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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.
Actual and imputed expenditures for activities aiming at the restoration of depleted or degraded natural systems, partly or completely counteracting (accumulated) environmental impacts of economic activities. See also environmental restoration.
Industry:Environment
Non-metallic chemoreactive compounds moulded into rigid or pliable materials, fabrics and so forth. Their disposal poses an environmental problem because they are not biodegradable and the incineration of some plastics releases hazardous gases.
Industry:Environment
Liquid that results from water trickling through wastes, agricultural pesticides, or fertilizers. Leaching may occur in farm areas, feedlots and landfills, and may result in hazardous substances' entering surface water, groundwater or soil.
Industry:Environment
Environmental accounting aggregate. It is obtained by adding to environmentally adjusted net domestic product (EDP) the net income received from abroad. The additional deduction of the net cost of cross-boundary pollution has also been suggested.
Industry:Environment
Energy theory of valuation. It attempts to replace monetary valuation, for example, in accounting or project costing by energy values. The underlying theory is based on the view that, in the final analysis, all goods are generated by solar energy.
Industry:Environment
Method of mechanical containment of oil spills. Air is bubbled through a perforated pipe causing an upward water flow that retards the spreading of oil. Air curtains are also used as barriers to prevent fish from entering a polluted body of water.
Industry:Environment
Equipment added to the production process (and not an integral part of the process) with the sole intent of reducing and/or neutralizing the waste/residual associated with the process. It is used in reference to environmental protection expenditures.
Industry:Environment
Such estimated quantities of mineral deposits, at a specific date, as analysis of geologic engineering data demonstrates with reasonable certainty to be recoverable in the future under the same economic and operational conditions. See subsoil assets.
Industry:Environment
Compounds containing carbon (excluding carbonates, bicarbonates, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide) that form the basis of living matter. In domestic sewage, organics are mainly metabolic wastes of faeces or urine plus grease, detergents and so forth.
Industry:Environment
Amount of oxygen-demanding substances whose oxygen consumption during biodegradation equals the average oxygen demand of the waste water produced by one person. For practical calculations, it is assumed that one unit equals 54 grams of BOD per 24 hours.
Industry:Environment
