When integrated into modern disaster risk management schemes, traditional management techniques have proven to be efficient and cost-effective tools to mitigate environmental risks and reduce vulnerability.
To minimise the environmental risks, the pipeline is to be buried, and to follow existing rights of way.
Investors, too, demand quarterly performance and generally fail to examine how companies are preparing to manage climate and other environmental risks or even to exploit promising opportunities in clean energy innovation that are our best defense against catastrophic climate change impacts.
In the past, that has applied to, say, environmental risks or lawsuits, but not to political risk or national security.
For example, the the G2A2, an alliance of CEOs committed to addressing climate and environmental risks, will launch the Green Investment Report with precisely the goal of "unlocking finance for green growth".
Investors are mightily interested how well companies manage risks related to environmental and social challenges.
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The reasons are many, with the largest ones being the long lag time to production, environmental concerns and political risks, as well as the fact that increased commodity costs means higher capital costs required to explore and develop mines.
For all the attention given to technologies like horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, some of the greatest gains to be made in reducing the environmental risks of natural-gas production come from simple things like the proper pouring of cement well casings and the proper handling of chemicals and wastewater, so that they do not spill or seep into streams or water supplies.
The planning is entirely locked-in to defending and extending what the industry has always done, even if it means extending known risks, environmental concerns and creating higher rates to cover generation and transmission expansion and maintenance.
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It is worth noting that shale exploration onshore requires much higher prices to be profitable and has its own environmental risks.
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It means CEOs and top management must educate themselves about these risks and opportunities and put their companies in a position to adapt and succeed in a world of growing environmental and other sustainability risks.
On its Web site, the fund scolds corporate managers for not disclosing to shareholders the risks and costs of more environmental regulation, which many corporations have supported.
The study was actually conducted in and reported on air pollution in Boston, but it pointed out that air quality levels even below current standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency still pose risks to people who breathe particulate air pollution.
Opponents warn that fracking is an environmental disaster waiting to happen, citing, among other risks, air and water pollution, the release of radiation and cancer-causing substances, and the acceleration of global climate change as methane and other greenhouse gases escape during fracking.
Environmental risks are not the only sort that that cause rationality to be put to one side.
Big business -- namely, the gas industry -- is aggressively objecting to the allegation in "Promised Land" that fracking poses environmental and health risks.
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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