Sentences with phrase «lack of environmental justice»

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He began by describing the lack of basic amenities, such as publicly regulated water and sewer infrastructure, in many communities as an environmental justice issue.

They're part of the environmental justice movement, a crusade that grew out of the recognition that it was mainly the poor and people of color who were forced — by circumstance, finances, lack of political power and what activists call «environmental apartheid» that callously targets the disenfranchised — to live and work in some of the nation's dirtiest environments.

Environmental justice advocates, who have long criticized cap and trade for its propensity to allow businesses to avoid reducing emissions at the source, praised the lack of an immediate link to international deforestation programs.

The top environmental justice issues still plaguing their communities are lack of healthy foods and water, and protection of sacred sites — all at play in northern Michigan.

«The environmental justice issues facing Native American communities range from direct environmental, public health, cultural and sacred sites impacts, to lack of meaningful involvement and fair treatment in the governmental decision - making processes,» according to an emailed response by the EPA's press office.

Organizations like the Green Belt Movement have addressed deforestation and privatization as an environmental and a social justice issue, connecting the dots between colonization and economic inequalities, between the lack of land rights and social oppression.

The Rio +20 People's Summit for Social and Environmental Justice was the counter event to the official conference, both symbolically and physically: it was organized by global civil society to condemn the lack of action of the past 20 years and to coordinate efforts from different segments, and it took place about two hours away from Riocentro.

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Proposal for a directive on environmental crime Following the jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice of September 13, 2005, the European Commission presented on February 9, 2007 a proposal for a directive on the protection of the environment through criminal law in order to remedy the lack of sanctions» effectiveness resulting from the diversity of both definitions and sanctions in the...

A time of civic activism for social and environmental justice, labour campaigns were also protesting unregulated workplace health hazards and lack of worker rights over their own safety.