Translation of "Umweltschädigung" in English

The damage, we know, is global.

It can make for worse damage to the environment and does nothing to improve the protection of it.

Obviously, even by this date there can be no complete analysis of the full environmental costs.

WHEREAS strong links exist between poverty and environmental degradation.

As things stand now, when we buy something, the price fails to reflect the real cost in terms of environmental damage.

The presence of large farm structures should not be systematically equated with environmental pollution.

The excess ozone thus causes no environmental harm whatsoever.

All of this simplifies maintenance significantly and excludes a possible environmental accident.

We have developed strategies to reduce the impact on environment.

Everything else being equal, stabilising material use per capita would not reverse the trend in environmental degradation.

Sustainable production is a necessary condition for breaking the link between environmental degradation, economic growth and production.

Article 7 lays down a special rule for civil liability in relation to violations of the environment.

This rule is complemented by some specific exceptions, notably regarding violations of the environment.

Rio showed that there are strong links between poverty and environmental degradation.

A shift in taxation from labour to environmental issues can also change the public’s behaviour.

This indisputable fact overrides any other assessment of environmental impact on a region.

The controversial practices screening includes human rights abuse, corruption and damage to the environment, among others.

We need to give consumers the guarantee that they are not fuelling the environmental degradation by accidentally buying illegally harvested timber products.

The region has been devastated by decades of war, famine, environmental degradation, corruption, mismanagement and political repression.

In nearly 10 years as a Member of this House, I have often heard talk of charging this environmental damage to hauliers, but unfortunately the results are still unsatisfactory.

With regard to bioethics, international legislation declares itself in favour of the patenting of human and animal genes, even though products derived from nature, including animals raised for agricultural purposes, are all treated as "similar products' whatever their method of production - hyper-intensive livestock farming, environmental degradation and so on.

The Commission insists that, given the environmental degradation in the Union, existing penalties are clearly inadequate.

Cohesion policy will have to deal with new phenomena, such as the aging and dying out of the European population, the instability of energy supplies and the deterioration of the environment.

It has, in particular, asked the Spring European Council to recommend sustainable consumption and production methods of which eco-efficient innovations are a contributory part, with a view to disassociating economic growth from the use of resources and degradation of the environment.

It creates surpluses, keeps food prices high, damages the environment and is also detrimental to farmers in the developing world.

That is the most important point, and sustainable development is the term that covers all of these issues ranging from the impact on, for example, indigenous peoples to the impact of environmental degradation and it also includes the disappearance of the yields of this development through corruption.

As long as the car industry succeeds in doing this, they, themselves, do not have to look into reducing pollution caused by cars, or incur any additional costs as a result.