Sentences with phrase «environmental challenges listed»

Inefficient nitrogen and phosphorus use in agriculture, along with industrial pollution, underpin the environmental challenges listed above.

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«New York State is facing unprecedented environmental challenges — from climate change, to poisoned water, to failing infrastructure, the list goes on and on,» Krueger said.

«The planetary boundaries framework is not a useful guide for policy or environmental management in any concrete sense, as it does not capture the challenges involved in most of the environmental problems it lists,» argues geographer Linus Blomqvist, policy associate at the institute's Conservation Program and co-author of the review.

It's challenging to buy all organic so with regards to fruits and vegetables check the Environmental Working Group and look at their lists for the Dirty Dozen which lists which fruits and vegetables are likely to be contaminated with pesticides, plus the Clean Fifteen, which tend to be safer choices.

MSCI ACWI Sustainable Impact Index is designed to identify listed companies whose core business addresses at least one of the world's social and environmental challenges, as defined by the United Nations sustainable development goals.

The left - leaning Guardian newspaper of Britain has put the Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg — anathema to many environmental scientists and campaigners for challenging projections of ecological doom — on a list of «50 People Who Could Save the Planet» with the Nobel Peace Prize winners Al Gore and Wangari Maathai, the movie star and environmental filmmaker Leonardo DiCaprio, and NASA climatologist Gavin Schmidt.