Sentences with phrase «as environmental campaigners»

The lack of progress could be seen in the number of points described as «to be elaborated» in a fresh informal text, copies of which flew around the halls like windblown leaves as environmental campaigners, reporters and delegates copied and disseminated it.

Chico Mendes, known internationally as an environmental campaigner, is being honored this afternoon in Washington, D.C., with a memorial service on the 25th anniversary of his assassination in Xapuri, Acre, deep in the Amazon rain forest he had fought to conserve.

Not exact matches

The news comes as scores of UK hospitality firms are beginning to change their policies on plastic waste, while some environmental campaigners are attempting to tax single - use plastic products in an effort to discourage their use.

Cristina Grandi, IFOAM Food Security Campaigner, presented a poster on the «Benefits of organic farming systems» examining environmental, economic and social aspects as well as data on soil health, water efficiency, biodiversity, energy efficiency, yields, profitability, nutrition and employment.

The real attack on freedom of speech has come from the French state itself and it is directed against those it perceives as potential subversives: the school children who will not say Je Suis Charlie, the Muslim families who are subject to raids by police, the environmental campaigners who want to demonstrate in front of world leaders.

FoE's Planning Campaigner, Hugh Ellis said: «With no reference to climate change in the planning bill, people have no guarantees that ministers will take climate change into account when considering major projects such as roads, airports and power stations which will lock us into the path towards climate change and environmental destruction.

Environmental campaigners argue that simple hydrocarbons such as pentane and butane should replace CFCs in fridges.

Koenig says environmental campaigners are deeply concerned about stepped up drilling plans in other parts of the Ecuadorian Amazon but they see merit in supporting the Yasuni Initiative as a means by which to enable Ecuador to extricate itself from its current «oil debt trap.»

Despite having their hearts and heads in the right place, environmental campaigners all too often come across as doom - mongering, guilt - tripping party poopers.

Given the glaring yield gaps between rich and poor places, particularly, can campaigners and citizens passionate about environmental conservation (and «green» eating) learn to embrace the need, in many crops and situations, for intensification as a path to a greener, thriving world?

Carol M. Browner, the new White House coordinator for climate and energy, is a seasoned environmental regulator and campaigner who has focused on cap - and - trade legislation, which would steadily raise the cost of unfettered fossil - fuel use, and rule - making as driving the necessary change (as they did with the 20th - century basket of air pollutants).

Through scenes shot in 29 countries, the programs describe Sanjayan's learning curve as a scientist and conservation campaigner, from years when he pursued traditional strategies for environmental protection, like the establishment of parks (read this 1998 Science paper to get the idea), to conservation efforts that foster sustainable land use from the ground up.

Various Updates In a move that environmental campaigners had sought for years (as had I), the Environmental Protection Agency has issued final rules that could substantially cut emissions of heat - trapping methane, smog - forming volatile organic compounds and toxic air pollutants such as benzene from new, rebuilt or modified oil and gas wells and other infrastructure anenvironmental campaigners had sought for years (as had I), the Environmental Protection Agency has issued final rules that could substantially cut emissions of heat - trapping methane, smog - forming volatile organic compounds and toxic air pollutants such as benzene from new, rebuilt or modified oil and gas wells and other infrastructure anEnvironmental Protection Agency has issued final rules that could substantially cut emissions of heat - trapping methane, smog - forming volatile organic compounds and toxic air pollutants such as benzene from new, rebuilt or modified oil and gas wells and other infrastructure and operations.

As they always have, news services began describing the embargoed findings earlier in the evening, prodded by environmental campaigners and some scientists who hoped the results would inspire diplomats preparing to gather next month in Bali for the latest round of climate - treaty talks.

Some environmental and climate campaigners have said they are willing to be «a big fan of a lousy climate bill,» as Joe Romm of Climate Progress described himself not long ago (around the 34th minute in this video)-- as a step toward breaking longstanding gridlock.

In the meantime, the United States and China, with the world's biggest economies and greenhouse - gas emissions, rejected the pact's mandatory restrictions on the gases and were often portrayed by environmental campaigners as stifling progress.

Those against will be Daniel M. Kammen, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, focused on renewable and «appropriate» energy technology and a senior energy adviser to the Obama campaign; Oliver Tickell, an environmental writer / campaigner in search of what he calls Kyoto2, a framework for controlling greenhouse gases that is effective, efficient and equitable; and Adam Werbach, who gained fame as the youngest president of the Sierra Club (elected at 23), but now is focused on «blue» marketing for business growth framed around sustainability, as the head of Saatchi & Saatchi S. I'll have to ask him about how that works.

I've heard quite a few environmental campaigners cite the civil rights movement as a model for the kind of bottom - up activism they are trying to trigger around global warming.

The meeting was attended by scientists, environmental campaigners, engineers and policy experts aiming to clarify how global warming might be counteracted either by sopping up heat - trapping carbon dioxide or reducing incoming sunlight in a variety of ways — a suite of options known as geo - engineering.

Biofuels were initially championed by environmental campaigners as a silver bullet against global warming.

As a result, US refiners and traders are looking to markets with looser regulation and, say environmental campaigners at both ends of the supply chain, fuelling India's airborne public health crisis.

Liz was previously Head of Communications at the Vegetarian Society and has lots of experience as a voluntary environmental campaigner.

Marshall has worked for 25 years as a campaigner in environmental movements, including Greenpeace US and the Rainforest Foundation.

According to Global Witness — apart from the three forest patrollers slain last month — as many as 20 environmental advocates and campaigners have been killed in Cambodia since 2005.

The developments are likely to fuel concerns among the many environmental campaigners who oppose nuclear power that the industry has unfair access to the government, as well as benefiting from hidden subsidies.

Environmental campaigner Bill McKibben has characterized such a strategy as a war effort, but it is actually even bigger than that.

An environmental documentary due to be broadcast on Channel 4 on Thursday evening has come under attack from a leading American environmentalist who was interviewed for the programme, as well as a coalition of anti-GM campaigners based in the developing world.

One of the unfortunate side effects of which was that (and this is not necessarily your field's fault in the direct sense) every two - bit environmental activist, campaigner, and pressure group took it as license to fully politicize the science with naive and exaggerated claims about the «effects» of global warming (apparently it's responsible for everything), or where the «tipping point» was (30 years, no 20 years, no 10 years, etc.) or how quickly we could «de-carbonize» our economy (50 % reduction in 40 years, no 70 % in 30 years, no 90 % in 15 years).

Even issues where environmental campaigners thought they'd see progress, such as improved management of the high seas which have been rampantly overfished, nations (in this case U.S., Japan, Canada, Russia and Venezuela) were able to kick any meaningful changes down the road for another few years.

Senator John Kerry is set to be announced as President Obama's Secretary of State, a move which could please environmental campaigners.

The Ministry of Energy and Mines claims that reducing the environmental requirements — weakening the country's environmental framework - will promote investment in the country, but environmental campaigners point out that key stakeholders such as civil society, indigenous peoples, and academics should be consulted about changes in laws that would affect forests and community lands - such as the proposed elimination of environmental impact assessments.

The hearings were presided over by three judges: Brett Fleishman, senior finance campaigner for 350.org; Aurélie Trouvé the co-president of the french branch of «Attac», an international movement working towards social, environmental and democratic alternatives, and Marie Toussaint President of «Notre affaire à tous» an organisation that specialises in using law as an advocacy tool to protect the environment and the climate.

Last year the Guardian spearheaded a campaign against plastic waste when it revealed that a million plastic bottles are bought around the world every minute, creating an environmental crisis some campaigners predict will become as serious as climate change.

Campaigners have previously worried that Mayor de Blasio may try to roll back recent environmental initiatives in NYC, and his refusal to bail out Citibike may be seen by some as a nod in that direction.

But as many environmental campaigners rightly warn, there is much much more worth preserving in forests, and there's probably a better way of talking about them then just in terms of utility value in combatting climate change.

While environmental campaigners hailed this as a major victory, the threat of an appeal has been looming in the background ever since; councillors were advised at the time that their rulings would likely be subject to appeal.

Environmental campaigners say that protecting the rights of indigenous people is the cheapest and most effective way of keeping the forests healthy as supported by mounting scientific evidence.