If the equator is projected outward to the celestial sphere, forming the celestial equator, it crosses the ecliptic at two points known as the equinoxes.
The spring, or vernal, equinox marks the point in space and time when the sun moves across the celestial equator, an imaginary circle projected into the sky above the real equator.
Nations closest to the equator, he said, are projected to be hit hardest.
We study the evolution of a set of influential environmental and social risk management guidelines for project finance – the Equator Principles (EP) – and the simultaneous structuration of a field around these guidelines focused on the issue of socially accountable project finance.
One of his projects is the Equator Initiative, a package of programs aimed at reducing poverty and preserving the vast biological and ecological wealth in the countries around the Equator.
The steam escaped from the sphere from one or more bent tubes projecting from its equator, causing the sphere to revolve.
Adani would find it more difficult to attract financing as many major banks subscribe to the equator principles, under which resource projects are not backed without traditional owner consent.
Between the bulbar and the palpebral conjunctiva there are two loose, redundant portions forming recesses that project back toward the equator of the globe.
Chinese firms have also ignored international initiatives to make project finance greener (the "Equator Principles") and to make mining industries cleaner (the "Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative").
A14 SCIENCE/HEALTH Hint of Water Found on Mars The Mars rover Opportunity appears to have located iron oxide -- the second hint of water in the ancient past -- at a broad plain near the planet's equator, some scientists involved in the project said.
