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.

This statement outlines environmental performance of the organization as well as its environmental objectives.

The new challenge currently facing the world was to go beyond short term environmental performance and to strive for environmental sustainability.

ISAR noted that an enterprise's environmental performance could affect its financial health and hence its sustainability.

Clean technology is a concept of relative environmental performance, which is subject to change over time.

Worse still, high levels of public debt, like high taxes, cause serious problems for economic performance.

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is a chemical process used to produce high quality, high performance, solid materials.

Nor has high taxation in the Nordic countries impeded economic performance.

Moreover, hedge fund managers can easily fake high performance without getting caught.

Environmental sustainability was a high priority objective of the Government of Kazakhstan.

Expanded measurement of the dimensions of economic, social, and environmental performance is necessary to broaden awareness of sustainability issues.

In 2008, he trained at the Center for High Performance San Cugat (Barcelona).

Above all, a system needs to be established to monitor officials performance in environmental as well as in economic terms.

She graduated from Millburn High School, where she participated in many school plays her high school performance as Winnifred in Once Upon a Mattress gained her a Paper Mill Playhouse Rising Star Award nomination for Best Performance by a High School Actress.

The group took the view that the board should disclose its policy and performance in connection with environmental and social responsibility and the impact of this policy and performance on the firm's sustainability.

National governments introduce efficiency standards, taxes, and other policy instruments to improve the environmental performance of buildings, vehicles, and transport fuels.

So it should be possible to extract valuable elements like lithium for high performance batteries.

The PIIGS debt burden is so high that robust economic performance is next to impossible.

Achieving high performance involves integrated, whole building design, involving many components, not one single technology.

Recognizing the high professional and personal qualities he brought to the performance of his duties and responsibilities,

We need a new standard that requires companies to report not just their financial metrics, but also their performance on social, developmental, and environmental issues.

In Lithuania, a cleaner production programme is being implemented with support from the Norwegian Government to improve environmental performance, competitiveness and regulatory compliance of industry.

Indonesia's high population and rapid industrialisation present serious environmental issues, which are often given a lower priority due to high poverty levels and weak, under resourced governance.

When oil prices were high and growing, the government could compensate for poor performance by throwing money at problems.

In order to sustain high performance levels, sufficient time and resources must be secured on a more permanent basis.

The problem of relative environmental performance could be overcome either by setting up a proper review mechanism or by including entire plants or technologies in the list.

Despite this, poor management, high population density, and environmental consciousness have resulted in these mineral resources remaining largely untapped.

Investment in environmental and natural resource sustainability has been proved to yield very high returns in the long term.

Noting with concern the high environmental costs and the often irreversible impact of illicit crops on ecosystems, including tropical zones in strategic areas, with high biological diversity and abundant forests,

It is now high time to consider a more integrated structure for environmental standard setting, scientific discussion and monitoring treaty compliance.

A personal supercomputer (PSC) is a high performance computer system with capabilities and costs between those of standard personal computers and supercomputers.

Over the next 10 years it would focus on the development of large capacity, high performance and long life broadcast communication satellites.

The Department of Management was requested to review methods of performance assessments used in other comparable organizations, with a view to preparing proposals for a set of qualitative and quantitative performance indicators covering both programmatic and managerial functions that would enable a high level evaluation of a senior manager's performance.

Its national strategy included plans for the development of all inhabited spaces in strict compliance with high environmental and economic management standards.

Sri Lanka accorded high priority to the implementation of Agenda 21 and the Millennium Development Goals, including target 7 on environmental sustainability.

But former Premier Wen Jiabao rightly described this impressive growth performance as unstable, unbalanced, uncoordinated, and unsustainable, highlighting the many economic, social, and environmental costs and challenges that have accompanied it.

Any of you who rode the automobiles was it yesterday? at the track, you know the romance revolving around those high performance cars.

By maintaining high environmental standards, and promoting such standards among its trade partners, Europe can bolster the global market for clean energy technologies.

Three The secret to high performance isn't rewards and punishments, but that unseen intrinsic drive the drive to do things for their own sake.

And this pathetic performance comes at a time when many African economies agricultural sectors are booming on the back of high world food prices.

The advantages of certification include its potential clearly to distinguish those companies that have achieved high levels of performance (as defined by the standards).

Tonga's performance on the Human Development Index and the Human Poverty Index reflects a high level of expenditure in health and education, stagnant population growth and sustained high levels of investment in the social sector.

High speed broadband Internet access can improve everything from transport management, environmental protection, and emergency services to health care, distance education, and agricultural productivity.

These approaches may initially have a high cost due to technological development and deployment and may also have a slower rate of environmental improvement.