Even before the earthquake Haiti was poor, environmentally degraded and aid-dependent and had few basic services.
Together with colleagues from Root Capital, a pioneering nonprofit social lender that grows rural prosperity in poor, environmentally vulnerable places in Africa and Latin America, I learned how smallholder farmer Seraphina has been providing for her children and grandchildren.
"Climate change both feeds on and accentuates inequality" — Anthony Lake, Executive Director, UNICEF (2014) UNICEF addresses environmental sustainability to protect children's rights in the following areas: Environmental degradation The most disadvantaged children are also the most likely to live in poor and environmentally degraded environments.
The tunnel, close to the Lingdingyang bay, is located in a very environmentally sensitive location with poor geological conditions and is extremely difficult to be constructed.
Human rights and accountability are the hallmarks of the "best practices" we have, locally and globally, for achieving genuinely inclusive, pro-poor and environmentally sensitive outcomes.
Instead, if improvements in border controls and technology continue, the impacts of such displacement will be felt more by the neighbours of war-torn, poor or environmentally-devastated countries.
ChevronTexaco also says that the state oil company PetroEcuador was the lead investor in all Texaco Petroleum's operations in the area and insists that PetroEcuador has carried out environmentally unsound practices -- including poor spill prevention and inadequate maintenance -- for more than 10 years, since taking over operation of the fields.
Windmills are a poor choice for environmentally benign power production.
Salmon, one of Chile's leading exports, has suffered a major blow as a result of poor regulation and environmentally unsound management.
The violence and instability of North Africa is now spreading into sub-Saharan Africa, with the Sahel – one of the world's poorest and most environmentally damaged regions – now gripped by jihadism, which is also seeping into the Horn of Africa to its east.
