Sentences with phrase «weak enforcement»

However, slow implementation, numerous exceptions and weak enforcement led to continued use.

This breakdown of societal taboos against lemur hunting, a study now shows, combined with weak enforcement of wildlife laws, is contributing to a rise in illegal lemur poaching in the country.

Lax oversight and weak enforcement negatively impacts public confidence and is not the way to a strong mining industry in B.C.»

«Despite the fact that cyanide fishing is nominally illegal in virtually all Indo - Pacific countries, the high premium paid for live reef fish, weak enforcement capacities, and frequent corruption have spread the use of the poison across the entire region — home o the vast majority of the planet's coral reefs,» reports WRI.

«Public access to these records is especially important given the USDA's shamefully weak enforcement of the federal Animal Welfare Act,» adds Bershadker.

The exchange is «self - regulated» by lawyers and accountants who profit from the companies they put on the market, and has a history of weak enforcement against those who break its rules.

In a country where weak enforcement and a lack of public participation threatens environmental monitoring, corporate transparency — and the accountability to the public they promote — can play a crucial role in reducing local pollution.

Greenpeace also blamed weak enforcement of the law and ambiguities within the regulation itself.

«While it has been shown that deforestation rates are lower in protected areas than in certain non-protected areas in Indonesia, mounting demands for timber and agricultural products along with weak enforcement are changing this situation, resulting in illegal logging and agricultural encroachment within Indonesia's protected areas,» said Asst Prof Cook.

What's more, insurers added as much as 20 percentage points to their requested premium increases due to uncertainty surrounding federal payments that the Trump administration has threatened to end and weak enforcement of Obamacare's mandate that people carry insurance, according to KFF.

Competition between highly subsidized industrial fishing fleets coupled with poor regulation and weak enforcement of existing rules has led to over-exploitation of most commercially valuable fish stocks, reducing the income from global marine fisheries by US$ 50 billion annually, compared to a more sustainable fishing scenario (World Bank and FAO 2009).

The industrial scale logging supported by SFM has proven to be difficult if not impossible to regulate since most countries which stand to benefit from REDD suffer from poor legal frameworks, weak enforcement, and corruption involving political elites and the logging industry.

This is by far is one of the weakest enforcement mechanisms in the EU system, especially in the absence of any real sanctions.

Beside killing brain cells over the long term the use of and production of weed affects the real estate industry in a very negative way thanks to our lax laws and weak enforcement of those same said laws.