also called emergency passport · temporary passport
A short-term document a consulate issues to let a citizen travel when their passport is lost or stolen.
A short-term document a consulate issues so you can travel when your passport is lost or stolen abroad. It is a lifeline to get you moving again, usually just far enough to reach home or somewhere that can issue a proper passport, and it limits where you can go. It is not a second passport, a full travel document you hold on purpose; this is an emergency stopgap.
Someone has their bag stolen days before a flight, passport gone. Their consulate issues an emergency travel document that gets them home, but it will not carry them on the multi-country trip they had planned, so the rest of the itinerary collapses around getting a new passport.
It's the lifeline that gets you moving again after a passport disaster abroad, though it limits where you can go.
The difference is the whole point, so here is each one in a line.
Consular services are the help your country's embassy gives its citizens abroad, such as replacing a lost passport.
Consular registration is signing up so they have your contact details for crisis alerts, and an emergency travel document is the short-term paper a consulate issues to get you home when your passport is lost or stolen.
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