But the project should not go ahead without a detailed consideration of its environmental impacts.
Desalination has increased as the UAE's population has grown, bringing with it other unwanted environmental impacts.
This is an extremely costly, difficult and dangerous process that has potentially harmful environmental impacts.
So is Alcoa, an aluminium producer, which is also attempting to measure its environmental impacts.
In principle, there are three ways of limiting human environmental impacts: through population policy, technology and governance.
Consultant Paula Owen hopes the 12-month study will encourage people to change their behaviour and reduce their environmental impacts.
Kolar is quick to note, however, that there are many environmental impacts being studied, of which noise is only one.
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Returning to the UK, she joined the UKAEA as an energy analyst, modelling alternative strategies for reducing the environmental impacts of energy supply.
This will not only cut down the cost of inputs but it will also reduce the environmental impacts of agriculture.
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While companies may have similar social and environmental impacts, each company will likely need to craft a unique combination of commitments.
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Workers rapidly stopped the leak, no one was injured and state authorities reported that any environmental impacts appeared to be minor.
Activists, the media, customers, shareholders, Gen-Y employees and others are getting good at pressuring companies to take responsibility for environmental impacts.
In fact, investors have become a force in arguing that the economic, social and environmental impacts of business are integrally linked.
If my work is installing solar panels and I do less of it then I doubt that this will reduce environmental impacts.
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We also reduce or avoid the environmental impacts of using virgin materials.
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We stress our concern about the potential environmental impacts of ocean fertilization.
However, little data are available on the environmental impacts associated with insect production, said researcher Dennis Oonincx at Wageningen University in the Netherlands.
They are also responsible for ensuring that suppliers have fair hiring policies and safe working conditions and that environmental impacts are reduced wherever possible.
The system would use satellite communications, robotics and other cutting-edge technologies to produce millions of sushi-quality fish from each pen with no adverse environmental impacts.
The peer reviewed literature contains many more appropriate and valid approaches to assessing health and environmental impacts than the amount of herbicide applied to crops.
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And in addition to its assessment of environmental impacts, the study will also see how global change is affecting the socio-economic conditions of mountain people.
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According to IBM Distinguished Engineer Harry Kolar, noise is one of the many potential environmental impacts of both wave energy and tidal energy currently being studied.
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They must also be accountable for ensuring that their suppliers have fair hiring policies and safe working conditions and that environmental impacts are reduced wherever possible.
"We'll get more information than ever before, " he said, and that can be used to help improve production and profits, and to monitor and reduce environmental impacts.
Global warming is the consequence of consuming fossil fuels to drive economic growth for more than a century without considering the adverse environmental impacts of doing so.
The North York Moors National Park Authority said it would carefully assess the potential economic benefits and the environmental impacts of the mine before reaching any decision.
To discover whether there would be a reduction in environmental impacts thus requires examining the environmental impacts of the same things being produced by household or market labour.
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Until public markets embrace long-term thinking and find ways to ensure that social and environmental impacts are considered more fully, they present the greatest risk to a fair and sustainable economy.
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She has led negotiating teams of investors, NGOs and Fortune 500 company CEOs who have taken far-reaching positions on corporate practices to minimize carbon emissions, water use and other environmental impacts.
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