Sentence examples for environmental trade from inspiring English sources

Lawsuits, investigative exposés and public hearings -- the tools of the environmental trade -- would be at the ready or already deployed.

Mr. Corzine got some outside help of his own yesterday, as the nonprofit consumer group New Jersey Citizen Action criticized Mr. Franks for "failing the citizens of New Jersey on important health, environmental, trade and workplace safety issues".

"If the environment chapter is finalized as written in this leaked document, President Obama's environmental trade record would be worse than George W. Bush's," said Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club.

Major U.S. trading partners that signed on to the nearly 200-nation accord reached in Paris last year are already signaling that they will retaliate if the United States backs out, possibly by slapping environmental trade tariffs onto some American products.

Take a sweeping look at history and you will discover that almost all movements that mattered started with just one or two people -- from the fight to abolish slavery, to the creations of the environmental, trade union, consumer protection and civil rights movements.

Requiring marine zoning and fostering environmental "trade-offs" will continue unless we attack environmental illiteracy.

In fact, groups like ours are keenly aware of economic and environmental trade-offs and of the need to save species cost-effectively.

"This analysis shows that any plan is going to require time to implement and tough decisions about the economic, reliability and environmental trade-offs that would be necessary to do it".

The panels raise new kinds of questions about what constitutes sustainable development and the issue highlights some of the environmental trade-offs faced by governments seeking a future based on low-carbon, clean energy technologies.

In practical terms, it means that you have to take economic cost-benefit trade-offs into account in environmental laws, and keep environmental trade-offs in mind with economic development".Jose Maria Figueres, a former president of Costa Rica, takes a similar view.

Given the economic and environmental trade-offs, technological uncertainty and the absence of one clear winner when it comes to energy sources, many economists suggest (pdf) the best approach is a portfolio of different technologies to balance the cost to consumers and environmental concerns.