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Mind Map by alvaro Pelaez, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by alvaro Pelaez
almost 6 years ago
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Key words
- Biodiversity: "Biological" and "diversity". It refers to all the variety of life that can be found on Earth
(plants, animals ...) as well as to the communities that they form and the habitats in which they live.
- Carbon footprint: Carbon footprint is a measure of the impact your activities have on the amount of
(CO2) produced through the burning of fossil fuels and is expressed as a weight of CO2 emissions
produced in tonnes.
- Developing countries: A poor agricultural country that is seeking to become more advanced
economically and socially.
- Ecosystem: A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
- Emerging economies: An emerging market economy is the economy of a developing nation that is becoming more engaged
with global markets as it grows. Countries classified as emerging market economies are those with some, but not all, of the
characteristics of a developed market.
- Environment: The environment can be defined as a sum total of all the living and non-living elements
and their effects that influence human life. While all living or biotic elements are animals, plants,
forests... The non-living or abiotic elements include water, land, sunlight...
- Ethical trade: Is about having confidence that the products and services we buy have not been made at
the expense of workers in global supply chains enjoying their rights.
- Life cycle: the series of changes in the life of an organism including reproduction.
- Lower income countries: Algeria. Angola. Bangladesh. Benin. Bhutan.
Bolivia. Cabo Verde. Cambodia.
- Fair Trade: trade between companies in developed countries and producers in developing countries in which fair prices
are paid to the producers.
- Global warming: Is the unusually rapid increase in Earth's average surface temperature over the past
century primarily due to the greenhouse gases released by people burning fossil fuels.
- Green economy: A Green Economy promotes a triple bottom line: sustaining and advancing economic,
environmental and social well-being.
- Indrustalized: having developed a lot of industry.
- Landfill: The disposal of waste material by burying it, especially as a method of filling in and reclaiming excavated
pits.
- Organic: a food produced by organic farming or an organic chemical compound.
- Population: all the inhabitants of a particular plac
- Recycling: Recycling is the process of collecting and processing materials that would otherwise be thrown
away as trash and turning them into new products.
- Rewnable energy: energy that is sustainable - something that can't run out, or is endless, like the sun.
- Sustainability: meeting our own needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their
own needs.
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