Sentences with phrase «important environmental goals»

May 5's executive budget will include funding for the facilities, Quinn said, noting, «We have prevented, by the council's advocacy, that backtracking away from that important environmental goal.»

Not exact matches

The B.C. Centre for Social Enterprise defines it broadly as «revenue - generating businesses with a twist,» that twist being that the social enterprise has two parallel goals — to earn revenue, but just as important, to achieve positive social, cultural or environmental outcomes.

Although TPP is often seen as another in a line of treaties aimed at liberalizing trade further, a more important goal may have been to «raise the bar» on trade, and to set up a body of rules, including on environmental and labor issues, with which to create pressure for countries like China to comply.

Whereas for Reagan and Bush economistic goals were the goals, for Clinton and Gore they continue to be the dominant goals but environmental health is also an important goal that may require limitations to the pursuit of economic gain.

It is important to note that the programmes are consistent with the social, economic and environmental development goals of the SDGs.

Tim O'Connor, director of the California oil and gas program at the Environmental Defense Fund, said eliminating gas - fueled cars is an important goal.

Susan Hanson of Inorganic, Isotope and Actinide Chemistry (C - IIAC), Ruilian Wu and Louis «Pete» Silks of Bioenergy and Environmental Science (B - 8) have developed a significant advance in catalysis science that furthers the important goal of breaking down biomass into high - value commodity chemicals.

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues have become increasingly important to companies worldwide as they seek to balance organizational goals with the expectations of their stakeholders in an increasingly complex operating environment.

However, the more important goal was to present an alarmist message cloaked in certainty and to make sure it received all the attention from the media and environmental groups.

In 1989 the Board, for the first time in 16 years, amended the Association's goals and objectives to highlight a growing concern about carbon taxes and other fees which would increase energy costs to consumers — a concern as important to us as are environmental sensitivity and competition among energy suppliers.

While environmental assessments are important in their own right, we always focus on the ultimate goal of ensuring that government's constitutional obligations to our clients are fulfilled.