Glossary G

The Environmental Glossary. Letter G +++ Popular Articles: 'Global Reporting Initiative', 'Global Compact', 'Generation'

A Gilt is In swine, a female is called a Gilt until she has borne a litter,

A glacier is a huge mass of ice, formed on land by the Compaction and recrystallization of snow, that moves very slowly downslope or outward due to its own weight.

A Global Climate Change could result in sea level rises, changes to patterns of precipitation, increased variability in the weather, and a variety of other consequences.

Deutsch: Globales Abkommen / Español: Pacto Mundial / Português: Pacto Global / Français: Pacte Mondial / Italiano: Patto Globale /

A Global Compact is First proposed in an address to The World Economic Forum in Davos in 1999 by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the Global Compact seeks to advance responsible corporate citizenship by encouraging businesses to support nine fundamental principles in the area of human rights, labor standards and the environment:

A Global radiation is Total solar radiant Energy impinging on a surface, equal to the sum of direct and diffuse radiation.

Deutsch: Globale Berichterstattungsinitiative / Español: Iniciativa de Reporte Global / Português: Iniciativa de Relatórios Globais / Français: Initiative de Reporting Global / Italiano: Iniziativa di Reporting Globale /

A Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is a multi-stakeholder process and independent institution whose mission is to develop and disseminate globally applicable Sustainability Reporting

Deutsch: Globale Erwärmung / Español: Calentamiento global / Português: Aquecimento global / Français: Réchauffement climatique / Italiano: Riscaldamento globale /

The global warming describes the increase in the average temperature of the earth's surface.

A Global Warming Potential (GWP) is the Index used to translate the level of emissions of various gases into a common measure in order to compare the relative radiative forcing of different gases without directly calculating the changes in atmospheric concentrations.

A Global Warming: is Global warming is the gradual rise of the Earth's surface temperature.

Globalization is the broad process of global social, economic, and Environmental change that leads to an increasingly integrated world.

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