| Abbreviation | Term | Definition |
| AA | Asset Accounts | Asset accounts describe the stocks and changes there in (natural and anthropogenic) during the accounting period |
| AE | Air Emission Accounts | Physical flow accounts that describe the release of pollutants into air |
| AG | Environmentally-adjusted Aggregates | Aggregates that adjust standard national accounts aggregates for depletion and/or degradation (e.g. "Green GDP", Genuine Savings) |
| AI | Air | |
| AP | Applications | Applications of the accounts |
| AQ | Aquaculture | The farming of aquatic organisms (fish, plants) with some sort of intervention in the rearing process to enhance production |
| CF | Capture Fisheries | Harvesting of fish living in the wild |
| CO | Compilation | Publications containing mainly data (e.g. yearbooks) |
| DE | Depletion | Decrease in value of natural resource stocks due to extraction |
| DG | Degradation | Decrease in value of ecosystems due to human activities |
| EN | Energy Flow Accounts | Physical flow Accounts for energy resources |
| EP | Environmental Protection Expenditure Accounts | Monetary accounts of expenditures, activities and products for the protection of the environment |
| FI | Fisheries | |
| FO | Forest | |
| FS | Forest Services | Services provided by the forest (e.g. recreation, watershed protection, carbon sequestration) |
| GO | Governance | Institutional arrangement of environmental accounting programmes/projects in countries |
| IN | Indicators | Indicators derived directly from the accounts (e.g. intensity indicators, total wealth, MFA indicators, environmentally adjusted aggregates) |
| LE | Land and Ecosystems | |
| MA | Monetary Asset Accounts | Asset accounts in monetary units |
| ME | Mineral and Energy | |
| MF | Material Flow Analysis | Application of physical flow accounts that estimates material throughput in a system (country, region, ..) for specific substances or aggregated instances thereof |
| MI | Mineral | Accounts for mineral resources |
| MO | Modeling | Applications of the accounts in economic modeling exercises (e.g. Input-Output modeling, hidden flows) |
| MP | Methodology | Publications that discuss concepts, methods and frameworks for environmental-economic accounts – compilation guidelines on specific resources are also included |
| NT | Non-timber Forest Goods | Non-timber goods provided by the forest (e.g. berries, mushrooms, wild-life) |
| PA | Physical Asset Accounts | Asset accounts in physical units |
| PH | Physical and Hybrid Flow Accounts | Accounts in physical units that record the flows of ecosystem inputs, natural resources, products and residuals according to their origin (environment, domestic industries and imports) and their destination (intermediate and final uses, exports and the en |
| QA | Quality Accounts | Describe the quality of natural resources at the beginning and end of the accounting period |
| RN | Renewable Energy | Accounts for renewable energy (e.g. hydroelectricity, wind or solar) |
| SA | Subnational Accounts | Accounts compiled at regional level (administrative region, river-basin) |
| TS | Time Series | Publications containing data for at least 2 different years |
| VA | Valuation | Valuation beyond the 1993 SNA (e.g. depletion, degradation, economic valuation) |
| WA | Water | |
| WE | Water Emission Accounts | Physical flow accounts that describe the release of pollutants into water resources through the direct and indirect (through a wastewater treatment plant) discharge of wastewater into water resources. |
| WS | Waste Accounts | Physical flow accounts for waste expressed in tons |
