Translation of "zone wide expanses water " (English → French) :

zone of wide expanses of water

* Successful projects in the Environment sector have demonstrated accurate, real-time large-scale monitoring of water quality, the provision of European wide data on environmental data for citizens and Coastal Zones Management (INION, IRENIE, THESIS).

Question No. 140 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With respect to development of the oil sands, its impacts on the environment and surrounding communities, and the economic effects of these impacts: (a) what, if any, steps has the government taken to establish air emission limits or air quality standards to achieve the World Health Organization’s Air Quality Guidelines to protect air quality and human health; (b) what, if any, steps has the government’s sector-by-sector approach taken to regulate carbon emissions in the oil sands to ensure the oil sands industry makes appropriate reductions in its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to contribute to Canada’s GHG emission reduction goal of 17% below the 2005 level; (c) what, if any, studies has the governmen ...[+++]t undertaken to examine the effect of the oil sands expansion on (i) GHG emissions, (ii) Canada’s ability to meet its GHG emission reduction goals, (iii) Canada’s contribution to the goal of staying below a 2°C increase in global average surface temperature, relative to the pre-industrial level, as articulated at the G8 meeting in L’Aquila, Italy and at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations through the Copenhagen Accord in December 2009 and the Cancun Agreements in December 2010, (iv) the full suite of sustainability criteria, including environmental, economic and social sustainability, and (v) what were the results of any studies identified in (c)(i), (c)(ii), (c)(iii), and (c)(iv); (d) what, if any, studies has the government undertaken to examine (i) the scope of oil sands expansion if the oil sands sector is not required to deliver its proportional share of GHG reductions, (ii) the impacts such a decision would have on other sectors’ allowable GHG emissions, (iii) whether other sectors of the Canadian economy would have to do more than their proportional share to reduce emissions, (iv) what were the results of any studies identified in (d)(i), (d)(ii), and (d)(iii); (e) what, if any, studies ...

A few recent examples will serve to illustrate the wide range of this activity: the extension of road and motorway networks to facilitate regional trade and foster the development of landlocked regions while reducing the number of accidents; upgrading and expansion of power generation and distribution systems with a view to producing affordable green electricity accessible to all; drinking water supply and wastewater treatment pr ...[+++]ogrammes and the cleaning-up of industrial sites; refurbishment and equipping of public hospitals; development of technology parks working together with universities to facilitate the creation of innovative enterprises by young graduates; credit lines supporting small businesses; financing of microcredit via the ENDA inter arabe fund.

The wide variety of fish management systems in the Community, as a result of the expansion and special characteristics of its waters and the various types of producer organisation, makes it necessary, with a view to greater effectiveness, to establish structural instruments on a more decentralised basis and offer Member States the resources enabling them to resolve a number of problems them ...[+++]selves by putting them in a position to take greater account of specific sectors' distinctive features or local circumstances.