C. Environmental impact assessment

The environmental impact was negligible.

They are ideally positioned to make an impact locally, given their willingness to adopt positive environmental and governance practices and their ability to improve living conditions by creating permanent jobs.

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.

Studies show that the act of communicating positive events was associated with increased positive affect and well being (beyond the impact of the positive event itself).

Such a decision would have a strongly positive economic and geopolitical impact.

These meetings had a positive impact on the functioning of the Tribunal.

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.

Germany s move toward renewable energy is likely to have a much broader positive impact.

I think this will have a positive impact for the Internet users in Iran.

Several cases were mentioned where customs modernization had a significant positive impact on revenue collection.

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.

But the election may well have a more positive impact on the region as a whole.

Member States had witnessed the very positive impact of such programmes on the situation in Liberia.

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

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.

More equitable taxation would have a positive impact on governance, another important tool for mobilizing domestic resources.

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

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

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.

While incineration and landfilling are still practiced, such high recycling rates underscore the positive impact of targeted policies.

However, an increasing body of evidence documents the positive impact of public investment on productivity and economic growth.

These investments are generally welcome, because of the jobs they create and their positive impact on local economies.

The report indicates that the NCB initiative has had a positive impact on low income families with children

The work of the Commission has had a positive impact on the protection and promotion of human rights.

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.

Germany s move toward renewable energy is likely to have a much broader positive impact. A six article series, The German Nuclear Exit, in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist argues that the move away from nuclear energy is already yielding measurable economic and environmental benefits.

With reference to the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, he said the Hyogo Framework for Action would have a considerable positive impact on coordination and would substantially reduce disaster losses, in terms of lives and of the social, economic and environmental assets of communities.

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.

However, barring any major economic bumps, the changes will have a positive impact, as capital allocation becomes more efficient.

That process would have a positive impact on economic development and on the climate for foreign investment in Kosovo.