Sentence examples for environmental summit from inspiring English sources

But the biggest environmental summit in 20 years is already proving controversial.

In 1972, Indira Gandhi, then the prime minister, announced at an environmental summit meeting that "poverty is the biggest polluter".

Last summer, nations at an environmental summit in Johannesburg agreed to manage fisheries in a sustainable fashion by 2015.

The Bedford club, which sponsored a highly successful daylong environmental summit in 2009, is determined to keep the green momentum going.

[Associated Press] Expectations seem limited for the Rio+20 environmental summit meeting, which is in many ways overshadowed by economic and political crises around the world.

So did anarchists, greens, anti-capitalists, Italian Catholics and sundry loonies.Lesser lights will head for Bonn, in Germany, for a big environmental summit to discuss the Kyoto Protocol.

But at the end of 2010, two United Nations environmental summits offered some hope for progress.

Past efforts to integrate commitments from new kinds of actors into high-level, global environmental summits have had mixed results.

Since then, from what I can tell, HRH has had to resort largely to pre-recorded video pieces or appearing as a hologram at non-British environmental summits.

These overseas trips are largely untethered to the kind of multilateral environmental summits that dominated his predecessors' schedules, and Pruitt rarely discloses where he plans to be.

Even as Mbeki criticized global environmental summits as Western efforts to impede development in poor nations, he nevertheless encouraged elevating ecological principles to prominence in South Africa's economic development strategy.