Monitoring Progress towards a Resource‑Efficient and Circular Economy

Aggregates and abbreviations

 

Abbreviation	Name		Abbreviation	Name
3R	Reduce, reuse, recycle		ISO	International Organization for Standardization
CBS	Statistics Netherlands		LCA	Life-cycle assessments
CE	Circular Economy		MOEJ	Ministry of Environment Japan
CEPA	Classification of Environmental Protection Activities and Expenditure		ODA	Official Development Assistance
CML	Circularity Metrics Lab		OECD CEI	OECD Core Set of Environmental Indicators
COFOG	Classification of the Functions of Government		OECD GGI	OECD Green Growth Indicators
CReMA	Classification of Resource Management Activities		OECD MFRP	OECD Material Flow and Resource Productivity Indicators
DANE	Colombian Administrative Department of Statistics		OECD RECE-XG	OECD Resource Efficiency and Circular Economy Expert Group
DMC	Domestic Material Consumption		PAYT	Pay-as-you-throw
DMI	Domestic Material Input		PSUT	physical supply and use tables
DRS	Deposit-refund system		PSR	pressure-state-response
EEA	European Environment Agency		R&D	Research and Development
EGSS	Environmental Goods and Services Sector Accounts		RMC	Raw Material Consumption
EMF	Ellen MacArthur Foundation		RMe	Raw Material equivalents
EoL	End-of-life		SDG	Sustainable Development Goals
EPR	Extended Producer Responsibility		SEEA	System of Environmental-Economic Accounting
EU-MF	EU Monitoring Framework		UNCEEA	United Nations Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting
FAO	UN Food and Agriculture Organization		UNDESA	United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
FDI	Foreign Direct Investment		UNECE-TF	United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Task Force on Measuring Circular Economy
GHG	greenhouse gas		UNECE-TF WP3	UNECE Task Force Working Package 3
HDI	Human Development Index		UNEP	UN Environment Programme
IFCMA	Inclusive Forum on Carbon Mitigation Approaches		UNEP IRP	UNEP International Resource Panel
ISIC/NACE	ISIC is the International Standard Industrial Classification of all economic activities. NACE is the acronym used to designate the statistical classification of economic activities in the European Union. The term NACE is derived from the French title: Nomenclature statistique des activités économiques dans la Communauté européenne.		UNSD	United Nations Statistics Division
			WEEE	Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment