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

C. Environmental impact assessment

The environmental impact was negligible.

Western technological innovation has focused too little on reducing the adverse environmental impact of growth, and too much on saving labor something that China has in abundance.

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.

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.

Given Europe s fiscal deficits and the economic impact of reducing them, that is a huge potential prize.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

By offering conditional approval of the Keystone XL, Obama could advance the pipeline s very genuine diplomatic and economic benefits, while reducing its environmental costs.

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

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.

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.

At this point, however, there are no indications that Iran is interested in more than reducing external pressure and the impact of the sanctions.

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

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

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