Translation of "Umweltverbrauch" in English

It will succeed only if it takes the form of 'growth without environmental consumption'.

Ergonomics also have a bearing on the total consumption of resources used for a product.

Efforts must be made to find an appropriate way to tackle excessive exploitation of the environment, taking account of the abovementioned consideration.

The overall environmental balance will not be impaired as compared to production on other sites.

The Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) has appealed to the German political leadership to keep the pledges made concerning the worldwide reduction of poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, depletion of environmental resources and gender discrimination.

A current study of the German Federal Environmental Agency (UBA) examines the role of income as a main influencing factor for the environmental impact and consumption of consumers.

Then the issue is no longer to replace labor by capital, but to replace environmental abuse by capital and labor 5.

Environment must have a price in every country of the world that makes it attractive to replace the cost of environmental abuse by labor or capital.

The MDGs define clear objectives for the reduction of poverty, hunger, major diseases, illiteracy, the consumption of environmental resources and gender discrimination.

Apart from the environmental impact caused by the disposal of waste the consumption of raw materials extracted from the environment has to be taken into account.

Especially with products that have to be transported over long distances, the weight of the packaging material, too, has a great influence on the overall consumption of resources.

Active (current using) products may consume more resources at use stage than was required for their manufacture.

Networking and support of existing initiatives in order to further increase the creation of well-being while reducing environmental impacts.

And the economic development of newly industrialising countries such as India and China clearly show that environmental consumption must be reduced and the negative, social consequences of the economy limited.

This declaration sets out clear timetables and objectives for the reduction of poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, the depletion of environmental resources and gender discrimination.

The consumption of resources for the supply of raw materials and the manufacture of external parts and components may be seen as an ecological rucksack, which grows with every stage in the production process and which accompanies these parts and components throughout their life.

The tax authorities should offset the additional revenue from this by, for example, reducing other taxes that do not take environmental consumption into account.

Instead of taxing work as is currently the practice with income tax, Creutz proposed taxing above all the use of environmental resources: energy, resources, land, traffic.

Justice Environmental consumption on the part of the rich, globally and nationally, has an enormous bearing on the possibilities for achieving greater social justice (Sachs*, 1999).

The issue is not to replace labor by capital, but to replace environmental abuse by capital or labor.

This, in turn, reduces damage to the environment through waste, on the one hand, and reduces the quantity of raw materials extracted from the environment, on the other.