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環境負荷

かんきょうふか

environmental impact

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Examples

  1. 環境負荷の少ない製品を選ぶ。

    かんきょうふかのすくないせいひんをえらぶ。

    We choose products with low environmental impact.

  2. 輸送は環境負荷が大きい。

    ゆそうはかんきょうふかがおおきい。

    Transportation has a large environmental impact.

  3. 生産の過程で生じる環境負荷をどう減らすかが課題だ。

    せいさんのかていでしょうじるかんきょうふかをどうへらすかがかだいだ。

    The challenge is how to reduce the environmental load created during production.

Common patterns

環境負荷が大きい
to have a large environmental impact
環境負荷を減らす
to reduce environmental impact
環境負荷の少ない
low-impact

Memory tip

負荷 is "load" in the engineering sense — the burden the environment has to carry. This is business and policy register; in ordinary speech you would say 環境への影響.

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