Design and implementation of infrastructure, transportation systems, and public spaces to accommodate the needs of all individuals, including those with disabilities, the elderly, and those from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds.
Source: https://oxford-review.com/the-oxford-review-dei-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dictionary/accessibility-in-urban-planning-definition-and-explanation/

the variety of life on Earth, the variety of living things in a given ecosystem or region. Includes all living things, from bacteria, plants and animals to humans.
Source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/glossary/biodiversity.html

a measure of the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere as a result of the activities of a particular individual, organisation, or community. Source: languages.oup.com/google-dictionary-en

A measure of the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere as a result of the activities of a particular individual, organization, or community.
Source:https://languages.oup.com/google-dictionary-en

A circular economy is a system that maintains the value of products, materials, and resources for as long as possible and minimizes waste. It focuses on reusing, repairing, remanufacturing, and recycling. This concept supports EU goals like the Green Deal, energy savings, and climate change mitigation.

Source: EUR-LEX https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/glossary/circular-economy.html

system that maintains the value of products, materials, and resources for as long as possible and minimizes waste. It focuses on reusing, repairing, remanufacturing, and recycling. This concept supports EU goals like the Green Deal, energy savings, and climate change mitigation.
Source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/glossary/circular-economy.html

The ability to prepare for, recover from, and adapt to significant impacts—from more frequent and severe weather, ocean warming and acidification, extended periods of drought and extreme temperatures, and other deleterious effects of climate change.
Source https://www.c2es.org/document/what-is-climate-resilience-and-why-does-it-matter/

is a legal entity that empowers citizens, small businesses and local authorities to produce, manage and consume their own energy.” By handing “ownership” of the assets that produce energy to the energy community.
Source: corporate.enelx.com/en/question-and-answers/what-are-energy-communities

Energy efficiency simply means using less energy to perform the same task – that is, eliminating energy waste. Energy efficiency ings a variety of benefits: reducing greenhouse gas emissions, reducing demand for energy imports, and lowering our costs on a household and economy-wide level.
Source: https://www.eesi.org/topics/energy-efficiency/description

Energy efficiency simply means using less energy to perform the same task – that is, eliminating energy waste. Energy efficiency ings a variety of benefits: reducing greenhouse gas emissions, reducing demand for energy imports, and lowering our costs on a household and economy-wide level. Source: www.eesi.org/topics/energy-efficiency/description

a company that supplies electricity, gas, etc. to homes and businesses. Source: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/energy-provider

Environmental impact is any change to the environment, whether adverse or beneficial, resulting from human activities or natural processes. This includes pollution, depletion of natural resources, and changes in biodiversity.

Source: European Environment Agency https://www.eea.europa.eu/help/glossary/eea-glossary/environmental-impact

The Euro 7 Regulation sets rules for exhaust emissions from road vehicles, but also for other types of emissions, such as tire a asion and ake particle emissions. It also establishes requirements regarding battery durability. For passenger cars and light commercial vehicles, the regulation maintains the current exhaust emission limits of the Euro 6 standard but introduces stricter requirements concerning solid particles.
Source: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/pt/press/press-releases/2024/04/12/euro-7-council-adopts-new-rules-on-emission-limits-for-cars-vans-and-trucks/< />  

the European Drought Observatory (EDO) is a service operated by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre. The EDO portal contains drought information, graphs and time series at a pan-European level.

Source: https://www.eea.europa.eu/policy-documents/european-drought-observatory-edo

Mass production of clothing replicating recent high-fashion trends.
Source: https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/circular-economy/reset-trend/how-eu-making-fashion-sustainable_en

A gas that contributes to the natural greenhouse effect.
Source https://www.eea.europa.eu/help/glossary/eea-glossary/greenhouse-gas

A major city together with its suburbs and nearby cities, towns, and environs over which the major city exercises a commanding economic and social influence.
Source: https://www. itannica.com/topic/metropolitan-area

The ability of groups or individuals to physically move from one place to another.
Source: https://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/sustainability-transitions/urban-environment/urban-sustainability-in-europe

Compressed gases, occurring in underground deposits, whether liquefied or gaseous, consisting mainly of methane. Source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/38154/42195/GAS_instructions.pdf/9a5888ef-d064-46a8-bd67-117e4269c7c3

passive solar energy as a type of solar energy in which no external energy is used. The objective is to take advantage of direct sunlight. Source: solar-energy.technology/what-is-solar-energy/passive-solar-energy#:~:text=We%20define%20passive%20solar%20energy,is%20handy%20in%20bioclimatic%20architecture

Empoldering is a method of reclaiming land from the sea or from inland lakes, and a way to control floods. Empoldering involves the use of a polder, a piece of land in a low-lying area that has been reclaimed from a body of water by building dikes and drainage canals.
Source: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polder

Recycling refers to the recovery operation in which waste materials are reprocessed into products, materials, or substances, either for their original or other purposes. This includes organic recycling but excludes energy recovery and materials reprocessed for fuels or backfilling operations.
Source EUR-LEX https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A02008L0098-20180705

Reusing refers to the practice of repurposing or reusing materials or products to extend their life cycle and reduce waste. By reusing, items such as clothing, containers, or electronics can be used to their fullest extent, reducing the need to produce new items and lowering the environmental impact. Reusing helps save resources, reduces energy consumption, and minimizes greenhouse gas emissions.
Source: U.S Epa https://www.epa.gov/recycle/reducing-and-reusing-basics

Root wastewater treatment plant is a device, which use bacteria living in the root system of plants and on stones (so. gravel) cleans polluted water from the home and at the final stage, water can be used for watering in the garden.
Source: https://cottage.cz/en/root-wastewater-treatment-plant/
 

plants spontaneously colonising areas altered by man, especially urban environments.< /> Source: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ro%C5%9Blina_ruderalna

A smart city is a place where traditional networks and services are made more efficient with the use of digital solutions for the benefit of its inhabitants and business. Source : commission.europa.eu/eu-regional-and-urban-development/topics/cities-and-urban-development/city-initiatives/smart-cities_en

 [eng. smoke and fog] - a mixture of smoke, gases and chemicals, especially in cities, which makes the atmosphere difficult to eathe and harmful to health. 
Source: https://dictionary.cam idge.org/dictionary/english/smog

A swale, (from the English word swale = wet depression, wetland). Many swales are natural land formations, but others are made on purpose to direct rainwater, manage runoff, and conserve the soil. These deliberate swales help spread rainwater across a wide section of land, rather than allowing it to flow quickly in one direction.< /> Source: https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/swale< />  

When urban areas tend to be significantly warmer compared to neighbouring rural areas.
Source: https://climate.ec.europa.eu/news-your-voice/news/adapting-when-climate-crisis-hits-close-home-2023-08-01_en

Organic chemical compounds that under normal conditions are gaseous or can vaporise and enter the atmosphere. Source: https://www.eea.europa.eu/help/glossary/eea-glossary/volatile-organic-compound-voc

Any substance or object that the holder discards, intends to discard, or is required to discard, emphasizing proper waste management to reduce generation and promote recycling and recovery.
Source EUR-LEX https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32008L0098

The purpose of the revitalization of water streams and their surroun-dings is the restoration of the natural development of stream beds, differentiation of a flow line in the stream bed, the diversification of banks and the stream bed, the increase of the migration permeability, and others.
Source: https://www.voda2020.cz/files/_start/SEKCE_A.pdf