IATE Term of the Week: Marine Litter
“According to the European Commission, more than 80% of marine litter is plastics. Together they constitute 70% of all marine litter items. Due to...
IATE Term of the Week: Carbon Neutrality
To date more and more companies turn into a carbon neutrality strategy. Microsoft, Sainsbury and the Bank of America are some examples of this...
IATE Term of the Week: Vegan
I bet you heard about the term vegan, as it has recently become trendy. However, do you really know what it means, to be...
IATE Term of the Week: European Green Deal
The concept of a "green deal" as a comprehensive strategy to tackle climate change and environmental degradation by transforming the economy has been gradually...
IATE Term of the Week: Green Finance
The IATE term of the week is green finance. ‘Financing for projects or activities with beneficial environmental outcomes’ is the definition that we can...
IATE Term of the Week: Food Miles
The food we eat may have run hundreds of kilometres until it reaches our plate. For example, a plate of New Zealand lamb with...
IATE Term of the Week: Biodiversity
The Amazon rainforest is burning. In mid-August the EU’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) observed that the forest fires in the Amazon rainforest were...
IATE Term of the Week: Plastic Food Packaging
Can you imagine how much 150 million tonnes are? The higher the numbers get the harder it becomes to grasp what they really mean....
IATE Term of the Week: Climate Refugee
Nowadays, the impact of climate
change is devastating. In fact, extreme weather events such as floods,
windstorms, sea level rise or droughts constitute a threat not...
IATE Term of the Week: Fast Fashion
Within the last 15 years, mass production of clothing has made it possible for huge numbers of people to buy fashionable and comfortable clothes...
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