Sentences with phrase «positive environmental difference»

That's really what we're looking for: if we can get a small percent, or hopefully a large percent, taking small actions, it can create really a significant positive environmental difference.

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However, individual differences in sensitivity to alcohol's positive rewarding effects are associated with a greater tendency to remember alcohol - related environmental stimuli encountered while intoxicated.

Now researchers at Linnaeus University in Sweden and from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) have found an important finding to answer this question: Individual differences have a positive and stabilizing effect on the number of moths.

These are skills of three kinds: cross-cultural efficacy, an interest and positive disposition toward cultural difference; foreign language skills; and knowledge of world history, geography and global processes such as trade, international law, environmental and health challenges.

Despite this high level of knowledge and upbeat, positive association with being environmentally conscious, Millennials report they do not always put their knowledge to use because of the high cost of environmentally friendly products, as well as the seeming enormity and insurmountability of environmental problems and doubts about whether they can really make a difference, Generate Insight said.

I have used it for the analysis of CFC - ozone politics (in a book called Transnational Environmental Policy, see here The difference between the two cases are (with regard to positive / negative feedback) that in ozone politics a small group of dedicated advocacy scientists got the process started and was at the centre of a feedback loop.

The difference between Professor Nordhaus's optimal carbon tax policy and a fifty - year delay policy is insignificant economically or climatologically in view of major uncertainties in (1) future economic growth (including reductions in carbon emissions intensity); (2) the physical science (e.g., the climate sensitivity); (3) future positive and negative environmental impacts (e.g., the economic «damage function»); (4) the evaluation of long - term economic costs and benefits (e.g., the discount rate); and (5) the international political process (e.g., the impact of less than full participation).

The issue of carbon offsets is a contentious one: Some people panning them as doing little good or being distracting from the true environmental consequences of our lifestyle choices; other people praise them for providing a method to make a positive difference in the fight against global warming.

Eyewitness Accounts of Warming «The atlas stories, told by eyewitnesses across Europe, can help people understand how our world is changing as a result of climate change and — through examples of positive actions taken by governments, communities, and people — inspire them to take action and make a difference,» said Microsoft Chief Environmental Strategist Rob Bernard.

Studies demonstrating this greater susceptibility of neurobiologically responsive children to both positive and negative aspects of their environments have implicated a wide variety of stressors and adversities, including paternal depression (67), marital conflict (68, 69), parental psychopathology (70), and overall family distress (71); of positive environmental features, including parental warmth (72) and supportive interventions (73); and of defining biological parameters, including physiological reactivity (e.g., 74, 75), differences in brain circuitry (76), and gene polymorphisms (77, 78).