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Appendix A: List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Forecasting: Learning from International Best Practices
| AEO | Annual Energy Outlook (annual report on domestic energy-based emissions—U.S.) |
| AMG | Analysis and Modelling Group |
| BAU | Business-as-usual |
| CCPO | Climate Change Projects Office |
| CDM | Clean Development Mechanism |
| DEFRA | Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (U.K.) |
| DTI | Department of Technology and Innovation (U.K.) |
| DUKES | Digest of U.K. Energy Statistics |
| EIA | Energy Information Administration (U.S.) |
| E3MC | Energy-Economy-Environment Model for Canada |
| GDP | Gross domestic product |
| GHG | Greenhouse Gas |
| GMM | Global macroeconomic model (U.K.) |
| IEA | International Energy Agency |
| IEO | International Energy Outlook (annual report on international energy-based emissions—U.S.) |
| IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
| JI | Joint Implementation |
| KPIA | Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act |
| M-M Model | MARKAL-Macro Energy Model (U.K.) |
| MSG | Norwegian equilibrium model |
| Mt | megatonne |
| NEMS | National Energy Modeling System (U.S.) |
| NRTEE | National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy |
| OCC | Office of Climate Change (U.K.) |
| OEIM | Oxford Energy-Industry Model (U.K.) |
| PM | particulate matter |
| UNFCCC | United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |
| WEO | World Energy Outlook (annual report of the IEA) |
Table of Contents
1. Executive Summary
2. Introduction
3. The Challenge of Forecasting
4. What are the Best Practices of GHG Emissions Reductions Forecasting?
5. Discussion
6. Conclusion
Appendix A: List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
Appendix B: Description of Additionality, Free-ridership, Rebound Effect, and Policy Interaction Effects
Appendix C: Discussion of Top-down, Bottom-up, and Hybrid Approaches to Energy-Economy Modelling
Appendix D: Glossary of Useful Modelling Terms
Notice to Reader
2. Introduction
3. The Challenge of Forecasting
4. What are the Best Practices of GHG Emissions Reductions Forecasting?
5. Discussion
6. Conclusion
Appendix A: List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
Appendix B: Description of Additionality, Free-ridership, Rebound Effect, and Policy Interaction Effects
Appendix C: Discussion of Top-down, Bottom-up, and Hybrid Approaches to Energy-Economy Modelling
Appendix D: Glossary of Useful Modelling Terms
Notice to Reader
