- Industry: Broadcasting & receiving
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The largest broadcasting organisation in the world.
The total amount of greenhouse gas emitted by a country per unit of population.
Industry:Natural environment
A mixture of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal.
Industry:Natural environment
A pesticide is a substance used to kill a pest, and in a farming context a pest is anything that attacks or competes with crops. Hence, there are many different types of pesticides: for example, insecticides kill insects, and herbicides kill weeds. The chemicals used in pesticides can sometimes be toxic to humans, however, so organic farming endeavours to use natural rather than synthetic substances as pesticides.
Industry:Natural environment
Man-made climate change - climate change caused by human activity as opposed to natural processes.
Industry:Natural environment
A car enthusiast; often used to describe those who are most reluctant to limit their car use or petrol consumption.
Industry:Natural environment
The atmosphere is the name for the mixture of gases surrounding the earth and retained there by the planet's gravitational pull - our air, in other words. The atmosphere comprises the troposphere, the stratosphere, the mesosphere and the thermosphere.
Industry:Natural environment
Photovoltaics are materials that produce electricity from sunlight. A single photovoltaic cell can be used to power small devices such as calculators; combined in solar panels they can be used to power solar water heating. Most cells are manufactured from silicon.
Industry:Natural environment
Microscopic particles suspended in the lower atmosphere that reflect sunlight back to space. These generally have a cooling affect on the planet and can mask global warming. They play a key role in the formation of clouds, fog, precipitation and ozone depletion in the atmosphere.
Industry:Natural environment
Planning permission is consent, usually from a local council, to build on land, or change the use of land or buildings. Significant structural change, such as that often associated with microgeneration projects, is likely to require planning permission. Changes to listed buildings require additional, separate consent.
Industry:Natural environment
The year against which countries measure their target decrease of emissions. The Kyoto Protocol uses a baseline year of 1990. Some countries prefer to use later baselines. Climate change legislation in the United States, for example, uses a 2005 baseline.
Industry:Natural environment
