Concept information

Preferred term

environmental footprint  

Definition

  • environmental impact of a product, a service, and/or a company, over its lifecycle

Scope note

  • Improved definition (EN only): The effect that a person, company, activity, etc. has on the environment, for example the amount of natural resources that they use and the amount of harmful gases that they produce

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URI

http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/15155

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