Dusík and Bond introduce the EU taxonomy on green finance as an opportunity to kick off much-needed revolution in environmental impact assessment (EIA). The persistent weaknesses of EIA lead negative trade-offs between social, economic, domains. In my response, I attribute apparent weakness processes society, not so much instrument itself. Weaknesses that may hinder implementation well. Yet, th...

The choice of the environmental risk management instrument to be used within scope corporate governance in companies is paramount importance avoid or mitigate triple responsibility which they are exposed. In this sense, following research problem arises: Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), an National Environment Policy and a model adopted by some companies, proves efficient, effective for f...

The possibility of major environmental disasters occurring, even qualified by the real risk death, due to licensing and operation economic projects, without considering cumulative synergistic effects resulting from different afflicts researchers all over world. Therefore, this research aimed analyze adequacy Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) avoid occurrence such disasters. To that end, an ...

As part of a large hydroelectric project in northern Québec (Canada), a portion of the flow of the Rupert River was diverted toward the existing La Grande hydroelectric complex. As a result of the partial diversion, the discharge of the Rupert River at its mouth is reduced by an average of 50% annually. This corresponds to an 18% decrease in the total freshwater inflow into the bay and, thus, t...

During the last few years, the concern about the protection of the environment has largely increased due to the contaminants mainly with anthropogenic origin and have affected and continue to threaten human resources especially air quality, surface soil and groundwater. Solid wastes are produced every day in urban societies as a result of human activities and in an attempt to dispose of these m...

Environmental performances of electricity generation, expressed as environmental impacts per kWh of electricity produced, depend strongly on technical, methodological and geographical parameters. When considering the global environmental performances of renewable energies, a geo-dependent life cycle assessment (LCA) taking into account geographical issues is of high interest. To illustrate this...