Sentences with phrase «at environmental constraints»

We look at environmental constraints where juniors are looking for minerals.

Not exact matches

«Going forward we will need much more precise constraints on the magnitude of oxygenation and the physiological requirements of early animals to continue testing the impact of oxygenation on Cambrian animal life,» said Erik Sperling, an assistant professor of geological and environmental sciences at Stanford University, and first author on the paper.

I invited one comment contributor, John Lemons, an emeritus professor of biology and environmental sciences at the University of New England, to weigh in with more depth (given the constraints of our comment system).

The Times excelled at environmental coverage before there was an environment pod, continued during that phase, and, I predict, will do so going forward, within the financial constraints facing all journalism.

«By analysing the potential impact of future carbon constraints driven by global climate change policies, our study shows a deterioration in the financial risk profiles for smaller oil companies that could lead to negative outlooks and downgrades,» said Michael Wilkins, head of environmental finance at Standard & Poor's.

The economic constraint on environmental action can easily be seen by looking at what is widely regarded as the most far - reaching establishment attempt to date to deal with The Economics of Climate Change in the form of a massive study issued in 2007 under that title, commissioned by the UK Treasury Office.7 Subtitled the Stern Review after the report's principal author Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist of the World Bank, it is widely viewed as the most important, and most progressive mainstream treatment of the economics of global warming.8 The Stern Review focuses on the target level of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) concentration in the atmosphere necessary to stabilize global average temperature at no more than 3 °C (5.4 °F) over pre-industrial levels.

From the activities of the Koch brothers lobbying octopus in opposing any environmental constraints on business, to the vast subsidies the oil industry maintains even as profits are at record levels, to dirty tricks lobbying against meaningful climate action.

I aspire to catalyze a paradigm shift in our approach at not only solving the most complex urban planning and environmental issues, but also in our approach to development, reclamation, and pollution mitigation through a holistic interdisciplinary planning process that considers biophysical constraints as well as socio - economic and social justice issues.