| CAG |
|
Chair's Advisary Group |
| CD |
|
Committee Draft (draft standard still under review by subcommittee) |
| DIS |
|
Draft International Standard |
| EMS |
|
Environmental Management Systems |
| GHG | | Greenhouse Gases |
| ISO |
|
International Organization for Standardization |
| ISO 9000 |
|
Series of quality management system standards |
| ISO 14000 |
|
Series of environmental management system standards |
| LCA |
|
Life cycle assessment (technique for assessing the environmental aspects & impacts of an enterprise's activities & products) |
| MSS |
|
Management Systems Standards |
| OECD |
|
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| SC |
|
Subcommittee (responsible for development of standards; TC207 currently contains six subcommittees) |
| SME |
|
Small and Medium Enterprises |
| TC 207 |
|
Technical Committee of the ISO responsible for developing ISO 14000 series standards |
| TMB |
|
Technical management board of ISO |
| TR |
|
Technical Report |
| WG |
|
Working group (operates within a subcommittee) |
