C. Environmental impact assessment

The environmental impact was negligible.

Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment to the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context.

This resulted in reduced fuel consumption and less environmental impact.

Moreover, supporters of alternative energies systematically downplay their negative environmental impact.

Among the main causes are climate change, environmental degradation, increasing levels of vulnerability, inappropriate development patterns and inadequate mitigation and preparedness systems.

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

Emphasizing the responsibility of all States to undertake disaster preparedness and mitigation efforts in order to minimize the impact of disasters,

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

Emphasizing also the responsibility of all States to undertake disaster preparedness and mitigation efforts in order to minimize the impact of natural disasters,

Emphasizing also the responsibility of all States to undertake disaster preparedness and mitigation efforts in order to minimize the impact of natural disasters,

The environmental impact of cloth as compared to disposable diapers has been studied several times.

It reviewed documents about the environmental impact of the dam and visited the dam site.

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

Where the impact will be less than minor or transitory, an initial environmental evaluation is to be prepared. If the impact is likely to be more than minor or transitory, a comprehensive environmental evaluation must be carried out.

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 Belo Monte hydroelectric power plant has 21 suits, many of them questioning its environmental impact.

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.

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

The concept of security should encompass not only war between States, terrorism and violence within states but also poverty, infectious diseases, environmental degradation and disaster prevention and mitigation.

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.

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.

It cooperates with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, other conventions, and related organizations engaged in climate change impact assessment, systematic observation and mitigation of climate change.

Prevention and mitigation

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

The environmental impact of the road is another issue sparking protests , particularly among Bolivia s urban and middle classes.

Xenon vented into the atmosphere is being returned to its original source, so no environmental impact is likely.

There are variations in the care of cloth diapers that can account for different measures of environmental impact.

In late October 2010 the San Luis Obispo Department Planning and Building released a Draft Environmental Impact report.

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

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.

Environmental issues are of paramount importance in marginal countries because their impact on human survival is immediate and direct.

These factors can alleviate the environmental and financial impact from manufacture, sale and use of brand new reusable diapers.

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

Climate Change 2001 Mitigation.

And Hong Kong s economic blueprint also focuses on accelerating large infrastructure projects whose environmental impact has not been rigorously examined.

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

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

Recognizing national and regional efforts to undertake disaster preparedness, response and mitigation efforts to minimize the impact of natural disasters, and reiterating the responsibility of all States in that regard,

The United Nations continues to develop joint and comprehensive approaches to HIV AIDS, including in the areas of prevention, treatment, care, the fight against discrimination and the mitigation of impact.

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.

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.

Radiation mitigation and standard setting

Premier Wen Jiabao has stayed the construction of a number of dams until environmental and social impact assessments could be undertaken.