Sentences with phrase «environmental issues important to»

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In the end, I guess my point really is that environmental sustainability is important all on its own, and doesn't need to be fluffed up with issues like workplace safety or leadership diversity or CEO pay; and issues like workplace safety and leadership diversity and CEO pay are too important to stuff into the simple concept of sustainability.

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.

But if you'd instead invested that same dollar in a portfolio of companies that focused on the most important environmental and social issues while growing their businesses, that same dollar would've grown to $ 28.36.4

The firm provides early stage financing, hands - on assistance, and strategic connections to innovative companies confronting the world's most important energy and environmental issues.

Explaining to its shareholders how it is addressing strategic risks linked to major environmental and social policy issues, such as climate change and human rights, is an important dialogue every corporation needs to engage in with its shareholders.

2010 — Bruce Cockburn, a celebrated Canadian folk - rock musician and activist who uses his art as a podium to draw attention to important environmental issues such as oil spills and deforestation.

According to economic theory generally, environmental issues are not important.

«Having one designated meat free day a week is actually a meaningful change that everyone can make, that goes to the heart of several important political, environmental and ethical issues all at once.

Reducing food loss in supermarkets is an important issue in terms of the efforts to increase profit in supermarkets, to increase income for small farmers supplying to supermarkets, and to improve food security in urban areas, as well as avoid environmental problems caused by food waste.

A new report and campaign by the environmental group finds that slashing our meat intake by 50 per cent by 2050 is an important way to stop the worst effects of climate change, and the best way to alleviate a raft of health issues linked to eating too much meat.

Ethics and environmental issues are as important to us as they are to our customers, which is why we have made social and environmental targets integral to the way we work.

There have been no tests whatsoever on the much more important issues of long - term soil pollution, transgene flow (carrying contamination to neighbouring fields), the very difficult problem of superweeds, or on the environmental impacts if crop yield profiteering were maximised.

«As I said during the campaign, I intend to focus on important fiscal and environmental issues, and to make sure we're doing all we can to have safer schools and sensible gun reform laws,» Clements added.

Your passion on issues such as environmental protection built a legacy... We pledge to continue the progress you made in these critically important areas.»

Spearheaded by researchers at Florida Atlantic University, findings from this study are published in the April 4 issue of Current Biology, which establishes that translin is an essential integrator of sleep and metabolic state, with important implications for understanding the neural mechanism underlying sleep deprivation in response to environmental challenges.

This project is important to me because it brings technology innovation to one of the most critical environmental issues in our nation and around the world, bringing together the primary federal agencies who are involved in solving this problem.

While environmental issues are often cited as a major factor in cities and towns in pursuing sustainability, a new study shows that economic concerns can be just as important to local governments in adopting concrete sustainability plans.

«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 environmental state of the coastal sea, adaptation to climate change and alternatives to conventional fuels — the current issue delves into important topics concerning the future.

A section on Answers to Frequently Asked Questions for food safety and environmental issues was also included to clarify important public concerns.

After completing the visual effects, but before the movie came out, he felt a pull to do «important work,» and so he left the entertainment industry and started a small nonprofit that teaches people about global warming and other environmental issues.

Classroom teachers are among the most important components of environmental education — they act as a connection between education and society as a whole to help students develop positive attitudes about environmental issues.

One of his most important commissioners had stepped up and set a new standard for transparency and ethics and that eliminating even the appearance of a conflict of interest required him to recuse himself on any issue related to an environmental group whose board he has served on.

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues have become increasingly important to companies worldwide as they seek to balance organizational goals with the expectations of their stakeholders in an increasingly complex operating environment.

In this past year, The Pet Leadership Council has tackled important issues such as dog breeding standards, the availability of shelter dogs, responsible fish keeping and environmental stewardship, and streamlining the process of providing aid to pets during natural disasters.

Through Art in the Parks, the National Park Service and its partners are fostering wider civic engagement and dialogue around some of today's most important societal issues — from environmental preservation and conservation, to freedom of speech and expression.

We hope you will be able to make it to the Triathlon on the 24th September, if not to compete then just to come and have a few beers, buy a free raffle tickets and support Pesona as they tackle some of the most important environmental issues on Gili Trawangan at the moment!

A valuable bridge connecting urban youth to their larger environment, UTB helps young people make connections between important environmental issues and their own lives.

The aim of residency is to bring together artists from different spheres (film and photography, multimedia, dance, theatre, writing, design etc.) to create artworks that address important social and environmental issues.

The event will be part of the GreenLight Exhibition Series, which aims to showcase photography projects which highlight important environmental issues.

Thousands of EcoChallengers in schools, communities, and businesses took action on the most important environmental and social issues, and inspired others to join in the fun.

I respond: It's important to consider ethical and environmental justice issues, too.

«Yes, agriculture done improperly can definitely be a problem, but agriculture done in a proper way is an important solution to environmental issues including climate change, water issues, and biodiversity.»

There's an enormous amount that can be done to address these threats — that's why it's important that we recognize these issues and develop science - based plans of action,» said Dr. Myers, «We are already seeing suffering due to global environmental change.

As a gigantic company with a lot of influence and cash, Apple has an opportunity to show leadership on important societal and environmental issues.

Defending Mother Earth brings together important Native voices to address urgent issues of environmental devastation as they affect the indigenous peoples throughout the Americas.

The single most important issue (imo) is the determination of whether any potential environmental changes are harmful to humanity overall, and whether the proposed «solutions» are worthy of the cost.

I can understand how a personal conflict can arise between professional responsibility / integrity versus an environmental or social issue that the individual deems to be very important (scientists working on the atom bomb are an example here).

As a result the large US environmental groups did not even participate in most discussions about Agenda 21 at the UN CSD, they believed that they had more important environmental issues to work on.

The economic constraint on environmental action can easily be seen by looking at what is widely regarded as the most far - reaching establishment attempt to date to deal with The Economics of Climate Change in the form of a massive study issued in 2007 under that title, commissioned by the UK Treasury Office.7 Subtitled the Stern Review after the report's principal author Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist of the World Bank, it is widely viewed as the most important, and most progressive mainstream treatment of the economics of global warming.8 The Stern Review focuses on the target level of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) concentration in the atmosphere necessary to stabilize global average temperature at no more than 3 °C (5.4 °F) over pre-industrial levels.

It is undoubtedly an important issue, but has our enthusiasm for tackling climate change led us to neglect other pressing and arguably more immediate environmental concerns, such as poor air quality in our major cities?

But even with the «environmental» groups» strong influence, the Obama Administration may not have trusted the SAB to render the invalid scientific conclusions on climate alarmism they wanted in their Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Endangerment Finding and failed to submit their GHG Endangerment Finding to the SAB for review despite the clear need for it to do so on such an important and influential issue.

If societies take on environmental issues ranges from hard left «environment trumps all other concerns» to hard right «environment doesn't matter at all», while academia covers merely «trumps all others» to «mildly important but requires a balance with others» then the «centre» of academia will be significantly different from that of society in general — the whole bell curve is shifted left.

«Most scientists now regard anthropogenic (human - caused) global climate change to be the most important environmental issue of our times.»

Nikhil Seth, the U.N. director of sustainable development, said the U.N. Environmental Program report illustrates the need for this week's conference, known as Rio +20, to refocus the world's attention on important, long - term issues.

We also have an ENVIRO NEWS column on the ALTERNET.ORG site under Environment where you will find other important news pertaining to design, architecture, the world, politics, labor, visionaries, activism, energy, food, health, the economy and environmental issues.

«Sony has continued to take actions based on our «Road to Zero» environmental plan that aims for a zero environmental footprint by 2050, and curbing climate change is one of the four important perspectives * that we take into account when responding to environmental issues.

«As with those other issues, the first (and most important) step to neutralizing the problem and eventually bringing people around to your point of view on environmental issues is to convince them of your sincerity and concern.»

This is itself a more important issue than the supposed «greenhouse platform», as this «Public Dissatisfaction» is producing within the PUBLIC ARENA an attitude that there is NOT any «honest truth» expressed BY the «environmental movement» and THIS is being seen in rather complacent attitudes to WHALING Policy on the International stage, as example and the need for various «green lobbies» to «market themselves to solicit donations.

48 Growing Energy & Environmental Concerns 58 % of Americans rank «dealing with the nation's energy problem» as a top priority in 2006, up from 40 % in 2003 87 % of Americans cite home heating and energy prices as a «very big» or «big» problem for the nation's economy 88 % of US adults respond that «energy efficient» was very important in their electronics, appliance, lighting and heating / cooling equipment purchases Gallup polls: Americans» concerns about environmental issues have increased more than 10 percentage points between 2004 and 2006 The LOHAS Consumer Report: 91 % of people are in total agreement with the statement «I care about protecting the environment» ABC News / Washington Post Poll: 79 % of Americans think global warming poses a serious threat to future generations Source: APEnvironmental Concerns 58 % of Americans rank «dealing with the nation's energy problem» as a top priority in 2006, up from 40 % in 2003 87 % of Americans cite home heating and energy prices as a «very big» or «big» problem for the nation's economy 88 % of US adults respond that «energy efficient» was very important in their electronics, appliance, lighting and heating / cooling equipment purchases Gallup polls: Americans» concerns about environmental issues have increased more than 10 percentage points between 2004 and 2006 The LOHAS Consumer Report: 91 % of people are in total agreement with the statement «I care about protecting the environment» ABC News / Washington Post Poll: 79 % of Americans think global warming poses a serious threat to future generations Source: APenvironmental issues have increased more than 10 percentage points between 2004 and 2006 The LOHAS Consumer Report: 91 % of people are in total agreement with the statement «I care about protecting the environment» ABC News / Washington Post Poll: 79 % of Americans think global warming poses a serious threat to future generations Source: AP Source: NASA