European Green Deal Glossary

– is year that EU targeted no net emissions of greenhouse gases.

- is a process where new forests are planted across land without trees. As a forest grows, it naturally removes CO2 from the atmosphere and stores it in its trees.

- refers to the variety of living organisms. Biodiversity brings together the different species and forms of life (animal, plant, entomological and other) and their variability, their dynamics of evolution in their ecosystems.

- the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period.

- is a state of net-zero carbon dioxide emissions

- is the business practice of "making a positive contribution to economic, environmental and social progress with a view to achieving sustainable development 

Measures through which a business sector, or an entity – a government, an organization – reduces its greenhouse gas emissions, carbon dioxide (CO₂) and methane (CH₄), in order to reduce its impact on the climate.

- is a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life. Ecosystems contain biotic or living parts, as well as abiotic factors, or non-living parts. Biotic factors include plants, animals, and other organisms.

- is a basic ecological unit consisting of the natural environment and the organisms that live in it. It includes biotic elements, i.e. all the organisms that exist in the air, in the water, in the soil, the sun, as well as the overall interactions between them.

- is a piece of equipment that supplies electrical power for charging plug-in electric vehicles.

- have a battery instead of a gasoline tank, and an electric motor instead of an internal combustion engine. Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) are a combination of gasoline and electric vehicles, so they have a battery, an electric motor, a gasoline tank, and an internal combustion engine.