- 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.
Separation of metal from its ore by a process involving heating, in which oxides of the metal are generally reduced by carbon in a furnace called a smelter. It is a cause of pollution from fuel combustion.
Industry:Environment
Sudden calamitous event as in the case of earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, volcanic eruptions, cyclones and landslides, or ongoing misfortune as in conditions or processes such as drought and desertification.
Industry:Environment
Burner located in or near incinerators so that the combustion gases may be made to pass through its flame in order to remove smoke and odours. It may be attached to or separated from the incinerator itself.
Industry:Environment
Arrangement by which an indebted developing country undertakes, in exchange for cancellation of a portion of its foreign debt, to establish local currency funds to be used to finance a conservation programme.
Industry:Environment
Process of evaluating alternative regulatory and non-regulatory responses to risk and selecting among them. The selection process necessarily requires the consideration of legal, economic and social factors.
Industry:Environment
Ratio between the amount of pollution generated and the amount of a given raw material processed. The term may also refer to the ratio between the emissions generated and the outputs of production processes.
Industry:Environment
Waste-water cleansing technique that allows the waste water to flow over a sloped surface. As the water so flows, the contaminants are removed and the water is collected for reuse at the bottom of the slope.
Industry:Environment
Any activity to maintain or restore the quality of environmental media through preventing the emission of pollutants or reducing the presence of polluting substances in environmental media. It may consist of.
Industry:Environment
Process in which a special solid surface is able to collect gases or vapours. In adsorption, the molecules of gas or liquid adsorbed contract and adhere to the surface of the solid in an extremely thin layer.
Industry:Environment
Satellite system of the System of National Accounts (SNA) proposed by the United Nations (1993a) for the incorporation of environment concerns (environmental costs, benefits and assets) into national accounts.
Industry:Environment
