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A

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• AAU : Assigned Amount Unit
  
  
• Adaptation
  
  
• Aerodrome
  
  
• Aerosol
  
  
• Afforestation
  
  
• AIC : Aviation Induced Cloudiness
  
  
• Aircraft emissions
  
  
• Allocation (methodologies)
  
  
• Ancillary benefits
  
  
• Annex B countries
  
  
• Annex B targets
  
  
• Annex I countries
  
  
• APU : Auxiliary Power Unit
  
  
• ASK : Available Seat-Kilometre
  
  
• ATK : Available Tonne-Kilometre
  
  
• ATM : Air Traffic Management
  
  
• Atmosphere
  
  
• Auctioning
  
  
• Aviation emissions
  
  
• Aviation engines
  
  
• Aviation gasoline

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B

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• Belgocontrol
  
  
• Belly load
  
  
• Benchmarking
  
  
• (The European) Bubble
  
  
• Bulk cargo
  
  
• Bunker fuel
  
  
• Business aviation

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C

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• CAEP : Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection
  
  
• CANAC : Computer Assisted National Air Traffic Control Center
  
  
• Cap and trade
  
  
• Carbon cycle
  
  
• Carbon leakage
  
  
• CC : Climate Change
  
  
• CDA : Continuous Descent Approach
  
  
• CDM : Clean Development Mechanism
  
  
• CER : Certified Emission Reduction
  
  
• Chicago Convention
  
  
• Cirrus clouds
  
  
• Climate footprint
  
  
• Climb
  
  
• Closed emission trading
  
  
• Coastal state
  
  
• Code sharing
  
  
• Commercial schedule
  
  
• Contiguous zones
  
  
• Continental shelf
  
  
• Contrails
  
  
• CoP : Conference of the Parties
  
  
• Cruise

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D

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• Deforestation
  
  
• Direct emissions (transport)
  
  
• Distillation of crude oil into different fuel categories
  
  
• Distillated fuels
  
  
• Domestic aviation
  
  
• Dry lease (aviation)

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E

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• EEA area : European Environment Agency area
  
  
• EEZ : Exclusive Economic Zone
  
  
• ECAC : European Civil Aviation Conference
  
  
• EEI : Emissions Embodied in Imports
  
  
• EIT : Economy In Transition
  
  
• ERU : Emission Reduction Unit
  
  
• ET : Emission Trading
  
  
• EU-ETS : European Emission Trading Scheme
  
  
• Eurocontrol
  
  
• European bubble
  
  
• Externality
  
  

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F

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• Flags of convenience
  
  
• Flag state
  
  
• FLAP area
  
  
• Flexible mechanisms
  
  
• Flight sector
  
  
• Fuel combustion
  
  
• Fungibility

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G

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• Gas turbine engine
  
  
• GAV : Gross Added Value
  
  
• GCD : Great Circle Distance
  
  
• GDP : Gross Domestic Product
  
  
• General aviation operations
  
  
• GHG : Greenhouse Gas
  
  
• GPU : Ground Power Unit
  
  
• Grandfathering
  
  
• GRT : Gross Registered Tonnage
  
  
• GTP : Global Temperature Potential
  
  
• GWP : Global Warming Potential

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H

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I

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• ICAO : International Civil Aviation Organization
  
  
• IFO : Intermediate Fuel Oil
  
  
• IFR : Instrument Flight Rules
  
  
• ILS : Instrument Landing System
  
  
• IMO : International Maritime Organization
  
  
• Indirect emissions (transport)
  
  
• Innocent passage
  
  
• Internal waters
  
  
• International aviation
  
  
• IPCC : Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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J

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• Jet fuel
  
  
• Jet gasoline
  
  
• JI : Joint Implementation

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K

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• Kerosene
  
  
• Kyoto commitment period
  
  
• Kyoto greenhouse gasses
  
  
• Kyoto Protocol
  
  
• Kyoto sectors

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L

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• LCC : Low Cost Carrier
  
  
• Leasing
  
  
• Lessee
  
  
• Lessor
  
  
• Load factor
  
  
• LOLO : Lift On / Lift Off vessels
  
  
• LTO : Landing and Take-Off
  
  
• LTO emissions
  
  
• LULUCF : Land-Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry

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M

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• Marine fuels
  
  
• Maritime cultural zone
  
  
• MDO : Marine Diesel Oil
  
  
• MEPC : Marine Environment Protection Committee
  
  
• MGO : Marine Gas Oil
  
  
• Mitigation
  
  
• Montreal (Protocol of)
  
  
• MoP : Meeting of the Parties
  
  
• MUAC : Maastricht Upper Area Control Center
  
  
• MTOW : Maximum Take-Off Weight

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N

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• NAP : National Allocation Plan
  
  
• Narrow-body aircraft

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O

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• Offset
  
  
• Open emission trading
  
  
• Operator (aviation)

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P

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• Party
  
  
• Passenger unit (aviation)
  
  
• Port state
  
  

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Q

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R

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• Raked wingtips
  
  
• Reciprocating piston engine
  
  
• RF : Radiative Forcing
  
  
• RFI : Radiative Forcing Index
  
  
• RMU : Removal Unit
  
  
• Residual oil
  
  
• RORO : Roll-On / Roll-Off vessels
  
  
• RPK : Revenue Passenger-Kilometre
  
  
• RTK : Revenue Tonne-Kilometre
  
  
• RVSM : Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum

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S

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• SBI : Subsidiary Body for Implementation
  
  
• SBSTA : Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technical Advice
  
  
• Scheduled traffic (aviation)
  
  
• Sink (carbon)
  
  
• Social cost
  
  
• Stratosphere
  
  
• Sustainability

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T

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• (fuel) Tankering
  
  
• Taxi (aviation)
  
  
• Territorial waters
  
  
• TEU : Twenty-foot equivalent unit
  
  
• tkm : ton kilometre
  
  
• Triptych approach
  
  
• Tropopause
  
  
• Troposphere

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U

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• UNCED : United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
  
  
• UNCLOS : United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
  
  
• UNEP : United Nations Environment Programme
  
  
• UNFCCC : United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

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V

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• VFR : Visual Flight Rules

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W

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• Wet lease (aviation)
  
  
• Wide-body aircraft
  
  
• Winglets
  
  
• Wingtip devices
  
  
• Wingtip fences
  
  
• WMO : World Meteorological Organisation

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