Sentences with phrase «local environmental pressure»

Particularly in Africa and the Middle East, high fertility rates are leading to profound local environmental pressures - water stress, land degradation, over-hunting and fishing, falling farm sizes, deforestation and other habitat destruction - thereby worsening the grave economic challenges these countries face.

Not exact matches

In a statement, Ms Spelman said: «We hope that the Liberal Democrats under Mr Clegg will join us in putting pressure on the government to devolve power to local authorities, communities and individuals, in our opposition to ID cards and in our commitment to social justice and environmental progress.»

Local environmental activists are putting pressure on Onondaga County to change advisory signs about eating fish caught in Onondaga Lake.

That local pressure, in turn, could put pressure on the state government's environmental regulators.

This was true across the entire island, suggesting laterality is hardwired in the birds» brains and not a product of local social traditions or environmental pressures, the researchers say.

So far, the political pressure to produce domestic oil in a hurry has trumped public concern about the environmental cost of flaring, which includes local air pollution but mainly comes through the heat - trapping influence of the carbon dioxide produced when the gas is burned.

Consider environmental degradation... the immense pressures of economic forces on local communities... the dire need for sustainable urbanization, affordable infrastructure, and accessible communication.

Apparently, environmental Kuznets curves work in the case of cleaning up car emissions because localised pollution provokes local pressure to improve the environment, whereas CO2 emissions are generalised and so subject to the «tragedy of the commons» (I typed «tragedy of the cosmos», which would be a good title for something or other).

In particular, China's government is confronted with increasing local pressures due to environmental and health issues around coal use.

Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland is the UK's most influential national environmental pressure group and is a unique network of campaigning local groups, working in over 200 communities throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Yet energy justice — defined here as meeting one's needs for the services that energy provides at reasonable cost, with fair and equitable access, and without disproportionate economic and environmental burdens — can mitigate the problems and pressures in other areas, especially when efficiency and solar energy are developed so as to create local jobs.

While local environmentalists have been pushing the government to adopt greener policies for years (with limited success), the government's newfound enthusiasm for climate change policies is apparently the result of external pressure, namely the Copenhagen summit and the environmental requirements of the OECD, which Israel seeks to join.