Environmental Choice Program

Environmental certification programs include Green Cross and Green Seal in the United States, the Blue Angel program in Germany, the EcoMark in Japan, and the Environmental Choice label in Canada. 

The results of the assessment are documented in an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), which discusses the beneficial and adverse impacts considered to result from the activity. The report is one component of the information upon which the decision maker ultimately makes a choice. A final decision can be made with due regard being paid to the likely consequences of adopting a particular course of action, and where necessary by introducing appropriate monitoring programs. 

Around the world, coastlines are retreating. Economic and environmental realities offer two choices plan a managed retreat now, or undertake a vastly more expensive program of armoring the coastline as required and retreat through a series of unpredictable disasters. This was the prediction of the f 985 Skidway Confer-... 

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