C. Environmental impact assessment

Political heavyweights in Guangdong still favor a form of development that relies on speed and quantity while ignoring overall environmental quality. And Hong Kong s economic blueprint also focuses on accelerating large infrastructure projects whose environmental impact has not been rigorously examined.

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

Paul and Anne Ehrlich's environmental impact equation population, affluence and technology.

Environmental impact assessments are under way to ensure that all environmental and socio economic issues are managed in a sustainable manner.

The illegal exploitation of Somali forests has had a tremendous negative environmental impact.

Film free cotton planting has achieved high yield, cost savings, environmental protection and improved overall benefits.

Aid harmonization and improved donor coordination overall would increase the effectiveness and impact of interventions.

All those initiatives are expected to have a positive impact on our overall socio economic development.

So you have to ask yourself the environmental impact of, for example, China or India.

(ii) Annex I to the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context, 1991

Overall, the preserve should limit human activities in the area, while focusing on the maintenance of environmental services.

Overall, the preserve should limit human activities in the area, while focusing on the maintenance of environmental services.

Fifteen years ago, the Renault Nissan Alliance evaluated the environmental impact of its vehicles over their life cycle. The study examined the effect of our raw material usage the impact of car exhaust on public health, especially in congested urban areas and the contribution to overall greenhouse gas emissions 23 of which come from the auto industry worldwide.

According to Paul and Anne Ehrlich and a well known environmental impact equation, impact a bad thing is the product of population, affluence and technology.

The successful completion of the electoral process had a positive impact on the overall human rights situation.

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

UNEP emphasizes that logging has an enormous environmental impact, destroying the habitats of many endangered species.

As climate change cuts across other environmental issues, many Parties recognized the benefits of, and emphasized the need for, an integrated approach in dealing with overall environmental issues, including climate change.

Noting with serious concern the dire humanitarian situation and its long term socio economic and environmental impact,

The Antarctic Environmental Officers Network, under the umbrella of the Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programmes, has continued to address environmental monitoring and environmental impact assessment to provide support for individual members' activities in those areas.

Recognizing the negative impact of environmental degradation, including climate change, desertification and loss of biodiversity, on human settlements,

In accordance with the Madrid Protocol, environmental impact assessment procedures have been developed for activities undertaken in Antarctica.

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

The lack of appropriate resources and know how related to environmental assessment leads to sub optimal decision making based on incomplete or inconsistent information about the state of the environmental resources and the impact of environmental policy on development.

Gravely concerned at the negative impact of war on the promotion of the sustainable and overall development of the country,

Here's what the economists there said We find that financial incentives can result in a negative impact on overall performance.

However, the overall impact of the disaster on economic performance in the region in 2005 is likely to be small.

The further stabilization of the situation in Liberia has had a positive impact on the overall situation in the subregion.

(i) Article 2, paragraph 2 of the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context, 1991, General provision

Overall, however, the impact of FDI on Benin's economy had been relatively small due to the limited size of the flows.

Each Party shall take the necessary legal, administrative or other measures to implement the provisions of this Convention, including, with respect to proposed activities listed in Appendix I that are likely to cause significant adverse transboundary impact, the establishment of an environmental impact assessment procedure that permits public participation and preparation of the environmental impact assessment documentation described in Appendix II.

The Contracting Parties shall agree to carry out environmental impact assessment of hazardous activities, and to implement risk reducing measures.

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

The 1999 Guidelines for Environmental Impact Assessment in Antarctica have been revised to ensure that cumulative impacts are explicitly addressed.

14.20 The Executive Director of UNEP has overall responsibility within the United Nations system for providing leadership on environmental policy, assessing the causes and effects of environmental change, identifying emerging issues and catalysing responsive international action.

If any negative impact is considered significant by the project participants or the host Party, project participants have undertaken a socio economic impact assessment and or an environmental impact assessment in accordance with the procedures required by the host Party.

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

The overall decline in donor funding available for technical cooperation activities is also expected to have an impact in the medium term.

Affirms its role to provide overall policy guidance on the use of the Fund to maximize its impact and improve its functioning

Overall, their 2004 public debt situation improved owing to strong economic growth and the positive impact of regional and global interest rates.

The Committee has an umbrella function in providing overall vision, coordination, prioritization and direction in the field of environmental economic accounting and related statistics.

The environmental impact of tourism is heavily influenced by the decisions taken by private sector investors and operators of tourism enterprises.

Many such agreements, and particularly the regional seas conventions require Parties to use planning measures, including environmental impact assessments, to address adverse environmental impacts, and to use their planning systems to promote the objectives of the multilateral environmental agreements to which they are Parties.

Build in mechanisms for developing more synergy between related regional programmes so as to optimize strategic impact of each and achieve overall results.