"There are too many examples of projects with industrial gases, primarily HFC-23, where if you dig into it you can find there is a total lack of environmental integrity," Hedegaard said, adding that she was not opposed to offsetting in principle as a way of efficiently cutting carbon and helping development in poorer nations.
This article presents the results of a multi-stakeholder analysis related to the design of offsets principles, policies, and regulatory processes, using a large infrastructure projects context.
The argument advanced by this Article is that tort law should recognize the "Offsetting Risks Principle" ("ORP"), under which the risks decreased by the wrongdoing should be taken into account by the courts as a mitigating liability factor, with a consequent reduction in liability.
This case illustrates the danger inherent in the principle of offsetting.
RSPBplanner 12 November 2013 12 21pm As a principle, biodiversity offsetting offers potential to deal with the ongoing losses of wildlife the planning system is currently failing to address, but this mustn't be viewed as a developers' charter.
Deductions against salary income go beyond broadly accepted principles for offsetting losses against gains.
Accept the principle of biodiversity offsetting and you accept the idea that place means nothing.
Barry Gardiner MP, Labour's shadow minister for the natural environment welcomed the Environmental Audit Committee's (EAC) criticisms of BO: "The EAC is right to give a cautious welcome to the principle of biodiversity offsetting.
In email correspondence, Gibbons said: "I am very disappointed with the gap between the principles of biodiversity offsetting and practice.
In this paper, we introduce a novel method for moving surface meshes, called the face offsetting method, based on a generalized Huygens' principle.
And the whole point of his offsetting spending cuts thing — his invention of a nonsense principle — is to obscure the ruthlessness of the blackmail involved.
