Sentences with phrase «environmental threat»

The move to electric miles also has the added advantage of helping to mitigate a major environmental threat.

Ten years later, it is clearer than ever that to address the greatest environmental threat of our time, we need to both reduce the risk of climate catastrophe and prepare for climate consequences.

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Its multipronged environmental threat brought together an unprecedented coalition to oppose it last year and inspired one of the largest civil disobedience protests in American history.

Then they scolded us, scolded us for the environmental threat we are generating for the world.

But trade deals like TTP, which don't address climate change, remain a looming environmental threat, as does rising global beef consumption.

Ray, I would think this requires an extremely substantial sea level rise in onder to qualify as a potential catastrophic environmental threat.

My wish: Global warming is the single greatest environmental threat that we face today.

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But it is land degradation that now poses the greatest environmental threat, affecting no less than 32 African nations, along with the loss of biodiversity occurring in 34 countries.

Answering one criticism of EVs, Pudney says he has seen no evidence to suggest that the energy - intensive battery production for EVs poses an environmental threat.

Plastic pollution was recently categorized as the «largest environmental threat facing man and animals globally» by the UN and we all need to somehow get involved.

The project, found to be in clear breach of various EU directives, caused the European Parliament to adopt Article 41, in which it expresses its deep concern that the Rosia Montana mine development poses a serious environmental threat to the whole region and states that it will carefully monitor the project's development, both in terms of its conformity to EU environmental law and also how it relates to Romania's accession to the EU.

Climate change is the single biggest environmental threat to all life on Earth — on land and in the water — and the only way we can rise above it is by switching to clean energy sources.

First, policies should be targeted toward the biggest environmental threat: global warming.

In particular, regarding the environmental threat of investment chapters of the Pacific and Atlantic trade deals, Waren explained, «the investment tribunals are able to trump courts and trump democratic decisions if they find the business expectations of multinational corporations and rich investors have been thwarted... the purpose of an investment chapter is to stop effective climate regulation in the future.»

Andy Grove, the legendary chairman of Intel said on Friday, we face a global environmental threat.

Barbara Boxer [incoming chair of the Senate Environment Committee] has said repeatedly that she sees global warming as the single biggest environmental threat on the horizon.

While groups like the Wilderness Society run advertisements suggesting that in western Queensland and New South Wales broadscale tree clearing is a major environmental threat, many local landholders argue the problem is quite different.

More than 300,000 marchers flooded the streets of New York on Sunday in the largest climate change march in history, vaulting the environmental threat to the top of the global agenda.

Global warming is by no means our main environmental threat.

But shortages of fresh water are arguably the greater near - term environmental threat in many corners of the globe.

And hey, isn't paint an environmental threat?

To ignore these questions is to decide to expose human health and the environment to real risk before changing the risky behavior, that is, a decision to not act on a serious environmental threat has grave potential consequences.

The farm's owners knew that restoring the composting operation using a more efficient, multi-stage solids - separating system was the best way to take full advantage of the nutrients in the waste stream while significantly reducing the environmental threat posed by manure decomposition and nutrient run - off, but needed investment to install the new equipment.

There is great concern that the mine will pose a huge environmental threat to the Great Barrier Reef, as the coal will need to be transported to a port terminal for export.

Climate change poses the largest environmental threat ever known by humankind.

A 2016 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences titled «Marine Microplastics Spell Big Problems for Future Generations» sees microplastics emerging as a significant environmental threat.

The most urgent environmental threat to Canadians isn't climate change, the declining health of our oceans, or the extinction of species.

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Climate change is the biggest environmental threat to our planet and we are already seeing the effects on our oceans and marine life across the globe.

The Government thinks that the national interest is the same as our economic interests, as if we have no national interest in being part of global attempts to tackle the most severe environmental threat facing the globe.

Climate refugees slip through a gap in the UN refugee convention, which focuses on human persecution rather than environmental threat.

A growing number also express doubts about the validity of climate science or reject outright the notion that carbon dioxide and other warming emissions represent a significant environmental threat.

While the political fight over the now - vivid environmental threat attending offshore oil drilling plays out, it remains clear that the country's lawmakers are not remotely engaged in the multi-pronged energy quest that would be required to move the world toward a non-polluting, yet prosperous future.

But, because the nation still has more than 11 million old diesel engines without proper emission control technology, black carbon remains a serious health and environmental threat.

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The Keystone XL pipeline is unique in that it poses both a supreme environmental threat and is gravely symbolic; a harbinger of a certain fossil fuel - dependent doom, if you will.

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But it took until 1978 for another type of environmental threat, toxic hot spots left behind by industrial activity, to gain the spotlight.

Through a major public awareness effort by the Conservancy and its partners, nitrogen pollution from sewage is now recognized as the biggest environmental threat facing Long Island.

The report extolls the value of the oil and gas sector to the Canadian economy, and adds that many environmentalists «claim» that climate change is the most serious global environmental threat, and «claim» it is a direct consequence of human activity and is «reportedly» linked to the use of fossil fuels.

And the smoke posed a grave environmental threat.

The environmental threat from the use of nuclear weapons is still with us, and the only way to prevent this from occurring is to get rid of the weapons.

This exhibition is Judi Harvest's response to three crises, the environmental threat to the world's honeybee population, our food chain, and the sharp decline of handcrafted glassmaking in Murano.

To hazards like icecap cracks, nuclear leaks and rising seas, add another environmental threat: language fallout.

Most survival games are set after some sort of disaster — usually a zombie apocalypse — and even if they aren't, there's usually some sort of environmental threat, like dinosaurs or other nasties.

Since 2011, the Placencia BTIA has incorporated the Placencia Fisherman's Saltwater Tournament in order to make room for the Southern Environmental Association's first annual Lion - fish Tournament as a response to the environmental threat this invasive species presents to wildlife throughout the Atlantic seaboard.

The suspension is a major blow to residents and businesses on the three Gilis, reportedly because of the result of concerns that the power line may be putting three reef areas of the Gili Matra Marine Park under an unspecified environmental threat!

The suspension is the result of concerns that the power line may be putting three reef areas of a national conservation area under an unspecified environmental threat.