Abbreviations and acronyms

ACEF

Amsterdam Climate and Energy Fund

AEICE

Innovative Business Cluster for Efficient Construction (Asociación Empresarial Innovadora para la Construcción Eficiente)

AMA

Amsterdam Metropolitan Area

AMB

Barcelona Metropolitan Area (Área Metropolitana de Barcelona)

ARPSI

Areas of Significant Potential Flood Risk (Áreas de Riesgo Potencial Significativo de Inundación)

AUE

Spanish Urban Agenda (Agenda Urbana Española)

AUVASA

Valladolid City Buses (Autobuses urbanos de Valladolid)

AVEBIOM

Spanish Association for Energy Recovery from Biomass (Asociación Española de Valorización Energética de la Biomasa)

CCOO

Workers Commissions (Comisiones Obreras)

CFE

Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities

CGPROTEC

Management Consultants and Technological Projects (Consultores de Gestión y Proyectos Tecnológicos)

CHD

Duero Hydrographic Confederation (Confederación Hidrográfica del Duero)

CO2

Carbon dioxide

COP

Conference of the Parties

CTR Valladolid

Valladolid’s Waste Treatment Centre (Centro de Tratamiento de Residuos de Valladolid)

CUVA

Urban Community of Valladolid (Comunidad Urbana de Valladolid)

CVE

Business Confederation of Valladolid (Confederación Vallisoletana de Empresarios)

EC

European Commission

EFSI

European Fund for Strategic Investments

EIB

European Investment Bank

ELU

Logistic Urban Spaces (Espaces Logistiques Urbains)

EPBD

Energy Performance of Buildings Directive

ERDF

European Regional Development Fund

EU

European Union

FECOSVA

Trade and Services Federation of Valladolid and Province (Federación de Comercio y Servicios de Valladolid y Provincia)

FEMP

Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (Federación Española de Municipios y Provincias)

FOACAL

Federation of Handicraft Organisations (Federación de Organizaciones Artesanas de Castilla y León)

GDP

Gross domestic product

GHG

Greenhouse gas

IAEG

Inter-Agency and Expert Group

ICEX

Institute of Foreign Trade

ICT

Information and communications technology

ILO

International Labour Organization

INEA

University School of Agricultural Engineering (Escuela Universitaria de Ingeniería Agrícola)

INFODEF

Institute for Development Promotion and Training (Instituto para el Fomento del Desarrollo y la Formación)

ITACYL

Technological Agricultural Institute of Castile and León (Instituto Tecnológico Agrario de Castilla y León)

JCYL-FPN

Natural Heritage Foundation Castile and León (Fundación Patrimonio Natural de Castilla y León)

LCA

Life Cycle Analysis

LWARB

London Waste and Recycling Board

NECP

National Energy and Climate Plan

NO2

Nitrogen dioxide

NZEB

Nearly Zero Energy Building

O3

Ozone

OECD

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

OVAM

Public Waste Agency of Flanders

PM2.5

Particulate matter smaller than 2.5 microns in diameter

PM10

Particulate matter smaller than 10 microns in diameter

PRAE

Centre of Environmental Resources (Centro de Recursos Ambientales)

R&D

Research and development

RCCAVA

Valladolid City Council Air Pollution Control Network (Red de Control de la Contaminación Atmosférica del Ayuntamiento de Valladolid)

RDPC

Regional Development Policy Committee

RECI

Spanish Network of Intelligent Cities (Red Española de Ciudades Inteligentes)

RISN

Resource Innovation and Solutions Network

SCP

Sustainable consumption and production

SDGs

Sustainable Development Goals

SEMINCI

International Film Week of Valladolid (Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid)

SEPE

Public Employment Service (Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal)

SME

Small- and medium-sized enterprise

SO2

Sulphur dioxide

TL2

Territorial Level 2

UGT

General Union of Workers (Unión General de Trabajadores)

UN

United Nations

UVa

University of Valladolid (Universidad de Valladolid)

VAT

Value-added tax

VITARTIS

Agro-food Industry Cluster (Asociación de la Industria Alimentaria de Castilla y León)