- Industria: NGO
- Number of terms: 31364
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- Company Profile:
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.
Mixture of hydrocarbon compounds and small quantities of non-hydrocarbons, existing in the gaseous phase or in solution with oil in natural underground reservoirs.
Industry:Environment
Permanent marine reservation for the conservation of species. It constitutes an extension, to the undersea world, of the concept of the terrestrial national park.
Industry:Environment
Wastes produced by residential, commercial and public services sectors that are collected by local authorities for treatment and/or disposal in a central location.
Industry:Environment
Deterioration in environmental quality from ambient concentrations of pollutants and other activities and processes such as improper land use and natural disasters.
Industry:Environment
Lands and waters adjacent to the coast that exert an influence on the uses of the sea and its ecology or, inversely, whose uses and ecology are affected by the sea.
Industry:Environment
Travel undertaken to witness the unique natural or ecological quality of particular sites or regions, including the provision of services to facilitate such travel.
Industry:Environment
Zone near a city that is restricted as regards any further extension of urban area. It serves as a buffer separating sources of pollution from the city population.
Industry:Environment
Cooperative interaction of two or more chemicals, drugs or other substances, or phenomena, producing a greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects.
Industry:Environment
Pollution that originates in one country but, by crossing the border through pathways of water or air, is able to cause damage to the environment in another country.
Industry:Environment
Process that uses electric currents and an arrangement of permeable membranes to remove minerals from water. It is often used to desalinize salty or brackish water.
Industry:Environment
