Canada’s Air Pollutant Emissions Inventory Report 2025: list of abbreviations, chemical formulas and units
List of Common Abbreviations, Chemical Formulas and Units
Abbreviations
- APEI
- Air Pollutant Emissions Inventory
- CAC
- criteria air contaminant
- CEIP
- Centre on Emission Inventories and Projections
- CEPA 1999
- Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999
- CLRTAP
- Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution
- D/F
- dioxins and furans
- ECCC
- Environment and Climate Change Canada
- EEA
- European Environment Agency
- EF
- emission factor
- EMEP
- Cooperative Programme for Monitoring and Evaluation of the Long-range Transmission of Air Pollutants in Europe or European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme
- LPG
- liquefied petroleum gas
- LTO
- landing and takeoff
- MOVES
- MOtor Vehicle Emission Simulator
- NAICS
- North American Industry Classification System
- NFR
- Nomenclature for Reporting
- NG
- natural gas
- NPRI
- National Pollutant Release Inventory
- PAH
- polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
- PM
- particulate matter
- PM10
- particulate matter less than or equal to 10 microns in diameter
- PM2.5
- particulate matter less than or equal to 2.5 microns in diameter
- POP
- persistent organic pollutant
- QA
- quality assurance
- QC
- quality control
- SOMA
- Sulphur Oxides Management Area
- TPM
- total particulate matter
- UNECE
- United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
- VKT
- vehicle kilometres travelled
- VOC
- volatile organic compound
Chemical Formulas
- B(a)p
- benzo(a)pyrene
- B(b)f
- benzo(b)fluoranthene
- B(k)f
- benzo(k)fluoranthene
- Cd
- cadmium
- CO
- carbon monoxide
- HCB
- hexachlorobenzene
- Hg
- mercury
- I(cd)p
- indeno(1,2,3-cd)pyrene
- NH3
- ammonia
- NO2
- nitrogen dioxide
- NOx
- nitrogen oxides
- Pb
- lead
- SO2
- sulphur dioxide
- SOx
- sulphur oxides
Units
- g
- gram
- gTEQ
- gram of toxic equivalent
- kg
- kilogram
- kt
- kilotonne
- Mt
- megatonne
- t
- tonne