- 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.
Part of the environment large or cool enough to absorb large quantities of heat. Natural systems use water, air and soil as heat sinks.
Industry:Environment
Species, viruses, bacteria and other micro-organisms considered harmful to the health of human beings, crops and other living organisms.
Industry:Environment
Process of inserting new genetic information into existing cells for the purpose of modifying one of the characteristics of an organism.
Industry:Environment
Natural process by which organisms that adapt to their environment survive while those that do not adapt become eliminated progressively.
Industry:Environment
Gases produced by the burning of petrol (gasoline) in combustion engines. Exhaust gases are harmful to human beings, plants and animals.
Industry:Environment
Use of such produced structures to control erosion as terraces, dams, retards, baffles and so forth, in contrast with vegetative control.
Industry:Environment
System in which the interaction between different organisms and their environment generates a cyclic interchange of materials and energy.
Industry:Environment
Variation of the polluter-pays principle that calls upon the user of a natural resource to bear the cost of running down natural capital.
Industry:Environment
Document prepared by an agency on the environmental impacts of its project/programme proposals. See also environmental impact assessment.
Industry:Environment
The relationship between the dose of harm-producing substances or factors and the severity of their effect on exposed organisms or matter.
Industry:Environment
