Sentences with phrase «potential environmental consequences»

Geoengineering has been attacked by some environmentalists as creating a possible end run around the need for curbing emissions of greenhouse gases at the source, and also for coming with its own basket of potential environmental consequences.

It established a supplemental mandate for Federal agencies to consider the potential environmental consequences of their proposals, document the analysis, and make this information available to the public for comment prior to implementation.

If you're concerned about the potential impact of a Keystone spill, you should be concerned about the potential environmental consequences of not building the Keystone too.

Not exact matches

«To minimize the potential consequences of closing Indian Point is highly irresponsible and we need to act now to avoid serious economic and environmental problems after the plant closes in 2021.»

But Cuomo, saying it's a major decision with potential health consequences, says he's letting his environmental and health commissioners take the lead.

The consequences of this widespread pollution are still hazy, but environmental scientists say the microscopic plastic fibers have the potential to harm marine life.

As the particles break down and disperse, they have a wide range of adverse environmental, public health and economic consequences with the potential to kill wildlife, destroy natural resources and disrupt the food chain.

«We are now seeing the potential long - term health consequences of introducing chemicals whose safety we know very little about,» said Jonathan Chevrier, an environmental health scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, who did not participate in the new study.

While some see the new energy boom as benefiting the local economy and decreasing U.S. reliance on foreign oil, others fear the potential health and environmental consequences that come along with fracking.

There are, of course, multiple problems associated with growing global demand for metals, including the environmental consequences of extraction and the long - term potential of metal scarcities.

An analysis of potential consequences of interspecies hybridization for the aquaculture industry, especially in the context of changing environmental conditions, was provided.

Whereas, if left unaddressed, the consequences of a changing climate have the potential to adversely impact all Americans, hitting vulnerable populations hardest, harming productivity in key economic sectors such as construction, agriculture, and tourism, saddling future generations with costly economic and environmental burdens, and imposing additional costs on State and Federal budgets that will further add to the long - term fiscal challenges that we face as a Nation;

They add, grimly, that things could also get worse: «It should also be noted that the projections do not take into account potential negative feedback from the environmental consequences of rapid population growth.

To ignore these questions is to decide to expose human health and the environment to real risk before changing the risky behavior, that is, a decision to not act on a serious environmental threat has grave potential consequences.

Together with commercial operators they plan to go ahead with large - scale and more permanent ocean fertilization experiments and note that potential negative environmental consequences must be balanced against the harm

The day prior Quebec's environmental review board released a report finding that there are «too many potential negative consequences to the environment and to society from extracting natural gas from shale rock deposits along the St. Lawrence River.»

Welcomes the agreement achieved by the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol on its work pursuant to decisions 1 / CMP.1, 1 / CMP.5 and 1 / CMP.6 in the areas of land use, land - use change and forestry (decision - / CMP.7), emissions trading and the project - based mechanisms (decision - / CMP.7), greenhouse gases, sectors and source categories, common metrics to calculate the carbon dioxide equivalence of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks, and other methodological issues (decision - / CMP.7) and the consideration of information on potential environmental, economic and social consequences, including spillover effects, of tools, policies, measures and methodologies available to Annex I Parties (decision - / CMP.7);

It focuses on the environmental, social, and economic consequences of climate change and potential adaptation responses.

«Potential Consequences of Increasing Atmospheric CO2 Concentration Compared to Other Environmental Problems.»

As it is, a wide array of competing industry standards are being developed, the experts lament, which might well undermine the whole enterprise: «Although the consequences are difficult to predict,» the authors write, «the confusion produced by a host of independent «standards» operating in a regulatory vacuum has the potential to discredit market - based environmental policies.»

Participants considered each NPOESS - measured parameter, starting with ones in jeopardy of not meeting Integrated Operational Requirements Document (IORD) specifications, commenting on the relevance of the parameter to climate science and / or long - term climate records, the importance of maintaining the IORD - level value (and potential consequences if it is not met), and noting any additional considerations required to make the NPOESS program's environmental data records (EDRs) more relevant to GCOS ECV climate parameters and to the climate community as a whole (e.g., additional instrument characterization, calibration, overlap requirements).

Yet the evidence for long - term consequences of peer difficulties experienced in the preschool years is limited, as other potential causes (e.g. personal or environmental factors) have not been ruled out.