Sentences with phrase «across environmental settings»

Not exact matches

Many countries look to the United States Coast Guard for setting maritime standards across the world as well, not just on safety but also on security and also on environmental issues, so very unique in that regard.

Guest Blog Submitted By: Superior Essex In 2006, Superior Essex launched its global sustainability initiatives, setting forth a longsighted strategy to reduce its environmental footprint across all levels of the organization.

Professor Dick said: «Alien plant and animal species cause environmental, economic and social damage across Europe, and their rate of invasion is set to increase in the coming years.

Two years ago this month, an edge - pushing environmental entrepreneur and a company formed by a Native Canadian village set off a wave of international protest by dispersing a pink slurry of 100 tons of iron - rich dust over one of the 60 - mile - wide ocean eddies that routinely drift across the salmon feeding grounds of the Gulf of Alaska.

The bank has set a new target to achieve 100 % renewable electricity by 2020 across its global operations, as part of its broader Sustainable Progress strategy and $ 100 Billion Environmental Finance Goal.

The intention is that by not incorporating such effects, SSPs can be more easily used by other researchers across a broad set of studies to evaluate how varying levels of climate change and types of policies affect on the «reference» socioeconomic and environmental conditions described in the SSPs.

I once shared a drink with a campaigner at one of the U.K.'s top environmental charities who confided that in the wake of the Climate Change Act nearly a decade ago, there had been a plan for a new high - profile campaign to decarbonize communities across the U.K. and publicly demonstrate the attractiveness of meeting the goals the law set out.

A trend on the rise across the industry is the requirement for electronic recyclers to be certified by an accredited third party, which helps them conform the recycling process to a set standard of privacy and environmental compliance.

Another great set of graphics I ran across not long ago is the UN Environmental Programme's Vital Climate Graphics collection (see left)-- but that's not been updated since the 2001 IPCC report.

The Occupy movement is very much an environmental movement: off - the - grid camps set up across the country, surprisingly with 21st - century tech.

A range of environmental crimes could be introduced across the EU, with sentencing levels set by Brussels.