Sentences with phrase «sustainable economic resource»

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With an enduring commitment to building sustainable communities, our Company is focused on initiatives that protect the environment, conserve resources and enhance the economic development of the communities where we operate.

In terms of social and economic impact, acacia trees are a sustainable and valuable resource for the population.

While foreign - led resource extraction may seem as an easy way to ensure economic growth, it is often not sustainable in the long term and poses enormous ecological ramifications.

The technical cooperation is of great significance for improving efficiency, reducing resource and energy consumption, developing green and safe mines, achieving sustainable development of resources and introducing innovation into economic growth.

Only if the money supply is regulated, as it is in successful economies, to ensure that the bulk of the nation's resources are channelled towards manufacturing, commerce and exports will Britain achieve a long - term sustainable economic recovery.

It earned a «B» on sustainable economic development; «B» on climate change and resiliency and «B» on natural resource protection.

As a torchbearer of Africa's Political emancipation, the Ghana Beyond Aid vision resonates within Ghana and catching up with other African countries as the only sustainable means of reaching our goals of economic emancipation as a continent by using internal resources to create the needed infrastructural development and jobs opportunity for the teeming unemployed graduate youth.

to improve the understanding of and support for Land Value Taxation amongst members of the Liberal Democrats; to encourage all Liberal Democrats to promote and campaign for this policy as part of a more sustainable and just resource based economic system in which no one is enslaved by poverty; and to cooperate with other bodies, both inside and outside the Liberal Democrat Party, who share these objectives.

«This new headquarters is not only a great symbolic achievement for Land Remediation, it is a tangible example of the jobs we can create and resources we can save by embracing sustainable economic development and bringing degraded sites back into productive use.»

The legislature was graded B for its work on sustainable economic development and natural resource protection.

«Social and economic equality empowers societies to engage in sustainable pathways, which includes, by the way, not only the sustainable use of natural resources but also slowing down population growth, to actively diminish the human footprint on the environment.»

«The 2018 EPI confirms that success with regard to sustainable development requires both economic progress that generates the resources to invest in environmental infrastructure and careful management of industrialization and urbanization that can lead to pollution that threatens both public health and ecosystems.»

The blue economy is the concept for sustainable use of ocean resources, aiming for economic growth, livelihoods improvement, and ocean ecosystem health.

Our three main goals are: the eradication of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition; the elimination of poverty and the driving forward of economic and social progress for all; and, the sustainable management and utilization of natural resources.»

Keywords: sustainable development, the threat of global economic crisis, the threat of depletion of natural resources, the threat of uncontrolled growth of cities, the threat of global climate change.

8.4 improve progressively through 2030 global resource efficiency in consumption and production, and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation in accordance with the 10 - year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production with developed countries taking the lead

It is in cities that the social, economic and environmental sustainable development converge more intensely, making it become necessary to be thought out, planned and managed in accordance with sustainable development model that aims to meet the current needs of the Earth population without compromising its natural resources, bequeathing them to future generations.

To sum up, teachers need to support sustainable alternatives to neoliberal capitalism with its emphasis on economic growth; protect nature's resources for future generations; protect ecosystems and help support biodiversity; support a community based economics, and a grassroots democracy that includes participatory and direct forms, embody anti-racist, anti-ableist, anti-sexist, and anti-homophobic pedagogies that respect diversity and work from a post-patriarchal perspective.

As one of the world's few inexhaustible natural resources, creativity is a source of considerable potential in promoting sustainable socio - economic development for people of all ages (1, 3, 6, 10).

It's long been globally debated and agreed that solutions to economic crises and sustainable growth lie in making the most of all our available human resources.

The Dóchas EU Presidency Project will be working to ensure that the post-MDG framework does not simply articulate an extension of current practice, but rather captures an inclusive, sustainable and just set of solutions to some of the biggest global challenges that are facing mankind: economic inequality, social instability, environmental degradation, resource scarcity, climate chaos and political exclusion of vast numbers of people.

In this lesson, students examine the community organizing / civic action steps that the Green Belt Movement (GBM) took to address Kenya's deforestation and to tackle the issues closely connected to this environmental issue, including women's rights, equitable economic development, political governance and the sustainable management of scarce resources.

WMI will establish a forum for leaders from East Africa and internationally to exchange ideas and interrogate issues that affect the socio - economic transformation of societies through sustainable natural resource utilization practices and better conflict resolution mechanisms.

Its mission is: «To promote the sustainable development of tourism in Guyana that produces maximum economic, social, cultural and environmental benefits, while minimizing negative impacts as part of an integrated national development strategy through the optimal use of human resources and the provision of a product of the highest quality.»

The World Resources Institute has announced an initiative that it says will focus on business and finance models for sustainable, low - carbon economic growth in major markets like the U.S., China, Mexico, India and Brazil.

1) Energy conservation and energy efficiency 2) Renewable energy 3) Cleaner uses of coal, and carbon capture and storage 4) Sustainable transportation, including electric vehicles 5) Modernization of the electrical grid 6) Joint research and development of clean energy technologies 7) Clean air 8) Clean water 9) Natural resource conservation, e.g. protection of wetlands and nature reserves 10) Combating climate change and promoting low - carbon economic growth

Paul Driessen, author of «Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death,» explains the vast difference between Real Sustainability, which implies wisely using our resources and always looking to innovate, and Politicized Sustainability, a radical policy that focuses on focuses on ridding the world of fossil fuels, regardless of any social, economic, environmental, or human costs of doing so — and regardless of whether supposed alternatives really are eco-friendly and sustainable.

Over forty years, under both parties, we have developed a national system that protects ocean resources while providing sustainable recreational and economic benefits to our citizens and visitors to the California coastline.

It is themed Sustainable and inclusive urban communities through urban agriculture and aims to bring together scientists from different disciplinary perspectives, studying motivations and barriers for individual and group practitioners, social, economic and environmental benefits of urban agriculture for the local communities and cities as a whole, as well as enabling and disabling factors for successful interaction between the local stakeholders in planning, accessing and using urban resources especially land and water.

It stresses that improving women's access to forest resources and effectively including them in decision making leads to greater investment in children's welfare and has positive effects on economic growth and sustainable resource management.

This analytical report addresses the social dimensions of climate change from a sustainable, equitable development perspective, understood as «an irreducible holistic concept where economic, social and environmental issues are interdependent dimensions that must be approached within a unifi ed framework», and where the overarching outcome is to fully promote human welfare and equal access to life - sustaining resources.

The global environment and economic security are indelibly intertwined, with increasing greenhouse gases, environmental degradation and natural - resource depletion putting sustainable growth and existing business models at risk.

As a forthcoming paper of the World Resources Report shows, ensuring access to affordable energy and the economic opportunity it brings will be essential for a sustainable, prosperous urban future.

«The sooner global emissions start to fall, the lower the risk not only of major climate disruption, but also of economic disruption that could otherwise arise from the need for subsequent reductions at historically unprecedented rates, should near - term action remain inadequate,» says another of the report's authors, Michael Grubb, professor of international energy and climate change policy at University College London's Institute of Sustainable Resources.

In the issue of finding resources to implement sustainable development, we see countries using the economic crisis as an excuse, while at the same time spending 100s of billions of dollars subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, the most profitable industry in the world.

Water and land governance are important components of managing water in order to achieve sustainable water resources for a range of political, socio - economic and administrative systems (GWP, 2002; Eakin and Lemos, 2006).

«She understands that sustainable economic growth in the Hudson Valley depends on balancing development with protecting our magnificent and irreplaceable natural resources.

UNDP: Poverty reduction and economic growth can be sustained only if natural resources are managed on a sustainable basis.

As a lifelong conservationist, Mr. Wilson has devoted much of his productive energies toward utilizing natural resources in a sustainable way so that a given landscape can be productive for the economic benefit of its inhabitants.

The state aims to become a model region for combining prosperity and sustainability, focusing its economic development on growth areas of environmental technologies, renewable energy, resource efficiency and sustainable transport.

A new development model is needed to combat global warming, one that marries economic growth to combat poverty with a sustainable use of resources, Pope Francis» deputy said Wednesday.

«Whether China moves onto an innovative, sustainable and low - carbon growth path this decade will more or less determine both China's longer - term economic prospects in a natural resource - constrained world,... and the world's prospects of cutting greenhouse gas emissions sufficiently to manage the grave risks of climate change.»

This brochure summarizes how the resources and processes provided by oceans should be used as a foundation for sustainable economic and social development.

«The tremendous wind resources of the northern Great Plains have many Indian tribes looking at utility scale renewable energy generation as a «no - regrets» sustainable homeland economic development strategy, with a positive impact on CO2 emission reductions.

Now is the time to draw up a master plan for sustainable growth and world development based on global allocation of all resources and a new global economic system.

Driving his work are two main convictions: 1) Our current environmental problems — climate change, biodiversity losses, peak fossil fuels, natural resource over consumption — are but symptoms of the greater problem of fetishizing material economic growth; and 2) only by first changing our minds, recognized the literal and metaphorical interconnected nature of all life, will we make the lasting external changes required to create an ecologically sustainable civilization.

Founded in 2003, Post Carbon Institute's mission is to lead the transition to a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable world by providing individuals and communities with the resources needed to understand and respond to the interrelated ecological, economic, energy, and equity crises of the 21st century.

The 12th Five ‐ Year Plan for the Development of National Economy and Society (2011 — 2015)-- The Five ‐ Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development, or the Five ‐ Year Plan aims to create more socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable growth and boost domestic consumption that will begin to re ‐ orientate the Chinese economy away from heavy industry and resource ‐ intensive production towards a more consumption ‐ based and resource ‐ efficient economy.

Climate impact concerns include environmental quality (e.g., more ozone, water - logging or salinisation), linkage systems (e.g., threats to water and power supplies), societal infrastructures (e.g., changed energy / water / health requirements, disruptive severe weather events, reductions in resources for other social needs and maintaining sustainable livelihoods, environmental migration (Box 7.2), placing blame for adverse effects, changes in local ecologies that undermine a sense of place), physical infrastructures (e.g., flooding, storm damage, changes in the rate of deterioration of materials, changed requirements for water or energy supply), and economic infrastructures and comparative advantages (e.g., costs and / or risks increased, markets or competitors affected).

The rebound effect can limit the environmental improvements possible through SCP [sustainable consumption and production] and sustainable products policies and technologies and, in particular, the goal of decoupling resource consumption from economic growth.