Sentences with phrase «policies around environmental issues»

Since public perception influences government and business policies around environmental issues, it is important to ensure enough unbiased and reliable information about the issues are available to the public.

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Even more serious is the fact that resistance to environmental issues is built into the economic policy underlying capitalism itself — an economic policy which, since the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, has been widely adopted around the globe.

Our academics regularly advise on policy issues around major global challenges such as poverty reduction and environmental sustainability.

Although a broadly - based civil society organisation rather than a modern environmental pressure group the Union now focuses much of its programme around policy issues and promotional initiatives on the integration of climate and air pollution policies, including in particular its next World Congress (Cape Town, September 2013).

«Coming out of Accra, there appeared to be clear agreement that the methodological issues around measuring and monitoring forests had been solved,» says Stephen Schwartzman, Director of Environmental Defense Fund's Tropical Forestry Policy program.

The program includes the usual workforce and health service issues, and also addresses Indigenous health, the arts and health, environmental issues, mental health and racism, the federal policy vacuum in oral health, palliative care, recovery from bushfires and other disasters, and has quite a few presentations around public participation.