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Environmental policy is the commitment of an organization or government to the laws, regulations, and other policy mechanisms concerning environmental issues.These issues generally include air and water pollution, waste management, ecosystem management, maintenance of biodiversity, the management of natural resources, wildlife and endangered species. [1]
An environmental impact statement (EIS), under United States environmental law, is a document required by the 1969 National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for certain actions "significantly affecting the quality of the human environment". [1] An EIS is a tool for decision making.
This is a list of notable environmental reports. In this context they relate to the impacts of human activity on the environment . Clean Energy Trends – a series of reports by Clean Edge – beginning in 2002
Environmental policy during the first Bush administration contained a mixture of innovation and restriction. George H. W. Bush appointed an environmentalist, William Reilly, to head the EPA, along with others with strong environmental inclinations.
The European Union Directive on Environmental Impact Assessments (85/337/EEC,also known as the EIA Directive) only applied to certain projects. [3] This was seen as deficient as it only dealt with specific effects at the local level whereas many environmentally damaging decisions had already been made at a more strategic level (for example the fact that new infrastructure may generate an ...
Environmental Principles and Policies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction is a textbook written by Professor Sharon Beder. [1] The book examines six environmental and social principles that have been used at the international and national level.
In March 2009, at a meeting of the Copenhagen Climate Council, 2,500 climate experts from 80 countries issued a keynote statement that there is now "no excuse" for failing to act on global warming and without strong carbon reduction targets "abrupt or irreversible" shifts in climate may occur that "will be very difficult for contemporary societies to cope with".
Transnational environmental policies are efforts to confront global environmental issues such as climate change, ozone depletion, or marine pollution. [1] Environmental policies are transnational when they include actors from at least two sovereign states. [2] As of 2018, more than 1,800 multilateral environmental agreements are in effect. [3]