- Industry: NGO
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The United Nations Organization (UNO), or simply United Nations (UN), is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace.
Responsibility for the deterioration of the natural environment, implying the allocation of environmental costs to the economic activities that cause such deterioration. See also polluter-pays principle and user-pays principle.
Industry:Environment
Discharge of pollutants into the atmosphere from stationary sources such as smokestacks, other vents, surface areas of commercial or industrial facilities and mobile sources, for example, motor vehicles, locomotives and aircraft.
Industry:Environment
Supporting activity undertaken within an enterprise (establishment) in order to create the conditions under which the principal or secondary activities can be carried out. See also Externalization of environmental protection cost.
Industry:Environment
Destruction of ozone in the stratosphere, where it shields the earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation. Its destruction is caused by chemical reactions in which oxides of hydrogen, nitrogen, chlorine and bromine act as catalysts.
Industry:Environment
One of the fundamental theories of modern biology which postulates that changes in species through time are the result of natural selection acting on the genetic variation that is present among the individuals of any given species.
Industry:Environment
Treatment process for removing solid particulate matter from water by passing it through porous media such as sand or artificially produced filters. This process is often used to remove particles that contain pathogenic organisms.
Industry:Environment
Underground tank receiving waste water directly from the home. Organic sewage/waste is decomposed by bacteria and settles down in the tank; effluents flow out of the tank into the ground; and the sludge is periodically pumped out.
Industry:Environment
Activities that result in air pollution including agricultural activities, combustion processes, dust producing processes, manufacturing activities, nuclear energy-related activities, spray-painting, printing, dry-cleaning and so on.
Industry:Environment
Process of reducing vegetable and animal refuse, either by natural biological decomposition of organic material in the presence of air or by controlled mechanical methods, for the purpose of increasing and maintaining soil fertility.
Industry:Environment
Specific levels of water quality desired for identified uses, including drinking, recreation, farming, fish production, propagation of other aquatic life, and agricultural and industrial processes. See also drinking water standards.
Industry:Environment
