The 2012 Environmental Performance Index ranks Latvia second, after Switzerland, based on the environmental performance of the country's policies.

The 2012 Environmental Performance Index put Norway in third place, based on the environmental performance of the country's policies.

It is time for policies making ecological integrity supplant environmental devastation.

These policies, however, have far ranging implications across the economic, social and environmental spectrum.

Because several environmental conventions, policies and programmes depend on national self assessment processes and environmental audits, young people highlight the need to be involved in environmental consultations, monitoring and data collection.

Members of environmental NGOs protesting in front of the Iranian Department of Environment showed their dissatisfaction with the environmental policies of the current government.

Promotion of and support for programmes and policies designed to ensure environmental sustainability and protection

Increased technical capacity to incorporate an environmental dimension into the design of economic policies and the innovative use of economic instruments in environmental management, including a better understanding of the uneven effects of such policies on men and women.

In line with the ISO 14001 standard they are developing environmental policies suitable for their organization.

Encourages Member States to continue to incorporate environmental considerations in their developmental policies and to mobilize available financial and institutional resources needed for implemental policies and to mobilize available financial and institutional resources needed for implementing national programs of environmental protection,

Environmental considerations should also be factored into foreign direct investment and trade policies as drivers of development.

In other cases, the effort went into integrating the NAP into the current environmental and social policies.

Switzerland strongly favoured an approach integrating economic, social and environmental policies, at both national and international levels.

Indicator of achievement (d) should read (d) Increased cooperation with UNCTAD, WTO and the multilateral environmental agreement secretariats to promote the mutual support of trade and environmental policies .

At the time, Environmental Policy was a bipartisan issue and the efforts of the United States of America helped spark countries around the world to create environmental policies.

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.

Promote global dialogue and partnership on global policies and trends in the economic, social, environmental and humanitarian fields.

To improve environmental public policies, in contrast with the current economic model, in all of the productive sectors.

International financial institutions and development cooperation agencies should integrate principles of environmental sustainability into their policies and programmes.

Particular social, cultural, economic and environmental factors have a major influence on the success of policies, programmes and projects.

(d) Involving women actively in environmental decision making at all levels, integrating gender concerns and perspectives in policies and programmes for sustainable development, and strengthening or establishing mechanisms at the national, regional and international levels to assess the impact of development and environmental policies on women

That is one reason that businesspeople in so many parts of the world are demanding clear and consistent environmental policies.

Target 9 Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources

One of the major development goals is to ensure environmental sustainability, particularly by integrating the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes, so as to reverse the loss of environmental resources.

The scientific and financial base of UNEP should be strengthened to meet the challenge of integrating environmental sustainability into development policies.

Environment In the period of rapid economic growth after World War II, environmental policies were downplayed by the government and industrial corporations as a result, environmental pollution was widespread in the 1950s and 1960s.

The services related to POPs will focus on building institutional capacities for promoting the integration of environmental considerations into industrial development policies and strategies, thus mainstreaming the environmental agenda to the industrial development process.

In Bhutan, we have made serious efforts to integrate the principles and practices of environmental sustainability into our development policies and programmes.

Growth arguments will be advanced to counter strong social and environmental policies higher gasoline taxes, for example, will kill our nascent auto industry.

The vulnerability of slum dwellers should be reduced through the promotion of land use planning policies aimed at environmental sustainability and risk reduction.

Genuine progress in any of the six target areas will require a comprehensive approach, with policies that span the economic, social, and environmental domains.

The contents of the GEO data portal cover a broad range of environmental themes such as climate, disasters, forests and freshwater, as well as categories in the socio economic domain, including education, health, the economy, population and environmental policies.

Although China may not like it, the international trading system may provide more leverage than any other post Kyoto mechanism over developing countries environmental policies.

There is often a lack of synergy between policy (such as climate change policy) goals developed under environmental ministries and policies developed under other ministries.

The evaluation of the effectiveness of policies that are implemented to reduce the impacts of chemicals on environmental and health parameters is complex, and can involve the monitoring of health and environmental parameters that is very intricate, costly and long term.

In central and eastern Europe, the countries intend to make the NAPs an integral part of their national long term environmental protection and economic development policies.

In this regard, Parties reported that policies relating to the multilateral environmental agreements are being addressed through national legislation on promotion, protection and management of environment.

Likewise, regional and subregional health and environment policies in a transboundary context play an important role in preventing health diseases and in safeguarding growth with environmental sustainability.

Governments and international organizations should strengthen or establish mechanisms at the national, regional and international levels to assess the impact of development and environmental policies on women.

Such policies can have important long term impacts on efficiency and subsequently emissions, which in turn will influence the environmental sustainability of development and poverty alleviation efforts.

The Committee requests the State party to include, in its next periodic report, detailed information on environmental policies formulated by the State party, in particular, policies to reduce atmospheric pollution, and to evaluate the impact of large infrastructure development projects on the environment.

While aimed at reducing long term environmental damage, cap and trade policies could produce significant harmful economic effects in the near term that would continue into the future.

Making use of and strengthening existing inter agency coordination mechanisms to implement projects and policies relating to multilateral environmental agreements has been shown to be cost effective and efficient.

Environmental management This consists of environmental modification, environmental manipulation and measures to reduce human vector contact.

Such bottom up efforts to globalize national governments have the greatest potential to affect environmental policies, particularly those aimed at mitigating climate change the most intractable global problem of all.