ACAP |
Arctic Council Action Plan |
ACWA |
US based Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment Program |
AMAP |
Arctic Monitoring Assessment Programme |
BAT |
Best Available Technique |
BCD |
Base Catalysed Dechlorination |
BEP |
Best Environmental Practise |
BOT |
Build, Operate and Transfer |
BTU |
British Thermal Unit |
CB |
Chlorobenzene |
CEE |
Central and Eastern Europe |
CIP |
Centre for International Projects (Russia) |
CIS |
Container-based Incineration System |
CKI |
Cement Kiln |
CO |
Carbon Oxide |
COP |
Conference of Parties |
CP |
Chlorophenols |
DANCEE |
Danish Co-operation for Environment in Eastern Europe |
DDT |
Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane |
DE |
Destruction Efficiency |
DEPA |
Danish Environmental Protection Agency |
DG-ENV |
Directorate General – Environment |
DRE |
Destruction and Removal Efficiency |
EECCA |
Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia |
EHF |
Environmental Health Fund |
EIA |
Environmental Impact Assessment |
EPA |
Environmental Protection Agency |
EU |
European Union |
FAO |
Food and Agriculture Organization |
GEF |
Global Environment Facility |
GJ |
Giga Joule |
GPCR |
Gas-Phased Chemical Reduction |
HCB |
Hexa-Chloro-Benzene |
HCH |
Hexachlorohexane |
HELCOM |
Helsinki Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area |
HW |
Hazardous Waste |
IERR |
Internal Economic Return Rate |
IFIs |
International Finance Institutions |
IFRR |
Internal Financial Return Rate |
IPEN |
International Pesticide Elimination Network |
IPPC |
Integrated Pollution Prevention Control |
IRR |
Internal Rate and Return |
ISO |
International Standard Organisation |
ISPA |
EU Instrument for Structural Policies for Pre-Accession Reforms |
ITD |
Indirect Thermal Desorption |
LCA |
Life Cycle Assessment |
LIFE |
L'Instrument Financier pour l'Environnement (main focus on development and implementation of Community environment policy and legislation) |
LPG |
Liquid Purified Gas |
MEG |
Major Equipment Groups |
MJ |
Mega Joule |
MW |
Mega Watt |
NEAP |
National Environmental Action Plan |
NEFCO |
Nordic Environment Finance Cooperation |
NGO |
Non Governmental Organisation |
NIP |
National Implementation Plan for the Stockholm Convention |
NOK |
Norwegian Kroner (currency) |
NPV |
Net Present Value |
NSW |
New South Wales |
ODS |
Ozone Depleting Substances |
OECD |
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
OP |
Obsolete Pesticides |
PAH |
Poly-Aromatic Hydrocarbons |
PCB |
Poly-Chlorinated-Biphenyls |
PCT |
Poly-Chlorinated-Terphenyls |
PHARE |
EU Financial instrument to assist candidate countries in their transition towards EU membership |
PIC |
Product of Incomplete Combustion |
POP |
Persistent Organic Pollutants |
PPE |
Personnel Protection Equipment |
PPM |
Parts Per Million |
PUF |
Polyurethane Foam |
PVC |
Poly Vinyl Chloride |
R&D |
Research and Development |
RF |
Russian Federation |
SC |
Stockholm Convention |
SCW TMT |
Scheduled Chemical Waste (~Hazardous Waste) 2,4,6-trimercaptotriazine trisodium salt |
TOC |
Total Organic Carbon |
TRBP |
Thermal Reduction Batch Processor |
TWG |
Technical Working Group |
UK |
United Kingdom |
UNDP |
United Nations Development Programme |
UNECE |
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe |
UNEP |
United Nations Environment Programme |
UNIDO |
United Nations Industrial Development Organisation |
US |
United States |
USD |
US Dollars |
US-EPA |
United States Environmental Protection Agency |
WB |
World Bank |
WTO |
World Trade Organization |