Glossary

2025 VSME Recommendation

  1. #
  2. A
  3. B
  4. C
  5. D
  6. E
  7. F
  8. G
  9. H
  10. I
  11. J
  12. K
  13. L
  14. M
  15. N
  16. O
  17. P
  18. Q
  19. R
  20. S
  21. T
  22. U
  23. V
  24. W
  25. X
  26. Y
  27. Z

A

  1. Accident prevention
  2. Actions
  3. Affected communities

B

  1. Biodiversity sensitive Area
  2. Bribery
  3. Business Conduct

C

  1. Child Labour
  2. Circular economy principles
  3. Classified information
  4. Climate change adaptation
  5. Climate-related physical risks
  6. Collective bargaining
  7. Consumers
  8. Corruption

D

  1. Direct GHG emissions (Scope 1)
  2. Discrimination

E

  1. Employee
  2. End-users

F

  1. Forced Labour

G

  1. Governance
  2. Greenhouse Gases (GHG)
  3. Grievance mechanism
  4. Gross greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions

H

  1. Hazardous waste
  2. Human trafficking

I

  1. Impact
  2. Incident
  3. Indirect GHG emissions (Scope 2)

L

  1. Land-use (change)
  2. Location-based Scope 2 emissions

N

  1. Nature-oriented area
  2. Near (Biodiversity Sensitive Area)

O

  1. Own workforce/own workers

P

  1. Pay
  2. Policy

R

  1. Radioactive waste
  2. Recordable work-related accident / Recordable work-related injury or ill health
  3. Recycling
  4. Renewable Energy

S

  1. Sealed area
  2. Sensitive information
  3. Site

T

  1. Targets
  2. Time horizons
  3. Training

V

  1. Value Chain

W

  1. Wage
  2. Water consumption
  3. Water withdrawal
  4. Worker in the value chain

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