| 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 |