Sentences with phrase «environmental campaigners point»

The Ministry of Energy and Mines claims that reducing the environmental requirements — weakening the country's environmental framework - will promote investment in the country, but environmental campaigners point out that key stakeholders such as civil society, indigenous peoples, and academics should be consulted about changes in laws that would affect forests and community lands - such as the proposed elimination of environmental impact assessments.

We've written plenty exploring that question, and indeed there's no clear answer for CO2 (although environmental campaigners point to success stories like sulfur controls under the Clean Air Act, which ended up far cheaper than forecast).

Not exact matches

Some environmental campaigners had already prepared talking points if his proposal included outlines of a weak climate bill.

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.

«Environmental campaigners use the so - called ecological footprint — how much area each one of us requires from the planet — to make their point.

But at least one researcher has pointed out that there are problems with the emphasis environmental campaigners are putting on pesticides.

One of the unfortunate side effects of which was that (and this is not necessarily your field's fault in the direct sense) every two - bit environmental activist, campaigner, and pressure group took it as license to fully politicize the science with naive and exaggerated claims about the «effects» of global warming (apparently it's responsible for everything), or where the «tipping point» was (30 years, no 20 years, no 10 years, etc.) or how quickly we could «de-carbonize» our economy (50 % reduction in 40 years, no 70 % in 30 years, no 90 % in 15 years).

Gore's graphic of a desperate polar bear has turned out to be a tipping point and there is no more influential environmental campaigner.