| English | Polish |
| Bank for Environmental Protection | Bank Ochrony Środowiska |
| bank protection Engineering work which aims at the protection of banks of a river, or slopes of embankments along it, from erosion by the current of flow, from floods, etc. | umacnianie brzegów (prace inżynieryjne mające na celu zapobieganie erozji brzegów) |
| emission reduction banking a system for recording qualified air emission reductions for later use in bubble, offset or netting transactions (emission trading); A system for recording qualified air emission reductions for later use in bubble, offset, or netting transactions. Plant complexes that reduce emissions substantially may "bank" their "credits" or sell them to other industries | finansowe aspekty ograniczenia emisji (system rejestracji ograniczeń oszacowanych ilości emisji do atmosfery w celu ich stosowania w handlu emisjami w różnych układach) |
| environmental specimen bank Places in which selected specimens (fish, mussels, milk, soil sample and human tissue, etc.) are stored without being allowed to decompose | bank okazów ekologicznych (miejsca, w których przechowuje się wybrane okazy, np. ryby, muszle, mleko, próby glebowe, ludzkie tkanki, itp. w stanie utrwalonym) |
| gene bank Storehouses of seeds or vegetative tissue, kept in low humidity and temperature, to help maintain genetic diversity. Sometimes known as seed banks or germ plasm banks. their contents mostly originate from a wide range of primitive strains and wild crop varieties. The International Board for Plant Genetic Resources (IBPGR), which was established in 1974, promotes the collection, documentation, evaluation, conservation and eventual use of genetic resources of significant plant species. Gene banks are the subject of international controversy because they contain seeds that have mostly been acquired from the developing countries by the industrially rich countries, where they have been used in breeding programmes to develop new strains. Instead of taking decades over a traditional plant breeding programme by fertilization, it is now possible to manipulate directly the genes of plants, creating genetically modified organisms (GMOs), which are plants modified to give a higher resistance to disease and improved growth and yields and, therefore, increase the profit of the plant breeder and farmer | bank genów (definicja EEA - specjalna przechowalnia nasion lub tkanek wegetatywnych w warunkach niskiej wilgotności i temperatury;przechowywanie materiału wspomaga utrzymanie różnorodności genetycznej) |
| literature data bank A fund of information on a particular subject or group of related subjects, divided into discrete documents and usually stored in and used with a computer system | bank danych literaturowych (zasoby informacji dot. określonej tematyki, w postaci zbioru dokumentów, najczęściej przechowywany i użytkowany w systemie komputerowym) |
