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The eventual returns from the new energy systems would then be invested in social and environmental programs.
The SDGs will continue the fight against extreme poverty, but also add the challenges of ensuring more equitable economic growth and environmental sustainability, especially the key goal of curbing the dangers of human-induced climate change.
As the environmental consequences of human activity become increasingly apparent, so does humanity’s responsibility to mitigate them.
Genuine progress in any of the six target areas will require a comprehensive approach, with policies that span the economic, social, and environmental domains.
Second, we must restore coral reefs' capacity to cope with environmental change--their resilience--by protecting the fish stocks that keep seaweed in check, and thereby facilitate the recovery of coral populations from bleaching.
Skeptics might add that China’s cost advantage also includes circumventing environmental and social regulations.
Although Clinton and Obama have been insistent that North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) will be renegotiated around labor and environmental concerns -- even threatening to opt out of that trade deal — opting out is highly unlikely.
If this continues, the result will be animal suffering on an even greater scale than now exists in the West, as well as more environmental damage and a rise in heart disease and cancers of the digestive system.
Despite the serious environmental consequences of gold mining, including mercury and cyanide pollution and the devastation of landscapes, humanity has not given up the search – and seems unlikely to do so any time soon.
Global funds that uphold high ethical standards concerning labor practices and environmental protections are safeguarding the global ecosystem on which they, and the rest of us, depend.
CalPERS (the California Public Employees’ Retirement System), a $300 billion pension fund, has published its corporate governance principles, which include boardroom diversity, fair labor practices, and environmental protection.
But while this safeguards against business abuse and "externalities" that cause environmental damage, it also yields a more politicized and regimented economy than America's atomistic, decentralized capitalist structures do.
These frameworks, Fink notes, should cover environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors that are core determinants of long-term value.
Environmental NGOs worry that raising expectations could worsen the fallout from failure, damaging efforts at the national level to build low-carbon economies.
Yet policymakers in developed and developing countries alike have largely continued to rely on reactive, one-dimensional strategies aimed at boosting economic growth, instead of adopting a systemic approach that moves beyond output to account for social and environmental objectives.
Furthermore, China – the embodiment of the go-for-growth movement – has signaled a policy shift toward the pursuit of better social and environmental outcomes, alongside more moderate GDP gains.
It is the economics of environmental action that now forms the core of the policy debate – unlike in 1972.
New Growth Models argues that markets alone should not decide our collective fate; non-economic goals and metrics – both social and environmental – are also needed to guide countries’ economic aspirations and policies.
Industries shun malarious regions, except where valuable resources can be extracted or where particular kinds of agriculture require unique environmental conditions.
Although human lives can be saved by this kind of assistance to the "poorest of the poor," efforts to promote economic development might more effectively focus on other modes of intervention, such as environmental management, housing improvement, applications of residual insecticide, and efforts against the mosquitoes that transmit the infection.
Tired of go-go growth, voters now look for more attention to addressing environmental concerns, health-care issues, and income inequality.
Environmental and water problems were mounting.
The Tragedy of the Climate CommonsPORTSMOUTH – By now, the danger from climate change and other forms of environmental degradation is so evident that it seems crazy to ignore it.
China is exporting not only more and more goods, but also its environmental degradation.
Officials in both Hong Kong and Guangdong are powerless to clean up their environmental problems on their own.
Political heavyweights in Guangdong still favor a form of development that relies on speed and quantity while ignoring overall environmental quality.
And Hong Kong’s economic blueprint also focuses on accelerating large infrastructure projects whose environmental impact has not been rigorously examined.
In particular, the UN's involvement in the excessive, unscientific regulation of biotechnology, or genetic modification (GM), will slow agricultural research and development, promote environmental damage, and help to bring famine and water shortages to millions in developing countries.
They are aided by radical, environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs), which are permitted to participate in Codex meetings, and which are ideologically opposed to new technology.
Accelerating Africa’s Energy TransitionPARIS – For much of Africa, the transition from fossil fuels to cleaner forms of energy is seen as an environmental imperative.
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