The phrase "avoid negative impacts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to express the intention to prevent harmful or undesirable effects of an action or decision.
Example: "In our project, we must implement strategies to avoid negative impacts on the environment."
Alternatives: "prevent adverse effects" or "mitigate harmful outcomes".
"We need to take a coolheaded approach to avoid negative impacts on overall relations," Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda of Japan told the broadcaster NHK.
Nevertheless, particular attention should be given to the problem in order to avoid negative impacts to sensitive ecosystems.
We were interested in finding management approaches that could avoid negative impacts on old-growth attributes and associated biodiversity at the stand scale.
Currently, stakeholders who deal with crises have to make decisions under stress, for example in order to mitigate consequences or avoid negative impacts on high-stake elements.
These results show that NPP-derived terpenoids can be produced in plant tissues; however, NPP has to be consumed to avoid negative impacts on plant metabolism.
Due to the uniqueness of each region afflicted with difficult-to-access water resources, an applicable water supply concept has to be adaptable to the local natural and sociological boundary conditions to avoid negative impacts, e.g., on the local ecology.
This practice improves the ecological state of the ponds and avoids negative impacts to the environment (Bergleiter 2011).
Kadlubeck says that avoiding negative impacts on Sun Valley is a top priority for his team.
They also cautioned that an exemption for "market-making" activities aimed at avoiding negative impacts on liquidity could "open the floodgates to abuse" if not defined narrowly.
It is our intention just to highlight some mechanisms relevant for the uptake of [F]methylcholine in (normal) muscle and to derive suggestions for an imaging protocol that avoids negative impact on image quality.
The clue is in the name: the primary aim of a public service is to provide a service to the public – to protect crucial social utilities from the instabilities of capitalism and to avoid negative social impacts.
