The bureau, in conjunction with local government, also specified that developers must pay a one-time fee of around twenty-six hundred dollars per acre, which would be used to offset environmental impacts from construction, including habitat restoration for desert tortoises.
This, combined with other environmental impacts such as an increase in mean ocean temperatures, lends scientific support to recommendations for the establishment of networks of marine protected areas to help offset environmental impacts.
It is increasingly advocated that no net loss policies, aimed to avoid, minimize and lastly offset environmental impacts from development, should not only focus on impacts on biodiversity, but also on the consequences for ecosystem services.
For several years Wolfgang has promoted and supported biodiversity offsets, environmental impact assessment as well as landscape and urban planning tools emerging all over the world.
They're also committed to measuring and offsetting their environmental impact and have planted over 23,000 trees to offset their company's carbon footprint.
For this reason Clark created a program called Touring Green, which allows productions moved in Clark trucks to offset their environmental impact by purchasing carbon-offset credits.
If we can produce meat more efficiently than other countries in a global marketplace, there may actually be an argument to increase production to offset the environmental impact.
He said: "As we continue to grow, we'll seek and evaluate more ways to minimize and offset our environmental impact".
One way they're doing this is by buying renewable energy credits (RECs), instruments that, in theory, offset the environmental impact of the purchaser's "dirty" energy use by subsidizing clean energy from renewable sources such as wind.
Airbnb already does a lot to offset the environmental impact of travel, Lehane said, noting that in the U.S. it has reduced water consumption by 4.2 billion litres vs. traditional accommodation options, and greenhouse gas reduction amounts to around as much as is generated by 560,000 cars on U.S. roads per year.
In all likelihood, Obama's acted coy on Keystone to line up the other key elements of his environmental agenda, knowing that he'll have to have a lot on offer to offset the environmental impact of the pipeline.
