Sentences with phrase «from global environmental issues»

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Karen Harbert, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber's Global Energy Institute, issued the following statement today regarding the Environmental Protection Agency's issuance of an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking addressing carbon emissions from power plants:

Long food supply chains are actually far from a simple matter because they tie into a number of social and environmental issues, including the global carbon footprint, product quality and sustainability, too.

Under the Carter administration, CEQ (along with the U.S. Department of State) drafted The Global 2000 Report to the President (pdf) in 1980, which proved prescient about a host of environmental issues, from climate change to biodiversity loss.

Their results are now available in a free access article from Society and Natural Resources, titled «Environmental Views from the Coast: Public Concern about Local to Global Marine Issues.»

It has also grown tremendously in the past twenty years, in line with increasing concerns about scientific and technical issues of every kind, from nuclear power to global environmental change.

From economic impacts in cities like San Diego and London to crops in Memphis to global greenhouse gases, the framework of telecoupling (socioeconomic and environmental interactions over distances) lays out a dynamic, complex view of how issues of sustainability reach across the world — and then impacts rush back.

Most plastics are derived from petroleum, a non-renewable often imported resource with serious issues of its own - environmental, energy, health, global security.

Why not indeed: Tree planting not only counteracts deforestation, but tackles social, political, environmental and economic issues ranging from global warming to food security.

Chi - Wen Gallery's (Taipei) group show looking at environmental issues, from global warming to natural disaster and nuclear contamination

They deal with major global, sociological, cultural, economic, ecological and environmental issues from the past ten years.

The root cause of all the major environmental issues from food shortages, loss of biodiversity to global warming is current overpopulation.

As Democratic lawmakers and environmental groups continue to complain about Bush administration edits of Senate testimony on health risks from global warming, the White House today took the unusual step of having President Bush's science adviser, John Marburger III, issue a detailed explanation.

Global warming has of late felt like a new issue, but it's useful once in a while to review the generations - long line of analysis that points to substantial climatic and environmental consequences from rising emissions of greenhouse gases.

There's been incredible progress on many environmental fronts, but huge gaps remain, particularly when the issue is conserving global «commons» ranging from the shared atmosphere — still a free dump for greenhouse gases — to ocean - roaming fish species like bluefin tuna.

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Estimate of Swedish tax shifting based on Paul Ekins and Stefan Speck, «Environmental Tax Reform in Europe: Energy Tax Rates and Competitiveness,» in press, 2007; Ministry of Finance, Sweden, «Taxation and the Environment,» press release (Stockholm: 25 May 2005); household size from Target Group Index, «Household Size,» Global TGI Barometer (Miami: 2005); population from U.N. Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision Population Database, at http://esa.un.org/unpp/; Andrew Hoerner and Benoît Bosquet, Environmental Tax Reform: The European Experience (Washington, DC: Center for a Sustainable Economy, 2001); European Environment Agency, Environmental Taxes: Recent Developments in Tools for Integration, Environmental Issues Series No. 18 (Copenhagen: 2000); environmental tax support from David Malin Roodman, The Natural Wealth of Nations (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1Environmental Tax Reform in Europe: Energy Tax Rates and Competitiveness,» in press, 2007; Ministry of Finance, Sweden, «Taxation and the Environment,» press release (Stockholm: 25 May 2005); household size from Target Group Index, «Household Size,» Global TGI Barometer (Miami: 2005); population from U.N. Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision Population Database, at http://esa.un.org/unpp/; Andrew Hoerner and Benoît Bosquet, Environmental Tax Reform: The European Experience (Washington, DC: Center for a Sustainable Economy, 2001); European Environment Agency, Environmental Taxes: Recent Developments in Tools for Integration, Environmental Issues Series No. 18 (Copenhagen: 2000); environmental tax support from David Malin Roodman, The Natural Wealth of Nations (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1Environmental Tax Reform: The European Experience (Washington, DC: Center for a Sustainable Economy, 2001); European Environment Agency, Environmental Taxes: Recent Developments in Tools for Integration, Environmental Issues Series No. 18 (Copenhagen: 2000); environmental tax support from David Malin Roodman, The Natural Wealth of Nations (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1Environmental Taxes: Recent Developments in Tools for Integration, Environmental Issues Series No. 18 (Copenhagen: 2000); environmental tax support from David Malin Roodman, The Natural Wealth of Nations (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1Environmental Issues Series No. 18 (Copenhagen: 2000); environmental tax support from David Malin Roodman, The Natural Wealth of Nations (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1environmental tax support from David Malin Roodman, The Natural Wealth of Nations (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998), p. 243.

Spatially localised environmental issues, such as city air pollution5, may result from high GHG emissions, but the most damaging and long lasting consequence, that of global climate change6, is not constrained within the border of the emitting country1.

48 Growing Energy & Environmental Concerns 58 % of Americans rank «dealing with the nation's energy problem» as a top priority in 2006, up from 40 % in 2003 87 % of Americans cite home heating and energy prices as a «very big» or «big» problem for the nation's economy 88 % of US adults respond that «energy efficient» was very important in their electronics, appliance, lighting and heating / cooling equipment purchases Gallup polls: Americans» concerns about environmental issues have increased more than 10 percentage points between 2004 and 2006 The LOHAS Consumer Report: 91 % of people are in total agreement with the statement «I care about protecting the environment» ABC News / Washington Post Poll: 79 % of Americans think global warming poses a serious threat to future generations Source: APEnvironmental Concerns 58 % of Americans rank «dealing with the nation's energy problem» as a top priority in 2006, up from 40 % in 2003 87 % of Americans cite home heating and energy prices as a «very big» or «big» problem for the nation's economy 88 % of US adults respond that «energy efficient» was very important in their electronics, appliance, lighting and heating / cooling equipment purchases Gallup polls: Americans» concerns about environmental issues have increased more than 10 percentage points between 2004 and 2006 The LOHAS Consumer Report: 91 % of people are in total agreement with the statement «I care about protecting the environment» ABC News / Washington Post Poll: 79 % of Americans think global warming poses a serious threat to future generations Source: APenvironmental issues have increased more than 10 percentage points between 2004 and 2006 The LOHAS Consumer Report: 91 % of people are in total agreement with the statement «I care about protecting the environment» ABC News / Washington Post Poll: 79 % of Americans think global warming poses a serious threat to future generations Source: AP Source: NASA

In a letter included as part of Yesterday's 88 - page report on the environment and other issues, Chairman Ford said global warming «stands out from other environmental issues because of its potentially serious consequences and its direct relationship to our industry.»

DEC announced that it will treat Global Companies» air permit renewal application for its Albany Terminal as an entirely new application due to newly discovered information and environmental conditions, and will require additional information and testing from Global before it will issue a permit.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency must issue regulations reducing the allowable emissions from products containing or using HFCs; mandating tighter reduction, recovery and reuse requirements; and barring the use of HFCs where low global warming alternatives are commercially available.

Regarding Alex Merz's comment: the problem with the debate about global warming (and many other environmental issues) is that the uninformed are thinking that they ARE informed because they are getting their information well - spun from «authorities» like Crichton and Lomborg and Gregg Easterbrook and Patrick Michaels.

In 1998 — the year after Titanic made audiences sob around the world and DiCaprio an international superstar — the 23 - year - old launched the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation with an eye toward increasing «global awareness of environmental issues,» — which has meant everything from keeping a calendar of current campaigns and partnering with the Natural Resources Defense Council to distributing grants and producing The 11th Hour.

The issue of carbon offsets is a contentious one: Some people panning them as doing little good or being distracting from the true environmental consequences of our lifestyle choices; other people praise them for providing a method to make a positive difference in the fight against global warming.

Hayhoe, an evangelical Christian who describes herself as a conservative, gained national attention last year when then - GOP presidential contender Newt Gingrich rejected a chapter she had written on man - made global warming from his book on environmental issues, which is set to come out after the November elections.

In no particular order, there are the Leftist economists for whom global warming represents a supreme example of market failure (as well as a wonderful opportunity to suggest correctives), UN apparatchiks for whom global warming is the route to global governance, Third world dictators who see guilt over global warming as providing a convenient claim on aid (ie, the transfer of wealth from the poor in rich countries to the wealthy in poor countries), Environmental activists who love any issue that has the capacity to frighten the gullible into making hefty contributions to their numerous NGOs, Crony capitalists who see the immense sums being made available for «sustainable» energy, Government regulators for whom the control of a natural product of breathing is a dream come true, Newly minted billionaires who find the issue of «saving the planet» appropriately suitable to their grandiose pretensions, Politicians who can fasten on to CAGW as a signature issue where they can act as demagogues without fear of contradiction from reality or complaint from the purported beneficiaries of their actions.

(04/22/2010) The biodiversity crisis, the climate crisis, the deforestation crisis: we are living in an age when environmental issues have moved from regional problems to global ones.

We must elevate the status of ecosystem conservation from a side issue in global environmental talks and treaties (that are exclusively focused on carbon) to an urgent high priority issue.

The controversy surrounding environmental policy has, perhaps surprisingly, arisen not so much from the issue of conserving non-renewable commodities such as fossil fuels or industrial metals, but from the increasing scarcity or overuse of renewable natural resources, causing problems such as water and air pollution, or damage to global commons such as the atmosphere or the ozone layer.

His posts paint a comprehensive view of global environmental issues from an economic standpoint.