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Acronyms
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ABNT Brazilian Standards Association
ABS acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene
ACS Association of Caribbean States
ACTO Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization
ADI Direct Action of Unconstitutionality (Brazil)
AECI Spanish Agency for International Cooperation
AIDIS Inter-American Association of Sanitary Engineering
AMC Caracas Metropolitan Area
Amcham American Chamber of Commerce
AMSS Metropolitan Area of San Salvador
ANA National Water Agency (Brazil)
ANAM National Environment Authority (Panama)
ANMAT National Medicine, Food & Medical Technology Administration (Argentina)
ANP National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas & Biofuels (Brazil)
ANVISA National Agency for Sanitary Vigilance (Brazil)
AQGs Air Quality Guidelines (WHO)
ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials
BAT best available technology
BEP best environmental practice
BOD biochemical oxygen demand
C&D construction & demolition
CABA Autonomous City of Buenos Aires
CAFTA Central American Free Trade Agreement
CAN Andean Community
CAR autonomous regional corporation (Colombia)
CARICOM Caribbean Community
CBD Convention on Biological Diversity
CCAD Central American Commission on Environment & Development
CDM clean development mechanism
CE Ceará (Brazil)
CEAMSE State Company for Ecological Coordination of the Metropolitan Area (Argentina)
CEC North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation
CEHI Caribbean Environmental Health Institute
CEMPRE Business Commitment to Recycling (Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay)
CEPAL United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America & the Caribbean
CEPIS Pan American Center for Sanitary Engineering & Environmental Sciences
CETESB Environmental Sanitation Technology Company (São Paulo State, Brazil)
CFCs chlorofluorocarbons
CI Consumers International
CIDA Canadian International Development Agency
CIOMS Council of International Organizations of Medical Sciences
CNI National Confederation of Industry (Brazil)
CNRH National Water Resources Council (Brazil)
CNTBio National Technical Commission on Biosafety (Brazil)
CO carbon monoxide
CO2 carbon dioxide
COD chemical oxygen demand
COFEMA Federal Environment Council (Argentina)
COMLURB Urban Sanitation Company of Rio de Janeiro
CONAM National Environment Council (Peru)
CONAMA National Environment Council (Brazil); National Environment Commission (Chile)
COPANT Pan American Standards Commission
COVENIN Venezuelan Commission of Industrial Standards
CREP Caribbean Regional Environment Program
CSD United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development
CTF Federal Technical Registry (Brazil)
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