Glossary

Business Continuity Plan. A documented plan which contains critical information and steps required by the enterprise to ensure it can continue operations and/or recover key infrastructure and services in the event of an unplanned outage or similarly disruptive event. Typically enterprises rehearse the steps in a business continuity plan in a dress rehearsal scenario on an agreed schedule.

BECCS is a geo-engineering technique which uses biomass (i.e. energy generated from organic material such as wood, compost, etc.) instead of fossil fuels to generate bio or renewable energy. As this bioenergy is burned, carbon emitted during the burning process is captured and stored or sequestered underground in rocks, mountains, valleys or other geological formations for later use.

Source: Preventing Climate Change with BECCS Princeton University; Carbon Brief The History of BECCS; Wikipedia

Energy that is produced from organic or living material (i.e. plants or animals).

Source: National Geographic.

Bluewashing is similar to greenwashing in its cynical nature. It occurs when enterprises align to United Nations Initiatives such as the UN Global Compact (“Blue being the colour of the United Nations Flag), in order to give visibility and credibility to their environmental, social and human rights commitments without necessarily undertaking the substantive changes required to fully implement these in practice SDG washing is a form of blue-washing which occurs when enterprises acknowledge & highlight their alignment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals but don’t actually make any meaningful contributions to achieving the goals.
Green & bluewashing occurs when enterprises spend more on marketing their environmental & social credentials than actually achieving them and are interpreted by the public and other enterprise stakeholders as enterprises paying lip service to sustainable development.

See Also: Greenwashing.

Basel Rotterdam Stockholm Conventions. Three international environmental conventions agreed at Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm, to protect human health and the environment from hazardous chemicals and waste.

1987 Report for the World Commission on Environment and Development, ‘Our Common Future’. Defined sustainable development as development that:

\"meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs\".

Source: The Brundlandt Report.

Avoiding burden shifting is a key aim of Life Cycle Thinking. This is where the impact on one life cycle stage such as manufacturing or use is reduced by some means, only to be increased or shifted to another category, stage or area. Burden shifting can partially or entirely cancel out a benefit.

Source: Making sustainable consumption and production a reality. A guide for business and policy makers to Life Cycle Thinking and Assessment (European Commission, 2010)
https://eplca.jrc.ec.europa.eu/uploads/LCT-Making-sustainable-consumption-and-production-a-reality-A-guide-for-business-and-policy-makers-to-Life-Cycle-Thinking-and-Assessment.pdf