List of shortened forms
ABARE Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics
ABS Australian Bureau of Statistics
ACCESS Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator
ACIAR Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
APEC Asia–Pacific Economic Cooperation
BoM Bureau of Meteorology
CCS carbon capture and storage
CDM Clean Development Mechanism
CFCs chlorofluorocarbons
CO2-e carbon dioxide equivalent
CO2CRC Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies
CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
DCC Department of Climate Change
GDP gross domestic product
GEF Global Environment Facility
GGAS New South Wales Greenhouse Gas Reduction Scheme
GIAM global integrated assessment model
GNP gross national product
GTEM global trade and environment model
HCFCs hydrochlorofluorocarbons
IEA International Energy Agency
IMF International Monetary Fund
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
LNG liquefied natural gas
LUCF land use, land-use change and forestry
MMRF Monash Multi Regional Forecasting
MRET Mandatory Renewable Energy Target
NEMMCO National Electricity Market Management Company
OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
OPEC Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
R&D research and development
SRES Special Report on Emissions Scenarios of the IPCC
UNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
WTO World Trade Organization
Units of measurement
Gt gigatonne (one billion metric tonnes)
kWh kilowatt hour
Mt megatonne (one million metric tonnes)
MWh megawatt hour
PJ petajoule (1015 joules)
ppb parts per billion
ppm parts per million
TJ terajoule (1012 joules)
TWh terawatt hour