| $b | billion (thousand million) dollars |
| $m | million dollars |
| ABS | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| AEEA | Australian Environmental-Economic Accounts |
| AFF | agriculture, forestry and fishing |
| AG | agriculture |
| AGEIS | Australian Greenhouse Emissions Information System |
| ANZSIC | Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification |
| ASNA | Australian System of National Accounts |
| bcm | billion cubic metres |
| BoM | Bureau of Meteorology |
| C&S | commercial and services |
| C2F6 | Hexaflouroethane |
| CF4 | Tetraflouromethane |
| CONST | construction |
| CO2 | carbon dioxide |
| EAA | Energy Account, Australia |
| EDR | economic demonstrated resources |
| EG | electricity and gas |
| EGW&W | Electricity, gas, water and waste services industry |
| GDP | gross domestic product |
| Gg | gigagram (1,000 tonnes) |
| GHG | greenhouse gas (emissions) |
| GJ | gigajoule |
| GL | gigalitre |
| Gt | gigatonne |
| GVA | gross value added |
| GVAP | gross value of agricultural production |
| GVIAP | gross value of irrigated agricultural production |
| ha | hectare |
| HFC | hydrofluorocarbon |
| HH | household |
| IBRA | Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia |
| IGVA | industry gross value added |
| kL | kilolitre |
| kt | kilotonne |
| LPG | liquefied petroleum gas |
| LULUCF | Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry |
| MFG | manufacturing |
| ML | megalitre |
| MNG | mining |
| MSW | municipal solid waste |
| Mt | megatonne |
| NRM | natural resource management |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| PJ | petajoule |
| RECs | Renewable Energy Certificates |
| RET | Renewable Energy Target |
| SEEA | System of Environmental-Economic Accounting |
| SEEA-AFF | System of Environmental-Economic Accounting for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries |
| SEEAW | System of Environmental-Economic Accounting for Water |
| SF6 | Sulphur hexaflouride |
| SNA | System of National Accounts |
| t | tonne |
| TRANS | transport |
| UNFCCC | United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |
| WAA | Water Account, Australia |
| WRiA | Waste and Recycling in Australia |
| WS | water supply |