Sentence examples for damaging environmental impact from inspiring English sources

The committee's chair, Mary Creagh, said this "massive increase" was having a damaging environmental impact and insisted it was time the big coffee chains did more to address the waste they produce.

The film, narrated by Paul McCartney, highlights the damaging environmental impact of animal agriculture and aims to inspire people to make achievable changes to their diet by eating less meat.

LONDON — Scrambling to combat a growing air pollution crisis, Britain announced on Wednesday that sales of new diesel and gas cars would reach the end of the road by 2040, the latest step in Europe's battle against the damaging environmental impact of the internal combustion engine.

Many equity investments are screened to avoid negatives like tobacco sales, damaging environmental impact, or the use of sweatshops and child labor.

While the Chinese government has begun spending billions of dollars to clean up the damage, the environmental impact is becoming an international trade issue, with a World Trade Organization panel in Geneva expected to issue a crucial draft report on Wednesday.

Unfortunately, many metropolitan (or industrial) areas are concentrated over such unfavorable sites (e.g., the Cascadia region of northwestern USA) so that they are much more prone to catastrophic seismic consequences such as loss of life, injury, economic damage, and environmental impact.

The analysis is made for Spain by quantifying in monetary terms the social damages of environmental impacts such as climate change, human toxicity, particulate matter formation, metal depletion, etc.

Climate change, biodiversity loss, ecosystems damage and environmental impacts are not always visible and are often difficult to fully understand.

There is no recent research about monetary valuation of health damage and environmental impacts caused by the oil shale industry.

The list of 52 companies includes some of those the fund has divested from since 2013 on its own initiative, judging the companies' environmental impact was damaging to their financial viability.

Oil spills are a major concern in terms of potential environmental impact and damage to tourism and fisheries.