Sentences with phrase «unintended environmental consequences»

Bill Nye Shows Us Where Our Stuff Comes From, And Where It Goes Hosted by perennial TreeHugger favorite Bill Nye, Stuff Happens will delve into the secrets of the everyday things around us that we take for granted: What goes into making them, what goes into us when we use them, and what are some unintended environmental consequences associated with them.

In the face of mounting support for clean coal and the billions being invested in carbon capture and storage, or C.C.S., technology, a new assessment from the University of Toronto's Munk Center for International Studies has a stern warning for policy - makers: there could be dramatic unintended environmental consequences to sequestering huge amounts of carbon dioxide in the earth's mantle.

Not exact matches

The Conservatives» demonization of carbon - pricing regimes and dilatory environmental policy has had the unintended consequence of stalling the United States» approval of the Keystone XL pipeline between Alberta and the Gulf Coast, Trudeau says.

But the environmental price tag of biofuels now joins the ranks of other, cheaper domestic fuel sources — such as coal - to - liquid fuel — as major sources of globe - warming pollution as well as unintended social consequences.

Roger Pielke, a senior research scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder, noted that offsetting or mitigating humanity's impacts on the world often carries unintended consequences.

The issues highlighted in the document include: reconnect science and policy, catalyze rapid and transformative changes in human behavior towards the environment, develop new insights on water - land interactions, accelerate the implementation of environmentally - friendly renewable energy, integrate biodiversity across the environmental and economic agendas, manage the unintended consequences of climate change mitigation and adaptation, and develop a new approach for minimizing risks of novel technologies and chemicals.

But efforts to expand production and use of bioenergy could have unintended economic and environmental consequences.

Researchers from the University of Tennessee wrote: «The evidence that consumers increase energy consumption after being exposed to conservation calls, yet no reduction in generation is observed over critical superpeak hours, is consistent with an emergent body of work in environmental economics exploring the unintended consequences of various policy actions.»

Keeping in mind that windmills are hazardous to birds, be wary of the unintended consequences of the all - knowing environmental lobby groups.