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Sustainability Terminology: Societal Requirements

Delving deeper into a range of terminology and frameworks for sustainability.

Now that you have uncovered a definition of sustainability and we are going to dive a bit deeper into the commonly used terms that you might see or hear, both during this course and as you explore other material on sustainability.

In the first of the videos we have started introducing some commonly used terms in the sustainability ecosystem. We explain a way of grouping the terms and introduce the first group of terms: Societal and Planetary Requirements and Goals.

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