Environment strategy: global environmental impacts of consumption and production
Independent report from the James Hutton Institute on behalf of the Scottish Government on global impacts of consumption and production in Scotland. This research is being used to inform the forthcoming Scottish Government environment strategy.
1. Acronyms
AC Acidification
BF-BOF Blast Furnace Basic Oxygen Furnace
BGR German Federal Agency for Earth Sciences and Raw Materials
BGS British Geological Survey
BOE Barrel of Oil Equivalent
CC Climate change
CC-HH Climate change human health
CC-T Climate change terrestrial ecosystem
CO2 Carbon Dioxide
CFCs Choroflurocarbons
CRMs Critical raw Materials
CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
DesXS - xeric shrublands
EAF Electric Arc Furnace
ECOTOX/ECOTOX-F Ecotoxicity, freshwater
ECOTOX-M Ecotoxicity, marine
ECOTOX-T Ecotoxicity, terrestrial
EIA Environmental Impact Assessment
EMEP/CEIP Centre on Emission Inventories and Projections
EU European Union
Eurostat European Union Statistical Office
EUTM Eutrophication Marine
EUTT/TEU Eutrophication Terrestrial
EUTF/FEU Eutrophication Freshwater
EXIOBASE Environmentally-Extended Input-Output Analysis
FAO Food and Agriculture Organisation (of the United Nations)
FAOSTAT FAOs Corporate Statistical Database
FAO-Aquastat FAOS’s Global Information System on Water and Agriculture
GDP Gross Domestic Product
GHG Greenhouse Gas(es)
HS2 Harmonised System nomenclature
HTOX_c Human toxicity, cancer
HTOX_nc Human toxicity, non-cancer
IR Ionising radiation
LCA Life Cycle Assessment
LU Land use (impacts due to)
MontGS Montane grasslands and shrublands
MSC Marine Stewardship Council
NEA Net Extraction Abroad
NH3 Ammonia
NOx Nitrogen Oxides
ODP Ozone depletion
OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
PAH Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
PCFs Product Carbon Footprint
PM Particulate matter
POF Photochemical ozone formation
POF-HH Photochemical ozone formation, human health
POF-T Photochemical ozone formation, terrestrial ecosystem
POPs Persistent Organic Pollutants
RADD European Commission Radioactive Discharge Database
SF Sulphur Hexaflouride
SO2 Sulphur Dioxide
TNFD Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
TropSubDBF Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests;
TropSubGSS Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas and shrublands
TropSubMBF Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests;
UK United Kingdom
UN United Nations
UNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
UNSCEAR United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation
US United States
US EPA United States Environmental Protection Agency
USGS United States Geological Survey
WaterGAP Global hydrological model that quantifies human use of groundwater and surface water, as well as water flows and water storage
WU Water use (impacts due to)
WU-HH Water use, human health
WU-T Water use, terrestrial ecosystem
ZWS Zero Waste Scotland