Sentence examples for for environmental action from inspiring English sources

By the time he took over the presidency after McKinley's assassination in 1901, Roosevelt was primed for environmental action.

From 2003 to 2005, she served as assistant environmental minister, but found the budget for environmental action "peanuts".

The results, which will delight green campaigners, suggest that support for environmental action is not collapsing as feared in the face of possible recession.

How is any given success for environmental action to be weighed against any given advance in social justice or, for that matter, against any given change in profits?

But intense domestic and international attention to China's air quality, exemplified by the recent release of the documentary Under the Dome in February, may well be remembered as a tipping point for environmental action in China.

In 2000 Cathy Freeman held the flag for Indigenous people at the Sydney Olympics; could Pocock and others hold it just as high against bigotry and for environmental action?

It is difficult for Inuit to forget the 50 years of environmental action that disrupted lives, culture and livelihoods.

Celebrated in more than 100 countries, the United Nations describes it as the "principal vehicle" for promoting environmental action and awareness, and "the people's day for doing something positive for the environment".

What the Rio+20 agreement recognizes, for the first time on such an intergovernmental scale, is that sustainable development is not simply 'code' for an environmental action agenda.

World Environment Day 2011 World Environment Day (WED), observed on 5 June annually, is a global day for positive environmental action.

"Coming out and claiming your identity is revolutionary for each of us," says Gerod Rody, the founder of OUT for Sustainability, which mobilises the LGBTQ community for social and environmental action.