List of abbreviations

7th EAP

Seventh Environment Action Programme

AWB

Artificial water body

CAP

Common agricultural policy

CCA

Climate change adaptation

CDI

Combined Drought Indicator

CDS

Climate data store

CIS

Common implementation strategy

Climate‑ADAPT

The European Adaptation Platform

CLIMATE‑KIC

Knowledge and Innovation Communities for Climate

CMEF

Common Monitoring and Evaluation Framework

CMIP

Coupled Model Intercomparison Project

CSI

Core Set of Indicators (EEA’s indicators system)

DG ENV

Directorate-General for Environment (European Commission)

DG JRC

Directorate‑General - Joint Research Centre

DMP

Drought management plan

DRR

Disaster risk reduction

DSS

Decision Support System

EAFRD

European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development

EAGF

European Agricultural Guarantee Fund

EbA

Ecosystem Based Adaptation

ECA

European Court of Auditors

ECA&D

European Climate Assessment and Dataset

ECMWF

European Centre for Medium‑Range Weather Forecasts

ECRINS

European Catchments and Rivers Network System

EDO

European Drought Observatory

EEA

European Environment Agency

EEA38+UK

The 32 member countries, the United Kingdom  and 6 cooperating countries of the European Environment Agency

EIP

Water European Innovation Partnership on Water

E-OBS

Daily gridded observational dataset under the ENSEMBLES project

EP

European parliament

EQS

Environmental quality standards

ESTAT/EUROSTAT

Directorate‑General of the European Commission responsible for statistical information

ETC/ICM

European Topic Centre on Inland, Coastal and Marine Waters

EU

European Union

EU27

The 27 Member States of the European Union

EU27+UK

The 27 Member States of the European Union plus the United Kingdom

EUMETSAT

European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites

FAO

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

FAO‑Adapt

FAO's programme on climate change adaptation

FRBD

Functional River Basin District (ECRINS spatial reference scale)

FRMP

Flood Risk Management Plan

GACSA

Global Alliance for Climate‑Smart Agriculture

GAEC

Good Agriculture and Environmental condition

GCM’s

Global Circulation Models

GDP

Gross domestic product

GEM

General Equilibrium Models

GFDRR

Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery

GFS

Global Forecast System

GHG

Greenhouse gases

GHMs

Global Hydrological Models

GOES

Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system

GRDC

Global Runoff Data Centre

GVA

Gross value added

GWD

Groundwater Directive

HMWB

Heavily modified water body

IAM

Integrated Assessment Models

IED

Industrial Emissions Directive

INTERREG EU

instrument supporting cooperation across borders through project funding

IPBES

Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

IPCC

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

IPCC AR5

IPCC Fifth assessment report

JPI

Joint programming Initiative

JRC

Joint Research Centre

LIFE+

EU's funding instrument for the environment and climate action

LULUCF

Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry

m.s.l.

Mean sea level

MAES

Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services

MS

The EU Member States

NACE

Nomenclature Générale des Activités Économiques dans les Communautés Européennes (EU classification system)

NAP

National adaptation plan

NAS

National adaptation strategy

ND

Nitrates Directive

NGO

Non‑governmental organization

NUTS

Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (Eurostat’s geocode standard)

NWRM

Natural water retention measure

OECD

Organisation for Economic Co‑operation and Development

PESETA

Projection of Economic impacts of climate change in Sectors of the European Union based on bottom‑up Analysis

PoM

Programme of Measures

RBD

River basin district

RBMP

River basin management plan

RCP

Representative Concentration Pathway

RDP

Rural Development Programme

RWR

Renewable Water Resources

SB

Sub-basin (ECRINS spatial reference scale)

SDG

Sustainable Development Goals

SEEA

UN System of Environmental Economic Accounting

SEEA-CF

UN System of Environmental Economic Accounting – Central Framework

SEEA-W

UN System of Environmental Economic Accounting – Water

SFDRR

Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

SNA

UN System of National Accounts

SoE

State of Environment

SPA

Shared Climate Policy Assumptions

SPEI

Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index

SPI

Standardized Precipitation Index

SSP

Shared Socioeconomic Pathways

TWG

Technical working group

UN

United Nations

UNEP

United Nations Environment Programme

UNFCCC

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

UWWTD

Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive

UWWTP

Urban wastewater treatment plant

WB

WEFE Nexus         

Water body

Water, Energy, Food, Ecology Nexus

WEI

Water Exploitation Index

WEI+

Water Exploitation Index Plus

WELF Nexus

Water, Energy, Land, Food Nexus

WF

Water footprint

WFD

Water Framework Directive

WG

Working Group

WISE

Water Information System for Europe

WISE 3

Water Information System of Europe – Water quantity

WS&D

Water Scarcity and Drought

WSI

Water scarcity index