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font-size:; } .bullet-list-optA li ul li a{ font-weight:700; } .bullet-list-optA li ul li p{ margin-bottom: 0px; } RegistrationGeneralHealth & Safety </div>--> <div class="tabcontent" id="Registration"> .BulletCircle ul { list-style: none; /* Remove default bullets */ padding-left: 0px } .BulletCircle ul li { margin-bottom: 7px; line-height: 1.5em; } .BulletCircle ul li::before { content: "●"; font-size: 1em; position: relative; top: 0px; color: #78be20; text-indent: -20px; /* key property */ margin-left: 20px; /* key property */ padding-right: 10px } .BulletCircle ul li { text-indent: -40px; /* key property */ margin-left: 30px; /* key property */ } <ul class="a-container"> <li class="a-items"> Carbon Credits <div class="a-content BulletCircle"> <ul> <li>Credits purchased from low- or zero-emissions electricity providers by paying for emissions reductions.</li> </ul> </div> </li> <li class="a-items"> Carbon footprint (aka Greenhouse gas inventory) <div class="a-content BulletCircle"> <ul> <li>A measure of the carbon dioxide equivalents emitted by an organization, individual or country due to the consumption of fossil fuels.</li> </ul> </div> </li> <li class="a-items"> Carbon Negative <div class="a-content BulletCircle"> <ul> <li>The removal of more carbon dioxide equivalents than those produced.</li> </ul> </div> </li> <li class="a-items"> Carbon Neutral <div class="a-content BulletCircle"> <ul> <li>A status achieved when an organization’s carbon dioxide equivalent emissions are equal to the amount removed from the atmosphere, either through that organization’s efforts or offset to make overall emissions zero.</li> <li>In addition to energy consumption (scope 1 and 2 emissions), carbon neutrality includes emissions beyond the entity's direct control (scope 3 emissions).</li> </ul> </div> </li> <li class="a-items"> Carbon Offsets <div class="a-content BulletCircle"> <ul> <li>The production of sustainable energy to counterbalance the use of fossil fuels.</li> </ul> </div> </li> <li class="a-items"> Carbon Zero <div class="a-content BulletCircle"> <ul> <li>A state wherein carbon dioxide equivalent emissions are not being produced.</li> </ul> </div> </li> <li class="a-items"> Climate Action <div class="a-content BulletCircle"> <ul> <li>The effort to reduce greenhouse gases emissions and integrated into strategies and planning.</li> </ul> </div> </li> <li class="a-items"> Decarbonization <div class="a-content BulletCircle"> <ul> <li>The process to phase out carbon dioxide equivalent emissions, in the form of both operational and embodied carbon.</li> <li>Encompasses removing carbon from the process chain as well as carbon released from producing building materials.</li> </ul> </div> </li> <li class="a-items"> Electrification <div class="a-content BulletCircle"> <ul> <li>The process of replacing technologies that use fossil fuels with technologies that use electricity as a source of energy.</li> </ul> </div> </li> <li class="a-items"> Embodied Carbon <div class="a-content BulletCircle"> <ul> <li>The greenhouse gas emissions associated with the manufacturing, transportation, installation, maintenance and disposal of purchased products/materials.</li> <li>Includes indirect emissions, such as construction materials.</li> </ul> </div> </li> <li class="a-items"> Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) <div class="a-content BulletCircle"> <ul> <li>A framework used by organizations to define organizational strategy and report performance to stakeholders.</li> <li>Recognizes that sustainability goes beyond environmental issues.</li> </ul> </div> </li> <li class="a-items"> Global Warming Potential (GWP) <div class="a-content BulletCircle"> <ul> <li>The measure of how destructive a climate pollutant is. The GWP of a gas refers to the total contribution to global warming resulting from the emission of one unit of that gas relative to one unit of the reference gas, CO2, which is assigned a value of 1.</li> </ul> </div> </li> <li class="a-items"> Greenhouse Gas Protocol <div class="a-content BulletCircle"> <ul> <li>A widely accepted metric for accounting and reporting emissions. The protocol classifies emissions as scope 1, 2 or 3: <ul> <li><strong>Scope 1:</strong> Direct emissions. Emissions emanating directly from health care facilities and health care-owned vehicles.</li> <li><strong>Scope 2:</strong> Indirect emissions. Indirect emissions from purchased energy sources such as electricity, steam, cooling and heating.</li> <li><strong>Scope 3:</strong> The lion’s share of emissions derived from the health care supply chain through the production, transport and disposal of goods and services, such as pharmaceuticals and other chemicals, food and agricultural products, medical devices, hospital equipment and instruments.</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </li> <li class="a-items"> Net Zero Energy <div class="a-content BulletCircle"> <ul> <li>A state achieved when an entity achieves balance between emissions produced and removed from the atmosphere.</li> <li>When describing a building, it means the building generates as much energy as it uses.</li> <li>Not the same as “carbon neutral.”</li> </ul> </div> </li> <li class="a-items"> Operational Carbon <div class="a-content BulletCircle"> <ul> <li>The greenhouse gas emissions associated with daily operations.</li> <li>Includes direct and indirect emissions. For example: <ul> <li>Building energy consumption.</li> <li>Anesthetic gases.</li> <li>Refrigerants on-site.</li> <li>Staff commuting.</li> <li>Business travel.</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </li> <li class="a-items"> Resiliency (Health Care-specific) <div class="a-content BulletCircle"> <ul> <li>The capacity of a system to maintain function in the face of complex hazards that challenge accepted baseline assumptions for infrastructure capabilities, redundancies and disaster preparedness and response.</li> </ul> </div> </li> <li class="a-items"> Sustainability <div class="a-content BulletCircle"> <ul> <li>In health care, refers to the integration of environmental stewardship, social equity and fiduciary responsibility in health care organizations to support healthy, equitable and resilient environments and communities maintained over time.</li> <li>Based on a simple principle: Everything that humans need for their survival and well-being depends, either directly or indirectly, on the natural environment.</li> <li>To pursue sustainability is to create and maintain the conditions under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony to support present and future generations.</li> </ul> </div> </li> </ul> </div> function openCity(evt, cityName) { var i, tabcontent, tablinks; tabcontent = document.getElementsByClassName("tabcontent"); for (i = 0; i < tabcontent.length; i++) { tabcontent[i].style.display = "none"; } tablinks = document.getElementsByClassName("tablinks"); for (i = 0; i < tablinks.length; i++) { tablinks[i].className = tablinks[i].className.replace(" active", ""); } document.getElementById(cityName).style.display = "block"; evt.currentTarget.className += " active"; } // Get the element with id="defaultOpen" and click on it document.getElementById("defaultOpen").click(); </div> Wed, 08 Mar 2023 11:01:39 -0600 Glossary/Definition of Terms /2006-05-12-emergency-readiness <div class="outlineContent clearfix wide"><h2>Acronyms</h2><div class="clearfix"> <h2 class="alt"> Acronyms </h2> <span class="altMain"></span>--><table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="60%"><tbody><tr align="left" valign="top"><td>CDC</td><td> </td><td>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</td></tr><tr><td>DHS</td><td> </td><td>Department of Homeland Security</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top"><td>DMAT</td><td> </td><td>Disaster Medical Assistance Team</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top"><td>DMORT</td><td> </td><td>Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top"><td>DoD</td><td> </td><td>Department of Defense</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top"><td>DOE</td><td> </td><td>Department of Energy</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top"><td>DOJ</td><td> </td><td>Department of Justice</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top"><td>FBI</td><td> </td><td>Federal Bureau of Investigation</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top"><td>FEMA</td><td> </td><td>Federal Emergency Management Agency</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top"><td>HazMat</td><td> </td><td>Hazardous Material</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top"><td>HHS</td><td> </td><td>Department of Health and Human Services</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top"><td>ICS</td><td> </td><td>Incident Command System</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top"><td>LEPC</td><td> </td><td>Local Emergency Planning Committee</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top"><td>MMRS</td><td> </td><td>Metropolitan Medical Response System</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top"><td>NBC</td><td> </td><td>Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top"><td>NDMS</td><td> </td><td>National Disaster Medical System</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top"><td>NDPO</td><td> </td><td>National Domestic Preparedness Office</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top"><td>NMRT</td><td> </td><td>National Medical Response Team</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top"><td>NTIS</td><td> </td><td>National Technical Information Service</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top"><td>OEP</td><td> </td><td>Office of Emergency Preparedness</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top"><td>OSLDPS</td><td> </td><td>Office for State and Local Domestic Preparedness Support</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top"><td>PHS</td><td> </td><td>Public Health Service</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top"><td>RRIS</td><td> </td><td>Rapid Response Information System</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top"><td>VA</td><td> </td><td>Department of Veterans Affairs</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top"><td>WMD</td><td> </td><td>Weapons of Mass Destruction</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="ie"> </div></div> Fri, 12 May 2006 00:00:00 -0500 Glossary/Definition of Terms