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A: Aforestation; Allowance; Annex B Countries; Annex I Countries; Annex II Countries; Assigned Amount (AA) and Assigned Amount Units (AAUs); Atmosphere
B: Broker; Business As Usual Scenario (BAU)
C: Cap and Trade; Captured carbon; Carbon Credit; Carbon Cycle; Carbon Dioxide Equivalent (CO2eq); Carbon Dioxide, or CO2; Carbon Financial Instrument (CFI); Carbon Sequestration; Certified Emission Reduction Unit, (CER); Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX); Clean Development Mechanism (CDM); Climate; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
D: Dangerous climate change; Deforestation; Desertification; Directive on Landfill of Waste
E: Emissions; Emissions Cap; Emissions Reduction Unit(ERU); Emissions Trading; Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS); European Climate Exchange (ECX); European Union Allowances (EUA)
F: Forestry/Forestation; Fossil fuel
G: Global Warming Potential (GWP); Global warming; Greenhouse Effect; Greenhouse Gases, or GHGs
H: Hydrocarbons; Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)
I: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC)
J: Joint Implementation(JI); Joule
K: Kerosene; Kyoto Protocol
L: Landfill; Lithosphere
M: Methane (CH4); Mitigation

N: Non-Annex B Parties; Non-Annex I Parties
O: Offsets; Ozone Layer
P: Perfluorocarbons (PFCs); Pre-Industrial
Q: Quantified Emissions Limitation and Reduction Commitments (QELROs)
R: Renewables; Retirement
S: Supply Chain; Sustainable Business
T: Thermal expansion (in oceans); Tipping point
U: UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC; Ultraviolet Radiation
V: Validation; Verified Emission Reduction (VER); Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS); Voluntary Carbon Unit (VCU)
W: WBCSD (World Business Council on Sustainable Development); WRI (World Resources Institute); Water Vapor
X: X-list
Y
Z: Zero Carbon

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