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While it is widely recognised that foreign investment is important for economic growth and that multinational enterprises contribute to economic, social and environmental progress, public concerns remain about the impact of their activities on home and host countries.
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Berkeley, CA About Blog Environmental Progress (EP) is a research and policy organization fighting for clean power and energy justice to achieve nature and prosperity for all.
Berkeley, CA About Blog Environmental Progress (EP) is a research and policy organization fighting for clean power and energy justice to achieve nature and prosperity for all.
The reality — however — is that only economic development can provide the resources to see substantial social and environmental progress.
Most progress will come only with economic growth — and this will have very little to do with the UN until they recognise the centrality of economic freedom to social and environmental progress.
China followed a few months later with a Five Year Plan that majored on environmental progress and further fuelled speculation the superpower's coal use already has peaked.
Without economic growth — social and environmental progress is impossible.
And it is technological progress which is the key to economic progress and thus environmental progress.
Disasters drive sweeping legislation, and precedent was on the side of a great leap forward in environmental progress.
One of my favorite sayings is that «years from now, environmentalists will look back on the current obsession with global warming and say that it did incredible harm to real environmental progress.»
It will be our pleasure to follow this innovation in fashion, recycling, sustainability — and environmental progress.
COTAP commits to the annual monitoring and reporting of our projects» social and environmental progress throughout the lifespan of each project.
By connecting its unique competences in life sciences and materials sciences DSM is driving economic prosperity, environmental progress and social advances to create sustainable value for all stakeholders simultaneously.
Competitive forces and industry innovation continue to drive technological advances and produce clean - burning natural gas, which has led to reducing carbon emissions from power generation to their lowest level in more than 20 years, making it clear that environmental progress and energy production are not mutually exclusive.
A big part of the reason is because Environmental Progress has loudly and repeatedly pointed out that closing nuclear plants in the name of climate change is not just hypocrisy but rather greenwashing of the worst order.
The Illinois EPA estimated that most of the replacement power would come from coal, and Environmental Progress calculated that emissions would have risen by an amount equivalent to adding roughly two million cars to the road.
Environmental Progress has discovered that American Petroleum Institute — Big Oil — is spending millions to bombard voters in Pennsylvania with direct mail, spread misinformation in Ohio, and twist the arms of legislators.
I'm confident that our record of environmental progress will continue with next year's games in London, the 2014 games in Sochi and the 2016 games in Rio.»
Under his budget, cash - strapped states and local governments would have to pick up the more than $ 400 million tab for clean up and restoration of these iconic water bodies, stalling years of environmental progress.
He sees the main current challenge for all environmental progress as the new, increasingly powerful and combative anti-science wing of U.S. politics.
Since I started Environmental Progress a year and a half ago, friends ask me how — with a budget of under $ 1.5 million — we can possibly succeed against the anti-nuclear Goliath with 500 times the resources.
Her fearless leadership and her devotion to human and environmental progress has been a true inspiration to us all and will continue to keep us going.
German electricity was nearly 10 times dirtier than France's in 2016, according to a new Environmental Progress (EP) analysis.
Environmental Progress took a look at our home state of California and we discovered that we have just 23 minutes of storage for the grid — and to get that 23 minutes you'd have to use every battery in every car and truck in the state.
It is Environmental Progress's explicit policy since we were founded on January 1, 2016 that we would not take any energy company money, as we have stated since January 1 on our web site.
Michael Shellenberger is President and Chairman of Environmental Progress, and a leading energy and environmental researcher.
These responses and others form the foundation for an energy action agenda — action that harnesses the transformative power of America's domestic energy renaissance for job creation, economic growth, increased security and climate / environmental progress.
California's power sector emissions are two - and - a-half times higher today than they would have been had the state kept open and built planned nuclear plants, a new Environmental Progress (EP) analysis finds.
The explanation has to do with retrograde and backward beliefs which have been hindering environmental progress for a generation.
Michael Shellenberger, President of Environmental Progress, Time Magazine's «Hero of the Environment»
Robert Stone is New York Coordinator of Environmental Progress and the documentary filmmaker behind «PANDORA»S PROMISE,» which premiered at Sundance in 2013 broadcast on CNN.
Added Michael Shellenberger, President of Environmental Progress: «The hypocrisy of Food and Water Watch is breathtaking.
President Trump's continues his attack on environmental progress by reversing the Obama administration's ban on sale of disposable plastic water bottles at National Parks.
I'm writing now to reflect back on an extraordinary year, give you a peek into what's coming in 2017, and invite you to become a founding member of Environmental Progress.
As Founder and President of Environmental Progress, Michael led the grassroots environmental effort to save nuclear power plants in Illinois and New York, which prevented an increase in emissions equivalent to adding 5.7 million cars to the road.
«Today's announcement could represent a huge victory for the pro-nuclear movement,» said Michael Shellenberger, President of Environmental Progress, who organized the open letter.
The Last Friday, Environmental Progress (EP) reported that two top former Cuomo aides under federal prosecution for influence - peddling had lobbied on behalf of Competitive Power Ventures (CPV), a natural gas company, to kill Indian Point.
[A former anti-nuclear activist has become pro-nuclear — Shellenberger, President of Environmental Progress]
Again on September 19, Environmental Progress noted that PG&E was asking for permission to charge higher rates.
You can see from this chart created by a team of scholars including Environmental Progress Senior Science Advisor, James Hansen, and published last year in the journal Science, that the decades of peak nuclear deployment generate two to ten times more electricity than did peak decades of solar and wind deployment.
Arun Ramamurthy, Research Fellow, Environmental Progress.
Amid the volume of good news emanating from America's energy renaissance — lower consumer costs, economic growth, increased energy security, environmental progress and more — let's also recognize that these benefits wouldn't be realized without the key contributions of the U.S. refining sector.
If New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo succeeds in his effort to close Indian Point nuclear power plant, carbon emissions will spike and the state will become more dependent on fossil fuels than it has been since 2000, a new Environmental Progress (EP) analysis finds.
I hope you'll consider becoming a founding member of Environmental Progress.
«It's outrageous and it is totally deceptive what PG&E said before compared with what is actually going to happen,» said Michael Shellenberger, president of the Berkeley - based advocacy group Environmental Progress.
«Our approach promises environmental progress in reducing harmful global warming, economic progress by creating new high - tech jobs to meet emissions goals, and international progress by showing our allies that we're serious about this global problem.»
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h / t Willie Soon — Lifelong Democrat, Founder and President of Environmental Progress, and Time Magazine Hero of the Environment Michael Shellenberger will stand as an Independent candidate for Governor in the 2019 California Election.
In Villa Nueva, where a fine layer of soot can coat the skin, the hand - me - down coal plant in many ways represents environmental progress.
Between 2016 and 2017, California's electricity prices rose three times more than they did in the rest of the United States, according to a new analysis by Environmental Progress.
That said, I have to give a huge amount of credit to the Environmental Progress organization, Michael Shellenberger and Eric Meyer, along with the Mothers for Nuclear organization, with Sarah Spath and others.