Sentences with phrase «environmental safeguards as»

This workshop will bring together some of the world's leading experts in social and environmental safeguards as well as bring in some of the local community leaders from Brazil and Mexico to discuss what types of systems work, which don't, and how to build off the existing ROW recommendations for developing successful programs.

Not exact matches

Items such as union and worker protections as well as rights to an education and environmental safeguards are not specifically mentioned in the federal constitution, which is the U.S. Supreme Court's guiding document.

As President Donald Trump undoes one environmental safeguard after another, it is time for people who disagree to rally and resist, according to a longtime Capital Region resident who has advised two state governors.

«Focusing on solving the major environmental problems that seriously endanger people's health, (China) investigated and punished harshly illegal pollution and environmental crimes, so as to safeguard people's right to a healthy and clean environment,» it said.

Abstract: As human pressure on the marine environment increases, safeguarding healthy and productive seas increasingly necessitates integrated, time - and cost - effective environmental monitoring.

The LDN Fund is being designed as a public private partnership (PPP) for blended finance to be invested in sustainable land management (SLM) and land restoration projects worldwide, within a strict environmental and social safeguard framework.

The white paper depicts China's vision for Antarctica as pursuing an approach of peaceful use of Antarctica, safeguarding the stability of the Antarctic Treaty System, elevating Antarctic infrastructure and support capabilities, enhancing scientific investigation and research capability, while calling for strengthened Antarctic environmental protection and coordinating global governance of the continent.

Some negative social and environmental impacts are prevented through legislation requiring environmental impact assessments from proponents of big projects as well as through social and environmental safeguard requirements of multilateral development financing institutions.

In creating his works, the artist employs the specificities of his environmental milieu, and safeguards them as memory.

We still see natural gas as an important bridge fuel and encourage converting coal plants to natural gas, but we also support full disclosure of fracking chemicals and strong environmental safeguards during production.

Other approaches to safeguarding the bears, like the push by some environmental groups to restrict emissions of greenhouse gases under the Endangered Species Act, are likely to be about as effective as trying to stop a bus from rolling down a hill by suing the manufacturer over faulty brakes.

This activity report highlights how UNDP's partnership with environmental vertical funds has helped to transform markets, empower and strengthen the resilience of vulnerable communities, and build the capacity of countries to safeguard their natural capital as the foundation of sustainable development.

The center is a non-partisan think tank and the institute describes itself as a non-partisan research group that aims to strengthen environmental safeguards.

And the entire climate movement, which had seen the Obama era as a time of progress in combating global warming and prioritizing environmental safeguards, faced the question Karpinski had posed: What's next?

SAFEGUARD fills a gap for communities, which are responsible for meeting the requirements of environmental laws passed by the legislature, such as AB 32, California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, but may not know where to start or how to proceed.

These deals are not so much about trade as they are about deregulation and forcing governments to pay corporations and wealthy investors for the cost of complying with environmental and other public interest safeguards.

They're backing candidates whose jobs plan is simply pollution without boundaries: increased drilling and mining, the elimination of public health safeguards, and the end of the Environmental Protection Agency as we know it.

We know how destructive the palm oil industry in Indonesia and Malaysia, so it was great news when the World Bank announced that social and environmental safeguards would serve as guiding principles in its lending to the palm

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To accomplish this goal, the GCF must: explicitly exclude dirty energy — such as fossil fuels, carbon capture and storage and destructive dams — from GCF financing; ensure implementation of robust environmental and social safeguards; and, at minimum, guarantee that GCF - financed activities do no harm.

Meanwhile, Pruitt — who sued the EPA 14 times to block stronger air, water and climate safeguards during his tenure as Oklahoma attorney general — is now trying to roll back environmental protections from the inside.

The following shall therefore discuss some of the more procedural and institutional aspects of the guidelines, whilst leaving much of the points relating to the substance of any future agreement (s) such as safeguards against fiscal, social and environmental dumping for another time.

But the Enbridge cases remind us that we also need a legislative scheme that ensures that Canadians have the ability to resort to the courts to seek judicial review of environmental assessment outcomes as a safeguard to ensure that statutory and constitutional requirements are being met.

That moniker, as I wrote in my book World Without Mind, contains an intentional echo of the governmental bureau that enforces environmental safeguards.

The Alliance is an advocacy group that brings together members from fields such as public health, environmental protection, and affordable housing in an effort to safeguard children from exposure to household environmental health hazards.