Important Vocabulary
- Emissions: Anything (e.g. gases, liquids) released into the environment
- Waste: Something unwanted and useless, such as by-products resulting from manufacturing processes
- Disposal: Throwing away or getting rid of something unwanted
- Environmentalist: Someone concerned about pollution, maintaining an ecological balance, and so on
- Eco-efficiency: The extent to which a product doesn’t use rare resources or produce polluting waste, can be recycled, and so on
- Consensus: A general agreement about something
- Incentive: Something that encourages or gives a reason to do something
- Poll: A survey of people’s opinions, using a representative sample
- Quarterly results: Very short-term profits
- A freehand: The possibility to choose for themselves
- A framework: An overall structure, or plan, or outline
- Quantitative: Concerning the amount or number of something
- From cradle to grave: From the beginning to the end of the existence of a product
- A scale: A numerical measure or standard
- The ultimate target: Final aim
- Architects: Designers (of a plan)
- Advocating: Recommending
- Pragmatism: Realism
- Auctioned: Sold to the highest bidder (whoever will pay the most)
- A fine: A financial penalty
- Compliance: Accepting or obeying a law, etc.
- Bureaucracy: Excessive administrative work
- Scheme: Plan
- Ceiling: Upper limit
- Lax: Not strict or severe enough
- Tackling: Dealing with a difficult problem
- Toyed with: Vaguely considered
Extracted From
MacKenzie, I. (2002). English for Business Studies: A course for Business Studies and Economics students (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press.
