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INSETTING [2 records]

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Record 1 2023-05-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Anti-pollution Measures
  • Climate Change
  • Environmental Management
CONT

Insetting, otherwise known as carbon insetting, is when a company refers to offsetting their emissions with a carbon offset project that comes from their own value chain. In comparison to a usual carbon offset project where the project helps to reduce or mitigate emissions externally, carbon insetting allows a company to reduce emissions within their own value chain.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mesures antipollution
  • Changements climatiques
  • Gestion environnementale
CONT

Si [l'entreprise américaine] parvenait à montrer la flexibilité liée à la compensation interne du carbone, elle pourrait légitimer ce type d'instrument de marché spécifique au détriment d'instruments (de marché ou des normes) plus contraignants.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Medidas contra la contaminación
  • Cambio climático
  • Gestión del medio ambiente
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Record 2 2001-03-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Forwarding, Folding, and Binding (Printing)
  • Advertising Techniques
DEF

The assembling of book sections or signatures by placing them within other sections to be bound.

CONT

A section which is placed within another section is known either as an insert, or inside signature, and if it is in the center, as a center signature. A section which is placed over and outside another section is known either as an outsert or as an outside signature. The assembly technique of inserting can be used for books and magazines having a thickness of less than one-half inch folded, or less than one-quarter inch open. The end products are more often booklets and magazines, but they can also be hardbound books.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Façonnage, pliage et reliure (Imprimerie)
  • Techniques publicitaires
DEF

Assemblage, l'un dans l'autre, de deux ou plusieurs cahiers pliés pour la confection d'une seule brochure «piquée à cheval», c'est-à-dire dans le pli.

Spanish

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