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Clean Technology
Clean technologies (CTs) are a diverse range of knowledge-based products, services, and processes that harness renewable materials and energy sources; dramatically reduce wastes and pollutants (cut or eliminate emissions and wastes); encourage recover, reuse, and recycle; reduce the pressure on natural resources and restore the balance of the ecosystem and biosphere; and ultimately help in providing ecologically sustainable development. These technologies are, therefore, viable, cost-effective, environmentally superior, and suitable to the climatic, economical, geographical, ecological, and social conditions of the country. Adoption of CTs and cleaner production strategies is considered to provide a balance between development and environment through economic benefits by way of increased resource efficiency, innovation, and reduced cost for environmental management. It is becoming the cornerstone of corporate, investment, and government strategies ...
- Business Organizations, Movements, and Planning
- Balanced Scorecard
- Best Available Control Technology
- Best Management Practices
- Ceres Principles
- Certification
- Closed-Loop Supply Chain
- Compliance
- Core Competencies
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Demand-Side Management
- Discounting
- Dow Jones Sustainability Index
- Ecoeffectiveness
- Ecoefficiency
- Ecoindustrial Park
- Ecological Economics
- Economic Value Added
- Emissions Trading
- Energy Performance Contracting
- Energy Service Company
- Environmental Accounting
- Environmental Assessment
- Environmental Audit
- Environmental Economics
- Environmental Impact Statement
- Environmental Indicators
- Environmental Management System
- Environmental Marketing
- Environmental Risk Assessment
- Environmental Services
- Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
- Equator Principles
- Extended Producer Responsibility
- Extended Product Responsibility
- Externalities
- Factor Four and Factor Ten
- Fair Trade
- Genuine Progress Indicator
- Global Reporting Initiative
- Global Sullivan Principles
- Industrial Ecology
- Industrial Metabolism
- Industrial Nutrients
- Informational Regulation
- Integrated Bottom Line
- International Organization for Standardization
- ISO 14000
- ISO 19011
- Leadership in Green Business
- Life Cycle Analysis
- Material Input per Service Unit (MIPS)
- Maximum Achievable Control Technology
- National Priorities List
- Natural Capital
- New Source Review
- Quantitative Risk Assessment
- Recycling, Business of
- Reverse Logistics
- Service Design
- Social Return on Investment
- Steady State Economy
- Stewardship
- Supply Chain Management
- Value Chain
- Business Profiles
- Green Business Challenges
- Green Business Solutions
- Abatement
- Appropriate Technology
- Bio-Based Material
- Biofuels
- Biological Resource Management
- Biomimicry
- Bioremediation
- Biotechnology
- Blended Value
- Brownfield Redevelopment
- Carbon Neutral
- Carbon Sequestration
- Carbon Trading
- Cause-Related Marketing
- Clean Fuels
- Clean Production
- Clean Technology
- Cogeneration
- Conservation
- Coopetition
- Cradle-to-Cradle
- Deposit Systems
- Distributed Energy
- Ecolabels
- Ecosystem Services
- Ecotourism
- Environmental Justice
- Green Building
- Green Chemistry
- Green Design
- Green Retailing
- Green Technology
- Green-Collar Jobs
- Gross National Happiness
- Integrated Pest Management
- Organic
- Pollution Offsets
- Pollution Prevention
- Precautionary Principle
- Remanufacturing
- Resource Management
- Responsible Sourcing
- Restoration
- Right to Know
- Seventh Generation
- Six Sigma
- Smart Energy
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Social Marketing
- Socially Responsible Investing
- Superfund
- Sustainability
- Sustainable Design
- Sustainable Development
- Systems Thinking
- Take Back
- Upcycle
- Voluntary Standards
- Waste Reduction
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