Sentences with phrase «environmental issues are raising»

Humanitarian and environmental issues are raised by a figure shrouded in white plastic inside a Bond - like golden chamber (the interior of an oil storage tank in Qatar) in Katar (2012); farm workers bending to their task alongside long blue rows of plastic in Beelitz (2007); and depraved indifference to animal life in the stockyard panorama entitled Greeley (2002), which will enrage vegans.

Not exact matches

Although TPP is often seen as another in a line of treaties aimed at liberalizing trade further, a more important goal may have been to «raise the bar» on trade, and to set up a body of rules, including on environmental and labor issues, with which to create pressure for countries like China to comply.

She raised her two children in Okotoks and has been active in water and other environmental issues in the community.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Since land is the scarcest resource in the world and the most essential element in any effort to restore subsistence farming, the combination of political and environmental issues attending certain types of development raises serious ethical questions.

Issues of animal health and welfare in the proposed intensive farm rearing systems have also been raised, along with the environmental risks to the Bass River catchment.

This supplementary submission has been prepared in response to key issues raised by community members (both in public submissions received by the Committee and at the Committee's public hearings) that relate to Commonwealth environmental water.

But for more on the GS cookie sale program and the nutritional and environmental concerns it raises, be sure to check out the Spoonfed blog where Christina LeBeau has written extensively about these issues.

The idea of issuing subpoenas was raised publicly by Sen. Brad Hoylman, a Manhattan Democrat and the ranking minority member on the chamber's Environmental Conservation Committee, earlier this month.

Last week the Catskill Heritage Alliance (CHA) announced it was suing DEC for alleged failure to consider all the environmental - impact issues it had raised during the most recent reviews.

«The public has been raising Cain over the transportation community's lack of sensitivity to environmental issues,» Forman says.

«The study raises an important issue, how climate change can result in unanticipated release into the environment of toxic and radioactive wastes that were optimistically presumed at the time to be stably isolated,» Daniel Hirsch, director of the Program on Environmental and Nuclear Policy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said in an email.

The educational and training elements of these exchanges helps us examine the critical environmental impact issues that have been raised by our Asian partners.

She's also a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Environmental Program and is very active in raising awareness about significant social and environmEnvironmental Program and is very active in raising awareness about significant social and environmentalenvironmental issues.

This Matt Damon drama raises awareness about an important environmental issue, but it's not a particularly gripping piece of filmmaking.

Alicia (pseudonyms are used in reference to student participants) devoted her junior year in high school to raising young people's awareness of the environmental issues plaguing her community.

Blogging about environmental concerns on MySpace is as commonplace as raising such issues in science class.

The University of Malaya, Malaysia, has been chosen for the «Environmental Citizenship Education Malaysia 2005 - 2015» programme launched in 2005 to raise awareness of environmental issues and sustainability among education stakeholders, including teachers, students, and teacEnvironmental Citizenship Education Malaysia 2005 - 2015» programme launched in 2005 to raise awareness of environmental issues and sustainability among education stakeholders, including teachers, students, and teacenvironmental issues and sustainability among education stakeholders, including teachers, students, and teacher trainers.

(2017) Learning outside the classroom, Issue 302, p38 Frauman, E. (2010) Incorporating the concept of mindfulness in informal outdoor education settings, Journal of Experiential Education, Vol.33, Issue 3, p225 - 238 Humberstone, B; Stan, I. (2009) Well - being and outdoor pedagogies in primary schooling: The nexus of well - being and safety, Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, Vol.13, Issue 2, p24 - 32 Marzano, R., Pickering, D. (2007) The case for and against homework, Educational Leadership, Vol.64, Issue 6, p74 - 79 Moffett, P. (2012) Learning about outdoor education through authentic activity, Mathematics Teaching, p12 - 14 Mudd, A. (2007) Outdoor learning in the school grounds (primary), Environmental Education, Vol.84, p5 - 6 Scott, G., Boyd, M., Colquhoun, D. (2013) Changing spaces, changing relationships: the positive impact of learning out of doors, Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, Vol.17, Issue 1, p47 - 53 Sharpe, D. (2014) Independent thinkers and learners: a critical evaluation of the «Growing Together Schools Programme, Pastoral Care in Education, Vol.32, Issue 3, p197 - 207 Skates, E. (2014) On the up: Learning outside and raising attainment, Primary Geography, Issue 85, p14 - 15 Whawell, G., Tanner, J. (2015) Not like in the classroom, Primary Geography, Vol.

Today marks the 42nd annual Earth Day, which is a time for each of us to help our planet and raise awareness for environmental issues.

The gallery celebrates 10 years of supporting exceptional artists, filmmakers and musicians, but the benefit (which raised $ 765,000 this year) extends beyond Texas» art scene: Fairfax Dorn, Ballroom Marfa's co-founder and executive director, told DuJour before dinner, «We're going to continue doing what we've been doing, but also expand our Marfa dialog,» the forefront of which is a focus on climate change and environmental issues through programs involving grants and partnerships in New York this fall.

Cara Enteles's work is inspired by environmental issues and attempts to raise awareness of the harmful impact humans can have on nature and wildlife.

Clearly there are serious environmental issues, and I think he's raising very important matters.

Cost / probability weighting of risks and benefits is well - understood and is often raised in issues where economic and environmental interests are at contrary purposes, but for some odd reason it gets little attention in climate change.

The installation above, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, was organized by Vanessa Dalmau, an artist and campaigner who founded 350 Dominicana, a youth group focused on the ethical issues raised by an environmental problem when the source of emissions is mainly rich countries and anticipated impacts are mainly in poorer ones.

And most of the issues related to sustainable development are mainly about limiting vulnerability of the portion of humanity (mostly the poorest portion) exposed to the greatest environmental risks — both those dying young right now by breathing toxic smoke from 2 billion unvented cooking fires and those who could face raised odds of flooding or famine in coming decades if climate is disrupted too much.

Here's an excellent National Geographic feature by Jeff Smith, posted just a week ago, on the limits of India's coal resource, the environmental issues raised by its coal boom and the end of an era there when coal - fired power was cheap.

But of all the fresh considerations of Carson's work, there's one that stands out for me at the moment — a recent paper by two researchers of rhetoric and writing who dug in on «Silent Spring» drafts, notes and revisions and found that Carson had a remarkable and rare trait for someone so committed to raising public concern about a pressing environmental issue.

In other words, it feels to me like there's some sort of distorted feedback loop, wherein candidates don't raise environmental issues because they think they may be controversial and divisive (though, as McCain or my dad's generation of Republicans show, the planet obviously crosses party lines), and the public doesn't raise climate issues enough because it apparently isn't on the political menu, like religion at dinner parties, but that doesn't mean we don't believe (in climate change or the need for our change).

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The Environmental Energy Alliance of New York (EEANY) pointed out that substantive issues they had raised throughout the program review process had not been addressed so it was prudent to slow down the implementation schedule.

Dubbed a «regulatory trilemma» by one speaker because of its ambition to combine environmental protection and security of supply with affordability, it raises civil society's doubts as regards the social dimension — first and foremost the way it deals with the burning issue of energy poverty, which is estimated to affect 50 million people in Europe.

The study, which was featured in the August 9, 2010 issue of Nature magazine and later published in the peer - reviewed journal Environmental Science and Technology, raises serious doubts about the industry's contention that there is no need for tighter water - quality standards to keep mountaintop removal from contaminating drinking water relied on by communities downstream of the mines.

These issues, including socio - economic and environmental implications and several potential impacts arising from the application of the approaches for accounting of emissions and removals relating to HWP, were raised at SBSTA 21 (FCCC / SBSTA / 2004 / 13, paragraph 31).

To give you a preview of the breadth of environmental issues raised by these negotiations, here are several thematic concerns that Friends of the Earth has about upcoming TAFTA negotiations.

The international, online competition aims to generate an emotional impact and raise awareness about environmental issues by showcasing photographs that are both majestic and harrowing.

Makoma Lekalakala, 53, was raised in Soweto and is the director for Earthlife Africa, a largely volunteer - driven organization that mobilizes South Africans around environmental issues.

-- Silicon as a raw material might be abundant, but not all elements used in PVs are (the required heavy metals / rare earth elements are getting increasingly scarce in fact and raise all sorts of ethical and environmental issues!)

«Our environment strategy is threefold: to reduce our carbon footprint; to make our products better and more sustainable; and to use our position as a leading media and communications company to raise awareness and drive positive change on environmental issues amongst our business partners and our customers.

The festival's no - plastic advocacy also extended to its Scratch Talks, a series of talks by speakers who promote sustainability and raise awareness of environmental issues, which was moderated by Eco-Business managing editor Jessica Cheam.

The main focus is to get the students motivated about school and to raise awareness about environmental issues.

DiCaprio said in a statement about his latest campaign, «Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.»

(Yes, I do think the environmental movement does hold some responsibility for this — Al Gore may have done a lot to raise awareness, but making him the poster child of the issue may not have been the smartest move...)

Given the major environmental, jobs and energy security questions that have been raised about Keystone XL, and the fact that President Obama can take a stand for the environment on this issue without the usual (and fully tedious) Congressional debate, if he does in fact approve it, it certainly calls into question his entire environmental platform — if how he handled the climate change debate in 2009 didn't already.

I personally think Google Earth is one of the best tools for the dissemination of environmental data and discoveries to a wide audience, and for raising awareness of green issues.

The American environmental and labor movements have often been on opposite sides of the table, whether the issue is drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or raising fuel economy standards on American - made cars.

In addition to raising awareness about the importance of taking action on environmental issues, the EcoChallenge is a major fundraiser for the Northwest Earth Institute.

TH: How do we raise the bar so that every business, even those that are not motivated by environmental and social issues, address sustainability?

But last week, over 60 international civil society groups at Cochabamba's alternative climate summit lent their collective voices in a grassroots campaign to unanimously oppose geoengineering and are urging the public to join with Hands Off Mother Earth (H.O.M.E.) by «lending a hand» in their photo petition.With support from environmental and social justice luminaries like David Suzuki, Vandana Shiva, Maude Barlow, Naomi Klein, Herman Daly and Frances Moore - Lappé, the petition hopes to raise more public awareness about the issue prior to the next climate change convention slated for December.

Like Richard Shilling's use of twigs and leaves to remind us of the simple beauty of nature or the guns Sonia Rentsch forms with flower buds, nuts and sticks to raise the issue of environmental degradation and violence, Yulia Brodskaya utilizes paper — perhaps the most basic art material available — and a technique called «quilling» that involves twisting and folding strips of paper in such a way that she forces the viewer to not only appreciate her finished work, but also reconsider how we look at the raw materials she's using.