- PGGRC
- Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium
- PI-GCOS
- Pacific Islands Global Climate Observing System
- ppm
- parts per million
- PRE
- Projects to Reduce Emissions
- RMA
- Resource Management Act 1991
- SADEM
- Ministry of Economic Development's Supply and Demand Equilibrium Model
- SF6
- sulphur hexafluoride
- SFC
- Drifters Surface Drifters
- SO2
- sulphur dioxide
- SOLAS
- Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study
- SOOP
- Ship of Opportunity Programme
- SOPAC
- South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission
- SPREP
- Secretariat of the Pacific Environment Programme
- Sub-SFC
- Sub-surface
- UNEP
- United Nations Environment Programme
- UNESCO
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
- UNFCCC
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- VOS
- Volunteer Observing Ship
- WCRP
- World Climate Research Programme
- WHYCOS
- World Hydrological Cycle Observing System
- WMO
- World Meteorological Organization
- WWW
- World Weather Watch of WMO
- XBT
- expendable bathythermograph
