Conservation
The range of different species living in an area.
Biodiversity
Effect produced by a certain human activity on the environment and nature.
Enviromental impact
Reduce, reuse and recycle
Climate change was addressed as a menace to the planet for the first time.
Ginebra, 1979 - World Climate Conference
Caused by enhanced greenhouse effect, which is a consequence of the release of carbon dioxide, methane, CFCs and nitrogen oxides.
Global warming
In this model, the economic development prevails over the natural environment conservation
Uncontrolled exploitation
Each person generates more than 500 kg of THIS each year.
Trash
The average limit temperature increase is 2°C
Conference of Copenhague, 2009
Produced by sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from the burning of fossil fuels.
Acid rain
A resource is called THIS if we can keep on using it, and it does not run out.
Sustainable
Waste
The first agreement to stop global warming provoked by human activity was taken
Climate Summit, Paris, 2015
Caused by destruction of forests, especially rainforests, for wood and for land for farming, roads and houses.
Deforestation
The type of housing, energy consumption, the purchase of objects that we buy, the food we eat, the waste we produce, etc, are used to calculate this.
Ecological footprint
Urban solid waste
Kioto, 1997 (Kioto protocol)
Caused by shipwrecks and leakages from undersea oil wells
Oil spills
A model which focuses on the balance between the natural environment conservation and the economic development.
Sustainable development
Three sources of waste
Primary, secondary and tertiary
Agenda 21 was drafted
Earth's Summit Rio de Janeiro 1992