Sentences with phrase «environmental success»
«I think one of the big environmental success stories of the past decade has been the reduction in deforestation in the Amazon, within Brazil,» Spracklen said.
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Their return tells a bigger environmental success story: federal and state regulations stretching back 40 years have curtailed pollution and repaired the marine food web that includes white sharks (formerly called great white sharks).
Considered inconceivable just a decade ago, achieving the federal target for fine particulates is perhaps one of the nation's greatest environmental success stories.
«International action on the ozone layer is a major environmental success story,» said WMO Secretary - General Michel Jarraud.
Titled Environmental Success Stories in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry, the report was compiled by PricewaterhouseCoopers and features industry success stories in the categories of air, water and waste management.
The profession's cleanup phase waned in the late 1990s and early 2000s as changing political priorities, soaring cleanup costs, and some noteworthy environmental successes led to cutbacks in remediation.
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This was a momentous victory and is rightly heralded as one of the most important environmental successes ever.
«Since we began in 1992, the Emerald Awards have showcased 280 recipients from across Alberta in sectors from business, government, youth, individual schools and more, each with its own unique environmental success story,» says Carmen Boyko, executive director of the Alberta Emerald Foundation.
In a couple of weeks» time humanity can celebrate the 25 - year anniversary of the Montreal Protocol, our greatest environmental success story.
Analysis of the policy drivers underlying the 2018 EPI rankings makes it clear that income is a major determinant of environmental success, said the researchers, noting that investments in safe drinking water and modern sanitation, in particular, translate quickly into improved environmental health results.
«International action on the ozone layer is a major environmental success story,» WMO Secretary - General Michel Jarraud said in a UNEP statement.
Erin Crotty, acting commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Conservation said, «The closure of Fresh Kills not only marks the culmination of years of effort to bring the state into the age of modern solid waste management practices, but presents a tremendous opportunity to turn this blighted landscape into an environmental success story.»
«The oxbow wetland in West Seneca is an environmental success story in the region.
This environmental success story shows that regulations put in place to protect the bay's health have made a difference, researchers report the week of March 5 in Proceedings of the National Academy of...
This environmental success story shows that regulations put in place to protect the bay's health have made a difference, researchers report the week of March 5 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The recovery of Earth's protective ozone layer has been hailed as an environmental success story.
Tired of leaving policy makers and the general public with «a dismal choice between despair and denial,» Balmford traveled to six continents to track down environmental success stories.
Dive into the limpid waters off Indonesia's resort island of Bali and you'll spot the beginnings of an environmental success story.
Fortunately, environmentalists and California legislators are confident that they will be able to get the decision repealed; notch yet another environmental success to the Bush record.
Methane is an energy and environmental success story.
«Marine protected areas» have been an environmental success story.
Toronto has had environmental successes, particularly in recycling and using water from deep in Lake Ontario to cool downtown buildings.
Will the project be an environmental success?
While the stratospheric ozone issue is a serious one, in many ways it can be thought of as an environmental success story.