- Industry: NGO
- Number of terms: 31364
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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.
Toxic emissions released at various stages in the production and use of coke, and causing cancers in human beings.
Industry:Environment
Wastes whose disposal is characterized by shredding, for example, wrecked cars and discarded household appliances.
Industry:Environment
Boundary between the stratosphere and mesosphere at a height of about 50 kilometres above the earth's surface.
Industry:Environment
Enclosure erected for the purpose of preventing hunting and fishing and preserving game animals, birds and habitat.
Industry:Environment
Station that monitors pollution at very remote sites, for example, at the south pole. See also background station.
Industry:Environment
Structure that helps to remove heat from water used as a coolant, for example, in plants generating electric power.
Industry:Environment
Waste treatment using aerobic organisms in the presence of air or oxygen as agents for reducing the pollution load.
Industry:Environment
Wastes resulting from the final consumption of goods or services rather than from their production or distribution.
Industry:Environment
Issued by the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, held in Stockholm, Sweden, from 5 to 16 June 1972.
Industry:Environment
Pesticides composed of biological substances, as opposed to the chemical substances used in conventional pesticides.
Industry:Environment
