GEMET
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Multilingual
Environmental
Thesaurus

History of Changes in GEMET

4.2.3 (2021-12-06)

Use correct licence version 4.0

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4.2.2 (2021-12-06)

Upgrade licence version

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4.2.1 (2021-06-01)

Concept 2656: correction of DE spelling mistake

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4.2.0 (2021-01-22)

Added 44 terms in 23 languages mainly related to EEA’s State Of the Environment Report SOER 2020 and on Sustainable Finance.

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4.1.4 (2020-02-13)

Add Icelandic INSPIRE Spatial Data Themes

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4.1.3 (2019-01-28)

Fixed a typo in Finnish for concept "bank protection"

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4.1.2 (2018-08-16)

Definition resources have been systematically revised and outdated URL’s were removed. Sources are mainly bibliographic references and URI’s for newer terms/concepts.

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4.1.1 (2018-08-07)

Based on a systematic term review, a set of commonly used abbreviations were added and a few plural forms were changed to singular - keeping the plural as alternative term. An outdated definition for "European Union" was removed.

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4.1.0 (2018-07-12)

Provided translations in 23 languages for 100 key concepts and their definitions selected from the 303 added into version 4.0.0.
Added additional 10 concepts/terms: flue gas desulphurisation, household waste, indoor smoke, INSPIRE, landfill waste, landfill waste flows, municipal waste water, organic wastewater, policy effectiveness, temperature change.

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4.0.1 (2017-06-28)

Minor corrections and adding 4 new terms including and related to "Forward-looking studies"

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4.0.0 (2017-06-26)

Content update including 303 new terms used in recent EEA products.

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3.1.0 (2017-05-12)

Icelandic added.

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2015-05-18
Armenian, Georgian and Azerbaijani added. Definitions translated to Arabic.
The translation of GEMET terms into Armenian (hy), Azerbaijani (az) and Georgian (ka) was done in early 2015, as part of the ENPI-SEIS project. The work and quality assurance was coordinated by the ENPI-SEIS National Focal Points (NFPs) for Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.
The Centre for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and Europe (CEDARE) completed the translation and quality assurance of all GEMET definitions in Arabic (ar) in early 2015 as an activity of the ENPI-SEIS project.
2012-12-11
New terms added: air quality impact, alternative fuel, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, emission to air, fishing fleet, material flow, non-mineral waste, other waste, waste prevention, wood resource
2012-11-15
Ukranian added
2012-07-20
Added Slovak, Croatian and Catalan.
2011-05-03
Catalan language added
2011-02-02
Source references that were part of the description - a.l.a. (Source: HMD / OED) have been removed and added as separate property values.
2011-01-03
Chinese language added
2009-07-20
Arabic language added