AaaS Analytics as a Service ABNJ areas beyond national jurisdiction ADB Asian Development Bank AEM Agri-environment measures AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome AGGI Annual Greenhouse Gas Index ALRTI acute lower respiratory infections
AMAP Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme
AMCEN African Ministerial Conference on the Environment
AMD acid mine drainage AOC Areas of Concern
ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations ASGM artisanal and small scale gold mining BACT best available control technology BaP benzo[a]pyrene BAT best available techniques BAU business-as-usual BC black carbon
BECCS Bioenergy with crabon capture and storage BEV battery electric vehicles CA conservation agriculture
CaCO3 calcium carbonate CAP Common Agricultural Policy (EU) CAS Chemical Abstract Service
CBMIS community-based monitoring and information systems
CBD Convention on Biological Diversity
CBMIS Community-based monitoring and information systems
CBO Congressional Budget Office
CCAC Climate and Clean Air Coalition for the Reduction of Short-Lived Climate Pollutants
CCAK Clean Cookstoves Association of Kenya
CCAMLR Conservation for the Antarctic Marine Living Resources
CCB China Construction Bank Corporation CCE climate change education
CCFSC Central Committee for Flood and Storm Control
CCP command and control policies CFC chlorofluorocarbon CCS carbon capture and storage CD compact disk
CDC Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (United States)
CEC 1) contaminants of emerging concern, or 2) Commission for Environmental Cooperation (under NAFTA)
CEDS Community Emissions Data System
CENESTA Centre for Sustainable Development and Environment
CFC-11 trichlorofluoromethane CH4
methane
CITES Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
CLRTAP Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution
CLTS community-led total sanitation CMM cutaneous malignant melanoma
CMS Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals
CNS central nervous system CO carbon monoxide CO2
carbon dioxide
COMEAP Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants
CONAFOR National Forestry Commission of Mexico COP Conference of the Parties COPD chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
CORSIA Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation
CSDH Commission on Social Detriments of Health
CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Australia)
CSML Climate Science Model Language CSO civil society organization DaaS Data as a Service DALY disability adjusted life year DDT dichlorodiphenyltrichloro-ethane
DEFRA Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland)
DESD UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (UNCCD)
DFO Department of Fisheries and Oceans (Canada)
DIF Directory Interchanged Format
DLDD desertification, land degradation and drought (UNCCD)