This means building a flexible education system where children practice solving social and environmental challenges.
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In 2010, the environmental challenges we face are global and call for new solutions.
Marine Protected Areas help recover marine environments in order to provide natural solutions to critical environmental challenges.
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New global environmental challenges require us to find ways to work together without damaging legitimate aspirations for progress.
They are learning to leverage environmental challenges, such as a smaller carbon footprint or reduced water usage, for competitive advantage.
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The choices we make whilst meandering between Preston canvasses may be likened to a puzzle of 21st century environmental challenges.
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At the center of all environmental challenges are the humans that affect them and those who are affected by them.
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We recognize that for-profit investment can be both a morally legitimate and economically effective way to address social and environmental challenges.
The world faces a long list of environmental challenges, yet most so-called solutions are either irrelevant or make the real problems worse.
Given the extreme environmental challenges involved, more likely than not, they will.
She stressed the ever greater relevance of heritage protection in times of globalization and social pressures, including fragmentation, as well as urban and environmental challenges.
Yet, producing that energy can create environmental challenges for the world.
And as much as segments of each of these constituencies may want to see action in addressing our serious environmental challenges, far fewer want to change.
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These trends, of course, may be altered by any number of developments, including the possible threats to cities from wars, environmental challenges or other large-scale disruptions.
As we work to leave our children a safe, sustainable future, we must also equip them with the tools they need to take on tomorrow's environmental challenges.
She underlined also the expectations generated by the SESAME Project to encourage scientific cooperation in the Middle East and across the world to face today's global environmental challenges.
Absolutely no energy options are immune from environmental challenges.
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We may believe that we care about the world's deepening environmental challenges and are merely waiting for scientists, environmentalists, politicians and others to come to their senses and implement effective solutions.
"If the huge scale of the environmental challenges facing us is to be addressed, environmental taxes and fiscal incentives will need to play a far larger part that they currently do, " add the MPs.
We are also excited by the growth of impact investing, which aims to address social or environmental challenges while generating financial returns that can range from a return of principal to market-rate financial returns.
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That's a good thing for those of us who love to play golf on other continents, but it doesn't move the world closer to resolving a long list of energy, climate and environmental challenges.
The guide also opens a perspective for the inclusion of environmental management as a whole, the coastal erosion issues being generally part of a set of environmental challenges that local decision-makers have to manage.
Although people in every population come in all shapes and sizes, body types and physiological characteristics follow a Gaussian distribution curve as a result of evolutionary adaptations by our ancestors to extremely varied environmental challenges.
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Prepared by distinguished leaders in business, academia, and science, this report recommends a strengthened partnership between American business and the federal government to step up to the global energy and environmental challenges of the next century.
So with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation, starting in 2007 I began helping to bring together people around the world who share an excitement about the positive role that investment can play in addressing social and environmental challenges.
But the environmental challenges of species protection and human poverty amelioration are only too real, with deforestation occurring at a rate of some 2% per year, at least between 2002 and 2005, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.
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