Eco-towns, intended to tackle the twin problems of housing shortages and climate change, have to be carbon zero as a whole, be an "exemplar" in one area of environmental development and have at least 30% affordable housing.
Participants were provided with training materials in Urdu, as well as editorial tips and information about social, environmental and development issues.
Its goals are to overcome the isolation of small islands by providing their citizens, particularly young people, with opportunities to voice their opinions on environmental and development issues in a variety of ways: radio, television, print and Internet-based debate.
The governmental National Network of Centres for Education for Environmental and Sustainable Development (EESD) is a supportive structure of the actions applied at schools and in other sites of formal education.
Women have a vital role in environmental management and development.
UNESCO-Gas Natural Chair in Environmental Management and Sustainable Development (148) - Mohamed V University - established in 1997.
The region faces a number of problems including a lack of economic development, environmental pollution, and military conflicts.
It has cross-cutting responsibilities in the areas of trade, technology, entrepreneurship, economic development, environmental stewardship, tourism and statistical research and analysis.
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In a separate development, environmental health officers from Dungannon Council are investigating the illegal dumping of tonnes of material in County Tyrone.
With this approval, the BLNR has recognized TMT's goal of responsible development and environmental stewardship of Mauna Kea in close partnership with local interests.
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That might indicate to an objective observer that claims of widespread public clamor for disclosure by environmental and anti-development groups might be somewhat overblown.
The ongoing study on the environmental impact of industrial development around Lumbini was also reviewed and the final findings of the study will be shared later.
With population a key influence on the environment, UNFPA says the 1994 Cairo conference on population and development linked environmental protection to individual decision-making and human rights.
Peace, development and environmental protection are interdependent and indivisible.
That 4, 000-year-old culture sits at the border between wise development and environmental anarchy, and the people of America's polar county will soon watch with hope and fear as the oil ships move north.
He is also the founder of Instituto-E, a non-profit organization in Rio de Janeiro promoting sustainable human development through its e-brigaders, groups of young people working for sustainable development, environmental protection and social inclusion.
"We need a new approach to address the critical challenges of global environmental change and sustainable development which is more interdisciplinary, more international, more collaborative and more responsive to the users of research", said Prof.
Falling in line with SIV's mandate, the objective of the committee is to voice the concerns of youth specifically and in extension the wider general public on environmental issues and sustainable development at the national, regional and global level.
Most of the thematic areas support the development of the tourist industry and some are related to food, languages (English, Spanish and French), sales and customer services, receptionist duties, leisure and entertainment, tourist guide activities, environmental education, community development and computer programmes, among others.
Examples include the integration of environmental criteria into lending and investment strategy and the development of new products that provide environmental businesses with easier access to capital.
She will hold bilateral meetings with Member States on culture and development and international environmental governance.
Krahenbuhl advises travelers to look for schemes that meet internationally-accepted criteria that include high environmental as well as community development requirements.
In this role, Jones helped to lead the inter-agency process that oversaw the multi-billion dollar investment in skills training and jobs development within the environmental and green energy sectors.
The goal of such efforts is to contribute to the achievement of the Millenium Development Goals on Environmental Sustainability, Water Supply, Sanitation, Food Security and Poverty Alleviation.
This story and others also invariably contain quotes from environmental groups or anti-development activists who complain about the trade secret protection clause in the Texas law, but who also have expressed longtime support for a proposed federal law commonly referred to as the FRAC Act.
The piece highlights the tension between such objectives and simultaneous concerns about the environmental and climate impacts of energy development.
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At the beginning of this century, China began taking steps to mitigate the harmful environmental impact of its rapid economic development.
And the Western Energy Alliance estimates that environmental approval for the average energy development initiative takes over seven years.
Around half the 67bn Euro European Union structural fund allocation to the country is being spent on road development, sanitation and environmental improvements.
They also inked a dozen other agreements, some of which merely reaffirmed earlier commitments on nuclear power, environmental protection and cooperation in energy development.
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