But it is increasingly difficult for governments to establish effective measures to protect the environment.
Farmers could be paid twice for measures to protect the environment under a European Parliament deal.
It's plastic bags, now banned to protect the environment and the lives of animals and fish.
On board the Polar Pioneer, precautions to protect the environment are taken in simple but effective ways.
Swedish Social Democrat MEP Olle Ludvigsson said existing tax rules had to be adapted to protect the environment.
That GM, or genetic modification, is a good way to protect the environment.
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Last year China argued that its export restrictions were needed to protect the environment, conserve supplies and meet domestic demand.
Some of the world's wealthiest are going green, spending their own greenbacks to protect the environment and fight global warming.
Mauritania has banned the use of plastic bags to protect the environment and the lives of land and sea animals.
This annual event brings together some of Boulder's finest bands and brews to raise money to protect the environment.
The activists, among them actors Mark Ruffalo and Susan Sarandon, are trying to protect the environment from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
It seems that the marketing for the film, a fable by Dr. Seuss about the need to protect the environment, did its job.
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The scheme includes a number of measures to protect the environment by improving wildlife habitats, tree cover and watercourses, the county council said.
Our priority is, and will remain, to ensure the safety of the community, our employees and contract personnel, and to protect the environment.
Under the new law shareholders could potentially sue directors of these companies for disregarding their duty to protect the environment and the community.
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The permit contained conditions to protect the environment and local communities.
The consent carries a number of conditions to protect the environment.
Princes Charles told ITV1's This Morning programme he did not want the child to wonder why past generations did not act to protect the environment.
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As well as China, the Eden Project is also in talks with authorities in Singapore for an Eden-backed interactive experience to protect the environment of the island.
Europe's Emissions Trading System, launched in 2008, was intended to protect the environment by raising the cost of polluting and encouraging businesses to invest in cleaner technologies.
Europe's so-called Emissions Trading System, first launched in 2008, was designed to raise the cost of polluting and discourage the production of greenhouse gases to protect the environment.
They must kick-start global trade and resist protectionism, he said, and lastly, they must make sure that economic recovery is low-carbon and sustainable so as to protect the environment.
The largest social science research initiative ever undertaken in the United Kingdom says industry and government alike are failing to exploit the potential of science and technology to protect the environment.
They say that if people think they're going green by using a bag for life and recycling their bottles they may be diverted from more significant actions to protect the environment.
Ms Spelman has said that the policy distorts trade and called for the subsidies to have less emphasis on food production, and reward farmers who take steps to protect the environment.
This decision, which caused an intense debate, both inside and outside government, summed up the challenge in Brazil to reconcile the ambitions of a developing country alongside the need to protect the environment.
While Democrats are pushing for tax cuts, fighting crime and cutting the welfare roles, Republican governors facing re-election are seeking to broaden health care coverage, hire more teachers and work to protect the environment.
Kennedy "is a leader and an environmental activist and his opinion carries weight, " said Kate Hudson, the watershed program director at the environmental group Riverkeeper, which works with Kennedy on legal action to protect the environment.
Over the past decade Manx fisherman have worked alongside the government to balance commercial needs and the need to protect the marine environment.
Glastir aims to provide balance between the need to produce food and protect the environment, to be accessible to all and to spread money for implementing agri-environment work more widely among farmers.
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