Environmental policy

Environmental policy

Policy related to managing human activities with a view to prevent, reduce, or mitigate harmful effects on nature and natural resources.

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safety analysis

Environment; Environmental policy

The process of studying the need for or efficacy of actions, procedures or devices intended to lower the occurrence or risk of injury, loss and danger to persons, property or the environment.

Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste

Environment; Environmental policy

EC Directive proposed on 15 July 1992 aiming at harmonizing national measures concerning the management of packaging and packaging waste; the directive covers all packaging placed on the market.

The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, usually known simply as the Basel Convention, is an international treaty that was designed to ...

environmental teaching

Environment; Environmental policy

Instruction, training or the imparting of knowledge about the external conditions affecting the life, development and survival of organisms, including potential dangers to the ecosystem and the means ...

baseline data

Environment; Environmental policy

Fundamental units of basic inventory information that are crucial for biodiversity conservation planning and management. These are both biotic and abiotic and usually include: (1) the presence and/or ...

baseline scenario

Environment; Environmental policy

Baseline scenarios (also known as 'reference' or 'benchmark' or 'non-intervention' scenarios) depict a future state of society and/or environment in which no new environmental policies are ...