Arabic Sustainability Dictionary
One agreed Arabic term for every sustainability concept — proposed by practitioners, scored by reviewers and validated with the University of Jeddah.
Weighted average carbon intensity (WACI)
A portfolio metric equal to the average of investees' emissions per unit of revenue, weighted by each holding's share of the portfolio.
متوسط الكثافة الكربونية المرجح
Well-below 2°C
A level of ambition consistent with keeping global warming well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, as set out in the Paris Agreement.
أقل بكثير من 2°م
Whistleblowing
The confidential reporting of suspected wrongdoing within an organisation through protected channels.
الإبلاغ عن المخالفات
Wind power
Electricity generated by turbines that convert the kinetic energy of wind into mechanical and then electrical energy.
طاقة الرياح
Work-related fatality
A death resulting from a work-related injury or ill health.
الوفاة المرتبطة بالعمل
Workers in the value chain
People who work in a company's upstream or downstream value chain but are not part of its own workforce; covered by ESRS S2.
العاملون في سلسلة القيمة
Workforce localisation
Policies that increase the employment of a country's nationals in the private sector, such as Saudization programmes in Saudi Arabia.
التوطين
Zero liquid discharge (ZLD)
A treatment approach in which a facility recovers and reuses all its wastewater so that no liquid effluent leaves the site.
التصريف السائل الصفري