Sources, including the senator who has lobbied for the project and the executive director of a local development agency, believe the hearing is largely a formality because of wide support for the project across business, political and environmental lines.
And of course, for the environmental bottom line.
Add to all these challenges the vast and growing rubbish mountains - the only hills in the Maldives, locals joke – and the growing freshwater crisis and it's clear the Maldives is on the environmental front line.
We address the problem of environmental contour line tracking for a class of autonomous vehicles.
This finding impacts the environmental bottom line as trees are a natural resource that are slow to replenish.
The environmental bottom line accounts for the sustainability of natural ecosystems through maintenance, renewal, reparability, or replacement (Elkington 1998).
For the vehicle with possibly modeling uncertainty, we combine a neural controller containing a wavelet neural network (WNN) identifier with a robust control to construct a robust adaptive WNN control for the vehicle to track the desired environmental contour line.
The issues on which she is unwavering are the ones you would expect: the environmental red lines beyond which no party whose main agenda is climate change could compromise.
As I put it in a report not long afterwards, "Properly understood, sustainability is not the same as corporate social responsibility (CSR) – nor can it be reduced to achieving an acceptable balance across economic, social and environmental bottom lines.
