Sentences with phrase «environmental challenges facing nations»

Climate change remains one of the major international environmental challenges facing nations.

ABSTRACT (Quote) Climate change remains one of the major international environmental challenges facing nations.

In this conversation, she describes her «Green New Deal» platform, explains why she thinks that spending more public dollars could actually lower the nation's debt in the long run, and contends that only the Greens are offering real solutions to the environmental challenges facing the nation and the world.

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But the fact remains, there is so much more to do, as a county government, as a community and as a nation if we are to meet the environmental challenges that face us all.»

«The greatest challenge facing Kosovo — which declared independence from Serbia two weeks ago — may not be opposition from Russia and Serbia, but may come from Western environmental groups opposed to mining what The New York Times on March 5 called the nation's «vast amount of minerals.»

Whereas, if left unaddressed, the consequences of a changing climate have the potential to adversely impact all Americans, hitting vulnerable populations hardest, harming productivity in key economic sectors such as construction, agriculture, and tourism, saddling future generations with costly economic and environmental burdens, and imposing additional costs on State and Federal budgets that will further add to the long - term fiscal challenges that we face as a Nation;

The lack of adequate, safe and sustainable waste management has been one of the most critical environmental challenges facing the world's developing countries; island nations in particular must grapple with growing consumption and finite space for waste disposal.