"It is important that sport understands and is sensitive to the potential impacts of the menstrual cycle for female athletes.
WWF reef campaigner Louise Matthieson said the dredging itself would have "serious impacts, like destroying seagrass beds, regardless of where the spoil is dumped".
"We might try and adopt a quick technological fix but one that holds the worst impacts for a few decades without much attention to what happens after that.
"Given the size of government expenditure on child care, Scott Morrison needs to provide detail about the real impacts of his changes to the system".
The money spent on preparing the UK for the impacts of global warming has almost halved since the environment secretary, Owen Paterson –widely regarded as a climate change sceptic – took office.
Corruption and political upheaval heavily impacts education, making it responsible for numerous social and economic issues, which, in turn, prevents Honduras from climbing the statistical ladder.
While the genuflecting towards BHP and Rio Tinto from large slabs of the business community might be expected, it is harder to explain why those concerned about the environmental and economic impacts of mining have been so quiet in their defence of the points made by Forrest.
"Ours is the first generation that can end poverty, and the last that can take steps to avoid the worst impacts of climate change," wrote Ban Ki-moon in the Guardian recently.
The key threats are impacts from climate change including changes in temperature, sea ice, acidification, as well as the potential for increasing commercial fishing as fisheries in other parts of the world become over-exploited.
Given that poorer countries are likely to be hit hardest by the impacts of climate change from burning all that coal, the idea that they so desperately need fossil fuels feels a little like selling cigarettes to lung cancer sufferers.
Alongside this, negotiators will also be looking to progress on a negotiating track known as "loss and damage" where developing countries (in particular small island states and countries such as the typhoon-ravaged Philippines) are compensated for climate change impacts.
