Sentences with phrase «environmental security»

Growing demand for renewable energy sources along with rising environmental security concerns is anticipated to drive the industry growth over the forecast period.

A truly great nation will also look out after environmental security of the waters and land it has responsibly for.

«It's a little bit of an obscure compound,» says chemist Rolf Halden of the Center for Environmental Security at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University.

The 2016 Pacific Energy Summit «Sustainable Futures: Energy and Environmental Security in Times of Transition» was held June 22 to 24 in Singapore.

«(The artificial leaf) would provide both energy security and environmental security at the same time because it doesn't contribute to any greenhouse gas pollution while providing us with a domestically abundant source of energy.»

Abroad, the department will increase its investment in the Defense Environmental International Cooperation Program not only to promote cooperation on environmental security issues, but also to augment international adaptation efforts.

Abroad, the Department will increase its investment in the Defense Environmental International Cooperation Program not only to promote cooperation on environmental security issues, but also to augment international adaptation efforts.

«In the new age,» he asserted, «diplomacy will be more concerned with environmental security than with military security.

Recklessly wasteful use of oil threatens our global environmental security.

In the aftermath of the Lisbon summit, Gordon Brown has repeatedly tried to clarify why he believes the treaty is beneficial for Britain, claiming it will encourage prosperity, produce more jobs, aid environmental security and protection from terrorism.

Water shortages are being felt around the world yet impacts vary in different places, said Gleick, adding that the human, economic, and environmental costs of doing nothing, especially in the face of climate change and environmental security threats, are high and require «new thinking.»

Still, Shultz continues to work for what he sees as improvements to U.S. national, economic and environmental security by addressing the growing threat of global warming through his role as chair of the energy policy task force of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

Working closely with relevant U.S. departments and agencies, DoD has undertaken environmental security cooperative initiatives with foreign militaries that represent a nonthreatening way of building trust, sharing best practices on installations management and operations and developing response capacity.

The national security argument is compelling — think energy security (distributed PV is far less vulnerable to failure than centralized fossil power), economic security (green jobs), social security (distributed PV is ideal for rural electrification), and of course environmental security.

Is environmental security rising to become a matter of primary national interest in the wake of the Gulf oil disaster?

White House could intervene as environmental security takes equal place next to energy security as national concern

During his first six months, he clearly articulated the link between environmental security, economic security and national security — making the case that a national commitment to renewable energy could simultaneously reduce unemployment, dependence on foreign oil and vulnerability to the disruption of oil markets dominated by the Persian Gulf reserves.

The Purple Notice — to seek or provide information on modi operandi, objects, devices and concealment methods used by criminals — was requested by Costa Rica following its first National Environmental Security Seminar (NESS) held in San José in August of this year.

If security analysts had been incorporating environmental security variables, including climate, into their assessments of how stable Syria was, they may have been able to make a different assessment of Syria's stability and warned policymakers.

Sherri Goodman, a former deputy undersecretary of Defense for environmental security, and current executive director of the CNA Military Advisory Board, said that the United Nations is part of the process but that individual countries, private investors or even individual cities or states could be an important part of the solution.

The opening of the Arctic waters in the decades ahead which will permit seasonal commerce, and transit presents a unique opportunity to work collaboratively in multilateral forums to promote a balanced approach to improving human and environmental security in the region.

The participants (left to right) were Jeffrey Marqusee, director of the Strategic Environmental R&D Program and Environmental Security Technology programs at the Department of Defense; Cathy Zoi, acting under secretary of energy for efficiency and renewable energy; and Arun Majumdar, director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy.]

What was particularly striking about the EPA letter is that it asked the State Department to provide a broader national security analysis of the implications of committing the nation long - term to oil from Canada, asking for an evaluation of energy security hand - in - hand with environmental security.

Given to companies that adhere to the highest levels of information, personnel, and environmental security, the CompTIA Security Trustmark is an important industry credential granted to a select number of information technology providers.

Asia - Pacific Countries and United States Hold Energy Summit to Discuss Energy and Environmental Security (July 9 2014)

Physical and environmental security is handled entirely by Amazon and their vendors.

NATO has taken a stake in studying and preparing for emerging and global security challenges including cyber attacks, energy security, environmental security, missile defence, as well as terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.

The report's recommendations are intended to enhance the UK's resource and environmental security, and contribute to the global imperative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Jeffrey Stark, director of research at the Foundation for Environmental Security and Studies, said his time in Uganda taught a similar lesson.

Have we missed chances along the way to improve our national, economic and environmental security?

Paul Walker, director of the Environmental Security and Sustainability Program for the nonprofit Green Cross International, said Syria's decision to accede to the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) was surprising.

The EC is «also discussing global monitoring for environmental security» and with the Commission recognising its importance for policy work, «what we're seeing is that earth observation is beginning to move from being an experimental science to being an operational one.»

Changes in precipitation patterns and possibly decreased precipitation in some parts of Africa, which will be unable to support crops and human habitation in the future, would have repercussions, said Roger - Mark De Souza, director of population, environmental security and resilience at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

NASA's human exploration missions can be used to address most of the major issues threatening our uncertain world, from energy independence, to economic, national, and environmental security.

In a final section, I propose a number of institutional changes in the U.S. government — such as a new Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Environmental Security — to give climate security concerns the attention they deserve.

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When will the time come when equal space is given in the media to discussing humanity's need for ENVIRONMENTAL security?

The Environmental Security and Technology Certification Program uses military installations as a test bed to demonstrate and create a market for innovative energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies coming out of the private sector and DoD and Department of Energy laboratories.

We conclude that this scenario offers three attractive characteristics: environmental security, because the global carbon budget is set at a level which keeps global warming below 2 degrees; economic efficiency, because carbon trading allows the reductions to be made for least overall cost; and global social justice, because emission rights are allocated equally to all people.

It puts oil thirsty Americans between Iraq and a hard place, and the search for a proper balance between energy and environmental security is now up for grabs in the inter-agency tussle.

Monday, July 29 is International Tiger Day, and all over the world people will celebrate the great cat and all that it represents — environmental security, clean air, clean...

It also seeks to ensure that the biofuels market maximizes taxpayer investment and helps to strengthen U.S. energy and environmental security.

The EOLSS contains a vast body of integrated knowledge dedicated to the health, maintenance, and future of the web of life on planet Earth, focusing on the complex connections among all the myriad aspects from natural and social sciences through water, energy, land, food, agriculture, environment, biodiversity, health, education, culture, engineering and technology, management, and development to environmental security!

Her most recent book, Environmental Security: A Guide to the Issues, was released in January 2013.

The program seeks to incorporate water science into assessment and planning studies at the nexus of water, food, energy, and environmental security.