Ah, the alphabet soup of acronyms! Here’s a list, inevitably incomplete
| Acronym | Meaning | Snark (if indicated, and probably even if it isn’t….) | |
| CCS | Carbon Capture and Storage | See also fantasy, technofixes | |
| ETS | Emissions Trading Scheme | See also fantasy, technofixes | |
| EU | European union | ||
| FML | What every young person who understands a Keeling Curve is saying | ||
| GVC | Global Value Chains | “Man is born free but everywhere is in GVC” | |
| IEA | International Energy Agency | Set up after the first Oil Shock, to keep the energy flowing. Has consistently under-estimated renewables | |
| IMF | International Monetary Fund | ||
| LCOE | Levelised Cost of Energy | Taking everything else into account (except longer term environmental damage, obvs) | |
| OECD | Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development | ||
| TL;DR | “Too long; didn’t read” | ||
| UNEP | United Nations Environment Program | Set up after 1972 Stockholm conference. An institutional co-ordinator for C02 investigators in the 1970s and 80s | |
| UNESCO | |||
| UNFCCC | United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change | ||
| VUCA | Volatility Uncertainty Complexity Ambiguity | ||
| WHO | World Health Organisation | ||
| WMO | World Meteorological Organisation | ||
| WTF | Correct response to any new acronym for some new technophiliac outfit with a TLA, tbi… sorry, tbh. |