| AECM | Association of Estonian Cities and Municipalities |
| BRPCE | Brussels Regional Programme for a Circular Economy |
| CAD | Canadian dollar |
| CBS | Statistics Netherlands |
| CE | Circular economy |
| CEP | European Commission Clean Energy Package |
| CERIEC | Centre for Intersectoral Studies and Research on the Circular Economy |
| CIRB | Brussels Regional Informatics Centre |
| CHP | Combined heat and power |
| C&DECEIA | Construction and demolition Estonian Circular Economy Industries Association |
| EEA | European Environment Agency |
| EIB | European Investment Bank |
| EIC | Environmental Investment Centre |
| EPR | Extended producer responsibility |
| ERDF | European Regional Development Fund |
| ERR | Estonian Public Broadcasting |
| ETS | School of Technology of Montreal |
| EU | European Union |
| EUR | Euro |
| FAO | United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization |
| FEMP | Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces |
| FDI | Foreign direct investment |
| GDP | Gross domestic product |
| GDSI | Global Destination Sustainability Index |
| GHG | Greenhouse gas |
| GPP | Green public procurement |
| GDSICCA | Global Destination Sustainability Index International Congress and Convention Association |
| ICT | Information and communication technology |
| IHOBE | Public Society of Environmental Management of the Basque Country |
| IEA | International Energy Agency |
| IoT | Internet of Things |
| IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
| IT | Information technology |
| LCA | Life cycle analysis |
| LULUCF | Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry |
| MoU | Memorandum of understanding |
| NWMP | National Waste Management Plan |
| ODA | Official development assistance |
| OVAM | Public Waste Agency of Flanders |
| PLB | Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency |
| PMMD | City of Toronto Purchasing and Materials Management Division |
| PREC | Regional Programme for the Circular Economy |
| PRO | Producer responsibility organisation |
| REACH | EU Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals |
| RECE-XG | OECD Expert Group on a New Generation of Information for Resource-efficient and Circular Economy |
| R&D | Research and development |
| SDG | UN Sustainable Development Goal |
| SEI | Stockholm Environment Institute |
| SME | Small and medium-sized enterprise |
| SRIK | Information Centre for Sustainable Renovation |
| SWMS | Solid Waste Management Services |
| TalTech | Tallinn University of Technology |
| TNO | Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research |
| TU DelftUK | Delft University of Technology United Kingdom |
| UN | United Nations |
| UNECE-TF | United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Task Force on Measuring the Circular Economy |
| UNEP | United Nations Environment Programme |
| UNESCO | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
| UNHCR | United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |
| VAT | Value added tax |
| WEEE | Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment |
| WMP | Waste management plan |
The Circular Economy in Tallinn, Estonia
