Sentences with phrase «environmental challenges this poses»

Although Chinese law mandates that cars get at least 35 miles per gallon fuel efficiency, a level the U.S. fleet won't reach until 2020, a large enough fleet of Chinese cars would forestall efforts to combat climate change or eliminate the other environmental challenges posed by paved roads, suburbanization and all that traffic.

Not exact matches

Doing business in less - developed country is always going to pose a range of challenges, from corrupt officials to bad infrastructure to non-existent environmental regulations and shoddy labour conditions.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

10 Certain recent discussions of environmental ethics, dealing with «respect for nature» (where nature is not necessarily limited to the realm of living things), reflect some affinities with Hall's ideas on «deference» and seem to pose a challenge to my suggestion that the pursuit of power over nature should be criticized primarily in terms of its negative effects on human values and experiences.

The meat processing industry is entering uncharted waters as governments worldwide introduce tougher carbon pricing policies and expand community awareness about which industries are posing environmental challenges in terms of air and water purity.

The oxo - biodegradable additives allow plastic materials to decompose easily without posing environmental challenges.

From increased greenhouse gas emissions to water contamination, hydraulic fracturing to free natural gas poses a range of environmental challenges

These environmental changes pose a challenge for many organisms, among them amphibians, who have to change their behaviour, physiology and life strategies in order to survive.

This poses enough substantial enough challenges in and of itself, including environmental issues, technology, and great depths.

Establishing sites outside the contiguous United States has been especially problematic; Hawaii and Alaska pose unique environmental challenges, and NEON abandoned an urban site in Puerto Rico earlier this year after two guards were killed.

Despite industry claims that these technologies are safe, this technological frontier poses significant health, safety and environmental hazards, as well as profound social, economic and ethical challenges.

Addressing infectious diseases in wildlife poses unique challenges: wildlife managers and researchers have to approach infectious agents as both a «herd health» and an environmental problem.

Given the complexity of kelp forests — their variable structure, geography, and interactions — they pose a considerable challenge to environmental managers.

One challenge will be finding ways to spread this kind of efficiency ethic into other arenas, like energy, where ready sources — like coal and oil — remain abundant and cheap (in monetary terms) but pose long - term environmental risks.

The most important take - home point, which I focused on in my blog post, is the reality that natural variability — when moving things temporarily in the cooling direction — could pose a challenge to environmental activists who have sought to portray real - time events as the reason for action on emissions curbs.

As an award - winning ICN investigation reported last year, the ruptured dilbit pipeline posed unique challenges and left a mess unlike anything the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had ever faced.

Congress (to the extent it did assess policy alternatives to cap and trade), as well as the broader community of analysts and observers in the late 2000s, raised a number of substantive questions about the merits of this policy instrument as a means for responding to a major environmental policy challenge of the sort posed by climate change:

The environmental changes brought on by ocean acidification could pose a significant threat to Arctic ecosystems that are already facing challenges from changes in sea ice distribution, warming and increased freshwater discharge.

This story highlights the challenges faced by rural environmental justice communities as they try to ensure that ongoing waste disposal and pollution do not pose public health and environmental threats to local residents.

There is little question that the current economic crisis poses a significant challenge for the environmental movement in this country.

Rapid environmental change also poses steep challenges to evolutionary processes, especially where long - lived organisms such as corals and fish are concerned (high confidence).

Antarctica Today and Tomorrow will address the environmental challenges facing Antarctica and the Southern Ocean and discuss the opportunity posed by the creation of an East Antarctic Marine Protected Area.

I don't know how you arrive at the statement «most people» but it seems to me that a lot of people are rising to the challenge posed by environmental damage and rather than being scared, are becoming politically active in attempting to deal with it.

From toxic tailings ponds that already cover 130 square kilometres, to fresh water use and the direct impacts of digging 100 metre open pit mines over thousands of square kilometres of boreal forest, the report details the environmental problems and other challenges that oil sands mining poses to northern Alberta.

B.C. Premier John Horgan, for his part, says he is willing to go to court to challenge the project over environmental hazards he says the project could pose to the B.C. coast.

Environmental litigation poses unique legal challenges because of the complex scientific and technical issues frequently addressed, and because of the overlapping authority of numerous administrative agencies and courts at the local, state and federal levels.