Sentences with phrase «prevent large dams»
International Rivers monitors climate - earmarked funds such as the Green Climate Fund to prevent large dams from entering project pipelines, promotes the use of strong social and environmental standards and technical benchmarks, and pushes climate finance away from a business - as - usual approach towards more resilient water and energy solutions.
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It is also used to make Aqua Dams, which are patented large plastic tubes that provide an environmentally sound means of preventing floods.
They argue that while large public investments in dams and flood defences, for example, must account for the possibilities of how weather might change in the future, this should not prevent short - term thinking to address more immediate vulnerability to inevitable high - impact weather events.
So EVERY source of energy that has the slightest positive contribution to our energy needs is to be fought tooth and nail, bringing to bear the full force and majesty of our regulatory juggernaut to not only prevent the development of new resources but to destroy existing resources (drive to destroy Hetch Hetchy dam, which supplies power and a large part of the water for SF Bay area for example and will be replaced with???) in the fight to «save the planet»?