Jargon buster
- Adaption
- Anaerobic digestion plants
- Biomass
- Biometrics
- BREEAM
- Brown roofs
- Carbon budget
- Carbon capture
- Carbon emissions
- Carbon footprinting
- Carbon intensity
- CarbonLite Programme
- Carbon neutral
- Carbon offsetting
- Carbon sequestration
- Carbon sinks
- Carbon trading
- Climate change
- Climate change levy
- Closed loop sustainable resource waste management
- CO2 emissions
- Coastal alignment
- Code for Sustainable Homes
- Combined heat and power plants
- (energy) Consumption
- Consumption-based emissions
- Distributed energy generation
- District heating
- Eco-town
- Eco-footprinting
- Embodied energy
- Embodied environmental impacts
- Emissions functions
- Emissions trading
- Energy efficiency
- Energy from waste
- Energy Performance Certificates
- Energy supply companies (ESCOs)
- Energy White Paper
- Environmental burden
- Environmental management system
- Flood plains
- Fuel cells
- Fuel poverty and exclusion
- Global warming
- Greenhouse gas emissions
- Greywater recycling
- Ground source heat pumps
- Home Information Packs (HIPs)
- Hydroelectricity
- Intelligent monitoring
- Lifecycle assessment
- Lifecycle costing
- Living roofs (green roofs)
- Low carbon
- Low Carbon Buildings Programme
- Macrogeneration
- Material flows
- Merton Rule
- Microgeneration
- Micro-renewables
- Mitigation
- Nottingham Declaration
- Nuclear power
- One Planet Living
- Operational environmental impacts
- Passive design techniques
- Passive ventilation
- Peak oil
- Permeable developments
- Photovoltaic panels (PV)
- Pyrolysis/gasification
- Rebound effect
- Renewable energy
- Resilience
- Renewables Obligation Certificate (ROC)
- Self-sufficiency (site autonomy)
- Solar power
- Solar thermal hot water collectors
- SuDS
- Sustainable development
- Urban heat islands
- Wave and tide energy
- Wind power
- Whole life costing
- Zero carbon