| ACC |
Accident Compensation Commission |
www.acc.co.nz
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| ACVM |
Animal Compounds and Veterinary Medicines; usually refers to the Act of this name |
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| AEC |
Animal Ethics Committee |
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| AHB |
Animal Health Board |
www.ahb.org.nz
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| CAPEX |
Capital expenditure; funding spent to acquire or improve long-term assets, such as property or equipment |
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| carboNZeroCertTM |
Programme that encourages and supports individuals and organisations to minimise their impacts on climate change by providing tools to measure, manage and mitigate CO2 emissions |
www.carbonzero.co.nz
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| CCMAU |
Crown Company Monitoring Advisory Unit; a Government agency |
www.ccmau.govt.nz
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| CEA |
Collective employment agreement |
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| COP |
Code of practice |
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| CoRE |
Centre of Research Excellence; administered through the Tertiary Education Commission |
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| CRI |
Crown Research Institute: a Government-owned, independent, research company; New Zealand has nine CRIs |
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| CUES |
Centre of Urban Ecosystem Sustainability—Manaaki Whenua and the University of Auckland |
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| DOC |
Department of Conservation |
www.doc.govt.nz
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| DSIR |
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research; a predecessor of CRIs |
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| EBEX21® |
Emissions/Biodiversity Exchange in the 21st century. |
www.ebex21.co.nz
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| EBEX21® credits |
A measure of land purchased to offset greenhouse gas emissions by carbon storage in vegetation |
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| EBIT |
Earnings before interest and tax |
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| EECA |
Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority; a Government agency |
www.eeca.govt.nz
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| E-Manage |
A system developed by EBEX21® for businesses to measure energy use and CO2 emissions |
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| EMS |
Environment Management System |
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| ERMA NZ |
New Zealand’s Environmental Risk Management Authority; a Government agency |
www.ermanz.govt.nz
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| ESR |
Environmental Science & Research; a CRI |
www.esr.cri.nz
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| FRI |
Forest Research Institute, predecessor of Scion,
a CRI |
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| FRST |
Foundation for Research, Science and Technology |
www.frst.govt.nz
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| FTE |
Full-time equivalent; a measure for equating part-time staff hours to full-time employees |
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| GBIF |
Global Biodiversity Information Facility |
www.gbif.org.nz
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| GIAB |
Growth and Innovation Advisory Board; a Government agency |
www.giab.govt.nz
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| GIS |
Geographic information systems; typically used for producing maps |
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| GM |
Genetically modified |
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| Govt3 |
A MFE programme to help agencies improve sustainability of their business |
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| GPS |
Global positioning system |
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| GRI |
Global Reporting Initiative |
www.globalreporting.org
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| GSM |
Global system for mobile communications |
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| GST |
Goods & Services Tax |
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| HSNO |
Hazardous Substances and New Organisms; usually refers to the Act of this name |
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| ICANZ |
Institute of Chartered Accountants of New Zealand |
www.icanz.co.nz
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| ICM |
Integrated Catchment Management |
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| ICMP |
International Collection of Micro-organisms |
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| IEA |
Individual employment agreement
from Plants; bacterial and fungal cultures |
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| IFRS |
International fi nancial reporting standards |
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| IRAP |
Integrated research for aquifer protection |
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| ISO14000 |
International environmental management standard |
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| IT |
Information technology; e.g., computing systems |
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| KAREN |
Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network |
www.karen.net.nz
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| LED |
Light-emitting diode |
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| LENZ |
Land Environments of New Zealand; classification system developed by Manaaki Whenua and MfE |
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| LIUDD |
Low-impact urban design and development |
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| LLC |
Limited liability company |
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| LRIS |
Land Resource Information Systems; incorporates resource and soils databases |
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| MAF |
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry |
www.maf.govt.nz
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| MFE |
Ministry for the Environment |
www.mfe.govt.nz
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| MoRST |
Ministry of Research, Science and Technology |
www.morst.govt.nz
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| MOU |
Memorandum of Understanding |
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| MSFE |
More stable funding environment |
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| NGO |
Non-governmental organisation |
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| NIWA |
National Institute of Water & Atmospheric
Research; a CRI |
www.niwa.co.nz
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| NSAT |
Net surplus after tax; a standard accounting term |
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| NSAT |
Net surplus after tax; a standard accounting term |
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| NSOF |
Non-specific Output Funding: discretionary revenue from FRST; from 2005, replaced by Capability Fund |
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| NSOF |
Non-specifi c Output Funding: discretionary revenue from FRST; from 2005, replaced by Capability Fund |
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| NT |
No target |
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| NZAC |
New Zealand Arthropod Collection |
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| NZAid |
New Zealand International Aid and Development Agency |
www.nzaid.govt.nz
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| NZCEE |
New Zealand Centre for Ecological Economics: Massey University and Manaaki Whenua |
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| NZTE |
New Zealand Trade and Enterprise |
www.nzte.govt.nz
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| OBI |
Outcome Based Investment; FRST-funded long-term research |
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| OECD |
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
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| PGST |
Public-good science and technology; research in the public interest funded by FRST |
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| PSA |
Public Service Association |
www.psa.org.nz
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| QE II Trust |
Helps landowners protect significant natural and cultural features |
www.nationaltrust.org.nz
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| RS&T |
Research, science and technology |
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| RSNZ |
Royal Society of New Zealand |
www.rsnz.org
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| SCI |
Statement of Corporate Intent; produced annually for the shareholding ministers, outlines our core business, performance measures and targets |
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| SLURI |
Sustainable Land Use Research Initiative; a collaboration between four CRIs |
www.sluri.org.nz
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| TNC |
The Nature Conservancy |
www.nature.org
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| UHF |
Ultra-high frequency |
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| UNEP |
United Nations Environment Programme |
www.unep.org
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| VHF |
Very high frequency |
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