Refer Key Terms Description Air pollution Answer transportation fuels made from biomass materials including ethanol, green diesel, and biogas Anthropocene extinction 2 independent executive agency of the U.S. federal government tasked with environmental protection matters Biodiversity 3 a colorless gas with a density about 53 percent higher than that of dry air Biofuel 4 any of several gaseous compounds that are believed to be a major cause of stratospheric ozone depletion 5 Cap and trade 6 investing in environmental, social, and corporate governance Carbon footprint the variation of life forms inside the system Carbon offset all living and nonliving substances present in a particular place, often interacting with others Carbon pricing 8 comprehensive federal law that regulates air emissions from stationary and mobile sources Chlorofluorocarbons CFCs alteration of the air that leads to acid rain, global warming, smog, the depletion of the ozone layer, and other serious conditions 10 Clean Air Act a natural fuel such as coal, natural gas, petroleum, and Orimulsion, formed in the geological past Corporate sustainability a reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse 11 gases made to compensate for emissions made elsewhere Ecosystems international independent standards organization that helps 12 businesses and other organizations understand and communicate their impacts on issues such as climate change 13 Emissions trading the ongoing extinction of species as a result of human activity-for example, in the overkilling of big mammals Environmental Protection Agency someone who is aware of his or her obligation to protect the 14 (EPA) environment by selectively purchasing green products or services ESG investing tax on individual business units within the company based on 15 energy usage that goes into a common fund that invests in environmental sustainability projects Fossil fuels: the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere, due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible 16 radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface Global Reporting Initiative (GRI): intended to reduce a particular pollutant over an entire industrial 17 region by treating all emission sources as if they were all beneath one bubble 18 Green consumers investors who are interested in advancing social causes Greenhouse effect implementation of a business strategy that focuses on the ethical, 19 social, environmental, cultural, and economic dimensions of doing business Green investors an international agreement adopted in 1997 that aimed to reduce 20 carbon dioxide emissions and the presence of greenhouse gases Key performance indicators (KPIs): the total amount of greenhouse gases a person, product, or 21 company emits directly or indirectly Montreal Protocol a Canadian environmental law that promotes the enhancement of 22 the environment and established the President's Council on Environmental Quality Canadian Environmental Protection approach to reduce a particular pollutant over an entire industrial 23 Act (CEPA region by treating all emission sources as if they were all beneath one bubble Carbon dioxide a U.S. federal government program designed to fund the cleanup of 24 toxic wastes Superfund: a quantifiable measure used to evaluate the success of an 25 organization, employee, etc. in meeting objectives for performance