Glossary

- is a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life. Ecosystems contain biotic or living parts, as well as abiotic factors, or non-living parts. Biotic factors include plants, animals, and other organisms.

- is a basic ecological unit consisting of the natural environment and the organisms that live in it. It includes biotic elements, i.e. all the organisms that exist in the air, in the water, in the soil, the sun, as well as the overall interactions between them.

- is a piece of equipment that supplies electrical power for charging plug-in electric vehicles.

- have a battery instead of a gasoline tank, and an electric motor instead of an internal combustion engine. Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) are a combination of gasoline and electric vehicles, so they have a battery, an electric motor, a gasoline tank, and an internal combustion engine.

The process of reducing the amount of energy required to provide products and services.

Energy poverty results from a combination of low income, high expenditure of disposable income on energy and poor energy efficiency, especially as regards the performance of buildings.

- is the strategy, developed by EU, aiming to transform society into a fair and prosperous one

- is European Commission’s set of proposals to make the EU's climate, energy, transport and taxation policies fit for reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030, compared to 1990 levels.