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An emissions trajectory designed to limit warming to around 1.5°C, with no or limited overshoot, by rapidly reducing greenhouse-gas emissions and reaching net zero carbon dioxide globally.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

The timely and affordable ability to choose and obtain quality, appropriate production resources and services needed for a farming system.

The capability to reach and participate in markets on informed, reliable and fair terms, with realistic choice over buyers, products and conditions of exchange.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

A relationship in which an actor must explain and justify decisions or performance to others who can question the account and trigger correction, consequence or remedy.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

A third-party attestation that a conformity-assessment body is competent to perform specified assessment tasks within a defined scope.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

The extent to which an intervention causes an outcome beyond what would reasonably have occurred under the applicable baseline, law, common practice or existing incentives.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

A land-management system in which woody perennials are deliberately integrated with crops or livestock so the components interact ecologically and economically over space or time.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

The deliberate process of making strategies, requirements, incentives, data or actions consistent enough to support a shared objective without necessarily making them identical.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

The level, scale or pace of improvement an organisation seeks to achieve relative to a sustainability challenge, benchmark or pathway.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

The transformation of data so that no individual is identifiable by means reasonably likely to be used, taking the data, available auxiliary information and context into account.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

An independent engagement designed to increase intended users' confidence in defined sustainability information by evaluating it against suitable criteria and reporting a conclusion.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

The condition in which sustainability information, processes and controls are sufficiently defined, documented, evidenced and governed to support an independent assurance engagement without major...

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

A causal judgement that an observed change was produced by an intervention, rather than by other influences or what would have occurred without it.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

A systematic, independent and documented process for obtaining objective evidence and evaluating it against defined criteria to determine the extent to which requirements are fulfilled.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

A documented reference condition, value or scenario against which change is assessed, defined for a specific indicator, population, boundary and point or period in time.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

The reference year against which emissions performance, reductions or target progress are measured.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

A defined reference point or comparative standard used to interpret performance, set expectations or assess whether a result is stronger, weaker or different from an appropriate comparator.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

Voluntary action that goes further than the minimum legal or mandatory requirement applicable to an organisation.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

A systematic tendency in how evidence is selected, measured, interpreted or used that pushes conclusions away from the reality they are intended to describe.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

The variability of life within species, between species and across ecosystems, together with the relationships that allow living systems to function.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

A critical term for presenting an organisation as more socially responsible, ethical or aligned with recognised social principles than its underlying conduct and evidence justify.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

Generic, reusable reporting language that could apply to many organisations and therefore provides little entity-specific information about material sustainability circumstances, decisions or performance.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

A chain-of-custody model in which verified attributes are represented by transferable instruments that move through an administrative system separately from the physical material flow and are retired to...

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

The obligation placed on the person making a claim, taking a decision or seeking an exception to provide evidence sufficient for that position to be accepted.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.

This term is indexed, but its full Sustainability Language treatment is still in development.