Gao is on the front lines of the conflict between economic development and the environment.
Deputy Carolyn Labey, assistant minister for economic development and the department of the environment, said the initiatives would help the island.
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What does it entail: It requires a change of mindset to bring about full integration of the needs for economic and social development with that to conserve the environment.
Keith Crane is director of the RAND Environment, Energy, and Economic Development Program as well as a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School.
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It found that the main drivers for countries to deploy renewable energy are to improve energy security, encourage economic development, and to protect the climate and the environment from the impacts of fossil fuel use.
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We both agree that our two countries share extensive common interests in important matters bearing on the survival and development of mankind, such as peace and development, economic cooperation and trade, the prevention of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and environment protection.
Human economic development must both be balanced with and not alienated from the natural environment.
Lasting progress towards the implementation of the right to development requires effective development policies at the national level, as well as equitable economic relations and a favourable economic environment at the international level.
We believe that the Greater Mekong region has the potential to become a world leader by pursuing an innovative, low carbon, green development pathway that will foster economic growth and create opportunities for its people, while conserving the natural environment.
The United States and Brazil enjoy a vibrant bilateral economic relationship through enhanced trade, investment, and cooperation in the energy infrastructure, environment, and sustainable development arenas.
Ecology and Environment Inc. was hired in 2011 to do an economic analysis of how shale gas development would affect the state.
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.
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