And let's face it, the contract from a major multinational brand to a supplier in India or China has much more persuasive value than the local labor law, the local environmental regulations, the local human rights standards.

In fact, it would be a mistake for Japan to roll back its environmental regulations, or its health and safety regulations.

These regulations called for local ization, including hiring local workers, respecting local customs, and adhering to safety norms.

Environmental organizations can be global, national, regional or local.

Skeptics might add that China s cost advantage also includes circumventing environmental and social regulations.

For example, a loan to improve coastal environmental management may be linked to development of new environmental institutions at national and local levels and the implementation of new regulations to limit pollution, or not, such as in the World Bank financed constructions of paper mills along the Rio Uruguay in 2006.

(b) A description of a programme for oceanographic and environmental baseline studies in accordance with the Regulations and any environmental rules, regulations and procedures established by the Authority that would enable an assessment of the potential environmental impact of the proposed exploration activities, taking into account any recommendations issued by the Legal and Technical Commission

Much of politics in China is local, but little of environmental protection is.

Romney vows an economically balanced approach that would reform Obama s major health care, environmental, and financial services regulations.

Depending on local and national regulations, a commuter aircraft may not qualify as an airliner and may not be subject to the regulations applied to larger aircraft.

Regulations at the local level tend to be stricter than those at the federal or state level.

The objectives and motivation of decentralization vary, but can include efficiency, local development, improved forest management, empowerment of local people, equity, and environmental security.

Special regulations for multiplex cinemas should be considered in order to ensure that local products are distributed for exhibition.

This has also led to environmental degradation, and loss of resources that could otherwise benefit local communities.

It is important to ensure that destination management organizations include representatives of local environmental and community interests.

Some talk about deregulation a word that has rightly fallen into disrepute following the global financial crisis. In fact, it would be a mistake for Japan to roll back its environmental regulations, or its health and safety regulations.

These regulations can be found at the federal, state and local levels, and usually apply to domestic and foreign operators alike.

Evidence from India and Nepal suggests that women s involvement in decision making is associated with better local environmental management.

Drawing on local knowledge could help in choosing technologies that are suitable from both an environmental and cultural perspective.

Enhanced community participation in environmental management, empowerment of CBOs and strong local initiatives have been encouraged by the Convention.

The tightening of environmental regulations in industrialized countries in the late 1980s led to a dramatic rise in the cost of hazardous waste disposal there.

Practice shows that local levels of government provide the most efficient water management, even if regulations must necessarily be national in scope.

Yet at the same time, the corporate sector lobbies aggressively to gut environmental regulations, slash corporate tax rates, and avoid their own responsibility for ecological destruction.

There is a paradox here while China s central government is trying to provide national environmental leadership, local governments have often resisted.

In the US, Environmental Protection Agency fines can tax the local economy up to 30 years after the site has closed.

In some places, local people derive income from ecosystem services, such as ecotourism or environmental protection, but this is not common.

With the creation of an environmental secretariat and the cooperation of local Governments and civil society, we have successfully implemented environmental programmes, although we have a great deal more to do in that sector.

It would be important to develop water legislation and regulations to manage competing water demands at the river basin, catchment, aquifer and local levels.

This can bring the benefits of better synergy among other environmental goals because this ministry is often charged to deal with other local and global environmental issues, such as pollution control, biodiversity, desertification and ozone depletion.

Islamic banking, for example, may soon be introduced, though some local and foreign investors argue that sharia regulations could drive away much needed foreign investment.

It is increasingly recognized that integrated planning of tourism development, linked to environmental management, can be most effective within clearly identified local destinations.

IES engages developing countries in building support for integrated planning both to address local environmental concerns and to reduce associated global GHG emissions.

But now they also challenge the shoddy governance and corruption that allow dam construction to proceed unchecked, without environmental impact assessments, as local officials siphon off resettlement funds and ignore the claims of local villagers.

In order to promote and strengthen mutual confidence in economic, environmental and human dimensions the Member States may adopt the following measures in accordance with their national laws and regulations

Concrete example. The Unión General de Trabajadores and the Confederación Sindical de Comisiones Obreras are cooperating with local environmental councils and local government to raise awareness about urban transport and to generate worker and workplace centred solutions.

For example, both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Environmental Protection Agency work in close collaboration with State and local governments and NGOs to sponsor and participate in national and local beach clean ups.

Now, with the Party s ability to manage the economy seemingly at stake, its stimulus package implies a green light to bypass environmental regulations if jobs or growth targets are in jeopardy.

It was expected that all environmental legislation would have been reconciled with European Union regulations by the end of 2009 and that it would be fully enforced between 2010 and 2014.

Yet in the face of opposition from local ethnic Kachin and environmental and political activists, former President Thein Sein suspended the project in September 2011.

United Kingdom In the United Kingdom, the Information Commissioner's Office is responsible for regulating compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998, Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004.

Worse, the mines displacement of residents, underpayment of workers, and environmental damage have generated resentment in local communities, which is likely to grow in the future.

Yet they render invaluable services, in terms of preservation of agro and biodiversity, local communities resilience to price shocks or weather related events, and environmental conservation.

Governments may be able to mobilize funding through debt swaps, where donors exchange debt for local currency investment in environmental protection, such as waste water treatment.

The final pillar is the government services supply chain, by which central and local officials affect every link of production, logistics, and financial networks through regulations, taxes, or permits.

In a report published by the Kommunenes Internasjonale Miljoorganisasjon, Local Authorities International Environmental Organisation (KIMO) based in Shetland, United Kingdom, it was estimated that the annual cleaning cost to 56 local communities in the United Kingdom was US 3.9 million.