C. Environmental impact assessment

6. Environmental impact indicators

(g) Preparing environmental impact assessments.

1. measures of ultimate environmental impact

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

The use of environmental impact assessment, where appropriate

Such policies were followed up through a monitoring and evaluation programme for reviewing their social and environmental impact.

1987 As member, UNEP Working Group of Legal Experts on Environmental Law environmental impact assessment.

development of generic environmental impact EPIs, e.g., global warming indicators

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

Their long term negative social, economic and environmental effects cannot be overestimated, especially in relation to their impact on vulnerable groups in developing countries, including small islands.

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

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.

Habitat fragmentation by large reservoirs is an additional environmental impact of hydropower schemes.

Education in environmental preservation and sustainable farming systems had made a significant impact.

An environmental impact assessment of the proposed launch site is to be conducted.

EMS are based on a set of voluntary rules that companies can adhere to in order to better control the environmental impact of their activities on the basis of self determined environmental policies and objectives.

Researchers working on the project are paying particular attention to the impact of environmental regulation and to the environmental strategies of firms.

Governments should have as their objective to ensure that trade and environmental policies are mutually supportive so as to achieve sustainable development in so doing, their environmental policies and measures with a potential trade impact should not be used for protectionist purposes

Governments should have as their objective to ensure that trade and environmental policies are mutually supportive so as to achieve sustainable development in so doing, their environmental policies and measures with a potential trade impact should not be used for protectionist purposes

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.

Environmental impact assessment techniques should also take into account the ecological footprints of cities.

The objective of the project is to produce a textbook on environmental impact assessment methodologies that can be used for training developing country professionals involved in the preparation of the environmental impact assessment of development projects.

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

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

In addition, there was an increased awareness of the environmental impact of various development activities.

The comments and suggestions concerned indicators relating to Convention implementation, benchmarks and environmental impact indicators.

Support for the preparation of a new code of environmental and environmental impact assessment law has been continued by both UNDP and the World Bank.

Small island developing States are located among the most vulnerable regions in the world in relation to the intensity and frequency of natural and environmental disasters and their increasing impact, and face disproportionately high economic, social and environmental consequences.

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.

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.

Meanwhile, many of these gases need to be curbed because of their wider environmental impact on public health, agriculture, and the planet s multi trillion dollar ecosystems, including forests.

The fields of impact assessment which have particular relevance to United Nations concerns have been environmental impact assessment and, to a much lesser extent, technology assessment.

Convinced of the necessity of developing uniform approaches to the establishment of ecological safety systems, including procedures for environmental impact assessments, ecological impact studies and monitoring,

The report analyses several environmental case studies, and shows the impact of environmental pollution and degradation on the equal effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms.

(e) Environmental monitoring, including air water pollution monitoring preparation of environmental impact assessments (EIA) epidemiological studies (breeding grounds of disease bearing insects) and monitoring of mining environments related to requirements of environmental clearance certificates (ECC)

Some of the reports under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women contain brief references to environmental issues and their impact on women's rights.

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

The comments and suggestions concerned indicators related to Convention implementation, benchmarks and environmental impact indicators in general.

Greater use of environmental impact assessments should be considered in settlements development, particularly in ecologically sensitive areas.

(e) quot Environmental Impact Assessment Process in Petroleum Industry Activities quot (Lima, Peru, 21 25 February 1994)

MGB is conducting a post spill impact assessment in coordination with the Environmental Management Bureau. South Africa