For as well as posing environmental risks, a gas boom would bring an important environmental benefit.
The goal should be to secure the largest possible environmental benefit at the lowest economic cost.
Encouraging drillers to use this water to frack natural gas wells brings obvious environmental benefit.
Developing an internationally agreed mechanism to certify the environmental benefit would also help, says Mark Lyra, of Cosan.
The panel judged the finalists according to their impact on 20 criteria, from poverty alleviation to environmental benefit.
However Mr Weight believes demolition would be a waste of time and "remove any environmental benefit it has created".
The environmental benefit of this technology goes beyond developing a more biodegradable plastic.
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They are much more efficient at converting plant matter into edible tablefare than livestock, so there is an environmental benefit as well.
Elin Jones AM stressed the need to develop forests so that they deliver environmental benefit and economic return so that they're not "a stagnant resource".
Environmental business should benefit from greener regulations.
We are supposed to be here to represent all Americans, and Americans benefit from environmental regulation big time.
The plan would see three airports of a similar size competing with each other and spreading the economic benefit and environmental impact, he said.
Also to his credit, he has insisted on applying cost-benefit analysis to environmental legislation.
The Refresh Project harnesses social media tools to empower communities to support projects that benefit social and environmental causes.
The projects are: rigorous enforcement of trade rights, formulation of a national industrial strategy, cost-benefit testing of environmental rules, and reorganization of the space exploration program.
Many of those homes are going to be older and in need of an environmental or green retrofit that could benefit the sustainable products industry.
Travellers who do visit Belize, whether on a cruise or on a longer stay, can do their part to minimize their environmental harm and maximize their economic benefit.
Even his decision to ditch some of his predecessor's last-minute environmental regulations owed more to cost-benefit analysis than to ideology.
Ford assumed virtually all Rouge's health care and pension benefit costs and covered Rouge for legacy environmental liabilities through 2009.
In practical terms, it means that you have to take economic cost-benefit trade-offs into account in environmental laws, and keep environmental trade-offs in mind with economic development.
On the other, the model legislation requires that benefit corporations report on their overall social and environmental performance and make them available to the public, using a third-party evaluator.
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Projects would need to have a clear public benefit, meet rigorous economic, technical, and environmental standards, and be backed by a dedicated revenue stream.
That is why the next wave of environmental policymaking will need to employ commonsense tools such as cost-benefit analysis, and make greater use of flexible, market-based instruments such as emissions-trading, rather than the tired command-and-control approach favoured by most greens.
The logical implication of this cost-benefit calculus is that solar energy should receive considerably less support from environmental advocates than more mundane technologies like combined heat-and-power or district energy.
One big concern is that businesses might adopt the term "benefit corporation" for marketing purposes without taking meaningful steps to address social and environmental concerns.
But as social entrepreneurship gains momentum across the U.S., supporters of state benefit-corporation laws are clashing over how strictly entrepreneurs should be held to their social and environmental missions.
The only people who really seem to benefit are the farmers who grow the crops and seed companies who provide the seeds, while there are environmental risks that affect us all.
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