Abbreviations
- ACHPR
African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
- ACHR
American Convention on Human Rights
- ACODE
Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment
- ADPF
Ação de Descumprimento de Preceito Fundamental (Brazil)
- AIR
All India Reporter
- AJIL
American Journal of International Law
- ALR
Australian Law Reports
- App
Application
- AR6 SYR
IPCC Synthesis Report of the Sixth Assessment Report
- ARPS
Annual Review of Political Science
- Art
Article
- Arts
Articles
- BCLR
Boston College Law Review
- CBDR-RC
Principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities
- CCLR
Carbon & Climate Law Review
- CDR
Carbon dioxide removal
- CERD
Committee interpreting the International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination
- CESCR
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Cf
Confer, meaning compare
- CHRP
Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines
- Cir
Circuit (United States)
- CJ
Chief Justice
- CJEL
Columbia Journal of Environmental Law
- CJEU/ECJ
Court of Justice of the European Union
- CJIL
Chinese Journal of International Law
- CLJ
Cambridge Law Journal
- CLR
Commonwealth Law Reports
- CMA
Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement
- COP
Conference of the Parties
- COSIS
Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International
- CRC
United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Doc
Document
- EBP
Emerging Best Practice
- ECHR
European Convention on Human Rights
- ECJ/CJEU
Court of Justice of the European Union
- ECR
European Court Reports
- ECtHR
European Court of Human Rights
- ed
Editor
- eds
Editors
- e.g.
For example
- EIA
Environmental Impact Assessment
- EJIL
European Journal of International Law
- eKLR
Kenya Law Reports (electronic)
- ELR
Environmental Law Review
- ENSO
El Niño–Southern Oscillation
- EPA
Environmental Protection Agency (United States)
- ESIA
Environmental and social impacts assessment
- et al
And others
- EU
European Union
- EWCA
England and Wales Court of Appeal
- EWHC
England and Wales High Court of Justice
- FCA
Federal Court of Australia
- FCAFC
Full Court of the Federal Court of Appeal (Australia)
- GEC
Global emissions per capita
- GELR
Georgetown Environmental Law Review
- GHG
Greenhouse gas
- GMST
Global mean surface temperature
- HRC
Human Rights Committee
- IACHR
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
- IACtHR
Inter-American Court of Human Rights
- IAHRS
Inter-American Human Rights System
- IAM
Integrated Assessment Models
- ibid
Ibidem
- ICCPR
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- ICESCR
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- ICJ
International Court of Justice
- ICLQ
International and Comparative Law Quarterly
- i.e.
That is
- IEHC
Irish High Court
- IEL
International Environmental Law
- IJCL
International Journal of Constitutional Law
- ILC
International Law Commission
- ILM
International Legal Materials
- IPCC
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- ITLOS
International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
- IUCN
International Union for Conservation of Nature
- J
Judge/Justice
- JEL
Journal of Environmental Law
- JHRE
Journal of Human Rights and the Environment
- KLJ
Kings Law Journal
- LDC
Least Developed Countries
- LJIL
Leiden Journal of International Law
- LSE
London School of Economics
- Ltd
Limited
- MEA
Multilateral Environmental Agreement
- n
Note
- NDC
Nationally Determined Contribution
- NDCs
Nationally Determined Contributions
- NGO
Non-Governmental Organisation
- NHRI
National Human Rights Institutions
- No
Number
- NSWLEC
Land and Environment Court of New South Wales (Australia)
- NZCA
New Zealand Court of Appeal
- NZHC
New Zealand High Court
- NZLR
New Zealand Law Reports
- NZSC
New Zealand Supreme Court
- OECD
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- OHCHR
Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights
- OJLS
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
- ONSC
Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Canada)
- Ors
Others
- OxHRH
Oxford Human Rights Hub
- PA
Paris Agreement
- PCIJ
Permanent Court of International Justice
- PELR
Pace Environmental Law Review
- PIL
Public Interest Litigation
- PLD
All Pakistan Legal Decisions
- PPCDAm
Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Amazon
- QIL
Questions of International Law
- QLC
Queensland Land Court (Australia)
- QMLJ
Queen Mary Law Journal
- RDS
Royal Dutch Shell
- RECIEL
Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law
- Rep
Reports
- RIAA
Reports of International Arbitral Awards
- S
Section
- SAFLII
Southern African Legal Information Institute
- SC
Supreme Court
- SCC
Supreme Court Cases (India)
- SCR
Supreme Court Reports (India)
- SCRA
Supreme Court Reports Annotated (Philippines)
- SIDS
Small Island Developing States
- SPM
Summary for Policymakers
- SSP
Shared Socioeconomic Pathway
- TEL
Transnational Environmental Law
- TFEU
Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
- UKHL
United Kingdom House of Lords
- UKSC
United Kingdom Supreme Court
- UN
United Nations
- UNCIO
United Nations Conference on International Organization
- UNCLOS
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
- UNEP
United Nations Environment Programme
- UNFCCC
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- UNGA
United Nations General Assembly
- UNGP
United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
- UNHR
United Nations Human Rights
- UNTC
United Nations Treaty Collection
- UNTS
United Nations Treaty Series
- US
United States
- v
Versus
- VCAT
Victorian Courts and Tribunals (Australia)
- VCLT
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
- VJEL
Vermont Journal of Environmental Law
- WG
Working Group (of the IPCC)
- WJELP
Washington Journal of Environmental Law and Policy
- YLJ
Yale Law Journal
- ZAGPPHC
North Gauteng High Court (South Africa)
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