Abbreviations

Abbreviations

AACC

Agricultural Alliance on Climate Change

ABARE

Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics

ACCESS

Australian Community Climate and Earth Systems Simulator

ASCAS

Australian Soil Carbon Accreditation Scheme

APAL

Apple and Pear Australia Limited

Audit Advisory Council

National Land and Water Resources Audit Advisory Council

AWD

Available Water Determination

BoM

Bureau of Meteorology

BRS

Bureau of Rural Sciences

Climate Change in Australia

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and the Bureau of Meteorology: Climate Change in Australia – Technical Report 2007.

CO2

carbon dioxide

CO2-e

carbon dioxide equivalent

CO2-e/ha/yr

carbon dioxide equivalent/ hectare/ year

COAG

Council of Australian Governments

CRC

Cooperative Research Centre

CCRSPI

National Climate Change Research Strategy for Primary Industries

CSIRO

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

DAFF

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

DCC

Department of Climate Change

EPPs

Emergency Plant Pests

ETS

Emissions Trading Scheme

FICT

Food Industry Council of Tasmania

the Framework

National Climate Change Adaptation Framework

GARA

Greenhouse Action in Regional Australia program

GDP

Gross Domestic Product

GHG

greenhouse gas

Green Paper

Department of Climate Change, Green Paper on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, July 2008.

MCVP

Managing Climate Variability Program

MLA

Meat and Livestock Australia

NACCAP

National Agriculture and Climate Change Action Plan 2006-2009

NAFI

National Association of Forest Industries

NCAS

National Carbon Accounting System

NCAT

National Carbon Accounting Toolbox

NFF

National Farmers' Federation

NSW

New South Wales

NWI

National Water Initiative

the Scheme

Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme

UNFCCC

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

WSP

Water Sharing Plan

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