Abbreviations

Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use change

Advance informed agreement

African Ministerial Conference on the Environment

Association of Southeast Asian Nations

Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy

Bureau of Energy Efficiency (Government of India)

Basic Income Earth Network

Biodiversity Information System for Europe

Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa

Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean

Compound annual growth rate

Calcium oxide

Common agricultural policy

Cost–benefit analysis

Convention on Biological Diversity

Caribbean Development Bank

Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre

Computational fluid dynamics

Methane

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora

Circular Critical Materials Supply Chains programme

Carbon monoxide

Carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide equivalent

Consumption-based approach

Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals

Committee of Permanent Representatives

Crossing point temperature

Chromium

Critical raw materials

Critical Raw Materials Act

Digital public infrastructure

Differential scanning calorimetry

Environmental action programme

European Commission

Energy Conservation Building Code (Government of India)

Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

European Court of Justice

European Environment Agency

European Environmental Bureau

Exclusive economic zone

Environmental impact assessment

Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

End-of-life

Environmental Data Services

El Niño–Southern Oscillation

Extended producer responsibility

Endangered Species Act

Environment, social and governance

European Union

European nature information system

Electric vehicle

Food and Agriculture Organization

Friends of the Earth

Granular activated carbon

Group of 7 countries

Group of 20 countries

Gas chromatography

Green Climate Fund

Gross domestic product

Global Environment Facility

Greenhouse gases

Gross loan portfolio

Graham’s ratio

Global Reporting Initiative

Green, social, sustainability, sustainability-linked, and transition

Gigatonnes

Gigawatt

Hydrogen

Hydrochloric acid

Mercury

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

International Council on Mining and Metals

Inter-American Development Bank

International Energy Agency

International Finance Corporation

International Integrated Reporting Council

International Labour Organization

Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Integrated pollution prevention and control

International Monetary Fund

Investor Network on Climate Risk

International Platform on Sustainable Finance

International Renewable Energy Agency

Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance

International Resource Panel

Intrinsic spontaneous combustion propensity classification

International Union for Conservation of Nature

Kilogram

Latin America and the Caribbean

Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act (India)

Land carrying capacity

Land degradation neutrality

Leaching Environmental Assessment Framework

Lower explosive limit

Lithium-ion

Living modified organisms

Liquefied natural gas

Lowering organic waste methane initiative

Sodium hydroxide

Millennium Development Goals

Multilateral environmental agreement

Municipal solid waste

Minimum Self-heating Temperature

Ministry of Environment and Forests (Government of India)

Marine protected area

Member States

Minerals Security Partnership

Minimum support price (India)

National Adaptation Plans

Nationally determined contributions

Non-governmental organisation

National Mission on Transformative Mobility and Battery Storage (India)

Nitrogen

Natural Resources Defense Council

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Oxygen nose Point

Product-as-a-service

Climate Action Programme of Mexico City

Pan-African Payment and Settlement System

Lead

Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins

Polychlorinated dibenzofurans

Personal environmental stewardship

Polyfluoroalkyl substances

Perfluorooctanoic acid

Perfluorooctane sulfonate

Parts per million

Public–private partnership

Power purchase agreement

Potentially toxic element

Photovoltaic

Representative elementary volume

Rock storage area

Regional consultative meetings

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation

Regional Ministerial Environment Forums

Sulfur

Sustainable aviation fuel

Severe acute respiratory syndrome

Sustainable Development Goals

Small Island Developing States

Strategic projects

Simultaneous thermal analysis

Toxic equivalency factor

Toxic equivalent quantity

The Energy and Resources Institute

Thermogravimetric analysis

Upper explosive limit

Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All (Government of India)

Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs

United Nations Development Programme

United Nations Environment Assembly

United Nations Environment Programme

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

United States Environmental Protection Agency

United States Geological Survey

Volatile organic compound

World Commission on Environment and Development

World Economic Forum

World Resources Forum

Waste rock storage facilities

Wastewater treatment plant