56. Mitigating the social and environmental impact of refugees on host countries.

The strategy adopted concentrated on fighting the pest, and insufficient attention was given to mitigating the impact of the infestation on local livelihoods and the environment.

This in itself requires massive efforts to develop and deploy effective mechanisms required to mitigate and, ideally, reverse the adverse impact on our environment.

In an effort to mitigate the degradation of environment resulting from the presence of refugees in Côte d apos Ivoire and Guinea, a four year environment rehabilitation programme for refugee affected areas has been initiated by UNHCR in 1997.

28. The Department of Mines and Energy indicated that it was focusing on neutralizing, or at least mitigating environmental impacts from the mining sector.

The Environmental Effect of Tsunamis

Governments must minimize environmental degradation by ensuring that comprehensive and robust environmental impact assessments and audits are conducted for proposed and existing tourism activities.

(c) Joint implementation projects shall bring about real, measurable and long term environmental benefits related to the mitigation of climate change, whilst avoiding adverse environmental and social effects.

We are also pleased with the emphasis placed on environmental sustainability and on the urgent necessity to undertake global action to mitigate the effects of climate change.

Impact of disasters on development

reporting success in achieving emissions reduction targets relating emissions to significant environmental impacts ( quot environmental footprint quot )

The energy policy requires energy services to be supplied not only at the minimum price but also with the minimum impact on the environment.

In view of the major environmental constraints, sectoral and intersectoral policies and actions must be promoted in order to reduce the environmental impact of the natural resource sectors. Those may include the following

mitigate the effects of drought

1. measures of ultimate environmental impact

Deeply concerned by the slow and insufficient progress in providing access to basic sanitation services, and conscious of the impact of the lack of sanitation on people's health, poverty reduction and economic and social development, and on the environment, in particular water resources,

(d) Effects on human health and the environment

Impact of the international economic environment on poverty

Where the impact will be less than minor or transitory, an initial environmental evaluation is to be prepared.

These facilities are planned to use fossil fuels that have been processed to lessen environmental impact.

And we're all concerned about energy and the environment.

But this has a huge, huge impact on the environment.

Negative impacts of tourism on the environment include

Describe environmental negative impacts effects in detail

They have no impact on the environment.

6. Humanitarian activities take place in a political environment and thus are affected by and affect that environment.

There will be a large number of environmental affects impacting on a weapon as it experiences the various environments in its life cycle.

There is broad consensus among scientists that the scientific understanding of the ongoing climate change is sufficient to warrant taking urgent action in order to mitigate the impact of future climate change, including both the environmental impacts and the socio economic consequences.

The European Commission has been an important source of financing for Chernobyl efforts, particularly for research into the health and environmental effects of the accident and their mitigation, and activities aimed at improving nuclear safety.

Impacts on human health and the environment

b. Environmental hazard detection and mitigation

(iv) Mitigating the social and economic impact of the epidemic

D. Mitigating social and economic impacts

(b) Erosion of preferences for the least developed countries Assessment of effects and mitigating options

(a) Environmental impacts of energy use

72. Since environmental problems transcended national borders, a global appraisal should be undertaken with a view to reducing negative effects on the environment throughout the world.

C. Environmental impact assessment

6. Environmental impact indicators

Fine. We don't want a lasting environmental impact.

Moreover, the activities of the Convention were aimed at reducing environmental damage and poverty and improving the lives of those who were adversely affected by desertification.

It was also suggested that it might be useful to refer in those paragraphs to the fact that, in some countries, it was found useful to provide for some public participation in the preliminary assessment of the environmental impact of a project and the various options available to minimize that impact.

36. The Forum expressed its concern over the potential environment effects from the proposed sea launch project and called for a comprehensive environmental impact assessment of the proposal to be undertaken.

The effects of environmental damage often continue to be felt long after refugees leave the affected area.

If the impact is likely to be more than minor or transitory, a comprehensive environmental evaluation must be carried out.

1.4 Effects of the space debris environment on the operation of space systems