But those who embrace this new investment framework stand to achieve double-bottom line results in the form of strong financial, as well as socially meaningful, returns that yield positive impacts on the environment and on communities around the world.
TransCanada filed its application in 2008, and State determined in 2010 and then again last year that the project would have "no significant impacts" on the environment, following exhaustive studies.
In response, she channelled the simmering debate to educate the public on the impacts of human actions on the environment.
"I think there's no question that the environment impacts on everybody, whether it's schooling or housing or hospitals, " she said.
In another report, on the public acceptability of incineration, the society says: "There remain concerns, both about other impacts of incinerators on the local environment, and about their place in the national waste hierarchy" (the choice of waste disposal methods).
Second, although the amount (weight) of herbicides applied has increased in recent years, that parameter is a poor measure of impacts on human health or the natural environment.
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This was the precursor of all subsequent annual CSR reporting and the first time a company felt compelled to state, not only their financial performance, but also the non-financial impacts their operations had on the communities and the environment where they operated.
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Nissan approached Natural Capital because it wanted to do a check on its supply chain and how it impacts the environment.
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Working at the interface of science and environmental policy she will bring together long term data sets on biodiversity, the environment and human impacts to explore spatiotemporal patterns of ecosystem functioning and help identify where conservation attention needs to focus in the future.
An international team of researchers and scientists has been studying the impacts of the oil spill on the region's people and environment.
In 1982, Sandia National Laboratories simulated the impacts of a catastrophic accident at nuclear power plants on the surrounding environment for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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The members raised concerns about the detrimental impacts of turbines and pylons on the mid Wales landscape, the environment, the tourism industry and the transport and transmission networks.
For example, work in the field of epigenetics demonstrates that environment can have a profound influence on how DNA impacts biology.
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