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

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