The biggest shift since the earlier gathering may be the end of a presumption that international tools like treaties should be a central focus of efforts to
drive environmental progress.
The first guest dispatch, focusing on new roles for laws and courts in
driving environmental progress, comes from Nicholas A. Robinson, a colleague of mine and longtime environmental law professor at Pace University.
Not exact matches
«Eco-minded drivers looking for a new «green» vehicle with low CO2 emissions don't have to look further than the fun - to -
drive and fuel - efficient Accord Hybrid,» said Steven Center, vice president of the
Environmental Business Development Office at American Honda Motor Co., Inc. «Recognition from the trusted editors at Kelley Blue Book is proof positive of the
progress Honda has made developing increasingly cleaner vehicles over the last 40 years.»
Having said all that, real
environmental and humanitarian
progress and change will be
driven by big business and the multi-nationals doing the right and sustainable thing.
In a wise Op - Ed article on Sunday, Margo Oge, a former senior
Environmental Protection Agency official and the author of «
Driving the Future: Combating Climate Change With Cleaner, Smarter Cars,» laid out an approach to fostering
progress toward developing truly renewable biologically - based energy sources.
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.
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.
Disasters
drive sweeping legislation, and precedent was on the side of a great leap forward in
environmental progress.
Whilst the UK population who supported the decision to leave the EU today may have given the current Government the tools to overturn some of the
progress made through EU
environmental policies, the benefits of energy efficiency are recognised beyond the legislative requirement and this will continue to
drive change regardless of any backward step that the impending exit from the EU will bring.