A 3×1 twill weave piece dyed fabric, made from coarse yarns. Weights can vary from 9 ozs/sq yard up to the standard 14 ozs/sq yard. Read more..

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which was signed in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, is primarily concerned with the following actions for the future.. read more..

Burden shifting and the environment occurs when there is a transfer of environmental impacts from one point or business to another. This may happen, as an illustration from a supply chain , if a package is light-weighted by replacing a recyclable material with a non-recyclable material that has no waste collection and reprocessing facilities. Read more..

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Business, as usual, is a term used in the scenario for future world patterns of energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions which assumes that there will be no major changes in attitudes and priorities. Read more.

The butterfly effect is a term used to describe the idea within chaos theory called sensitive dependence on initial conditions. It explains how single factors creates sensitivity to “initial conditions” such as situations in which events in one area of a network can cause major and unpredictable responses in other parts of the network. Read more.