Translation of "sous-produits préjudiciables à l'environnement " (French → English) :

4. Believes that, although GDP is a solid measure of macroeconomic activity, it suffers from many shortcomings as an indicator for overall societal development; in particular, it does not record important social factors like unemployment, underemployment, life expectancy or the quality of the education and health systems, nor does it account for disparities in income distribution, non-market activities that contribute to economic value creation (such as voluntary work, domestic work and illegal activities) and negative environmental externalities and it increases when resources are invested in countering negative developments like incre ...[+++]ases in social problems, so that destruction (in all its forms) is measured as economic gain by GDP;

36. Notes that the Green Paper mentions several useful contributions that can be made by the military, including search and rescue, disaster relief and surveillance at sea; regrets, however, that no mention is made of the environmental degradation that can be caused by the military establishment, such as weapons testing, construction of naval bases and the use of high intensity underwater sonar systems which can have a detrimental effect on cetaceans leading to deafness, internal organ damage and fatal mass stranding; insists, in this respect, that military activities be fully incorporated in the maritime policy and be subject to full ...[+++]environmental impact assessment and liability.

137. Notes that the Green Paper mentions several useful contributions that can be made by the military, including search and rescue, disaster relief and surveillance at sea; regrets, however, that no mention is made of the environmental degradation that can be caused by the military establishment, such as weapons testing, construction of naval bases and the use of high intensity underwater sonar systems which can have a detrimental effect on cetaceans leading to deafness, internal organ damage and fatal mass stranding; insists, in this respect, that military activities be fully incorporated in the maritime policy and be subject to full ...[+++] environmental impact assessment and liability.

Pollutants may be found in the environment many years after being banned and may be released to the environment from various sources (e.g. agriculture, industry, incineration), as products or as unintended by-products, they may be of historical nature or used daily in household products.

I have a letter from Michael Shaw, deputy minister of the environment and resource management for Saskatchewan, to Mel Cappe, deputy minister of Environment Canada, which reads: The Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association has not convinced Saskatchewan and the majority of the provinces that there is any evidence to show that MMT has an adverse effect on the onboard diagnostic systems.

This shall be achieved through precompetitive research and technical development projects and coordination activities, based on close collaboration between agriculture and industrial activities, and supported by training/mobility grants. Funding from the Community budget will amount to a total of 80 million Ecu for the period 1988-1993. The principal objectives of this Programme are : (i) research adaptation and development of agricultural products destined for industrial use, as well as the research and promotion of new industrial techniques for processing and transforming agricultural raw materials with a view to obtaining, under economically viable conditions, industrial products which respond to the needs of the market; (ii) research a ...[+++]nd development of industrial inputs in agriculture, such as pesticides, fertilizers and of eradication and disease control systems less harmful or better adapted to the environment; the reduction and elimination of by-products of processing by recovering resources and reducing waste.