Acronyms and Abbreviations
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COP CO2 CSP CSR C40 DAI DDT DFI DII DLR ECJ ECSC EEC EEG EIA EIB EIT EnEG EnEV ENTSO-E ENTSO-G ESCO ESSP EU EU EDIT EU ETS EVS EWS EWZ ExWoSt FAO FiT FMStG FONA FSC GATT GBEP GCCA GDP GEA GEF GET FiT GLASOD GPI GHG Gt GuD GWe
Conference of the Parties Carbon dioxide Concentrated Solar Power Corporate Social Responsibility Cities Climate Leadership Group Verband Deutscher Architekten- und Ingenieurvereine e. V. [Association of German Architects and Engineers] Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (Insecticide) Development Finance Institutions DESERTEC Industrial Initiative Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt [German Aerospace Center] European Court of Justice European Coal and Steel Community European Economic Community Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz [Renewable Energy Sources Act, Germany] Energy Information Administration (USA) European Investment Bank European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EU) German Energy Saving Act Energy Saving Building Regulation European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas Energy Service Companies Earth System Science Partnership European Union European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EU) European Union Emissions Trading System European Values Survey Power company of the city of Schönau,Germany Power company of the city of Zurich, Switzerland Experimenteller Wohnungs- und Städtebau (BBSR) [Experimental Housing and Urban Development, Germany] Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Feed-in-tariffs Finanzmarktstabilisierungsgesetz [Financial Markets Stabilization Act, Germany] Rahmenprogramm Forschung für nachhaltige Entwicklung (BMBF) [Research for Sustainable Development, Germany] Forest Stewardship Council General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Global Bioenergy Partnership (G8-Initiative) Global Climate Change Alliance (EU) Gross Domestic Product Global Energy Assessment Global Environment Facility (UNDP, UNEP, World Bank) Global Energy Transfer Feed-in Tariffs The Global Assessment of Human Induced Soil Degradation (ISRIC) Genuine Progress Indicator Greenhouse Gas Gigatons Gas-steam Power Plant Gigawatt of electricity