With work on the Great Belt link well advanced, concern about
the effects on the environment of these huge civil engineering projects is being focused on plans for crossing the Øresund.
The importance of conserving energy and
the effect on our environment of using the resources are considered.
Back in late 2009, in a lawsuit filed by a coalition of Los Angeles — area bird advocacy groups against City of Los Angeles Animal Services (LAAS), a Los Angeles Superior Court judge found in favor of the bird groups that LAAS programs in support of trap / neuter / return (TNR) as a community cat management strategy was in violation of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) because the agency had not conducted an environmental impact study regarding
the effects on the environment of sterilizing free - roaming community cats.
The effect on the environment of 1 C rise in 50 years, will be about as unnoticeable as the warming of 20th century.
He further explained that the current atmospheric CO2 levels are around 400 ppm, which means that CO2 level would have gone around 17 times the current levels and it would obviously have had severe
effects on the environment of that time but the formation of the mountains in fact contributed to the greatest fall in atmospheric CO2 in the last 500 million years.
In that regard, it has already been established, in paragraphs 32 and 36 of the present judgment, that Directive 85/337 confers on the individuals concerned a right to have
the effects on the environment of the project under examination assessed by the competent services, and that pecuniary damage, in so far as it is a direct economic consequence of the environmental effects of a public or private project, is covered by the objective of protection pursued by Directive 85/337.
Not exact matches
Although you'll likely never please everyone, making small tweaks to the
environment of your office can have dramatic
effects on productivity.
Over time, as people became more and more aware
of the
effects commonly used products can have
on the
environment, plastic - happy clients who once cared mostly for cost and convenience morphed into savvy customers with real concerns about the impact polyethylene and other petroleum - based products have
on the ecosystem.
The EPA, a federal agency charged with safeguarding clean, livable air and water, funds and conducts research into the
effects of climate change
on public health, the
environment, and natural disasters.
These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount
of discount required
on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability
of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction
of generic versions
of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic
environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the
effect of lowering prices or reducing the number
of insured patients; the possibility
of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels
of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits
of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages
of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development
of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate
of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact
on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).
Taobao said that the expanded prohibition list, which takes
effect on April 17, 2018, is meant «to standardize the market management order
of Taobao's online shopping platform, create a safe and secure online shopping
environment for consumers, and increase consumer's confidence in purchase and satisfaction.»
In all these cases the
effect of debt deflation extracting interest is not only
on spending — and hence
on current prices — but
on the economy's long - term ability to produce, by eating into natural resources and the
environment as well as society's manmade capital stock.
Because it reduces price and increases volume, it suggests that if Uber ultimately succeeds, the company could have a much bigger impact
on urban mobility, labor, the
environment, local economies and the national transportation infrastructure than we've all supposed — and its
effects could confound the expectations
of its harshest critics.
Jon Smith,
of DT Investment Partners, discusses the
effect of an interest rate hike
on bond markets... see why we prefer individual bond holdings over engineered ETFs in this
environment.
On the other hand they seem to be smaller in high - volatility
environments (possibly a side -
effect of mean - reverting volatility).
So the rising rate
environment didn't have much
of an
effect on portfolio volatility.
Stanford Graduate School
of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer wrote in the journal, Academy
of Management Perspectives, that, «Although most
of the research and public pressure concerning sustainability has been focused
on the
effects of business and organizational activity
on the physical
environment, companies and their management practices profoundly affect the human and social
environment as well.»
We do, however, seek to limit the
effects of our operations
on the
environment, and we are increasingly seeing the influence
of these issues within the investment world.
I share your concerns about the adverse
effect of mining
on the
environment and the treatment
of mine workers.
The
effect that this amount
of power consumption has
on the
environment must be immense.
The latest issue
of StraightTalk ® looks at four scenarios
of how the current growth improvement may evolve in the next few months and what the
effects may be
on the global economy's potential in the medium - term Our latest survey
of C - Suite executives» challenges reveal their responses to the current business
environment.
Some objections are related to harmful
effects of the project
on humans and the
environment.
The right
environment — corporate culture — can have an
effect on the outcome
of your employee advocacy program.
However, if the government's theory
of monopoly power were correct, a contracting business
environment would have no
effect on a company's relative position.
«All
of the harmful
effects on the
environment and
on health needs to be priced into food products,» said Hajer, who is a member
of U.N.'s International Resource Panel, which comprises 34 top scientists and 30 governments.
But the argument over the motive for Cochran's firing and its
effect on civil and religious liberties obscures a deeper disagreement over Christian conceptions
of sin and the consequences
of those ideas in a public work
environment.
Prior to Rio there were many criticisms
of the
effects of economistic policies
on the poor,
on traditional societies,
on indigenous peoples, and
on the
environment.
The oestrogens in contraceptives also have a lethal
effect on some elements
of the larger
environment; they have been shown to destroy the fertility
of some groups
of fish, for instance.
In these cases, the ethics
of justice make two demands: that the negative impact
on the
environment and
on certain people will be offset by a clear benefit to the larger society, and that individuals and communities suffering adverse
effects are offered a means
of redress and are duly compensated.
The dropping
of the atomic bomb, however, and the killing
of birdlife by DDT, documented by Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, introduced a new problem: the presence
of totally unpredicted (and probably unpredictable) harmful
effects on the
environment and
on human life stemming from actions taken specifically to produce certain benefits.
One
effect can outweigh another depending
on how large the study population was and who they are composed
of (age, gender, race, medical history,
environment etc etc).
If,
on the other hand, we admit that causes do not fully determine
effects, and that
effects are in part self - decided, then the «I» that now decides was not fully determined by the previous «I» with its
environment, and so
on back to one's first state
of awareness.
Instead
of being left to rely
on deductive theoretical formulations about the economic or political interests served by ideologies, we are offered attempts to spell out a credible set
of social factors that relate the actual producers and disseminators
of ideas with their social
environment, with interested audiences, and with sequences
of action that put ideas into
effect.
They are even less interested in the wellbeing
of workers, the contribution
of the business to the communities in which it operates, or its
effects on its natural
environment.
Sociological theology has focused
on questions
of justice, but as it has recognized that the
effects of human beings
on their
environment are having seriously deleterious consequences for humanity, it has extended its concern to questions
of the sustainability
of human society.23 Yet in practice the difference
of the amount
of attention given to these two issues
of justice and sustainability still leads to opposing judgements
on important issues.
A good idea, but please build one and carefully measure the power output, the reliability, the cost, the safety and the
effects on the
environment and when you have the numbers compare them with similar numbers obtained for other sources
of energy.
see what you have to understand about living in a real world — a world where god is just a story and not real — its a world based
on scientific and physical laws that are proven to exist and their
effects are measurable... us as humans, mere animals, hold no real power or control aside thru ingenuity which allows us to change our
environment to suit us... stay with me here... at this point in human history we ceased to change to suit our
environment and started changing it to suit us — thats destruction
of the earth to suit one species — that should go over well...
His inference is that self - suggestion
of impossibility had prevented the influence upon these persons
of an
environment which,
on the more «passive» subjects, had easily brought forth the
effects they looked for.
especially when one finds how the universe is so finely tuned to host life here
on earth (according to cosmologists, even the size
of the earth and the differing types
of galaxies have profound
effect on our living
environment) I find it highly impossible without a Creator, an Intelligent designer
Trapping's alleged deleterious
effect on the
environment constitutes the second line
of argument employed by animal protectionists.
Within such a paradigm we would begin to analyse an issue such as media and violence in terms
of its
effects first
on the broader symbolic
environment that is needed for constructive social life, rather than just
on isolated and selected individual actions.
The charge against economists is that they have ignored the
effects of this
on the
environment.
The organism draws its genes from an enormously variegated gene pool; it develops under the influence
of them and also under those
of a probably pretty heterogeneous
environment; and, at any given stage
of its life, the way its genes and its previous
environment have acted up to that point may have considerable
effect on the nature
of the
environment to which it will next be subjected — if the animal does not like it here it may migrate someplace else, and so
on.
Subsequent chapters will focus
on two other major areas
of religious television
effect: the
effects of religious television in relation to the local church and in relation to the broader cultural
environment.
Even though I come across in my blog as a tormented type
of person, I take some comfort in the fact that the
effect I might have
on my
environment is at times serene.
A study by Historic
Environment Scotland into the
effects of climate change
on buildings in Scotland... More
Consumers purchase organic foods for different reasons, including concerns about the
effects of conventional farming practices
on the
environment, human health, and animal welfare.
The first, Mark Bittman's Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating, focuses
on the
effect industrial meat production has
on the
environment («In terms
of energy consumption, serving a typical family -
of - four steak dinner is the rough equivalent
of driving around in an SUV for three hours while leaving all the lights
on at home»).
Many more further detailed the destruction being wrought
on the
environment by industrial livestock farming and the dangerous
effects on human health
of eating too much meat.
Our EMS follows a plan - do - check - act (PDCA) cycle, providing a road map for how we address the immediate and long - term
effects of our operations
on the
environment.