American Anthropological Association
Artificial General Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
Alliance of Small Island States
African Union
Business to Business
Business as Usual
Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction treaty
Biodiversity Strategy
Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa
Cradle to Cradle
Connected and Automated Mobility
Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
Convention on Biological Diversity
Carbon Capture and Storage
Circular Economy Action Plan Figure 1.8: GGW, the Great Green Wall
Chief Executive Officer
Chlorofluorocarbon
Methane
Combined Heat and Power
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
Carbon monoxide
Carbon dioxide
Conference of the Parties
Convention on the Rights of the Child
Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive
Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive
Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive
Direct Air Capture
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
Design for Disassembly
Dow Jones Sustainability Index
Deep Sea Mining
Ecosystem Accounting
European Convention on Human Rights
European Economic Community
European Green Deal Investment Plan
Education for Sustainable Development
Environmental, Social, Governance
Emissions Trading System
European Union
Farm to Fork
Food and Agriculture Organization
Fridays for Future
Forest Stewardship Council
Group of 20
Group of 7
Green Deal Industrial Plan
Gross Domestic Product Figure 3.10: LCOE, Levelized Cost of Energy
Global Footprint Network
Great Green Wall
Genetically modified organism
Gross National Income
Global Reporting Initiative
Gross World Product
Hydrogen
Water
Human Development Index
High-Level Waste
High Seas Treaty
International Atomic Energy Agency
International Criminal Court
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
International Cocoa Initiative
International Court of Justice
Integrated Chain Management
Information and communication technology
internally Displaced Person
International Fund for Agricultural Development
Intergovernmental organisation
International Labour Organization
International Monetary Fund
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Inflation Reduction Act
International Seabed Authority
Intrinsic Sustainability Goal
International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
International Union for Conservation of Nature
Just Transition Mechanism
Life Cycle Assessment, Levenscyclusanalyse
Life Cycle Costing
Levelized Cost of Energy
Lesbian, Homosexual, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, etc.
Low-Level Waste
Living Planet Index
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Millennium Development Goal
(Global) Multidimensional Poverty Index
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Marine Stewardship Council
Nitrous oxide
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
New European Bauhaus
Northern European Enclosure Dam
Non-governmental organisation
Ammonia
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Nitrogen oxide
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Ozone Depleting Substance Figure 11.2: NEED, the Northern European Enclosure Dam
Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development
Probability of doom
People, Planet, Profit
Public-private partnership
Purchasing Power Parity
Responsibility, Emotional intelligence, System orientation, Future orientation, personal Involvement, Action skills &
Disciplinary competences
Space-Based Solar Power
Sustainable Consumption and Production
Sustainable Development Goal
Social & Environmental Assessment Report
System of Environmental-Economic Accounting
Specific, Measurable, Accepted, Realistic, Time-bound
Small and medium-sized enterprises
System of National Accounts
Solar Radiation Management
Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy
The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition
True Cost Account
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
United Nations
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
United Nations Development Programme
United Nations Environment Programme
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
United Nations Global Compact
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
United States of America
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
World Commission on Environment and Development
Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment
World Economic Forum
World Health Organization
World Inequality Database
World Trade Organization
World Wildlife Fund
