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

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.

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

This resulted in reduced fuel consumption and less environmental impact.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

7. Deplores the environmental degradation caused by Israeli air strikes against power plants in Lebanon and their adverse impact on the health and well being of children and other civilians

There is first the problem of environmental damage caused to the land of indigenous peoples, with an impact on the enjoyment of their land rights and with implications for a wide variety of their personal rights.

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.

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

(ix) Ensure that, for the implementation of new technologies, a careful risk benefit analysis of their impact on the specific environmental and socio economic conditions of a country is a mandatory prerequisite

How would their lives be different? Their impact?

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.

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.

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

This is one of the causes for concern over the environmental impact of the use of these fuels as power sources.

The environmental impact of tourism is heavily influenced by the decisions taken by private sector investors and operators of tourism enterprises.

Their impact is already being felt.

The improvement of the environmental impact and image of enterprises, and the quality enhancement of their products achieved as a result of UNIDO's MP activities, will assist these companies in maintaining and developing their markets and sustaining employment generation and economic growth in their countries.