6th EAP : EU Sixth Environment Action Programme
BRIC: Country grouping including Brazil, Russia, India and China
BaP: Benzo(a)pyrene
CAFE: EU Clean Air For Europe programme
CAP: EU Common Agricultural Policy
CBD: Convention on Biological Diversity
CFC: Chlorofluorocarbons
CFP: EU Common Fisheries Policy
CH4: Methane
CO: Carbon monoxide
CO2: Carbon dioxide
CSI: EEA Core Set of Indicators
DALY: Disability-adjusted life years
dB: Decibel
DMC: Domestic material consumption
DWD: EU Drinking Water Directive
EBD: Environmental Burden of Disease
EC: European Communities
EEA: European Environment Agency
EFTA: European Free Trade Association
EMC: Environmentally-weighted material consumption
ENER: EEA energy indicators
EPR: EU Environment Policy Review
EQS: EU Environmental Quality Standards Directive
EU: European Union
EUR: Euro
FAO: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
GDP: Gross domestic product
GHG: Greenhouse gas
GIS: Geographic information systems
GIS: Greenland ice sheet
GMES: Global Monitoring for Environment and Security
HANPP: Human appropriation of net primary production
HLY: Healthy life years
HNV: High Nature Value farmland
IPCC: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IRENA: Indicator Reporting on the integration of ENvironment concerns into Agricultural policy
LE: Life expectancy
LEAC: Land and ecosystem accounts
MA: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
NAMEA : National accounts matrix extended by environmental accounts
NH3: Ammonia
NHX: Ammonium and ammonia
NMVOC: Non-methane volatile organic compounds
NOX: Nitrogen oxides
O3: Ozone
ODS: Ozone depleting substances
OECD: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
PCB: Polychlorinated biphenyls
PM: Particulate matter — PM2.5 and PM10 denote different size of PM
REACH : EU Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals Directive
SEBI: Streamlining European Biodiversity Indicators
SEIS: Shared Environmental Information System
SO2: Sulphur dioxide
SoE: State of the environment
SOER: ‘State and outlook of the European environment’ report
TEEB: The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity
TERM : Transport Environment Reporting Mechanism
UN: United Nations
UNFCCC: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
US: United States of America
USD: US Dollars
UWWTD: EU Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive
WAIS: West Antarctic ice sheet
WEEE: Waste electrical and electronic equipment
WEF: World Economic Forum
WEI: Water exploitation index
WFD: EU Water Framework Directive
WHO: World Health Organization
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