Some Environmental Terms:

·         BAU -Business as Usual

·         BCM -Billion Cubic Metre

·         BTU -British Thermal Unit

·         CDM -Clean Development Mechanism

·         CO -Carbon Monoxide

·         CO2-Carbon Dioxide

·         CNG-Compressed Natural Gas

·         CPCB- Central Pollution Control Board

·         CPHEEO- Central Public Health and Environmental Engineering Organization

·         CSO- Central Statistical Organization

·         dB(A)A-Weighted Decibels

·         DPCs- District Planning Committees

·         EIA- Environmental Impact Assessment

·         FAO- Food and Agriculture Organization

·         GDP- Gross Domestic Productivity

·         GEDA- Gujarat Energy Development Agency

·         GJ/t -Gigajoule per tonne

·         GW- Gigawatt

·         ICIMOD- International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development

·         IFPRI-International Food Policy Research Institute

·         IIPS- International Institute of Population Science

·         INP- Indian Nutrition Profile

·         IPCC- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

·         IIT- Indian Institute of Technology

·         Kgoe- Kilogram of Oil Equivalent

·         IUCN- International Union for Conservation of Nature

·         LULUCF- Land-Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry

·         Mha- Million Hectares

·         MNRE- Ministry of New and Renewable Energy

·         MoA- Ministry of Agriculture

·         MoEF- Ministry of Environment and Forests

·         MoPNG- Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas

·         MPCs- Metropolitan Planning Committees

·         MPN- Most Probable Number

·         MT- Million Tonnes

·         MTPA- Million Tonnes per Annum

·         MTOE- Millions Tonnes of Oil Equivalent

·         NAPCC- National Action Plan on Climate Change

·         NGO- Non-Governmental Organization

·         NFHS- National Family Health Survey

·         NSSO- National Sample Survey Organization

·         NO- Oxides of Nitrogen X

·         OED- Occupational and Environmental Health

·         PM- Particulate Matter

·         RSPM- Respirable Suspended Particulate Matter

·         SMEs- Small and Medium Enterprises

·         SO2 -Sulphur Dioxide

·         SPM- Suspended Particulate Matter

·         TERI- The Energy and Resource Institute

·         ULB- Urban Local Bodies

·         UNDP- United Nations Development Programme

·         UNEP- United Nations Environment Programme

·         UNESCO- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

·         UNFCCC-United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

·         USAID- United States Agency for International Development

·         VOC- Volatile Organic Compound

·         WHO- World Health Organization

·         WMO- World Meteorological Organization

·         WTO- World Trade Organization

·         WWF- World Wide Fund for Nature