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

C. Environmental impact assessment

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

Many now routinely monitor and report on their environmental impact. Some are even starting to organize around new industrial concepts such as the circular economy, which focuses on reducing waste through multiple rounds of recycling.

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

The result of this was that public policies had a limited impact on reducing poverty.

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.

These eight goals range from eradicating extreme poverty, providing universal primary education, and reducing health threats, to ensuring environmental sustainability.

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

However these have yet to have an appreciable positive impact on reducing the disparity between rural and urban areas.

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.

Working in conjunction with risk management software, the sensor system was reducing the risk of potential environmental contamination from hydrocarbon spillage.

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.

Many representatives reported in detail on their Governments' efforts and achievements in reducing the impact of drug abuse and trafficking.

There is a general consensus that TNC performance can have a positive impact in reducing poverty in host developing countries.

The Secretary General transmitted to the General Assembly the overview of the final report of the Millennium Project (A 59 727), which stated that reducing gender inequality is essential for reducing hunger, containing HIV AIDS, promoting environmental sustainability, upgrading slums and reducing child and infant mortality.

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.

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

Support from the Global Fund will have a positive impact on programme actions and on reducing the incidence and prevalence of the disease.

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.

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.

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.

The International Disaster Reduction Strategy, should become a pillar of United Nations activities for reducing the severe and ever growing impact of natural disasters.

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 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.

The new arrangements maximize the impact of expenditures and improve service by streamlining administration, reducing overlap and directing resources to lower income Canadians in need.

Such statements should clarify the significance of forests and the forest sector for reducing poverty, contributing to national economic growth and conserving key environmental services and values.

Realizing the need to undertake a thorough, independent and comprehensive assessment of the social, environmental and cultural impact of globalization on societies,

On January 1, 2016, the current pollutant discharging unit which obtained environmental impact assessment shall be exempt from expenditure of compensated use.

Five courses have been offered, namely, water supply technology, hotel management, infectious paediatric nursing, environmental impact assessment and integrated coastal zone management.

The results of the three evaluations provided additional information on the impact of decentralization and its effect in promoting equity and reducing disparities across the region.

Reducing road traffic injuries is important to the successful achievement of several of the Millennium Development Goals, particularly those related to poverty, child mortality reduction and environmental sustainability.

Such measures are no regret' in that they can often reduce production cost and waste with economic as well as environmental benefits in addition to reducing GHG emission.

Realizing further the need to undertake a thorough, independent and comprehensive assessment of the social, environmental and cultural impact of globalization on societies,

Realizing further the need to undertake a thorough, independent and comprehensive assessment of the social, environmental and cultural impact of globalization on societies,