Sentences with phrase «environmental ngos»

Now, these environmental NGOs, by virtue of having charity status, were already the recipients of government largesse.

He is member of environmental NGOs and community groups for 30 years.

The Committee criticized that, again, this would mean non-compliance with Article 9 (3) AC, as most environmental NGOs would not fulfil this criterion when acting against a particular contested measure.

In a significant win for access to justice in environmental matters, the Court's Grand Chamber found that Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights (the right to an effective remedy), read together with the Aarhus Convention, precluded the application of national procedural rules allowing for swift decision - making at the expense of rights granted to environmental NGOs.

He has also been a consultant to the European Commission and to international environmental NGOs.

To date there has been little to no consideration of the climate impacts of diet in either government policy or the communications strategies of various environmental NGOs worldwide.

Today, Friends of the Earth Europe with the Green10 — the alliance of leading environmental NGOs at EU level, supported by over 20 million EU citizens and active in all 28 Member States — wrote an open letter to President Jean - Claude Juncker to express grave concerns over the direction the EU seems to be taking with the announcement of his new team.

Many environmental NGOs, in the increasingly panicked calls for climate action now, are also prone to saying things like «well of course the emerged economies of Brazil, India and China must also be obliged to reduce emissions.»

European environmental NGOs are calling on Member States to improve their National Allocation Plans for the second phase, with stringent caps as well as credible and transparent allocation rules.

This may set alarm bells ringing for environmental NGOs and clean energy industries, which have already condemned the package for a lack of legally - binding targets.

CCS is supported by environmental NGOs such as Norway's Zero Emissions Resource Organization (ZERO).

Such are the remarks in Reuters by the head of the Indonesia Palm Oil Growers Association that environmental NGOs pointing out the unmitigated climate change and biodiversity nightmare of plantation palm oil production might be pawns of Western business interests wanting to gain an advantage in the international biofuels market: Joefly Bahroeny said,

«With an alliance of environmental NGOs, universities and private businesses, we're developing the capacity to significantly accelerate funding from markets supporting «Payments for Ecological Services», including carbon credits, wetlands banking, biodiversity banking, etc, and to direct that funding to the best ecosystem restoration projects as determined by solid science», he explains.

Five Chinese environmental NGOs published the findings of a seven - month study, showing that Apple has a lot of clean - up work to do on its supply chain.

At the behest of these interests, over the past year the Brazilian Congress has introduced measures that would significantly curtail the capacity of environmental NGOs and scientists to operate in the Amazon.

Take this one as reinforcement of what plenty of environmental NGOs have been saying for some time: The commercial palm oil industry in Indonesia and Malaysia is trampling the rights of indigenous people and destroying

«It's not rational... and this is not Kyoto,» says Cozijnsen, who now advises environmental NGOs, referencing the Kyoto Protocol.

This doesn't just go for the youth though, I've watched the largest environmental NGOs that have come to represent the environmental movement in the media continually cut dangerous deals and make compromises on issues that aren't theirs to compromise on.

But as things go the happenings of life moved me past that initial conversation with Clive Hamilton and the first article I had written on why Environmental NGOs should be engaged on this issue, shelved my shock and horror to focus on the «now» of the environmental movement — incinerators, carbon rule, loopholes in the carbon rule, divestment, fracking, etc..

But it also reminded me that Environmental NGOs have been avoiding the conversation outright, for different reasons perhaps, but ignoring it nonetheless.

In fact, environmental NGOs might secretly welcome such an attempt.

They rail on about the potential complicity of environmental NGOs in the death of millions through the opposition of these NGOs to support the use of chlorine - based pesticides, but they are completely silent on the economic and military policies of western nations (and that includes Europe as well) which are driving and maintaining poverty and which are killing thousands of people every day and whgich have probably killed many more people than malaria has done since the 1970s.

And like Illinois» New Albany shale, which was sold as a climate change game changer with natural gas replacing coal by the environmental NGOs.

The majority of China's environmental NGOs, except for a very small number who take an extreme western environmentalist line without considering the country's special characteristics, are positive and healthy, especially the youth groups who are volunteering for the environment.

Finally, we must strengthen our cooperation with environmental NGOs.

In addition, major environmental NGOs (ENGOs), including WWF Canada, endorse Bullfrog Power's green fuel as a way to green transportation fuels while avoiding food - versus - fuel conflicts.

In addition, the Iranian Ministry of Environment distributed copies of Eco-Economy to the 1,000 representatives of Iran's environmental NGOs.

A large coalition of environmental NGOs has called on IOI's customers to stop buying from the company until it meets a long list of requirements.

«2007 will be remembered as the year when environmental NGOs joined with developing and developed countries to bring climate concerns to the Montreal Protocol — starting with an accelerated HCFC phase - out,» said Zaelke.

And it's not just the WWF, which is just one of nine environmental NGOs that constitute a «Green Ten» that are beneficiaries of EU funding.

Without the pressure from the Greens and their friends in the environmental NGOs, the German governments of chancellors Helmut Kohl, Gerhard Schröder and Angela Merkel would not have pushed the expansion of wind power, bioenergy and solar energy as much as they did.

If it were a genuinely common cause, it would be reflected in demands from below, not by a self - appointed Oligarchy of environmental NGOs.

Most environmental NGOs back the proposals but some would like to see more radical changes of the ETS to make it more flexible in the future.

The stakeholders included representation from across all sectors including Virginia utilities, industrial end - users, environmental NGOs, academic institutions, state and municipality operations, the state legislature, and low income organizations.

(The «consensual» presumably reflects the proposal that environmental NGOs be guaranteed direct access to the court.

The Guardian, meanwhile, barely notice the real significance of the story of pop stars and Environmental NGOs collaborating while making up statistics and reinventing Mayan prophecies about the end of the world, to become part of the phenomenon.

Carlos Rittl of Climate Observatory, a coalition of environmental NGOs, said Brazil was now hiding behind the gains it made in the past rather than pushing ahead with more ambitious climate policies involving greater investment in wind, solar, ethanol and biomass.

Rather than recognising that the UNFCCC process, at best, suffers from something of a democratic deficit, and furthermore attempts to negotiate many competing interests, and seeking to find ground on which those differences might be reconciled, environmental NGOs actively disrupt negotiations that are not to their taste.

Some environmental NGOs have simply adapted to this new landscape.

I do not oppose all development; neither does the Green Party; neither do environmental NGOS; neither do First Nations.

Today over 90 environmental NGOs across Europe will launch a joint online action to save European nature from Commission President Juncker's deregulation agenda.

EU governments must step back from irreparably weakening Europe's biggest climate law, six of Europe's leading environmental NGOs have said, after talks between member states and the European Parliament ended in deadlock this week.

But there are also IPCC people from national labs who are not at arms» length of the government; there are governments who hire consultants to work for the IPCC; and there are IPCC people in the employ of industry and environmental NGOs.

Open letter by 23 high - ranking officials of American energy, climate and environmental NGOs, including Bill McKibben of 350.org, to President Barack Obama and President Hu Jintao, calling for wartime - like mobilization by the governments of the United States and China to... Continue reading →

Some environmental NGOs usually fail to spot the ethical problems with arguments made against climate change policies based upon the cost or reducing ghg emissions to the emitters.

In addition to social movements and family farmers, the group was composed of representatives of the different sectors involved with the subject, like the rural and forest producers, research institutions, and environmental NGOs.

Carbon traders; dodgy academics; vulture capitalists pecking on the bloated carcass of renewable energy; environmental NGOs; environmental consultancies who specialise in giving «expert» testimony at planning appeals, arguing on the most spurious grounds that no the bats and birds in this area aren't going to be affected by this new wind turbine they're going to be happier than ever no really; sustainability officers at every level of local government; advisers attached to every business who advise them how to reduce their CO2 count; PR companies that specialise in green awareness; dog - on - a-rope wind turbine scamsters; environmental lawyers.

Not even the big environmental NGOs believed it possible before the conference and they actively attempted to discourage a handful of activists convinced it could be pulled off.

Although I first started out as most young idiots do — by donating to environmental NGOs, age and wisdom have shown that these organizations are — for the most part — just as dastardly as that which they purport to fight.

«It emerged at the international level, through the combination of, among others: (1) the conservationist interests of big environmental NGOs in the North, (2) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the North seeking low - cost alternatives to supposedly «offset» their continued and excessive emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases, (3) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the South seeking to obtain financial resources for the «protection» of forests in their countries, (4) the interests of corporations that could profit from market - tradable «offset» credits, including through speculation on secondary (derivatives) markets, which would allow them to continue destroying the forests for the extraction of timber, minerals or oil, the establishment of monoculture plantations, etc., thus expanding their business opportunities, and (5) the interests of consultants and other actors involved in financial capital markets who want to turn «unexploited» forests into a new market for this type of capital, through the commercialization of «environmental services» such as carbon sequestration, among others.»