Sentences with phrase «environmental working papers»

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December 2001 (576 kb PDF file): Articles reviewing IMF research on capital controls, currency unions, and environmental issues; country study: United States; summary of October 2001 World Economic Outlook; list of IMF working papers; visiting scholars at the IMF.

Working paper commission by The Summit Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Specialty Coffee Association of America, The World Bank.

As part of its sustainability commitment to double the size of its business while reducing its environmental impact, Unilever has announced that it will work with its suppliers to source 75 % of its paper and board packaging from sustainably managed forests or from recycled material by 2015, rising to 100 % by 2020.

Recent third party accreditations for the SCA sustainability work include Dow Jones Sustainability Index 2013, the WWF Environmental Paper Company Index 2013, and Ethisphere — World's Most Ethical Companies 2014.

«It seems to have worked for at least one of the congeners studied,» says Tim Mattes, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and corresponding author on the paper, published in the journal Ecological Engineering.

A paper based on this work is in review at Environmental Research Letters.

«Bees rely on learning to locate flowers, track their profitability and work out how best to efficiently extract nectar and pollen,» said environmental sciences professor Nigel Raine, the Rebanks Family Chair in Pollinator Conservation at U of G and senior author of the paper.

«Maintenance of Traffic for Innovative Geometric Designs Work Zones,» recently was published in the Transportation Research Record, Praveen Edara, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at MU, and Tim Kope and Amir Khezerzadeh, students in the MU College of Engineering, co-authored the paper.

«Environmental science actually shares a common goal with drug makers: to improve the prediction of chemical toxicity,» says Dr. Allan Peter Davis, lead author of a paper on the work and the biocuration project manager of the Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD) in NC State's Department of Biological Sciences.

The work fed off research published in 2015 that looked at stream gauges in the central United States, said Gabriele Villarini, an associate professor in civil and environmental engineering at the university and a co-author of the new paper with Louise Slater.

«The sensing skin could be used for a wide range of structures, but the impetus for the work was to help ensure the integrity of critical infrastructure such as nuclear waste storage facilities,» says Dr. Mohammad Pour - Ghaz, an assistant professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering at NC State and co-author of a paper describing the work.

Published on behalf of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry is multidisciplinary in scope and publishes papers describing original experimental or theoretical work that significantly advances understanding in the area of environmental toxicology, environmental chemistry and hazard or risEnvironmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry is multidisciplinary in scope and publishes papers describing original experimental or theoretical work that significantly advances understanding in the area of environmental toxicology, environmental chemistry and hazard or risEnvironmental Toxicology and Chemistry is multidisciplinary in scope and publishes papers describing original experimental or theoretical work that significantly advances understanding in the area of environmental toxicology, environmental chemistry and hazard or risenvironmental toxicology, environmental chemistry and hazard or risenvironmental chemistry and hazard or risk assessment.

A paper on their work is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.

The work is reported in a paper in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.

The paper was a result of combined efforts of the joint Working Group on Human Risk Perception and Climate Change at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the National Socio - Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) at the University of Maryland.

Working with a clean sheet of paper, Lexus Design Division designers aimed to perfectly blend style, performance, efficiency, and environmental compatibility in a premium, grand touring sedan while trying to leverage advanced, new technologies.

The Elegant Dissonance highlights a recent body of work that explores the human relationship between cultural, environmental, and urban decay through delicately rendered hand cut paper on reclaimed street ephemera.

Ruth Hardinger's socially conscious artwork, signified by abstraction and influenced by environmental issues, is expressed in her sculptures, installations, paintings, works - on - paper, pigment prints, and photographs.

Ecoartspace, an organization that focuses on addressing environmental issues through the visual arts (the image below, from a 2009 exhibition, is by Nils - Udo), got in touch with me recently about a planned spring exhibition of small works on paper devoted to a simple question: What matters most?

The report goes far beyond the simple ranking and includes a series of interesting papers on the impact on innovation from the quality of governance, global movement of highly trained workers, grass - roots work on environmental technology and other factors.

I sent the Science paper to a batch of environmental researchers who have been constructive critics of the Boundaries work.

But of all the fresh considerations of Carson's work, there's one that stands out for me at the moment — a recent paper by two researchers of rhetoric and writing who dug in on «Silent Spring» drafts, notes and revisions and found that Carson had a remarkable and rare trait for someone so committed to raising public concern about a pressing environmental issue.

That paper is by Clive Hamilton, an Australian environmental ethicist who chastised me and others for proposing that a «good» path could be found in this era of human - dominated Earth systems, and Jacques Grinevald, a historian focused on the interface of environment and technology and member of the Anthropocene Working Group.

Steven Davis of the University of California, Irvine, and Robert Socolow of Princeton (best known for his work dividing the climate challenge into carbon «wedges») have written «Commitment accounting of CO2 emissions,» a valuable new paper in Environmental Research Letters showing the value of shifting from tracking annual emissions of carbon dioxide from power plants to weighing the full amount of carbon dioxide that such plants, burning coal or gas, could emit during their time in service.

«Utility - scale wind power: impacts of increased penetration (working paper)» [PDF], Lawrence Pitt, G. Cornelis van Kooten, Murray Love, and Ned Djilali, Resource and Environmental Economics and Policy Analysis (REPA) Research Group, Department of Economics, University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada), June 2005

Michael MacCracken of the Climate Institute, in an analysis posted here for the first time, identifies dozens of scientific errors and misleading statements in a 2007 paper by Arthur B. Robinson, Noah E. Robinson, and Willie Soon entitled «Environmental Effects of Increased Carbon Dioxide» — a contrarian effort that exemplifies the sort of work that provides fodder for the global warming disinformation campaign.

Cheap natural gas, stagnant power demand, and power prices that have fallen significantly since 2008 have jeopardized the economics of about two - thirds of the nation's 100 - GW nuclear capacity, according to a working paper from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research.

A working paper from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research released in March 2017, for example, suggests that about 21 GW in merchant deregulated markets are retiring, or are at high risk of retiring.

Rachel Ishofsky, Managing Director of Innovation: Africa commends the assessment paper for its exploration of social, environmental and financial issues in working towards the Decade of Sustainable Energy for All's (DSEA) ambitious goals.

Examples of harmful climate actions are identified in our briefing paper, Ensuring the right climate actions for ecosystems and people: Recommendations for Paris, prepared by the REDD + Safeguards Working Group (RSWG), a North - South coalition of more than 40 human rights, environmental and indigenous organizations pushing for the effective implementation of REDD + safeguards.

This technical paper (FCCC / TP / 2003 / 7 and Corr.1) took into account socio - economic and environmental impacts, including impacts on developing countries and was based on, inter alia, submissions from Parties, the outcome of the IPCC expert meeting in Dakar, any technical information related to the work of Parties in accounting for emissions from HWP, and other relevant sources of information.

Prof Jonathan Wiener, environmental policy expert at Duke University in the US and lead author on the International Cooperation chapter in the IPCC's working group three report, explains why this paper should be remembered as one of the most influential in climate policy.

Prof David Stern, energy and environmental economist at the Australian National University and lead author on the Drivers, Trends and Mitigation chapter of the IPCC's working group three report, also chooses the 1976 Keeling paper, though he notes:

He has testified as an expert witness on the theology, ethics, science, and economics of climate change policy before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and the Energy and Environment Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce; briefed the White House Council on Environmental Policy; delivered a paper at a conference at the Vatican sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace; and spoken at the 2008, 2009, and 2010 International Conferences on Climate Change and at colleges, churches, and other venues.

Frey, B. S. and Stutzer, A.: 2006, Environmental morale and motivation, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics Working Paper 288.

Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics, Working Paper 99 - 3, Institute of International Studies, University of Califórnia, Berkeley, 67 pp.

Michaels was listed as an academic member on the ESEF's March 1998 working paper titled «Environmental Tobacco Smoke Revisited: The reliability of the evidence for risk of lung cancer and cardiovascular disease.»

The DOE paper defined the environmental movement in fairly narrow terms, partly due to its primary subject matter (global climate change) and its intended audience (mainstream environmentalists and foundations working on global warming).

«A citizens audit of the IPCC study found that 5,587 cited references, nearly a third of all sources, were not peer - reviewed publications, but rather «grey literature,» such as press releases, newspaper and magazine articles, discussion papers, masters and PhD theses, working papers and advocacy literature published by environmental groups,» Sensenbrenner said.

No one tells bone what to do, but it generates a material in response to environmental signals», says Timothy Lu, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and biological engineering and senior author of the paper describing the team's work in Nature Materials

In a May 2006 working paper released by the Brookings Institution, «Case Closed: The Debate About Global Warming is Over,» Easterbrook cited doubts surrounding global warming in the early 1990s and informed readers that, in his book Moment on the Earth: The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism (Penguin, 1995), he had «called for more research» on the topic:

While Christmas morning has come and gone, there's no doubt that many kids across America are feeling flush with cash as a result of the holiday; and there's a great, fun toy put out by Bill Nye that's aimed at helping kids understand the process of recycling paper that the young, eco-conscious consumer in your house may be interested in.Put together with the idea of combining the work of recycling paper with the fun of creating their own projects with the results of it, there's certainly room for your kid to learn about the three R's of smart environmental stewardship while creating notepads, cards, and tons of other cool crafts at the same time.

Like Richard Shilling's use of twigs and leaves to remind us of the simple beauty of nature or the guns Sonia Rentsch forms with flower buds, nuts and sticks to raise the issue of environmental degradation and violence, Yulia Brodskaya utilizes paper — perhaps the most basic art material available — and a technique called «quilling» that involves twisting and folding strips of paper in such a way that she forces the viewer to not only appreciate her finished work, but also reconsider how we look at the raw materials she's using.

The Scotts Company (UK) Ltd v Paper Mill Lane Properties Ltd (2012)(QBD: Commercial Court)(meaning of contract for sale of development land regarding payments from a retention sum for environmental remediation works; estoppel by convention)

We got all kinds of resumes, some with direct experience in environmental organizations, some with years of experience on the issues we were working on, and even some with related scholarly papers.