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.

The process of reducing the amount of energy required to provide products and services.

Energy poverty results from a combination of low income, high expenditure of disposable income on energy and poor energy efficiency, especially as regards the performance of buildings.

- is the strategy, developed by EU, aiming to transform society into a fair and prosperous one

- is European Commission’s set of proposals to make the EU's climate, energy, transport and taxation policies fit for reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030, compared to 1990 levels.

- principle calls consumers to choose natural, often organic, locally produced foods over imported or processed alternatives. Principle supports local community- rather than global food systems.

- is the sum of emissions of various gases like carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide etc

Greenhouse gases, or GHGs, are compound gases that trap heat or longwave radiation in the atmosphere. Their presence in the atmosphere makes the Earth's surface warmer. Sunlight or shortwave radiation easily passes through these gases and the atmosphere

- is about “using the tools of budgetary policy-making to help achieve environmental and climate goals”, including “evaluating environmental impacts of budgetary and fiscal policies and assessing their coherence towards the delivery of national and international commitments”(OECD).

- hydrogen generated by renewable energy or from low-carbon power. Green hydrogen has significantly lower carbon emissions than grey hydrogen, which is produced by steam reforming of natural gas, which makes up the bulk of the hydrogen market. Green hydrogen produced by the electrolysis of water is less than 0.1% of total hydrogen production. It may be used to decarbonize sectors which are hard to electrify, such as steel and cement production, and thus help to limit climate change.

- is any gas that has the property of absorbing  heat energy) emitted from Earth’s surface and reradiating it back to Earth’s surface

- Energy management system, which is intended for “organizations committed to addressing their impact, conserving resources and improving the bottom line through efficient energy management”.

- the ability to move or be moved freely and easily.

- an automated postal box that allows users for a self-service collection of parcels and oversize letters as well as the dispatch of parcels.

A renewable resource is a resource that can be replenished naturally over time. As a result, it is sustainable despite its consumption by humankind. Such resources are sun, wind or geothermal water.

An Eurpean Commision Strategy aiming to double annual energy renovation rates in the next 10 years and together with reducing emissions, to enhance quality of life for people living in and using the buildings.

-  is the ability to exist and develop without reducing natural resources for the future

- is a production model that aims for the best economic result for both human and the natural environment, both in the present and in the indefinite future. Its key element is the balance between production of goods and raw material.

- a green vehicle, clean vehicle, eco-friendly vehicle, or environmentally friendly vehicle  is a road motor vehicle that produces less harmful impacts to the environment than comparable conventional internal combustion engine vehicles running on gasoline or diesel, or one that uses certain alternative fuels.

- a system or means of conveying people or goods from place to place.

The term zero pollution refers to an action plan for natural ecosystem in order to ensure economic development and public health.