Sentences with phrase «environmental costs»

When the full environmental costs of electric car batteries and hardware are figured in, their green charm begins to appear suspect.

Or we could take a different approach to development planning and mitigate the monetary and environmental costs associated with parking areas in the first place, he says.

Feeding nine billion will come at a high environmental cost unless we choose to go a different path.

Yet, recent studies highlight that so - called green energy, such as wind energy, may come at environmental costs, for example when wind turbines kill birds and bats.

«If we take all costs (including environmental costs), wind is much cheaper than coal today, and solar will be so in a few years,» he said.

In these positions, she pushed to incorporate environmental costs into national decision making and has advocated reforms in environmental and energy policies.

As environmental costs go up in an emissions - constrained world, low cost barrels will continue to be produced while high cost, unconventional production will turn into a money - losing proposition.

Firstly, the financing of large individual projects is difficult in a market economy in which CO2 is still not priced at its true environmental cost.

The few sites that remain would provide only marginal power benefits, often at great environmental cost.

In addition, there is a huge environmental cost to a pound of beef.

No one is afraid of lower energy prices... unless they are made low by passing on environmental costs to others or the future.

That price is still nearly twice as much as electricity from a coal - fired power plant — the current cheapest generation option if environmental costs are not taken into account.

But there are other environmental costs attached to washing powders, earlier in the chain of production.

The significant environmental costs of administrative proceedings are paper and travel.

Putting a price on carbon, to reflect the real environmental costs, is the most cost - effective way to reduce emissions, stimulate innovation and drive energy efficiency.

Groups readily observe that the hamburger meal is designed for private consumption and entails hidden environmental costs.

Yet in an effort to maximize financial gain, many businesses fail to factor in the steep environmental costs brought about by unsustainable supply chains and production methods.

But this comfort comes with a considerable environmental cost — it's responsible for up to a third of the world's total greenhouse gas emissions.

We are also well - versed with respect to both prosecution and defense of claims for environmental cost recovery and defense of claims for natural resources damages.

The benefits of biofuels have come under increasing attack in recent months, as scientists took a closer look at the global environmental cost of their production.

With organic agriculture, environmental costs tend to be lower and the benefits greater.

That is because there are not yet any cost - effective alternatives to injection, and many come with their own environmental costs, such as trucking water over longer distances, he says.

However, it should also be very clear that gas production has both local environmental costs and contributes to climate change.

And the other costs of corn ethanol (elevated wholesale corn prices and environmental costs via expansion of agriculture) are hidden at the pump.

The problem is that N is generally cheaper in the fall so the economics of on - farm storage and net environmental costs will have to be assessed.

But I guarantee you it will end up as a very small fraction of the carbon and environmental cost of burning any kind of fossil fuel.

Although free to shoppers, these bags have a high environmental cost and are one of the most ubiquitous forms of garbage.

Still, the clean - energy transition will be slowed until prices of coal, oil, and gas reflect their true environmental costs.

Fiscal instruments (carbon taxes or similar) are the most effective policies for reflecting environmental costs in energy prices and promoting development of cleaner technologies, while also providing a valuable source of revenue (including, not least, for lowering other tax burdens).

Overall, Quinn said, the bills would increase information about food the city buys, support local farmers and reduce environmental costs associated with transporting food across the country, if not the world.

In a Science Policy Forum piece, David Tilman and colleagues explore some of these options, noting that biofuels can be produced in substantial quantities at low environmental cost

The Conservatives» single - minded focus on the export of raw resources — combined with their failure to internalize environmental costs — has contributed to an artificial rise in the value of the Canadian dollar that is hollowing out our other export industries — from forestry to fisheries, from manufacturing to agriculture.

Silicon solar panel production is not without environmental costs.

Environmental costs from coal transportation: noise; waste gas; damage to roads; traffic accidents

New homes, indeed new everything, from appliances and computers to automobiles and aircraft, are required to be more energy - efficient — the result of a hard - won societal decision to build efficiencies into product design rather than leave them to an energy marketplace whose prices don't fully reflect environmental costs.

The $ 1 trillion Belt and Road Initiative promises new ports, roads, railways, dams and an energy grid reaching from China across Asia to Africa, but at what environmental cost?

The dysfunctional global economy of today has been shaped by distorted market prices that do not incorporate environmental costs.»

For the market to function, goods need to reflect their true price, and cheap energy that ignores environmental cost distorts that.

Generating energy using coal, oil, and gas also comes at high environmental costs by decreasing air quality, impacting our water resources, and negatively affecting our health.

Fracking imposes environmental costs and, as with all innovations, almost certainly carries risks that can only become fully apparent as it scales up.

Accordingly, «the FSCC understates the full environmental cost of CO2».

With environmental costs dumped on China, the savings flow directly to global corporate bottom lines.

Daly draws a sharp distinction between protectionist tariffs and tariffs to protect industries which have internalised environmental costs against those which have not.

The goal, to my mind, can be to build the foundations of an energy system sufficient to meet human needs, with limited environmental costs, as the world heads toward and beyond a mid-century crest of some 9 billion people seeking decent lives.

Intensification would reduce the need to clear more land for pasture, but would carry environmental costs, including increased pollution and the need to boost supplemental feeding of livestock.

The conclusion might end up being that it is almost impossible to determine and therefore compare the carbon footprint of the printed vs digital publishing industries, but that is at least being more rigorous than throwing assumptions as unreferenced facts as a justification for keeping consuming what we decide to consume because we like how convenient they are usually irrespective of their actual environmental cost.