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Glossary of Terms and Short Descriptions
Agenda 21 (GEF)
The Assembly (GEF)
Block A Grant (GEF)
Block B Grant (GEF)
Block C Grant (GEF)
Conference of the Parties (CoP)
Convention on Biological Diversity(CBD)
The Council (GEF)
Focal Area (GEF)
Focal Point, Operational (GEF)
Focal point, National (GEF)
Framework Convention on Climate Change(FCCC)
GEF (GEF)
GEFDOC(GEF Document) (GEF)
GEFOP -- GEF Operations Committee
Geographic Information System(GIS)
Integrated Pest Management(IPM)
International financial institutions
International waters (GEF)
Instrument of the Restructured GEF
Land degradation (GEF)
Logical Framework Approach (Log Frame)
Medium-Size Grants (MSG) (GEF)
Mitigation measures (short- and long-term)
Monitoring and Evaluation(M&E)
Non-governmental Organization (NGO)
Operational Strategy (OS) (GEF)
Operational Programs(OP) (GEF)
Ozone(O3)
PDF Grants (GEF)
Portfolio(The)
Project Development and Preparation Facility(PDF) (GEF)
Project Implementation Review(PIR) (GEF)
Public involvement (GEF)
The Secretariat (GEF)
Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP)
The Trustee
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED)
User Pays Principle (UPP)
External Links
From Wikipedia:
Online Glossary of Terms
EPAEDIA (by the European Environment Agency)
Joint Monitoring Programme: Definitions for access to water and sanitation
FAO’s Online Land and Water Glossary of Terms
The European Union’s Water Framework Directive Glossary of Terms
IWMI (International Water Management Institute): glossary of terms
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- Acid Rain
- Acidification
- Adaptation activities
- Agenda 21
- Aquifer
- Aridification
- Armenia - New Water Code
- Armenia - Reforms in Water Sector
- Assembly
- Associated project
- Athens Declaration
- Bankability
- Baseline
- Bioaccumulate
- Biodegradable
- Biodiversity
- Biotechnology
- Block A Grant
- Block B Grant
- Block C Grant
- Bogs
- Bretton Woods Institutions
- CSO
- Capacity Building
- Carbon dioxide
- Carpathian Convention
- Carrying Capacity
- Catalyzing
- Catchment
- Chief Executive Officer(CEO)
- Civil Society
- Co-Funding or Co-Financing
- Complementarity
- Complementary Activities
- Concept Paper
- Conference of the Parties (CoP)
- Convention
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- Cost-Effective
- Cost Recovery
- Cost Sharing
- Council
- Country Driven
- DABLAS Initiative
- Deforestation
- Dinaric Arc
- Domestic benefits
- Drainage model
- Dry Sanitation Technology
- ENVSEC
- Earth Summit
- Ecological Impact
- Economic instruments
- Ecosystem
- Ecosystem approach
- Eligibility Country
- Enabling activities
- Endangered species
- Environment
- Environment for Europe
- Eutrophication
- Executing Agency
- Executive Coordinator
- Fens
- Focal Area
- Focal Point, Operational
- Focal point, National
- Fossil fuels
- Framework Convention
- Framework Convention on Climate Change(FCCC)
- Free-standing project
- Full Project Grants
- GEF-Assembly
- GEF-Council
- GEF-SGP
- GEF-Secretariat
- GEFDOC(GEF Document)
- GEFOP -- GEF Operations Committee
- Genetic engineering
- Global Benefits
- Global Commons
- Global Environment
- Global environmental benefits
- Global warming
- Greenhouse effect
- Greenhouse gases
- Groundwater table
- Group of 77
- Group of Eight (G-8)
- Habitat
- Hazardous Substance
- Hazardous Waste
- IBAs
- Implementation Plan
- Implementing Agencies
- Incremental cost
- Indicators
- Institutional building
- Instrument of the Restructured GEF
- Integrated Pest Management(IPM)
- International financial institutions
- International waters
- Investment projects
- Joint implementation(JI)
- Kyoto Protocol
- Land degradation
- Land reclamation
- Land rehabilitation
- Leveraging
- Logical Framework Approach (Log Frame)
- MDGs
- MSGP
- Mainstreaming
- Medium-Size Grants (MSG)
- Migratory birds
- Mitigation measures (short- and long-term)
- Monitoring
- Monitoring and Evaluation(M&E)
- Montreal Protocol
- Multilateral
- National Appropriation
- Non-Point Source
- Non-governmental Organization (NGO)
- Operational Principles
- Operational Programs(OP)
- Operational Strategy (OS)
- Ozone
- Ozone Layer
- Ozone depletion
- PCB
- PDF Grants
- Participants
- Persistent Organic Pollutants
- Persistent Pesticides
- Petersberg Process
- PhD Project Filip Aggestam - Multi Criteria Analysis (MCA)
- Pilot Phase
- Polluter Pays Principle(PPP)
- Pollution
- Portfolio
- Potable
- Precautionary principle
- Precipitation
- Project Brief
- Project Cycle
- Project Development and Preparation Facility(PDF)
- Project Document
- Project Implementation Review(PIR)
- Project funding
- Project outcomes
- Protected area
- Protocol
- Public involvement
- Ramsar sites
- Regional project
- Renewable energy
- Resource Allocation Framework
- River basin councils
- Root Causes
- Runoff
- Saline soil
- Salinity
- Salinization
- Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel
- Secretariat
- Short-term response measures
- Stakeholder
- Standards
- Stormwater
- Strategic Considerations
- Stratosphere
- Sustainability
- Sustainable development
- Sustainable use
- Targeted research
- Tariffs
- Technical assistance projects
- Technology transfer
- Toxic Substance
- Trust Fund
- Trustee
- Ultraviolet Rays
- United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
- User Pays Principle
- Virtual water
- WSS
- Water-Energy Nexus
- Water Footprint
- Water as economic good
- Water for Life
- Water management introductory kit for UNDP newcomers
- Watershed
- Wetlands
- Workspace - UNDP Partnership with Coca-Cola
- Workspace/E-Moderator-Course/On-line Learning Games
- IWRM
- International Waters
- Soil hydrology
- Climate Change
- Groundwater
- Salinity control
- Soil salinity
- Waterlogging
- Watertable control
