Sentences with phrase «environmental campaigners in»

The Olympic Delivery Authority's (ODA) commitment to green schemes and sustainability has been criticised by environmental campaigners in the past.

Under the slogan «Fight Climate Change, One Plate at a Time», the lunch begins today at 11 am and runs until 3 pm, with the interactive table set out by environmental campaigners in the Philippines.

[Grist has some reactions from an environmental campaigner in India.]

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.

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.

Mr Benn confirmed the government will now review plans for a 60 per cent cut in carbon emissions after environmental campaigners warned it was not sufficiently rigorous.

«It's vital that everyone with an interest - private motorists, the business community, central and local government, road safety and environmental campaigners - is given the chance to see how schemes operate in the real world.»

So tweeted the renowned environmental campaigner and journalist George Monbiot earlier this week, after Gove condemned farmers who «drench» their fields in chemicals and damage soil fertility.

Leaked documents indicate the Crown Prosecution Service may also have misled the public and even the courts when the trial of six environmental campaigners accused of planning to break into Ratcliffe - on - Soar power station in Nottinghamshire collapsed earlier this year.

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

During the last week, three environmental campaigners have been killed in the Amazon.

Environmental campaigner Sauven argues: «Some of the characters involved have previously worked to deny the reality of the hole in the ozone layer, acid rain and the link between tobacco and lung cancer.

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.»

Environmental campaigners want the Colorado river to get the right to sue in US courts.

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

After Tate gallery management appeared before an Information Tribunal to defend their right to withhold details of the galleries» financial relationship with oil company and Tate sponsor BP; the institution has been ordered to give those very details of its BP sponsorship between 1990 - 2006, in a case brought by environmental campaigners.

Alex Gourevitch, a doctoral candidate in political theory at Columbia University, proposed that environmental campaigners were using a «politics of fear» to scare people into action.

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?

I'm running this post by some environmental lawyers and campaigners to get some sense of whether this can take hold in the real world.

Environmental campaigners and California officials sharply attacked the decision in a joint news release today.

The USA Today story, Study finds toxic chemicals in pregnant womens» bodies, leaves the discussion of the research almost entirely up to Woodruff and environmental campaigners and an industry group.

Sir Richard Branson, the entrepreneur, balloonist, spaceflight booster and social - environmental campaigner, held forth in a conversation with Alan Murray of The Wall Street Journal today, touching on a host of ways to make and lose money and try to build a better planet.

He also implied that he was turning down requests from environmental campaigners that he attend next month's round of talks over a new climate treaty, in Poland, saying he has asked members of Congress who are attending to report back to him.

(The acronym, a four - letter word to animal welfare campaigners, was creatively deconstructed by students in the environmental policy class I co-teach at Pace University.)

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.

The installation above, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, was organized by Vanessa Dalmau, an artist and campaigner who founded 350 Dominicana, a youth group focused on the ethical issues raised by an environmental problem when the source of emissions is mainly rich countries and anticipated impacts are mainly in poorer ones.

This phenomenon is different from the «false balance» issue that many environmental campaigners have focused on lately in blaming the media for stasis on climate policy.

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.

His missive is sent from northern California, not Russia, because he's there to help honor Evgenia Chirikova, a Russian forest campaigner who's the European honoree in this year's Goldman Environmental Prize awards.

Some environmental campaigners began criticizing the deal before it was finished, paying for an advertisement that is appearing in Indonesian newspapers and online.

Notably, the meeting, organized by a coalition called Avoided Deforestation Partners (an offshoot of the Center for International Policy), also saw some environmental campaigners who had long opposed the inclusion of forests in carbon markets strongly endorsing the idea.

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.

General Electric in 2002 dropped its decadeslong resistance to efforts by environmental agencies and campaigners to force the dredging of PCB hot spots from the Hudson River.

To me, it conveys how environmental campaigners, in trying to engage a public for which global warming has little salience, may be helping sustain the still - common view that greenhouse - driven warming remains uncertain science.

The European stance — insisting on a harvest in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean 50 percent above the limit recommended by scientists — was sharply criticized by environmental campaigners, marine biologists and United States fisheries officials.

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.

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.

In Politco, Darren Samuelsohn has a solid roundup of reflections by environmental campaigners on why, despite spending tens of millions of dollars, they failed to gain the votes for any climate action in the SenatIn Politco, Darren Samuelsohn has a solid roundup of reflections by environmental campaigners on why, despite spending tens of millions of dollars, they failed to gain the votes for any climate action in the Senatin the Senate.

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.

The students also interview Mario Moscatelli, an environmental campaigner focused on the trash and pollution in Rio's waters.

I noted that environmental campaigners were in denial for much of the 2000's over prospects for passing comprehensive climate bill.

But environmental campaigners said they were outraged that the document so clearly showed that countries involved in the negotiations are aware of the gap.

Steingraber is a much - lauded environmental * campaigner and public health analyst at Ithaca College who has become a prominent critic of New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo for signaling that he is going to approve limited fracking in the state.

In regarding the spreading slick and unabated seabed gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, some environmental campaigners and chroniclers are starting to look with concern to the north — at impending efforts to drill for oil in America's Arctic waterIn regarding the spreading slick and unabated seabed gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, some environmental campaigners and chroniclers are starting to look with concern to the north — at impending efforts to drill for oil in America's Arctic waterin the Gulf of Mexico, some environmental campaigners and chroniclers are starting to look with concern to the north — at impending efforts to drill for oil in America's Arctic waterin America's Arctic waters.

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.

An industry body with vested interests in selling photovoltaics and an environmental campaigner with vested interests in photovoltaic power generation producing a non-peer-reviewed document that is cited in AR4?

It also lobbied developmental and environmental campaigners on the need to incorporate population issues in their thinking.