Sentences with phrase «often wasted opportunities»
Edith Nawakwi, a former finance minister in Zambia and now leader of an opposition party, said large infrastructure projects were often wasted opportunities that failed to lead to economic development.
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Without that incentive to explore an opportunity, unfortunately these things are all too often wasted.
In fact the problems of waste water, emissions and energy consumption also present an opportunity to use the huge but often hidden potential of wastewater as a source of renewable energy.
You often see these passes overhit and the potential opportunity is wasted.
Writer / director James Gunn doesn't waste the opportunity, crafting an epic that capitalizes on the colorful characters (often buried beneath Oscar - worthy makeup effects) while devising a completely different story arc.
His practice lays emphasis on sustainability and (the often lost) opportunities for recycling material waste as well as the inclusion of marginalised communities.
The report argues for a strong GEF role in such emerging sectors with high mitigation potential as urban systems combining transport, buildings, water supply, waste treatment, food supply and land use zoning, AFOLU (Agriculture, Forest and Other Land Use), agri - food supply systems — including emerging and often controversial mitigation opportunities such as short - lived climate forcers and carbon capture and storage.
In State College, Pennsylvania, I had the opportunity to tour the 2,400 square feet Matson & Associates Eco-Building, home to three ecopreneurial enterprises: Matson & Associates, an environmental assessment services company, often engaged to provide «expert witness» testimonials on some of the most timely waste processes issues; Envinity, a green building and home energy audit consultancy; and Matson Biofuels, a company developing a more ecological and non-toxic approach to making biodiesel called Green Biodiesel.
The Atlantic article makes this staggering claim: «[t] hose who stay in rural Iowa are often the elderly waiting to die, those too timid (or lacking in educated) to peer around the bend for better opportunities, an assortment of waste - toids and meth addicts with pale skin and rotted teeth, or those who quixotically believe, like Little Orphan Annie, that «The sun'll come out tomorrow» «(typo the Atlantic's).