| AALCC | Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee | |
| ABS | Access and Benefit Sharing | |
| ACRE | Advisory Committee on Releases into the Environment | |
| ACTS | African Centre for Technology Studies | |
| AIA | Advanced Informed Agreement | |
| AOSIS | Association of Small Island Deveolopment States | |
| AVHRR | Advanced very high resolution Radiometer |
| BAZ | Bundesanstalt für Züchtungsforschung an Kulturpflanzen | |
| BDP | Association of German Plant Breeders (Bund deutscher Pflanzenzüchter) | |
| BE | Special Voluntary Trust Fund (for additional activities approved by the COP for the biennium 1999-2000) | |
| BfN | Bundesamt für Naturschutz (Federal Office for Nature Conservation) | |
| BMBau | Bundesministerium für Raumordnung, Bauwesen und Städtebau (Federal Ministry for Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development | |
| BMBF | Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie (Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology) | |
| BMG | Bundesministerium für Gesundheit (Federal Ministry of Health) | |
| BML | Bundesministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten (Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry) | |
| BMU | Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit (Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety) | |
| BMV | Bundesminiserium für Verkehr (Federal Ministry of Transport) | |
| BMVEL | Bundesminiserium für Verbraucherschutz, Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (Federal Ministry of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture) | |
| BMVg | Bundesministerium der Verteidigung (Federal Ministry of Defence) | |
| BMZ | Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development) | |
| BSPA | Baltic Sea Protected Area | |
| BSWG | Ad Hoc Working Group on Biosafety | |
| BY | Trust Fund for the Convention | |
| BZ | Special Voluntary Trust Fund (for facilitating participation of Parties in the Convention process for the biennium 1999-2000) |
| CATIE | Central American Agricultural Research and Training Centre | |
| CBD | Convention on Biological Diversity | |
| CCAMLR | Council on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources | |
| CCD | Convention to Combat Desertification | |
| CFC | Chlorofluorocarbons | |
| CGIAR | Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research | |
| CGRFA | Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture | |
| CHM | Clearing House Mechanism | |
| CIFOR | Centre for International Forestry Research (Research institute under the umbrella of the CGIAR) | |
| CIS | Commonwealth of Independent States | |
| CITES | Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora | |
| CMS | Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals | |
| COP 1 | first Meeting of the COP (Nassau, Bahamas, 28 November-9 December, 1994) | |
| COP 2 | second Meeting of the COP (Jakarta, Indonesia, 6-17 November, 1995) | |
| COP 3 | third Meeting of the COP (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 4-15 November, 1996) | |
| COP 4 | fourth Meeting of the COP (Bratislava, Slovak Republic, 4-15 May, 1998) | |
| COP 5 | fifth Meeting of the COP (Nairobi, Kenya, 15-26 May, 2000) | |
| COP 6 | sixth Meeting of the COP (The Hague, Netherlands, 07-19 April, 2002) | |
| COP | Conference of the Parties (to the CBD) | |
| CORINE | Community Wide Coordination of Information on the Environment | |
| CSD | Commission on Sustainable Development | |
| CTE | Committee on Trade and Environment (WTO) |
| DBU | Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt | |
| DFG | German Research Assciation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) | |
| DGfZ | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Züchtungskunde | |
| DIB | German Association of Biotechnology Industries (Deutsche Industrievereinigung Biotechnologie) | |
| DNR | Deutscher Naturschutzring | |
| DRD | Deliberate Release Directive | |
| DSM | Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen |