Sentences with phrase «sustainable economic system»

Basically, it's just another way to describe the worrisome fact that many energy companies are hoarding oil and gas, despite the rest of the world's effort to move to a more environmentally sustainable economic system.

He traces population growth and economic development patterns related to fisheries and concludes that sustainable fisheries can only exist within a sustainable economic system.

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Many countries are living on economic life support systems that are not sustainable economically or politically.

The PFRA pasture system is internationally renowned as one of the best examples of multi-purpose land management, providing both sustainable economic benefit and environmental conservation.

The idea of shifting to a different economic system, one that would meet human needs on a sustainable basis, is viewed as naive and utopian.

To establish organic agriculture as an important tool in sustainable food production, the factors limiting organic yields need to be more fully understood, alongside assessments of the many social, environmental and economic benefits of organic farming systems.

FAO seeks better economic opportunities for all by investing in sustainable agricultural practices and food systems that reduce inequalities and create decent jobs.

Through strong member support, an informed and science - based approach, supply chain collaborations and continuous outreach, The Sustainable Packaging Coalition ® endeavors to build packaging systems that encourage economic prosperity and a sustainable flow ofSustainable Packaging Coalition ® endeavors to build packaging systems that encourage economic prosperity and a sustainable flow ofsustainable flow of materials.

Founded in 1989 in protest of traditional charity models, the organization uses career training, job creation, and sustainable business practices to strengthen local food systems and reduce disparities in health and economic opportunity.

This is an interesting comparison between the taxation systems of the US and Denmark, but how does it answer the question «Has high taxation of the rich ever been sustainable as an economic policy»?

But an economic recovery will not be sustainable «without a stabilization of our financial system and credit markets,» he added.

The company is at the heart of one of the greatest challenges facing our society — to create new, sustainable energy solutions for the future and developing an energy system that underpins economic prosperity in the 21st century.

Pension reform is a key plank of the coalition's economic policy, it has tasked Labour peer Lord Hutton with bringing about a new system for public sector schemes that is sustainable.

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.

Systems thinking is also clear in the three pillars of sustainable development: economic, environmental, and social.

«This tool is designed to help us evaluate a fishery system's performance toward achieving economic, community and ecological sustainability — the «triple bottom line,»» said co-author James Anderson, director of the Institute for Sustainable Food Systems at the University of Florida.

The long - term solution to the problems of poverty and inequality lies in vastly improving our education and training system, in creating jobs and in ensuring rapid and sustainable economic growth.

The entire system characterized by the illusion of an unlimited growth and consumption is not sustainable in a finite world and the economic and social crises we are seeing in the last years are, undoubtedly, worrying signs of crumbling perspectives.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel has proposed two plans to reform the broken pension system and put CPS on sustainable economic footing.

New Entry improves local and regional food systems by training the next generation of farmers to produce food that is sustainable, nutritious, and culturally - appropriate and making this food accessible to individuals regardless of age, mobility, ethnicity, or socio - economic status.

About Blog On Popular Logistics we explore the long - term national security and community security ramifications of energy, environmental, economic, emergency preparedness, and public health policy, and the interrelationships between the people, the companies, and the various systems involved in implementing or holding back the paradigm shift to sustainable models.

This award recognises the implementation of eco-friendly systems and methods and the commitment to principles and practices of social, economic and environmental sustainability.The Real Marina Hotel & Spa, which from an early stage incorporated the concept of sustainable solutions, fulfilled completely all imposed evaluation criteria.

To establish organic agriculture as an important tool in sustainable food production, the factors limiting organic yields need to be more fully understood, alongside assessments of the many social, environmental and economic benefits of organic farming systems.

Current understanding supports the creation of a Sustainable Development Council within the UN system to integrate social, economic and environmental policy at the global level.

Hudson Valley AgriBusiness Development Corporation Executive Director Todd Erling — «Protecting our farmland is a critical step which can support our regional food systems and ensure that our farm families can make a living as viable partners in a sustainable economic future.»

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.

The solar systems provide residents with basic services, remove obstacles to sustainable growth, and create economic opportunities for families and communities.

The need to develop a new ecologically and economically sustainable energy system may take decades to complete, but will not be possible if scientific, technical, economic, and policy innovations — and regional as well as global collaborations — are not developed, shared, and implemented.

Our economic system's need for ever - expanding production, consumption, and profit puts it inherently at odds with any vision for a just, sustainable world.

Carl Obst, Ph.D., Honorary Research Associate, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne Area of Expertise: national accounts, system of environmental - economic accounting (SEEA), official statistics

This activity report consists of a fact sheet presenting UN system's concerted activities to help people and communities in countries, especially those particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change, to manage climate - related risks in their efforts to achieve sustainable socio - economic development.

The solar systems we install provide residents with basic services, remove obstacles to sustainable growth, and create economic opportunities for families and communities.

Among others, we argue for the creation of a new counsel within the U.N. system — a counsel on sustainable development that should better integrate sustainable development changes — the economic, the social, and the environmental pillars of sustainable development at the highest level in the U.N. system.

The Summit's five headline challenge areas are Healthy Energy Systems; Inclusive Economic Growth; Sustainable Communities; Land Stewardship and Transformative Climate Investments

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).

Human engineering is back in the news with a report from UNEP being puffed here http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/20/climate-change-overconsumption Authors Paul Erlich, Bob Watson, James Hansen et al say: «To transition (sic) to a more sustainable future will require simultaneously redesigning the economic system, a technological revolution, and, above all, behavioural change.»

Above all, these supposed modeling experts and climate scientists need to terminate their biases and their evangelism of political agendas that seek to slash fossil fuel use, «transform» our energy and economic systems, reduce our standards of living, and «permit» African and other impoverished nations to enter the modern era only in a «sustainable manner,» as callous elitists often insist.

The Roxas Kalaw Foundation for the Eradication of Poverty (RKF) is non-profit organization in the Philippines which organizes communities and enables them to build ecologically sustainable livelihood systems that accelerate local economic development.

It claims that socially and environmentally sustainable economic development can be realized by adopting an appropriate mix of technologies, policies, and practices that explicitly recognize the inextricable linkages among the environmental systems and the basic human needs.

Transforming our economic system to one based on low - carbon production and consumption can create inclusive sustainable development and reduce inequality.

Looking forward, things to watch include: the impact of economic recovery on commodity prices and agricultural expansion for food and biofuels production; large - scale land acquisition by foreign nations and corporations in tropical countries; climate negotiations and the REDD mechanism, including controversies over land rights, «offsetting», forest definitions, and sustainable forest management; the emergence of payments for ecosystem services beyond REDD; the cap - and - trade versus carbon tax schemes; efforts to address the demand side of deforestation — notably consumption; emerging certification systems for agricultural and forestry products (i.e. RSPO, Aliança da Terra, FSC, etc); and Brazil's progress in meeting its deforestation reduction targets.

Commit to reorienting the planning system so that sustainable development rather than simply economic development is at its heart, requiring all major development plans and planning applications to show how they will contribute to carbon reduction targets.

Socio (s): CBD, IAEA, UNCCD, UNCTAD, UNDESA, UNECLAC, UNHCR, UNU, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Italian Ministry of Environment, Land and Sea, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Aquafed, Conservation International, Global Water Partnership, International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management, International Institute for Advanced Systems Analysis, International Research and Training Center on Erosion and Sedimentation, International Water Association, University of Dundee Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science, World Business Council on Sustainable Development, World Water Council

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.

We've organized the community around ten teams including energy, economic development, education, policy, finance... the point is to do sustainable development as an integrated system («full spectrum»), not as a series of one - off projects, so that the parts reinforce the prosperity and resilience of the whole community.

Develop and promote, as appropriate, cost - effective, more efficient, less polluting and safer transport systems, particularly integrated rural and urban mass transit, as well as environmentally sound road networks, taking into account the needs for sustainable social, economic and development priorities, particularly in developing countries.

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By responding positively to the economic crisis through fiscal stimulus packages which create green jobs and put us on course towards a low carbon development pathway, governments can build a more sustainable and equitable economic system and tackle the climate problem at the same time.

Its new series of core courses is beginning in February, with continuing education classes focusing on principles of sustainable agriculture, including those related to not only food and food systems, but also home energy and water conservation, tools for local economic development and quality of life improvement.

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).