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Engaging people in sustainability
… values, cultivate dreams, inspire hope and, above all, lead to action plans for change for towards a more … urgent attention, basic knowledge about them does not lead us to a clear path of action, nor does it motivate … the power of our consumption choices and how they can lead to action and change. The next time you see an advert, …
GEO yearbook 2003
… Rome endorsed ten joint projects. The US is also playing a lead role in the Methane to Markets partnership, a new … Education for Sustainable Development, with UNESCO as the lead agency and UNEP as a key partner. During the next two … heat and sunlight to form ground-level ozone, which can lead to respiratory diseases and cause serious damage to …
Energy law and sustainable development
… and nitric acids, small soot particles, mercury and lead leading to air and water pollution and acid rain, and … Executive Director of the Pace Energy Project, has been lead counsel for New York's environmental community in a … abundant and easily available natural resources can lead to a "better life" without great monetary expenses. In …
Case studies on bioenergy policy and law: options for sustainability
… policy and law: options for sustainability 19 would also lead to competition among producer countries to target export … objective of these rules is to ensure that CDM projects lead to real and verifiable emissions reductions, thereby … principles of the CDM is that each project must lead to emissions reductions that are additional to what …
Pastoralism and the Green Economy - a natural nexus?
… framework for sustainable pastoralism. Taking the lead from Rio+20, the post-2015 global development agenda … multiplies in the rangelands, a lack of planning can lead to major encroachment on rangeland natural resources … an over-accumulation of livestock which can in some cases lead to solutions that aggravate the situation. More complex …
Embedding the Environment in Sustainable Development Goals
… goals on protection of the ozone layer, the phasing out of lead in gasoline, the MDG on halving the proportion of people … Goals 9 Whatever the reason, this fragmented approach can lead to achieving one goal at the expense of another.21 Part … Some believe that addressing these driving forces could lead to greater wins for sustainable development. In support …
From the MDGs to Sustainable Development for All - Lessons from 15 years of practice
… progress to meet sanitation and safe water targets could lead to increased leaking and dumping of raw sewage, further … [30]. high-level government units were established to lead mDg processes and align the work of ministries and … women and marginal- ized groups were trained to help lead mDg initiatives and manage collective assets. In …
Biodiversity management in the cement and aggregates sector: Regulatory tools.
… aggregates sector with a unique opportunity to take the lead among extractive industries on biodiversity monitoring … Implementing BIRS involves several steps that ultimately lead to the determination of an overall Site Biodiversity … context factor of each habitat/ habitat block STEP 3 will lead to a Habitat Context Fac- tor being attributed to each …
3rd UNCCD Scientific Conference: Book of abstracts
… increase significantly during the next decade, which will lead to great evapotranspiration and reduction in soil … the ongoing climate change will favor these species and lead to ecological conditions similar to those required for … an enormous inflow from the right-bank tributaries which lead to a fast increase of the Sava water levels in the …
Mapping the linkages between oceans and other Sustainable Development Goals: A preliminary exploration
… affected by pollution and con- tamination, which can lead in extreme cases to ‘dead zones’ devoid of marine life … de-oxy- genation and sea level rise. The latter could lead to coastal erosion and flooding, saltwater intrusion, … and de-oxy- genation of sub-surface waters can lead to significant changes in organism physiology and …