| ABMT | Area-Based Management Tool |
| ABNJ | Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction |
| AiNP | Area in Need of Protection |
| AIS | Automatic Identification System |
| AMLR | Antarctic Marine Living Resources |
| APEI | Area of Particular Environmental Interest |
| ASMA | Antarctic Specially Managed Area |
| ASPA | Antarctic Specially Protected Area |
| ASTI | Area of Special Tourist Interest |
| ATCM | Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting |
| ATCP | Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties |
| ATS | Antarctic Treaty System |
| AWI | Alfred Wegener Institute |
| BB | Building Blocks |
| BBNJ | Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction |
| BBNJ Agreement | Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction |
| CAMLR Convention | Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources |
| CAO | Central Arctic Ocean |
| CAOFA | Agreement to Prevent Unregulated High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean |
| CBD | Convention on Biological Diversity |
| CBDR | Common But Differentiated Responsibilities |
| CBS | Central Bering Sea |
| CCAMLR | Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources |
| CCAS | Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Seals |
| CCSBT | Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna |
| CCT | Cirrus Cloud Thinning |
| CCZ | Clarion-Clipperton (Fracture) Zone |
| CFC | Chlorofluorocarbon |
| CHM | Common Heritage of Mankind |
| CITES | Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora |
| CLCS | Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf |
| Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Atmospheric Pollution | |
| CM | Conservation Measure |
| CMA | Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement |
| CMM | Conservation and Management Measure |
| CMS | Convention on Migratory Species |
| CO2 | Carbon Dioxide |
| COP | Conference of the Parties |
| CRAMRA | Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities |
| DSM | Deep-Seabed Mining |
| DWFN | Distant Water Fishing Nation |
| EAMPA | East Antarctic Marine Protected Area |
| EBSA | Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Area |
| eDNA | Environmental DNA |
| EEC | European Economic Community |
| EEZ | Exclusive Economic Zone |
| EF-WG | Working Group on Exploratory Fishing |
| EIA | Environmental Impact Assessment |
| EMMP | Environmental Management and Monitoring Plan |
| ENMOD | Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques |
| ESA | Endangered Species Act |
| EU | European Union |
| FAD | Fish Aggregated Devices |
| FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization |
| FiSCAO | Fish Stocks in the Central Arctic Ocean |
| FPZ | Fisheries Protection Zone |
| FRZ | Fisheries Research Zone |
| GFCM | General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean |
| GHG | Greenhouse Gas |
| GPZ | General Protection Zone |
| HFC | Hydrofluorocarbon |
| HSM | Historic Site and Monument |
| IAATO | International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators |
| IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency |
| IATTC | Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission |
| ICC | Inuit Circumpolar Council |
| ICCAT | International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna |
| International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling | |
| IFB | Instruments, Frameworks and Bodies |
| IGC-3 | Third Intergovernmental Conference on an international legally binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction |
| IGY | International Geophysical Year |
| ILC | International Law Commission |
| IMO | International Maritime Organization |
| IOTC | Indian Ocean Tuna Commission |
| IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
| ISA | International Seabed Authority |
| ISRU | In-situ Space Resource Utilization |
| ISS | International Space Station |
| ITLOS | International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea |
| IUCN | International Union for Conservation of Nature |
| IUU | Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated |
| IWC | International Whaling Commission |
| JNRFC | Joint Norwegian Russian Fisheries Commission |
| JPSRM | Joint Program of Scientific Research and Monitoring |
| KFZ | Krill Fishing Zone |
| KRZ | Krill Research Zone |
| LTC | Legal and Technical Commission |
| MARPOL | International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships |
| MCB | Marine Cloud Brightening |
| MEPC | Marine Environmental Protection Committee |
| MLF | Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol |
| MMPA | Marine Mammal Protection Act |
| MOP | Meeting of the Parties |
| MOTU | Molecular Taxonomic Unit |
| MPA | Marine Protected Area |
| MSY | Maximum Sustainable Yield |
| NAP | National Antarctic Program |
| NASCO | North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization |
| NDC | Nationally Determined Contribution |
| NEAFC | North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission |
| NGO | Non-Governmental Organisation |
| N-MAR | Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge |
| North Pacific Fisheries Commission | |
| NPFMC | North Pacific Fishery Management Council |
| NUA | Non-use Agreement (for Solar Geoengineering) |
| OBIS | Ocean Biodiversity Information System |
| ODS | Ozone Depleting Substance |
| OSPAR Convention | Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic |
| OST | Outer Space Treaty |
| PSCG | Provisional Scientific Coordination Group |
| QELR | Quantified Emission Limitations Reduction |
| REA | Regional Environmental Assessment |
| REMP | Regional Environmental Management Plan |
| RFMA | Regional Fisheries Management Arrangement |
| RFMO | Regional Fisheries Management Organisation |
| RoP | Rules of Procedure |
| RSR | Reciprocating States Regime |
| SAI | Stratospheric Aerosol Injection |
| SCG | Scientific Coordinating Group |
| SDC | Seabed Dispute Chamber |
| SDG | Sustainable Development Goals |
| SEAFO | South-East Atlantic Fisheries Organization |
| SEMPIA | Strategic Environmental Management Plan for Mining in the Mid-Atlantic |
| SiNP | Site in Need of Protection |
| SIOFA | Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement |
| SMS | Seafloor Massive Sulfides |
| SPRFMO | South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation |
| SPZ | Special Protection Zone |
| SRA | Scientific Reference Area |
| SRM | Solar Radiation Modification |
| SRZ | Special Research Zone |
| STB | Scientific and Technical Body |
| UK | United Kingdom |
| UN | United Nations |
| UNCLOS | United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea |
| UNCOPUOS | United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space |
| UNEP | United Nations Environment Programme |
| UNFCCC | United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |
| UNFSA | United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement |
| UNGA | United Nations General Assembly |
| United Nations Conference on the Human Environment | |
| UNOOSA | United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs |
| USA or US | United States of America |
| USSR | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
| VME | Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem |
| VSG | Visitor Site Guideline |
| WAG | Waste Assessment Guidelines |
| WCPFC | Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission |
| WSMPA P1 | Weddell Sea Marine Protected Area, Phase 1 |
| WWF | World Wildlife Fund |
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