Abbreviations and acronyms

Assessment of Environment Effects

Australia and New Zealand Environment Conservation Council

Auckland Unitary Plan

Business Growth Agenda

Canterbury Water Management Strategy

Council-controlled commercial organisations

Certified emission reduction unit

Methane

Crown Irrigation Investments Limited

Carbon dioxide

Domestic material consumption

Department of Conservation

Escherichia coli

Exclusive Economic Zone

Environmental goods and services

Environmental Protection Authority

Emission reduction unit

Emissions trading system

Electric vehicle

Freshwater management unit

Free Trade Agreement

British pound

Gross domestic product

Greenhouse gas

Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act

Irrigation Acceleration Fund

Land, Air, Water Aotearoa

Land and Water Forum

Local Government Act

Land Transport Management Act

Land use, land-use change and forestry

Ministry for the Environment

Ministry for Primary Industries

Metropolitan Urban Limit

Municipal solid waste

Nitrous oxides

National Environmental Standard

Non-governmental organisation

National Land Transport Fund

Non-methane volatile organic compound

National Objectives Framework

Nitrogen oxides

National Policy Statement

National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management

Natural Resources Sector

New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme

New Zealand dollar

New Zealand Units

Official development assistance

Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment

Particulate matter

Public-private partnership

Purchasing power parity

Research and development

Resource Management Act

Road user charge

Sustainable Development Goals

Special Housing Area

Sulphur oxides

Total primary energy supply

Water Framework Directive

World Health Organization