- Aarhus Convention
The Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters
- Abatement
The action of abating or being abated; ending, reducing or subsiding.
- Abatement cost curve
See marginal abatement cost curve
- Abatement potential
The amount of GHG reductions that could be technologically and economically feasible to achieve.
- Ableism
Discrimination in favour of able-bodied people.
- Abnormal accruals
The difference between accrued income and cash flows.
- Abnormal returns
The difference between observed changes in stock price minus the expected return of the stock, adjusted for risk.
- Accelerator
An organisation that helps early-stage companies improve.
- Acceptability
The approval of a policy or system change by the public, politicians, or governments.
- Access and Affordability
The ability of a company to ensure broad access to its products and services.
- Accessibility
In a D&I context, the “ability to access” the functionality of a system or entity and gain the related benefits.
- Acclimate / Acclimation
Adaptation to changes in the natural environment.
- Accommodation
In a diversity and inclusion (D&I) context, a change of environment or standard practice that enables an individual with a disability to have equal opportunity, access and participation.
- Accountability
Readiness or duty of individuals and communities to accept responsibility for their actions.
- Accounting Manipulation
Purposeful misapplication of generally accepted accounting standards to inflate reported financial results.
- Accounting metrics
A set of quantitative and/or qualitative accounting metrics intended to measure performance on a topic.
- Accounting Restatement
Disclosure and correction of previously issued financial statements.
- Accreditation
The action or process of officially recognising someone as having a particular status or being qualified to perform a particular activity.
- Acculturation
A process whereby members of a cultural group adopt the patterns, beliefs, languages, and behaviours of another group’s culture.
- Acid deposition
A phenomenon whereby acidic atmospheric pollutants are deposited on earth.
Categories
- Adaptation
- Architecture and urban planning
- Asset management
- Atmosphere
- Banking and financial services
- Biodiversity
- Biology
- Carbon Accounting
- Carbon trading
- Circular economy
- Climate change
- Demo Category
- Document
- Ecology
- Economics
- Energy
- Environmental Impact
- Governance
- Industry
- Landscapes
- Law
- Marine
- Monitoring and measurement
- Organisations
- Pollution
- Protected areas
- Reporting
- Risk management
- Scope 3 Emissions
- SDGs
- Social factors
- Stakeholder management
- Standards, certifications and labels
- Sustainability
- Sustainable finance
- Technology
- Trade
- Waste management
- Weapons and war
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