"I think there's no question that the environment impacts on everybody, whether it's schooling or housing or hospitals, " she said.
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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Working at the interface of science and environmental policy she will bring together long term data sets on biodiversity, the environment and human impacts to explore spatiotemporal patterns of ecosystem functioning and help identify where conservation attention needs to focus in the future.
Nissan approached Natural Capital because it wanted to do a check on its supply chain and how it impacts the environment.
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And so the issues around quality education are present in New Orleans in a dramatic way, but those are also present in any major urban city in the country - issues around health, issues around, kind of, your relationship to your environment, how it impacts you, how you impact it -all of that is present in New Orleans.
While spraying has had negative impacts on the environment it has lead to a decrease in long standing coca plantations.
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But those who embrace this new investment framework stand to achieve double-bottom line results in the form of strong financial, as well as socially meaningful, returns that yield positive impacts on the environment and on communities around the world.
TransCanada filed its application in 2008, and State determined in 2010 and then again last year that the project would have "no significant impacts" on the environment, following exhaustive studies.
Are you perhaps taking issue with the governments of eight Arctic countries, in that you and your institute do not believe that the Arctic environment requires protection from the potentially detrimental impacts of human activities?
In response, she channelled the simmering debate to educate the public on the impacts of human actions on the environment.
In another report, on the public acceptability of incineration, the society says: "There remain concerns, both about other impacts of incinerators on the local environment, and about their place in the national waste hierarchy" (the choice of waste disposal methods).
For example, work in the field of epigenetics demonstrates that environment can have a profound influence on how DNA impacts biology.
Second, although the amount (weight) of herbicides applied has increased in recent years, that parameter is a poor measure of impacts on human health or the natural environment.
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The reports said the proposal "would not give rise to any undue impacts with regard to pollution, the water environment, the amenity of nearby residential properties and businesses".
This was the precursor of all subsequent annual CSR reporting and the first time a company felt compelled to state, not only their financial performance, but also the non-financial impacts their operations had on the communities and the environment where they operated.
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He said this would include reducing human impacts, increasing biodiversity and improving the quality of the environment.
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An international team of researchers and scientists has been studying the impacts of the oil spill on the region's people and environment.
In 1982, Sandia National Laboratories simulated the impacts of a catastrophic accident at nuclear power plants on the surrounding environment for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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The members raised concerns about the detrimental impacts of turbines and pylons on the mid Wales landscape, the environment, the tourism industry and the transport and transmission networks.
In my experience, the most successful long term impacts of space changes are achieved when a few things happen along with environment alterations.
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No, dietary habits, environment, genetics, and a myriad other factors come together to form a complex matrix that impacts our weight.
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"With one in six homes at risk of flooding, the most important step people can take in protecting themselves from the worst impacts is to find out if they are at risk, and sign up to the Environment Agency's free flood warnings service, " said Mr Fox.
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