Sentences with phrase «first environmental developments»

This latest leap forward builds on Hyundai Motor's heritage of world - first environmental developments.

Not exact matches

The environmental watchdog has given the green light for BHP Billiton's planned 80 million tonnes per annum South Flank iron ore development, with first ore targeted in 2021.

In March the budget featured, for the first time, a chapter on natural - resource development and included language about reducing environmental protection, penalizing environmental groups that tried to meddle in resource extraction, and speeding the approval of big resource projects.

The focus on Canadian gas was natural given the location of the Summit, the first to be held outside Asia, but it also reflected the lively debate going on in Canada over industry developments, environmental issues, and potential economic impacts.

First, the Board had ruled that it would not consider the environmental and socio - economic effects associated with upstream activities, the development of the Alberta oil sands, and the downstream use of oil transported by the pipeline.

DuPont — one of the first companies to publicly establish environmental goals 20 years ago — has broadened its sustainability commitments beyond internal footprint reduction to include market - driven targets for both revenue and research and development investment.

CGF is urging all consumer goods companies to phase out harmful hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) focusing on four key points; the installation of new refrigeration equipment in markets where viable, engagement with stakeholders to overcome barriers in markets where installation is not currently viable, reduction of the environmental impact of existing refrigeration systems and the development of individual targets and action plans to measure the first three points.

Even if a state's concussion safety law does cover community - based, private sports programs, very few states have enacted laws that cover all aspects of youth sports safety, such as requiring more broad - based safety training for coaches in first - aid, CPR, and the use of an AED, and the development and implementation of an Emergency Action Plan (EAP) to be triggered in case of medical emergencies, such as a cardiac event (e.g. sudden cardiac arrest), asthma attack, allergic reaction to a bee sting, or heat stroke, and environmental emergencies (lighting, tornado, or an excessively high heat index).

For instance, the Committee for Technical Analysis, responsible for assessing the environmental impact of the Canadian project, restarted its operations in April 2013 for the first time since November 2011 but the Ministry of the Environment failed to publicly announce this development.

1118 - FCO - For first time in 64 year history the Commonwealth will have a formal Charter setting out core values: democracy; human rights; peace and security; tolerance, respect and understanding; freedom of expression; separation of powers; rule of law; good governance; sustainable development; environmental protection; access to health, education, food and shelter; gender equality; and the importance of young people and civil society.

First, Erie County staffs the WNYSBR through a US Environmental Protection Agency Region 2 grant to Empire State Development and Erie County.

The Amherst Town Board took its first vote on long - running fight over development of the former Westwood Country Club Monday night, although over a relatively minor environmental issue.

Following her years in Washington, McGinty became the first woman to lead the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, and has held various posts in the private sector helping to drive sustainable business development.

The authors believe theirs is among the first human studies to investigate the influence of phthalate exposure on sperm epigenetics, embryo development and whether DNA methylation in sperm cells may be a path by which a father's environmental exposure influences these endpoints.

«At first they were silent on [forests], then they were cautious on [forests], so this is a good development,» says Annie Petsonk of the Environmental Defense Fund in Washington, D.C.. She's now looking closely at the proposal to compare it with previous Chinese plans.

Lead author William Taylor, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, says that this model «enables us for the first time to link horse use with other important cultural developments in ancient Mongolia and eastern Eurasia, and evaluate the role of climate and environmental change in the local origins of horse riding.»

Professor Graham Shields - Zhou (UCL Earth Sciences), one of the co-authors and Dr Tostevin's PhD supervisor, said: «We honed in on the last 10 million years of the Proterozoic Eon as the interval of Earth's history when today's major animal groups first grew shells and churned up the sediment, and found that oxygen levels were important to the relationship between environmental conditions and the early development of animals.»

PROGRAMS: SRIC's work can be described in two ways: First, we provide various services — technical assistance, networking, public information, policy analysis, environmental analysis, and skills development.

Crackdown 3's development looked to begin Microsoft's push towards using cloud - based computing power within their games, and while it's still set to use Microsoft Azure to help in the game's environmental destruction, it's the first to do so in a meaningful way.

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I would say putting people first, improving wellbeing by including all and eradicating poverty via holistic and sustainable approaches are focal points which in many ways are not separated from my strong commitment to vulgarizing education, sharing and learning, communication, cultural exploration and inter-cultural dialogue, art, environmental protection and broadening the use of transformational technologies as a way of combating poverty, achieving millennium development goals and reducing suspicion and development lapses in Africa and the world.

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* Recent analyses indicate that environmental factors associated with vocabulary development and emergent literacy skills are already present among children as early as 15 months of age.2 By first grade, unfortunately, the repercussions become all too clear: children from high - income families are likely to know about twice as many words as children from low - income families, putting these children at a significantly higher risk for school failure.3

Steve Center, vice president of the Environmental Business Development Office at American Honda Motor Co., Inc., welcomed the first six Clarity customers on December 19, 2016 on the Torrance, Calif., campus of American Honda Motor Co., Inc..

This first book on their important and unusually egalitarian working relationship offers a revealing look at the development of a 25 - year collaboration, beginning with the title work, a recent site - specific environmental installation, and continuing through a survey of their portfolio.

Two separate developments reported elsewhere point to the enduring power of the status quo to trump environmental initiatives — the startup of China's first big coal - to - liquids refinery (nod to Environmental Capital) and strong signs that China's highly publicized eco-cities efforts are more facade than reality (nod toenvironmental initiatives — the startup of China's first big coal - to - liquids refinery (nod to Environmental Capital) and strong signs that China's highly publicized eco-cities efforts are more facade than reality (nod toEnvironmental Capital) and strong signs that China's highly publicized eco-cities efforts are more facade than reality (nod to Treehugger).

What the Rio +20 agreement recognizes, for the first time on such an intergovernmental scale, is that sustainable development is not simply «code» for an environmental action agenda.

Steve de Gruchy: An Olive Agenda: First thoughts on a metaphorical theology of development This paper proposes a theological engagement with a metaphor that could transcend the duality between the «green» environmental agenda and the «brown» poverty agenda that has disabled development discourse for the past twenty years.

Friends of the Earth Ukraine was the first environmental organisation in Ukraine and the first to work on the issues of sustainable development.

A federal district judge ruled Friday that the Bureau of Land Management violated the law when it made 80 billion tons of coal available for leasing and opened up more than 8 million acres for oil and gas development in the Powder River Basin without first assessing the environmental risks or considering any alternatives.

The China Council of International Cooperation on Environment and Development, or CCICED, an advisory body of 200 international experts formed in 1992 that provides environmental policy advice to the Chinese central government, are the first to formerly propose some numbers.

Throughout her career Jihan as worked to build the capacity and collective strength of Indigenous communities throughout North America who are impacted by energy development and climate change, first in her position as Coordinator of the Native Energy & Climate Campaign at the Indigenous Environmental Network, and now as Executive Director of the Black Mesa Water Coalition.

According to the Penn State Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research, during the first half of 2013 in the Marcellus shale play, 90 percent of the more than 14 million barrels of produced fluids from fracturing was reused.12 That represents a significant savings in the amount of new water needed for hydraulic fracturing elsewhere, and illustrates the industry's focus on environmental issues and efforts to reduce the impacts of energy development on resources and communities.

First, Paragraph 2 of Article 6 provides that the Parties may engage «on a voluntary basis in cooperative approaches that involve the use of internationally transferred mitigation outcomes [ITMOs] towards nationally determined contributions, promote sustainable development and ensure environmental integrity and transparency, including in governance...» Id.

«We're pleased to welcome COTAP as our first U.S. - based partner for the Trees of Hope project, which is helping rural communities in Malawi generate incomes, address environmental challenges and sequester carbon emissions,» said Walker Morris, Director of the Clinton Development Initiative.

The chapeau in the first paragraph sets the overall scene and lays out the general provisions of higher ambition, sustainable development and environmental integrity.

Through this collaboration, we help support the development of First Nations communities, and provide market opportunities for environmental stewardship.»

I do not oppose all development; neither does the Green Party; neither do environmental NGOS; neither do First Nations.

He was responsible for the development of environmental programs, and was involved in 1996, in the world's first large - scale carbon neutrality experiment.

Economic and environmental issues first became linked in international development agendas at the first UN Conference on the Human Environment, held in Stockholm in 1972.

In a first of its kind collaboration, a coalition of leading environmental organizations and offshore wind developers has agreed to a series of voluntary measures that will protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales, while helping to expedite responsible offshore wind development, in the Mid-Atlantic.

So, the essential first step in developing a site for wind development is to conduct a comprehensive environmental investigation to determine what contaminants are present and provide the necessary information for creating a successful mitigation plan.

When the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) announced its first National Goodwill Ambassador to promote environmental responsibility yesterday, they picked the right person: actress Zhou Xun.

Are Masdar City and the Masdar Initiative a first step toward genuine sustainable development in the Gulf - or a very clever strategy to shield the Emirates from environmental criticism while they continue along the same unsustainable path?

Though often seen as being at odds with poverty reduction, the focus being on economic development first and environmental preservation once a measure of affluence has occurred, I found it very inspirational (and accurate) that Maathai sees that without preservation of the environment, preservation of natural capital, lasting economic development, lasting poverty reduction, can not be achieved.

Or we could take a different approach to development planning and mitigate the monetary and environmental costs associated with parking areas in the first place, he says.

Stephen has a broad civil litigation practice with extensive experience in breach of trust claims, commercial disputes, construction liens, construction and environmental liability claims, First Nations consultation rights in land development, insurance coverage, product liability, professional liability and subrogation.

Presentation, «Leasing and Environmental Protection of Aboriginal Lands by First Nation communities», May 25 - 26, 2000, Aboriginal Land Management and Property Development Strategies — Insight Information Co. (Toronto).