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Energy law and sustainable development
… quite misleading. Energy in its various forms (mechanical, chemical, electrical, heat, electromagnetic radiation) is … into the atmosphere. Sulphate aerosols, produced from chemical reactions in the atmosphere with the gaseous … leads to significant pollution, including more than 100 chemical pollutants released into the atmosphere.20 Burning …
Economic measures for biodiversity planning: An annotated bibliography of methods, experiences and cases
… interest in the use of biodiversity as a source of novel chemical compounds for the development of new … variations in climate and weather, and differences in chemical inputs and agricultural practices, produce patterns …
The status of climate change litigation - A global review
… Hurricane Katrina lacked standing to sue fossil fuel and chemical companies for alleged civil conspiracy because their … plaintiff property owners alleged that certain power and chemical companies’ GHG emissions contributed to climate … VCAT 1988, local residents challenged the permitting of a chemical storage facility. All other cases within the …
Integrating mining and biodiversity conservation: Case studies from around the world
… in recent times in an effort to protect the physical and chemical properties and the biological processes of this … Mining substrates vary considerably in their physical and chemical attributes, but they tend to inhibit natural … are the ameliorative approach (improving the physical or chemical nature of the site), and the adaptive approach …
Explaining Ocean Warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences
… Data-Products ). Argo is one of a number of physico-chemical and biological programmes that contribute to the … observed and projected impacts of climate change on the chemical, physical and biological processes in the oceans. … can incorporate inorganic carbon using energetic reduced chemical compounds in the absence Ocean Warming 59 3.1 …
A moving target : Genetic resources and options for tracking and monitoring their international flows
… these trends, a study found that at least 39% of new chemical and biological entities approved by the US Federal … certainly will have to exclude standard genetic or bio- chemical analysis of each sample, since the cost of such … that any system involving elaborate genetic (or bio- chemical) characterization or complex and costly pro- cedures …