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This includes an efficient electricity grid fed by renewable energy; fiber and wireless networks that carry telephony and broadband Internet; water, irrigation, and sewerage systems that efficiently use and recycle fresh water; urban and inter-city public transit systems; safer highways; and networks of protected natural areas that conserve biodiversity and the habitats of threatened species.
When homeowners default, banks lose money, and uncertainty about the extent of future defaults undermines confidence in banks’ capital, making it more difficult for them to raise funds and causing them to reduce their lending in order to conserve existing resources.
In the short run, the only response is more conservation, and America's allies should put pressure on America to conserve.
On the contrary, it is precisely the middle class, bought off by promises of ever-greater material gains, that hopes to conserve the current political order.
Adopting a balanced, largely plant-based diet, with minimal consumption of red and processed meat, would help conserve natural resources, contribute to the fight against human-induced global warming, and reduce people’s risk of diet-related chronic diseases and even cancer mortality.
One way to achieve this is to price water more appropriately, which would create an incentive to prevent wastage and conserve supplies.
High prices for commodities today mean more supply for future generations, while at the same time creating an incentive to develop new ways to conserve on consumption.
In Singapore, regulators are developing an innovative Electricity Vending System to give 1.2 million consumers real-time price signals so that they can learn to conserve electricity during peak periods.
But the unscientific standards and regulations that she defends in the name of the global public actually harm the environment and public health, stifling the development of environmentally friendly innovations that can increase agricultural productivity, help clean up toxic wastes, conserve water, and supplant agricultural chemicals.
Sometimes called “genetic modification,” GE enables plant breeders to make existing crop plants do new things – such as conserve water.
Molecular genetic engineering technology can conserve water in other ways as well.
Won’t high prices cause people to conserve on consumption and seek out new sources of supply?
As a result, there is little incentive to conserve.
While breeders are eager to defend their trade, economists have debunked the myth that a legal domestic market in rhino horns will conserve wild populations.
That may be acceptable to breeders, but it defies reason for those trying to conserve wild rhinos.
At the same time, efforts to conserve and expand carbon “sinks” – that is, the forests, wetlands, grasslands, mangroves, and sea grasses that absorb much of the CO2 being emitted – are crucial.
The losses also include failure to conserve the world’s dwindling wildlife and rapidly degrading ecosystems, which are worth trillions of dollars in terms of life-supporting services.
We could combat the problem relatively cheaply and efficiently by getting improved cooking devices (such as cookers with a flue) and clean fuel to those who need them, and by encouraging fuel drying, stove and chimney maintenance, and the use of pot lids to conserve heat.
The Chinese have seized an opportunity to address several challenges at once – to create jobs, conserve energy, and combat climate change.
Why should we conserve?
Given Western financial sanctions, Putin’s effort to conserve state funds is entirely sensible.
A mobile-phone deposit system would promote recycling, reduce mining, conserve resources, and limit toxic waste.
This saves the recipient from using his own water, which can be saved for higher-value activities;- Conserve irrigation water.
The signatories agreed to conserve biological diversity, by saving species and their habitats, and to use biological resources (e.g., forests) in a sustainable manner.
For a very low cash outlay – and perhaps none at all on balance – we could conserve nature and thus protect the basis of our own lives and livelihoods.
Governments will need to take action to conserve existing ecosystems – and restore and expand degraded ecosystems – in people-friendly ways.
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, an intergovernmental treaty under which 169 countries have committed to conserve and sustainably manage their wetlands, is an ideal vehicle for help them reach their CO2-reduction targets, as well as meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030.
International agreements such as the CMS work on behalf of citizens and communities around the world who wish to conserve and protect our natural heritage.
And all three – businesses, governments, and communities – can work collectively to create practical strategies and incentives that will assist forested countries to conserve their natural assets and meet their goals for economic development.
The theory behind market_based conservation strategies is simple: create markets for derivative products in order to increase the value that local people place on the resource, thus inducing them to conserve it.
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