Vocabulary

1. to cause or facilitate the beginning of something
4. most important city or town of a country or region, usually its seat of government and administrative center.
7. resources is a resource of which there is an endless supply because it can be replenished.
9. the process of something becoming worse or weaker, or being made worse or weaker
10. the highest degree awarded by a graduate school or other approved educational organization
11. seminars These seminars are aimed at leading the participants through a process of self discovery
12. no longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives.
13. al the different kinds of life you'll find in one area
15. tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy, or undermine an established or existing system, especially a legally constituted government or a set of beliefs.
16. seriously at risk of extinction

2. bottom line sustainability-focused accounting framework that includes social, environmental and financial factors as bottom-line categories.
3. is the word used to describe the growing interdependence of the world's economies
5. capital generally used to support startups and other businesses with the potential for substantial and rapid growth
6. is something that is passed on
8. process by which vegetation in drylands arid and semi-arid lands, such as grasslands decreases and eventually disappears
14. the purposeful clearing of forested land