The European Parliament is under pressure from green activists who want hard biomass targets, which measure the largest maximum sustainable yield (MSY) - or largest catch - by weight.
Under the new proposals, the EU will shift from the current bargaining over quotas - a system often attacked by environmental groups - to fishing based on "maximum sustainable yield" (MSY).
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"I'd rather trade off a little bit of current dividend yield for sustainable dividend growth, " says Chuck Carlson, editor of DRIP Investor.
Years of effort and hundreds of millions of dollars in investment have failed to yield truly sustainable forestry systems because conventional logging remains financially more attractive.
"A high payout in the European telecom sector is nowadays more a danger signal that the dividend yield is not sustainable, " he adds.
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The process of steering public finances toward a sustainable path long term interest rates (the yield on gilts) would have been delayed .
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But it warned that savings in some areas were less sustainable than others, pointing out that the yield from the advertising controls and re-negotiation with suppliers was lower than the year before.
Certainly Dr Brundtland's previous assembly of wise folk, the World Commission on Environment and Development, did much to persuade companies and countries that investing in sustainable development was not just good for the environment, but might yield economic returns too.
With a yield this high, it is legitimate to ask: is the dividend sustainable?
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