Glossary

Abated Fossil Energy

Access Economy

Additionality

Aerobic Digestion

Air-source heat pump

Anaerobic digestion

Anthropocene Era

Anthropogenic

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

Autonomous Vehicle

Balancing Mechanism

Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)

BEIS

BIM

Biodegradable

Biodiversity

Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS)

Bioethanol

Biofuel

Biogas

Biomass

Biomimicry

Bioplastics

Blended Finance

Blended-wing Body (BWB) Aircraft

Blockchain

Blue Economy (2.0)

BREEAM

Balancing Benefits and Challenges

Capacity

Carbon Budget

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

Carbon Credits

Carbon dioxide Emissions

Carbon Footprint

Carbon Intensity

Carbon Market

Carbon Negative

Carbon Offsets

Carbon Price

Carbon Price Floor

Carbon Sequestration

Carbon tax

Carbon-neutral

Chain of Custody

Circular Economy

Clean Energy

Climate-neutral E-fuels

Climate-related financial risks

Climate Change

Climate Financing

Climate Transition

Closed Loop

Cold Store

Combined Heat and Power (CHP)

Compostable

Conference of Parties (COP)

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Cradle to Cradle

Cradle to Grave

Decarbonization

Decentralized Energy

Demand Response

Deposit Return Scheme

Digital Green Bonds

Direct Air Capture (DAC)

Distributed Generation

District Heating

Duty of Care

E-waste

Electric Vehicle (EV)

Emissions Trading System

Energy Performance Contract

Energy Recovery

Energy Resilience

Energy Storage

Energy from Waste (EfW)

ESCO

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs)

Fair Trade

Fast Fashion

Financed Emissions

Flexible Energy Systems

Fossil Fuels

Fracking

Fracking

Frequency Response

Fuel Cells

Gas Peaking Plant

Gasification

Geothermal Energy

Global Reporting Institute (GRI)

Global Warming

Green Asset Ratio (GAR)

Green Bonds

Green Infrastructure

Green New Deal

Greenhouse Gas (GHG)

Greenwashing

Greywater Recycling

Ground-source Heat Pump

Guarantees of Origin

Hazardous Waste

Hothouse Earth

Hydro Power

Hydroponic Farming

Industrial Symbiosis

Integrated Reporting

Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs)

Internet of Things (IoT)

Interoperability

ISO 14001

ISO 50001

ISO 15118

Just Transition

KWe

kWp

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)

Life cycle assessment (LCA)

Low-carbon Economy

Materiality

Microgrid

Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)

Microplastics

Natural Gas

Natural Capital

Net Energy

Net Positive

Net-zero Carbon

Offsetting

Offshore Wind

Onshore Wind

Onsite Generation

OPEC+

Oxo-degradable plastic

Paris Agreement

Peatland

Photovoltaic

Polyethylene (PE)

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET)

Post-consumer recycled (PCR)

Power purchase agreement (PPA)

Pre-industrial Levels

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Remanufacturing

Renewable energy

Renewable Electricity

Reporting frameworks

Rising Awareness and Environmental Concerns

Resource Scarcity and Environmental Impact

Residual waste

Science Based Targets

Scope Emissions

Scope 3 emissions

Servitization

Shared Value

Sharing Economy

Shale Gas

Single Use Plastic

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

Smart Grid

Solar Geoengineering

Solar Tax Credit

Soot pollution

Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)

Sustainability

Sustainability-linked Loans (SLL)

Sustainable Finance

Tar Sands

Telematics

Thermal Power Plants

Tidal Energy

Traceability

Trawling

Triads

Triple bottom line

ULEV

Unabated Fossil Energy

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC)

Upcycling

Value Chain

Vehicle to Grid (V2G)

Voluntary Carbon Market

Waste Stream

Water Scarcity

Wholesale Markets

Whole Life Costing

Wind Power

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Zero Carbon

Zero waste