Sentences with phrase «natural ecological limits»

Their goal is to align capital markets with natural ecological limits to growth.

Not exact matches

During all this time, natural ecosystems have developed in co-evolution, but 250 years ago, with the development and industrialization models imposed by the West on the world, anthropogenic action is causing a major ecological and social footprint, hence the urgency to formulate international policies that circumscribe human economic activities within the biophysical limits of Mother Earth.

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Francis said that wealthy nations and multinational corporations that use foreign debt as a way to control poorer countries, while exploiting their natural resources and polluting their land and water, owe them an «ecological debt» by limiting consumption of fossil fuels and assisting them in more sustainable development.

Mora also underscored our joint efforts, saying, «[the MOU with Global Footprint Network] isn't simply to carry out scientific studies on Nariño's Ecological Footprint and biocapacity, but also to direct our province with concrete actions on how to build a green economy that takes ecological limits into account and move back the date of Earth Overshoot Day, so that our actions with natural resources in the region are sustainabEcological Footprint and biocapacity, but also to direct our province with concrete actions on how to build a green economy that takes ecological limits into account and move back the date of Earth Overshoot Day, so that our actions with natural resources in the region are sustainabecological limits into account and move back the date of Earth Overshoot Day, so that our actions with natural resources in the region are sustainable.»

Second, this means that environmental dogma which argues that we live within ecological limits may actually make us more vulnerable to changes in the natural world.

With the status quo maintained, then natural forest degradation, big corporations pushing the ecological limits and threats to biodiversity will not necessarily be solved by replacing Coal / Gas with statistically safer baseload technology.