- 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.
Holding area for waste water where floating wastes are skimmed off and settled solids are pumped to incinerators, digesters, filters or other means of disposal.
Industry:Environment
Indication of the environmental impact-related characteristics of a product, typically on the package containing the product, by private or public institutions.
Industry:Environment
Instrument of environmental cost internalization. It is an excise tax on the producers of raw fossil fuels based on the relative carbon content of those fuels.
Industry:Environment
All the individuals and populations of a particular kind of organism, maintained by biological mechanisms that result in their breeding only with their own kind.
Industry:Environment
Population level or fitness of plant or animal species used as a benchmark for measuring pollution in natural systems (habitats). See also biological indicator.
Industry:Environment
Use of water by agriculture, industry, energy production and households, including in-stream uses such as fishing, recreation, transportation and waste disposal.
Industry:Environment
Process by which organic substances are decomposed by micro-organisms (mainly aerobic bacteria) into simpler substances such as carbon dioxide, water and ammonia.
Industry:Environment
Unit of dose equivalent to that quantity of ionizing radiation that produces in the human body the same biological effect as one roentgen of X-rays or gamma rays.
Industry:Environment
Device that catches the dust from air passing through it on a mesh of textile fabric, felt wire, paper and so forth, rather than through the use of dust arresters.
Industry:Environment
Land categories, reflecting quality classes, capability classes or grade, depending upon the characteristics of the land and/or its potential for agricultural use.
Industry:Environment
